How I Became a 2016 Philip K. Dick Award Judge by Lisa Mason (@LisaSMason)
How I Became a 2016 Philip K. Dick Award Judge by Lisa Mason After my Omni story, Tomorrow’s Child , optioned and then sold outright to Universal Studios , I went off for some years to study screenplay writing. I wrote half a dozen, including Tesla: A Worthy of His Time , now an ebook. As generous as the people were who helped me with the Tomorrow’s Child deal, the Hollywood Machine is even more difficult to deal with than New York Publishing. Anyway, writing prose is my first love. When the e-book revolution took off in 2010, I devoted time to uploading Summer of Love , The Gilded Age , a number of my longer previously published stories, a story collection Strange Ladies: 7 Stories of previously published short fiction, an urban fantasy, The Garden of Abracadabra , and a historical romantic suspense, Celestial Girl (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) . Four years of relaunching into ebook publishing just wasn’t enough, though, and I returned to my roots: wri...