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DAVID ERIK NELSON —Raconteur

David Erik Nelson is a fiction author, freelance writer, and editor. In 1999 he co-founded Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k) with Fritz Swanson and Morgan Johnson. He continues to serve as an editor and frequent contributor to her Giant Squid advice column and daily Newswire weblog.

FREELANCE

Mr. Nelson writes business columns for several niche markets, in addition to writing and editing for a variety of obscure peridiocals and commercial products. He has edited assorted educational anthologies, such as Teens and Sex. He strongly urges teens to contact their local librarian should they experience any “feelings.”

David Erik Nelson is available to write or copyedit your promotional, educational, informational, or diabolical campaign.

FICTION

His notable stories include “Bay,” “You Were Neither Hot Nor Cold, But Lukewarm, and So I Spit You Out” (co-written with his lovely wife), and his novella “Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate.” His work has been praised in Locus magazine, honorably mentioned in several volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, nominated for a Nebula Award, and anthologized in The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (Del Rey, 2007).

Best of all is “Bay” by David Erik Nelson, a recontextualization of ghosts that is authentically surprising, genuinely horrifying—an extraordinary achievement in a hackneyed subgenre.
— Nick Gevers, Locus, September 2003 (Recommended Story)

[“Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate”] is at one level nearly wacky, but it has deeper concerns, reflected in the examination of the treatment of such disadvantaged individuals as alcoholics, Confederate veterans, the Chinese, Jews, and of course clockwork ex-soldiers. It all comes together very effectively.
— Rich Horton, Locus, July 2008 (Recommended Story)

• his Twitter feed
• his posts on Poor Mojo’s Newswire weblog
• his fiction, poetry, and rants on Poor Mojo’s Alamanc(k)
• his rant “The Invention of the English” on Poor Mojo’s Alamanc(k)
• his story “Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Questions #3 thru #5” on the Spork magazine website
• his story “Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Question #7” on Pindeldyboz, and in Pseudopod Podcast #141 (“Exit Exam, Section III, Q.7” is the final story, starting around the 20-minute mark)
• Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid weekly adivce column
• Novelist/filmmaker/game-designer/man-about-town Jim Munroe’s interview with Mr. Nelson on the collaborative process of writing the Giant Squid’s weekly adivce column

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