Etched in Fire
An interview is here at Second Run Reviews:
Beth Hudson Interview
And Etched in Fire's landing page:
Etched in Fire Page
"Fantasy after the fashion of Tanith Lee and Michael Moorcock; Hudson combines a strong yet
vulnerable heroine with a complex and perilous plot line to present a harrowing tale of growing up during a fight for
freedom."
Check out some of the reviews at Goodreads!
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04/15 Also, "Jewel's Price", which originally appeared in the June 2005 issue of Sam's Dot Publishing's "Aoife's Kiss" will be
reprinted in the April 2016 issue of Outposts of Beyond by by Alban Lake Publishing
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10/12 Information about the centaur homeland as shown in The Herd Lord can be found at this site:
Centaurspace. This is a fun project, and though it's still under
construction, I've been enjoying it immensely.
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My novella The Herd Lord is still available through Amazon.com
and Barnes
and Noble.com.
Excerpt
from "The Herd Lord"
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Cover
of "Etched in Fire"
Cover
art by
Laura Givens
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Cover
of "The Herd Lord"
Cover
art by Mitchell Davidson Bentley
Atomic Fly Studios
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A new year, a fresh start! I am working on a sequel to Etched in Fire called A Gift of Flame, trying to revise Golden Rose, which has the new name of
Goldsong, am floating two stories, "Green Thumb", and "Wind Child"
to different publications, am re-writing another, "Dapple", and have temporarily retired "The Bone Box" while I take another look at a re-write on it. Hope to also
get to re-writes of my older pieces "The Medallion" and "Adjudication", and am in the middle of writing another new one, "The Night
City". So things seem to be hopping on the short story front, at least as far as writing goes.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
- * "Guardian", Beyond Centauri, Issue #1,
Sam's Dot Publishing, July 1, 2003
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* "Training Ground", In the Outposts of Beyond,
Sam's Dot Publishing, October 2003
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* "Jewel's Price", Aoife's Kiss, Issue #13, Sam's
Dot Publishing, June 2005
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* "Following Seas", Illustrated
Chapbook, Sam's Dot Publishing, March 2007 (sold out)
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* "The Seal King", Strange
Stories of Sand and Sea,
Esther Schrader, editor, Fine Tooth Press, March 2008
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* "Mastery", Aoife's Kiss, Issue #27, Sam's
Dot Publishing, December 2008
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* "House Call", Kaleidotrope,
Issue #6, April 2009
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* "Swan Song", Shelter of Daylight, Issue #2,
Sam's Dot Publishing, October 2009
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* "A Midwinter's Kiss", The
Absent Willow Review, November 2009 (Publication now defunct)
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* "Fidelity's Reward", Golden
Visions Magazine, Issue
#9, January 2010
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* "The Smallest Spark", Aoife's Kiss, Issue #34, Sam's
Dot Publishing, September 2010
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* The Herd Lord, novella, Sam's Dot
Publishing, June 2011
* "A Trip to Moonpark", Beyond Centauri, Issue #38, Sam's Dot Publishing, October 2012
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* "Following Seas", Outposts of Beyond
, Issue #1, Alban Lake Publishing, July 2013 (revision/reprint)
* "The Felling of Wystwood", Outposts of Beyond
, Issue #6, Alban Lake Publishing, October 2014
,* Etched in Fire, novel, Alban Lake Publishing, September 2015
* "Jewel's Price",Outposts of Beyond
, Alban Lake Publishing, April 2016 (reprint)
In addition, "Guardian", though
it did not win, was nominated for a James B. Baker ("James")
award (announced in the March 2004 edition of Sam's Dot Publishing's
"Expressions") at Sam's Dot Publishing for the best short
story published by their company in 2003! It's definitely cool to
have this happen for my first published story!
"This manuscript of yours that has
just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't
consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the
editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back
stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right
address."
-- Barbara Kingsolver
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Me:
I’m actually a writer and a
mom. I’m primarily interested in writing fantasy novels, but I also write short stories. My current project is a sequel to
Etched in Fire, called A Gift of Flame. I’ve got a finished novel (which needs
serious rewriting) on the back shelf, The Roots of Healing,
and am also revising a fantasy book to send out for publication, Goldsong.
Well, to be fair, they’re not my
first novels -- they’re my first novels I’ll let anyone
see. When I was in junior high I wrote a really bad one (with two
revisions taking it into my college years), and when I was in
college I wrote one which might someday see the light of day, but
which will be hacked to bits and reassembled first.
This is a picture of Traedis,
the main character of my trilogy (the artwork is by Ed
Heil, a very talented artist and a good friend). (Check him out
in the "Links to Friends" at the bottom of this page).
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DECORATIVE
ETTER
ICONS!
- I
occasionally enjoy designing a few simple graphics. Here are some
initial letters available for free downloading. Take as many as you
want! Some are better than others.
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A
B C
D E
F G
H I
J K
L M
N O
P Q
R S
T U
V W
X Y
Z
POEMS
- I also write
poetry. Here are some of my poems.
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(All poems are copyrighted by Beth Wheeler)
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Afterword
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Anne
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By
Autumn’s Light
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Childhood
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Deep
Fall
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Deep
Structure
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Draggin'
a Dragon
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Firefly
Fantasy
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For
Deano and Bill Lew
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Graduation
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Grandma
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The
Grey Goose
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Incandescence
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I
Walk in the Mists
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Musical
Creatures
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The
Roland Blues
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Spiral
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Starchild
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Survivor
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Unity
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Weavers
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I am a survivor of physical, emotional and
sexual abuse (not all from the same source). The poems "Afterword"
and "Survivor" listed above are about this, and I also
have a number of links for various survivor resources at the bottom
of this page. However, I've realized that people weren't reading
what I most wanted them to down below, probably because they're
skipping over my lists of links, so I'm going to place this up here
instead. This is my own experience, and I really want people to read
this.
- "It
is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential
is invisible to the eye."
-- Antoine de St. Exupery, The
Little Prince -
I started college with the idea of becoming
an astronomer, but rapidly decided that physics just wasn’t my
idea of a happy fun time, and switched to Linguistics, with a minor
in English (almost accidental -- I discovered before my last
semester that I only needed one more class for an English minor, so
I dived into Shakespeare. The reading was fun, but the class itself
was comparable to a visit to the dentist.) I also had a brief stint
in a graduate program in Anthropology, which ended when I was told
that even though the department didn’t require an
undergraduate degree in the same, I was expected to have one anyway.
I got a 4.0 out of pure irritation and quit the program.
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I am still trying to work on my dollhouse
kit (the San Franciscan) but am going pretty slowly. It's exciting
-- if I can't have a real mansion, I'm going to have one that I
could fit into if I were 1/12 of my size! This one is a beauty, with
a tower and three stories plus an attic. I'm looking forward to
getting to it -- as soon as I finish the 30 other projects I have
going.
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Wheeler Family, September 2011 Wheeler Family, October 2005
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My mom skills are still being honed and
tested. My oldest son, Dylan, is twenty-nine years old (wow!), and
is a great young man -- gets along with almost anyone, and has a
core of close friends who are pretty cool people! He's currently
holding down a full-time job, but finds time for music, gaming, and
bowling. He loves theater, both technical and acting, and has
studied stage combat, and has gotten seriously seduced by
Shakespeare. He also loves the outdoors. He likes reading, RPGs,
plays the mandolin, the piano, and the guitar, and is the main
guitar/mandolin player for the small Celtic music group Silverthorn.
He's got a wonderful sense of humor (and timing!) but still asks
deep and serious questions about -- well, everything. He also just
bought his first home.
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My second son, David, now twenty-two, with a
shoe size of 13, started off his life by tying himself through his
umbilical cord, and proceeded on an active career of total havoc.
This year he is working, and trying to decide what he wants to do long-term. He loves computer/video games, surfing the
Internet for extremely silly games, reading, jokes, fantasy novels,
and fantasy RPGs.
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Our youngest, Alex, is fifteen years old.
Alex loves Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, his e-tablet and as always, the animal
world. He draws obsessively, loves singing (and sings in perfect
tune), plays piano, and is now composing his own music with an idea that he might
like a career in composing video game music. He still loves his stuffed "friends",
has an extraordinary vocabulary, and is a definite cuddler. He also
won his elementary school's Math Olympiads, and competed in the 9th grade poetry reading contest.He just finished
his first year of high school, and loves Engineering. He has also been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (an
autism-spectrum disorder characterized by hyper-verbal ability, but
difficulty with non-verbal communication) and rampant ADHD. Still,
we're working with the challenge, and the school is with us on it,
so hopefully things will work out well.
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Other interests, fascinations, and defining
characteristics:
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I’m 1/8 Welsh -- my great grandfather
came from Llanfairfechan (I think that’s the spelling) and I
have always had a fascination with that country, even before I
learned that was where my most identifiable ancestry rested. I did
study medieval Welsh in a college course alongside my sister and
mother. One of the interesting things we learned was that the Welsh
joke that had been passed down through four generations was still
recognizably coherent and translatable. Of course, if I ever try
looking for the genealogy of that line, I’m going to have a
problem, since my great-grandfather’s name was John Williams.
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I like to do various projects, though none
of them full-time. A few years ago I made some calendars of fantasy
art based on our gaming campaign for some friends of mine. I was
actually rather proud of them, so check them out! (The picture below
isn't a sample -- I just like the graphic.)
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- In
addition to that, I've gotten quite addicted to Photoshop. I'm
currently making my family and friends into a bestiary. Here's what
I've done so far:
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- Last
updated 05/03/08 with a new pic!
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My two loves apart from the family and
writing, are music and reading. I’ve got a very good voice --
I’m a dramatic soprano with some training (my voice might be
professional quality, but I don't have that level of training). I
play a little piano -- I’d play better, but I never learned to
read music properly, since my teachers never realized that I was
memorizing my pieces. I’m self-taught on guitar, which means
I’m not all that bad, but don’t expect me to get up in
public; and I can eke out a tune on recorder, even if it squeaks
every third note. I'm currently still trying to learn the harp, and
feel really at home with it, surprisingly enough. I'm also learning
the three-stringed dulcimer, due to receiving a family heirloom
dulcimer this year. British folk music is my favorite type, though I
also enjoy classical, some rock, the occasional jazz, and a lot of
things that fall into the completely unidentifiable category. I’ve
also been writing filk music for a few years now. Samples of sorts
of music I like: Silly
Wizard, Andy M. Stewart,
Phil Cunningham, Pigyn
Clust, Sian James,
Judy Collins,
Stravinsky,
Therese
Schroeder-Sheker, Gordon
Lightfoot, Robin Williamson,
Jethro Tull, Loreena
McKennitt, Connie Dover,
Palestrina,
The Alan Parsons Project,
Alfred
Deller, The Tannahill
Weavers.
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- I
devour books (arranged neatly with a sprig of parsley). My all-time
favorite is The
Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery. I recently discovered
that it is the third most read book in the world, after the Bible
and the Koran! Other authors I love are the late lamented:
Lloyd Alexander,
Roger Zelazny,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
MadeleineL'Engle,
Margaret Mahy,
Diana Wynne Jones,
Tom Deitz,
Zenna Henderson,
Alexander Key,
and L.M. Boston,
Ursula LeGuin,
and the thankfully still living:
Charles de Lint,
Emma Bull,
Judith Tarr,
C.J. Cherryh,
Alan Garner,
Patricia McKillip,
Diane Duane,
Peter Beagle,
R.A. MacAvoy,
Susan Cooper,
Nina Kiriki Hoffman,
Barbara Hambly,
Katherine Kerr,
Jenny Nimmo,
Robin McKinley,
Sylvia Louise Engdahl,
Terri Windling,
Juliet Marillier,
O.R. Melling,
Kelly Barnhill,
Alex Bledsoe,
Katherine Arden,
Anne Elisabeth Stengl,
Sharon Shinn,
and Maggie Stiefvater.
Note -- some of these are indeed children’s
authors. I’m fairly well read in children’s fiction, and
often hit the children’s or young adult sections of the
library because they have some of the best stuff (adult books often
get too pretentious or attempt to earn an R rating by adding
unnecessary parts). I hope someday to be able to write some
children’s books as well as adult books -- it’s quite a
challenge to keep the depth of a story intact while simplifying its
elements. -
I am also an avid gamer and enjoy
role-playing games. I’m currently in a campaign world which
has been run by the GM for over thirty years, taking on amazing
depth and color. It’s one of my few “non-mom”
activities, and I relish my gaming nights. I’m semi-active in
science fiction and fantasy fandom, and love dragons (along with
half the rest of the known universe -- but at least I can say I was
a dragon fanatic a long time before the dragon craze started!)
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If you’ve read this far, you probably
don’t have anything better to do. So drop
me a line!
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And I suppose I should mention my business
page -- if you're interested in t-shirts, mugs, or mouse pads with
my artwork, check out:
An online store for
Beth's artwork on t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, etc.
BETH'S LINKS
- The
Hunger Site (Enables a daily donation of food to the hungry)
LINK PAGES:
F&SF
Art Links A page of my favorite art links!
Serious
Links Diverse links which have no common thread.
Funny
Links Web pages I find humorous.
Science
Fiction Fandom Links Links to different conventions, fandom
affiliated groups.
Filk
Music Links Filk is Science Fiction Fandom related music.
Dragon
Links As I said, I adore dragons. You'll find lots of them here.
ABUSE SURVIVOR LINKS:
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The
Survivor's Sanctuary
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Sehlat's
Page
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Kim's
Safe Place
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Lysemena
Project (Christian page on self injury -- all are welcome)
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Raven
Days (This is about survivors of serious school bullying)
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No More Shame Project
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Dancing
in the Darkness
LINKS
TO FRIENDS:
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Polymorph
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Jared's
writing
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Ed
Heil Illustrations
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Laugh
Out Loud Dolls
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Rox and Bob's
pages
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Sue
Tjardes
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