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| User: | lee_martindale (14981061)  HarpHaven Great Hall
Lee Martindale's Corner Of The Universe |
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| Name: | lee_martindale | |||||||
| Website: | HarpHaven | |||||||
| Location: | Texas, United States | |||||||
| Bio: | The short version: writer, editor, warrior, Bard. I’m sling words for a living. I’ve been writing most of my long and wicked life, getting paid for it in the non-fiction category for something like twenty-five years, and writing fantasy and science fiction professionally since my first professional sale in 1992. (A story called “Yearbride” to Marion Zimmer Bradley for the *Snows of Darkover* anthology.) Since then, my work has appeared in such places as three volumes of the *Sword and Sorceress* antho series, *Turn The Other Chick*, Selina Rosen’s *Bubbas of the Apocalypse* series, and numerous other anthologies and online venues. For the complete bibliography and what’s in the pipeline, check out “Teller of Tales” on the HarpHaven website, http://www.Harphaven.net For twelve years, I edited a size-issues activism magazine called *Rump Parliament*, which focused on working to change the way society treats fat people and served as a gathering point for people interested in learning and practicing effective activism against weight discrimination. A compilation of editorials and essays from those twelve years has just been released under the title *Prejudice By The Pound: Essays From The Size Rights Movement*. Size issues and SF&F came together in 2000 when I edited Meisha Merlin Publishing’s first original anthology, *Such A Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance*. I found I thoroughly enjoyed doing anthologies, and have plans to do more of them. I’m a warrior by several definitions. Human and civil rights activist, accessibility activist, political activist, and someone not afraid to “call ‘em as I see ‘em”. More literally, I’ve a fondness for sharp, pointy steel (I fence as a member of the SFWA Musketeers and the SCA) and firearms. And I’m a Bard, Named – The Copper Bard – and sworn to traditional duties, some of which are acquitted in the above. I live in Texas with one husband of nearly nineteen years, and two cats. And they don’t call me “Hell on Wheels” for nothing. | |||||||
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |||||||
| Interests: | 18: accessibility issues, activism, bardcraft, celtic music, fantasy, filk music, folk music, human rights, movies, politics, sca, science fiction, sf&f conventions, sfwa, the business of writing, the craft of writing, travel, tv | |||||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 10: aitchellsee, controuble, dsmoen, faxpaladin, heidi2524, hoosier_red, michael_finn, norilana, shsimko, wood_dragon | |||||||
| Member of: | 2: paidmembers, sfwa | |||||||
| Account type: | Paid Account | |||||||
