I'm thrilled to announce that AFTER HOURS: TALES FROM THE UR-BAR, edited by Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier, will be published by DAW Books.
The first bar, created by the Sumerians after they were given the gift of beer by the gods, was known as the Ur-Bar. Although it has since been destroyed, its spirit lives on--in each age there is one bar that captures the essence of the original Ur-Bar, where drinks are mixed with magic and served with a dash of intrigue. Heroes, villains, poets and thieves may be found within its walls; when the gods visit Earth they stop by the Ur-Bar for a drink.
Joshua and I have lined up a fantastic slate of authors for this project, and I know my first stint as an editor is going to be a blast.
This past summer I was a guest lecturer at the 2009 Odyssey Fantasy Writers Workshop. My lectures are now available as podcasts on their website here.
It had been a while since I'd been active in a critique group, but in 2009 I joined with a few local friends and we started getting together a couple times of month to share our work (or be thwacked with the fish of shame when we hadn't produced pages.) I'm looking forward to resuming our get togethers in January. Currently I'm alternating my writing time between two different novels and hope to have more news on these soon. To learn more about my writing and what I'm up to, click on one of the links at the top of the page, or visit my blog at pbray.livejournal.com or mirrored at pbray.dreamwidth.org.