When:
January 22, 2023 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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2023-01-22T17:00:00-05:00
Local author Dean Whitlock will be forced by Covid to Zoom in to read from his new F&SF story collection at the Latham Library on this coming Sunday, the 22nd. The event will start at 4:00 p.m., as scheduled. Everyone planning to attend in person is still welcome to come to the library, where Dean will appear live from his home on the Community Room’s new large wall monitor. Assistant Librarian Emily Zollo will be there to host the meeting and facilitate the Q&A portion using the special camera system installed with the new screen. Emily will also have on hand a small stock of Dean’s new story collection, Iridescent Dreams, along with his six novels, all signed by the author (cash or check please). Dean will also be happy to add a personalized inscription later for anyone who would like to leave their book at the library for a few days. To switch from in-person to Zoom attendance please send an email to librarian@thetfordlibrary.org to register. If there’s enough interest, another live reading can be scheduled for later in the year. Learn more about the new story collection at http://deanwhitlock.com/my-fiction/iridescence/.
Thetford author Dean Whitlock’s first professionally published short story, “The Million-Dollar Wound,” appeared in the January 1987 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and was selected by Gardner Dozois (editor of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine) for his Fifth Annual anthology of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Since then, Whitlock has seen two dozen of his short stories and novelettes published in the U.S. and abroad. In 2014, Whitlock released an ebook containing a small collection of 10 stories. This November, he released Iridescent Dreams, an expanded collection featuring the first 10 stories, plus 10 more, in both ebook and paperback.
One of the stories in this new collection, “The Rite of the Yearly King,” has never before been published in English. Another, “Master of Illusion,” is completely new to the public. Still another, “The Dragon and the Damsel,” is a short, delightful spoof on the “once upon a time” fantasy subgenre, that Whitlock uses in classrooms and workshops as part of an exercise in character development and plotting.
At the event Whitlock will read “Winter Solstice,” a story set partly on Lake Fairlee, answer questions about his stories and writing in general, and, time permitting, demonstrate the proper use of “The Dragon and the Damsel.”
