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I am a poet and fiction writer married to Sandra Rector
Her Web Site is SandraRector.com
Her Web Site is SandraRector.com
PMF (pronounced Peter) and Bogart
Contact me at PMFJohnson@pmfjohnson.com
I write on my own and in collaboration with my wife, Sandra Rector.
I am currently working on the second novel in a fantasy series; the first novel of this series, edited by World Fantasy Award winning editor Pat LoBrutto, is completed and is being submitted to agents, but not yet to publishers.
The first novel concerns a fine young human fellow who has lived a life of thievery, but then finds himself handed the job of Boundskeeper (a sort of sheriff) in a small orcen mountain town. The orcen are a reptilian race who take honesty and honor very seriously, which would be hard enough, but then the murders start, and the magical attacks, and a war and his girl isn't all that sure about him (see reference to thievery above) and it just keeps getting worse and worse despite everything he does to try to keep things together. Did I mention that a magical artifact has come annoyingly alive and is trying to control him?
(My philosophy on fiction is that first it has to be fun).
My Chops:
Fiction
In collaboration with Sandra Rector, I have published short stories in Amazing Magazine (our story, "A Dwelling In The Evening Air," received a nomination for a Sturgeon Award), Xanadu II (original hardcover anthology edited by Jane Yolen and published by Tor), Witch Fantastic and Whatdunits (both original anthologies edited by Mike Resnick and published by DAW), Copper Star (original anthology published for the World Fantasy Convention) and Tales of the Unanticipated.
On my own I have published short stories in the magazines Space & Time, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Pandora.
Poetry
I have published mainstream poetry in The Threepenny Review; Nimrod: International Journal, The Atlanta Review; New York Quarterly; Blue Unicorn; Blue Collar Review; and Portland Review. My poem "Lord of Dust" was semi-finalist in the Pablo Neruda Award Contest in 2009, and my poem "what was there" received an honorable mention in the short poem division of the Grandmother Earth Contest in 2009.
I have published haiku in Modern Haiku; Mayfly; Frogpond; Acorn; Wisteria; and Bear Creek Haiku. My haiku, "August heat," originally printed in Modern Haiku, was selected the the Red Moon Anthology Best of the Year collection in 2006, and my haiku "the war," from the same magazine, was selected in 2007.
I have published genre (sf/fantasy) poetry in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Magazine of Speculative Poetry, The Leading Edge, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Arsenic Lobster.
Other
I've also published articles in The New Mexican, Dragon Magazine and The Good Age, as well as book reviews for Grolier's Master Plots.
Examples of my haiku/senryu (all from Modern Haiku):
the war
on the tv
in the background
a fish in the tree in the floating leaf water
city of old stones --
men in the rain
roasting chestnuts
I write on my own and in collaboration with my wife, Sandra Rector.
I am currently working on the second novel in a fantasy series; the first novel of this series, edited by World Fantasy Award winning editor Pat LoBrutto, is completed and is being submitted to agents, but not yet to publishers.
The first novel concerns a fine young human fellow who has lived a life of thievery, but then finds himself handed the job of Boundskeeper (a sort of sheriff) in a small orcen mountain town. The orcen are a reptilian race who take honesty and honor very seriously, which would be hard enough, but then the murders start, and the magical attacks, and a war and his girl isn't all that sure about him (see reference to thievery above) and it just keeps getting worse and worse despite everything he does to try to keep things together. Did I mention that a magical artifact has come annoyingly alive and is trying to control him?
(My philosophy on fiction is that first it has to be fun).
My Chops:
Fiction
In collaboration with Sandra Rector, I have published short stories in Amazing Magazine (our story, "A Dwelling In The Evening Air," received a nomination for a Sturgeon Award), Xanadu II (original hardcover anthology edited by Jane Yolen and published by Tor), Witch Fantastic and Whatdunits (both original anthologies edited by Mike Resnick and published by DAW), Copper Star (original anthology published for the World Fantasy Convention) and Tales of the Unanticipated.
On my own I have published short stories in the magazines Space & Time, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Pandora.
Poetry
I have published mainstream poetry in The Threepenny Review; Nimrod: International Journal, The Atlanta Review; New York Quarterly; Blue Unicorn; Blue Collar Review; and Portland Review. My poem "Lord of Dust" was semi-finalist in the Pablo Neruda Award Contest in 2009, and my poem "what was there" received an honorable mention in the short poem division of the Grandmother Earth Contest in 2009.
I have published haiku in Modern Haiku; Mayfly; Frogpond; Acorn; Wisteria; and Bear Creek Haiku. My haiku, "August heat," originally printed in Modern Haiku, was selected the the Red Moon Anthology Best of the Year collection in 2006, and my haiku "the war," from the same magazine, was selected in 2007.
I have published genre (sf/fantasy) poetry in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Magazine of Speculative Poetry, The Leading Edge, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Arsenic Lobster.
Other
I've also published articles in The New Mexican, Dragon Magazine and The Good Age, as well as book reviews for Grolier's Master Plots.
Examples of my haiku/senryu (all from Modern Haiku):
the war
on the tv
in the background
a fish in the tree in the floating leaf water
city of old stones --
men in the rain
roasting chestnuts
