Brenda Clough
What is the name of the story?
My story is titled “The Red-headed League”
What was your motivation in writing it? Does it have special meaning?
I wrote an entire trilogy, three SF novels, about Jack Wragsland and his difficulties with time travel and multiple universes. This story is actually about one of his other, less successful selves.
Bio:
Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. Her latest work is a novelette, ‘Clio’s Scroll’, which appeared in Clarkesworld in July 2023. A historical novel A Door In His Head won the 2023 Diverse Voices Award. Her novella ‘May Be Some Time’ was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and became the novel Revise the World. Marian Halcombe, a series of eleven neo-Victorian thrillers appeared in 2021. Her complete bibliography is up on her web page, brendaclough.net.
What draws you to write short stories?
Not all ideas are suitable for novel length. Some ideas just insist upon being shorter. This particular one had no intention of being long, and I listened to it.
When did you write your first story, unpublished and then published?
Oh, I wrote short fiction in high school for English class. As I recall, my teachers were bemused. My first published short story may have been in ABORIGINAL magazine, in the 1980s.
Where have you previously been published?
My first novel THE CRYSTAL CROWN came out from DAW Books in 1984. My best known novel may be HOW LIKE A GOD, which came out from Tor in 2000.
What is one piece of advice you would give to new writers?
Bookmark Writer Beware, the SFWA crimefighting organization. They combat scams that prey upon new writers.
Where can your readers find you? (website, social media)
My website is brendaclough.net. I can also be found on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/brenda.w.clough
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