Terry England's book Rewind is still pretty easy to find online. He entered the manuscript in a contest back in the 90's, and although it didn't win said contest, it caught the eye of one of the judges and was eventually published. Then internal politics at the publisher resulted in Terry's second novel being dropped. This is not at all uncommon.
In the ten years since, Terry's been working at his craft and has been a regular at Critical Mass meetings since its foundation, six plus years ago. His short story, Out of the Cradle, appears in the DAW anthology, Far Frontiers.
He's also got a superhero novel that's making the rounds to agents. This is a rather dark time in the field to be looking for an agent. Last night people shared stories of authors with a publishing contract in hand that couldn't land an agent. Anyway, he's enduring the form letter rejections, and I'm really hoping this doesn't go on long. Yes, there are a lot of superhero projects out there, but Terry's mind is something else, I have to say. (And his name looks real nice on a book spine.)
By day he works as the Books Editor of at the Santa Fe New Mexican. But that's not why I say nice things about him, honest. (He'd be honest about my work regardless ;-)
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