S. Joan Popek is an age challenged grandmother tiptoeing through the Twilight Zone while she gazes longingly at Ganymede.
She has been an instructor for Customized Training at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, a teacher in the ABE Department at the same university. She has worn many other hats including a bartender's and other assorted life experience vocations that taught her how to see the humor in all situations.
A science fiction addict since childhood, she is a graduate of Writer's Digest Short Story and Novel School and, until recently, was an editor and PR Person for Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine. She also wrote a monthly column, “Ask Dr. WEB-Write” for Millennium.
She has had two books nominated by the publishers for the First Annual Frankfurt Awards.
Her other publishing accomplishments include the EPPIE 2000 Award winner, THE ADMINISTRATOR from The Fiction Works, SOUND THE RAM'S HORN, previously from Bookmice.com and now available from Hard Shell Word Factory, and a nonfiction, JUMP START YOUR CAREER WITH ELECTRONIC PUBLISHERS, an EPPIE 2002 Finalist, is now available at Atlantic Bridge Publishing.
She has published over 250 fiction, nonfiction and poetry works in various magazines. She is a member of EPIC, Ardeon , The Southwest Writers’ Association and several associations for small press editors and publishers such as TerrorZines and The Cooperative. She is also active in several online writers’ critique groups. She is currently authoring a mystery titled, HELL'S HOUNDS and just finished compiling a collection of short stories titled, FAIRY TALES WITH A FREUDIAN FLAIR that will be released from Atlantic Bridge Publishing in early 2003.
Although she writes in many genres, Her true love is science fiction, and her short stories have appeared in The Roswell Literary Review, Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy, Eternity, THE EDGE, Exodus, Anotherealm, Chaotic Reflections, Pulp Eternity, The Special Editors' Edition of Goddess of the Bay, Futures and others. One of her stories was to be featured In “The Best of Eternity, Volume 1," (But sadly, they closed before it saw publication) and another has been accepted by The Fiction Works for inclusion in their HI-LO Science Fiction Anthology. (For more detail on her short works, click here.)
Her nonfiction credits include: Writer's Digest, Fiction Writer, Southern New Mexico Magazine, Southern New Mexico Online, Writer's Hall, The Candlelight Poetry Journal, Feelings, FYI and Eclipsing. Many of her works have appeared in several small press anthologies and have won awards in the 1997 Best of the WEB contest by Predators & Editors, Eternity's Best of the Month contest, the 1998 Predators & Editors contest and the Alien Songs Contest/Anthology. in 1997.
Her book, THE ADMINISTRATOR, won the EPPIE 2000 Award and was nominated for the 1999 “Best of Electronic Books.” Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine was nominated for the 1999 “Best E-Zine Award and her column "Ask Dr. WEB-Write" column was nominated for best article. Her book, SOUND THE RAM'S HORN was the reviewer's choice with a 5 star review at Scribes World.”
She speaks at various conventions and workshops on a variety of subjects including Flash Fiction, writing science fiction, publishing electronically and writer's block.
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