Author Introduction: Patricia Bray
Feb. 9th, 2011 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpskewedthroneAs part of the promo for the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar release, I figured I’d highlight all of the contributors to the anthology individually. And while we’re at it, run a contest as well! So here’s the deal, to enter the contest you have to either friend the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!
And now for the eighth contributor: Patricia Bray (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pbray)! Patricia’s contribution to the anthology is the short story Last Call, which is the first (and only) story to actually feature different versions of the Ur-bar, since it’s set over an extended period of time. It also features unicorn vomit. Here’s the official description:
"Last Call" by Patricia Bray: George Harker hunts demons in eighteenth century Europe, but when he discovers an immortal bartender he finds he has finally met his match.
As I mentioned during Jennifer Dunne’s introduction, I met Patricia while working at Waldenbooks and was a published-author-wannabe. Since then, I joined their writers group and discovered that Patricia and I are, rather freakily, mentally on the same wavelength. We often say the exact same things at the same time, and have the same thoughts (usually snide comments). We’re loads of fun when we happen to be on panels together at cons (and often even when we AREN’T on the same panel). I was afraid that doing this co-editing thing together would drive a wedge between the friendship, but actually we complemented each other rather well, both contributing on each story for edits, revisions, etc. Looking back on it, I wouldn’t have traded the experience for the world. And I would SO be her boy toy if she ever wins MegaMillions. Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Patricia Bray is the author of a dozen novels, including Devlin’s Luck, which won the 2003 Compton Crook award for the best first novel in the field of science fiction or fantasy. A well-spent youth taught her that the best accompaniment to a fine ale is an equally well-crafted story, a lesson that she drew on for her first foray on the editorial side of the fence. She currently lives in upstate New York, where she combines her writing with a full-time career as systems analyst, ensuring that she is never more than a few feet away from a keyboard. To find out more, visit her website at www.patriciabray.com.
We’ll be giving away her entire Chronicles of Josan trilogy as one of the prizes in the contest.
afterhoursurbar community here on LiveJournal OR you have to like the After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar Facebook page (search for the title of the anthology to find the page). If you do both, you’re entered into the contest twice! The contest will end March 31st, 2011. Prizes will include copies of the contributors books (sometimes entire trilogies), After Hours: Tales From the Ur-bar M&Ms, and perhaps other prizes. They will be awarded by random drawing from those who’ve liked or friended the appropriate pages. If you’ve already friended or liked the pages, then you’re already entered into the contest! Find out more about the anthology at its website!And now for the eighth contributor: Patricia Bray (
pbray)! Patricia’s contribution to the anthology is the short story Last Call, which is the first (and only) story to actually feature different versions of the Ur-bar, since it’s set over an extended period of time. It also features unicorn vomit. Here’s the official description:"Last Call" by Patricia Bray: George Harker hunts demons in eighteenth century Europe, but when he discovers an immortal bartender he finds he has finally met his match.
As I mentioned during Jennifer Dunne’s introduction, I met Patricia while working at Waldenbooks and was a published-author-wannabe. Since then, I joined their writers group and discovered that Patricia and I are, rather freakily, mentally on the same wavelength. We often say the exact same things at the same time, and have the same thoughts (usually snide comments). We’re loads of fun when we happen to be on panels together at cons (and often even when we AREN’T on the same panel). I was afraid that doing this co-editing thing together would drive a wedge between the friendship, but actually we complemented each other rather well, both contributing on each story for edits, revisions, etc. Looking back on it, I wouldn’t have traded the experience for the world. And I would SO be her boy toy if she ever wins MegaMillions. Here’s her author bio from the anthology:
Patricia Bray is the author of a dozen novels, including Devlin’s Luck, which won the 2003 Compton Crook award for the best first novel in the field of science fiction or fantasy. A well-spent youth taught her that the best accompaniment to a fine ale is an equally well-crafted story, a lesson that she drew on for her first foray on the editorial side of the fence. She currently lives in upstate New York, where she combines her writing with a full-time career as systems analyst, ensuring that she is never more than a few feet away from a keyboard. To find out more, visit her website at www.patriciabray.com.
We’ll be giving away her entire Chronicles of Josan trilogy as one of the prizes in the contest.
