Jack Skillingstead

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May '07 Short story sale to Asimov's.

UPDATE ON THE HARLAN ELLISON COLLABORATION: This project is more or less officially in limbo. Some of the early stages process reports may still be found achieved in the "Art Deco Dining Pavilion" section of Harlan's website. Onward...

March '07 Short story sale to On Spec.

February '07 Jack's famous, or perhaps infamous, collaboration with Harlan Ellison has begun. Progress will be charted on Harlan's website as Jack and Harlan go up the hill to fetch a pail of narrative and discuss the process on the way.

January '07 Short story sale to Asimov's--lucky 13. "Bean There" is now available at ESCAPE POD . Talebones accepts Jack's short story, "Two." And Gardner Dozois picks up "Life On The Preservation" for his anthology: The Year's Best Science Fiction, 24th Edition.

November '06 Short story sale to Realms Of Fantasy. ESCAPE POD accepts "Bean There" and will present it as a podcast sometime in 2007.

April - October '06 Two more short story sales to Asimov's. Also, Jack is collaborating with Harlan Ellison, details TBA. And Rich Horton has selected "Life On The Preservation" to appear in the Prime Books anthology:Science Fiction: The Best Of The Year, 2007 Edition.

March '06 Asimov's buys "The Chimera Transit," making this Jack's tenth sale to the magazine.

September '05 Asimov's buys "Girl In The Empty Apartment."

July '05 Webmistress Ruby updates bibliography and reviews; new website layout; Rewind and Transplant are available to read complete, sample of Dead Worlds has also been added.

March '05 Professor H. Bruce Franklin pairs "Dead Worlds" with William Gibson's "Hinterlands" and makes them required reading for his Science Fiction, Technology, and Society class at Rutgers University.

January '05 Christine Cohen of the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency agrees to represent Jack in his efforts to find a publisher for "My Harbinger."

November '04 Story sale to Asimov's, "Are You There."

July '04 First sale to Asimov's new editor, Sheila Williams "Life On The Preservation."

June '04 "Dead Worlds" is shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

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