E. C. Ambrose
About me
E. C. Ambrose is the author of “The Dark Apostle” historical fantasy series about a medieval barber surgeon to start in July 2013 with Elisha Barber from DAW books. Published works include “The Romance of Ruins” in Clarkesworld, and “Custom of the Sea,” winner of the Tenebris Press Flash Fiction Contest 2012. E. C. spends too much time in a tiny office in New England with a mournful black lab lurking under the desk.
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Inspired by a Smithsonian magazine article to write an especially demented science fiction flash story. I love that 'zine.
Spent a while this morning having author photos taken--so hopefully soon I'll have a whole new look (but no cannon this time).
Waves of thunderstorms last night. Every time it got quiet and I fell asleep, another one swept in over me. I... http://t.co/YeZuC9MIS4
Yesterday, saw a car with government plates that identified the driver's political party parked in a handicapped... http://t.co/uEK4s74Mag
Fantastic Beginnings: taking it slow, with Carol Berg http://t.co/XfMLvWnwkB
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Fantastic Beginnings: taking it slow, with Carol Berg
I have recently started reading Transformation, the first of the Book of Rai-kirah, by Carol Berg. I met the author on a panel about torturing your characters and recognized each other as kindred spirits. She’s actually the first person both my editor and I thought of to blurb Elisha Barber,…
If you read Elisha Barber all the way to the end, you’ll find an Acknowledgements page. One of the first names on that page is Dan Brown. Yep, the same author everyone’s talking about this week, with the release of his latest title Inferno. Everyone’s talking, and many of the…
Skinning your Own Apes: Researching from Primary Sources
An article in the Stanford magazine this month talks about a new method of teaching history to high schoolers using primary source material, having the teens read several documents about an incident and draw their own conclusions based on the information people had or understood at the time, and building…