Debut Author Elijah B. Wilder in Conversation with Melinda Snodgrass at Beastly Books in Santa Fe –
1:00 pm Saturday, October 12
Beastly Books in Santa Fe is hosting “Authors in Conversation” with Elijah B. Wilder and Melinda M. Snodgrass 1:00 pm Saturday, October 12! After a dialogue on all things writing, debut author Wilder will be signing his novel – Hereafter Lies: R.I.P. Snodgrass also will sign her various novels.
Storyline: “The Hereafter has been modernized, but persecuted ghosts start pushing back. Like any Omega agent, Deja Vale’s directive is to contain those ghosts hell-bent on ensouling the unborn to rejoin the living. He’s also an Odd. Unlike his teammates, Deja can enter the living world—unmasked—and see past the fog cloaking it from nonliving eyes. Apart from prompting puns and pop culture deep cuts that nobody on his team appreciates properly, his Oddity takes its toll. But Omega South’s already fallen and Omega North might be next. Agents are spread thin and Odds even thinner. Though Deja’s barely recovered from the mission that lost him half his team and half his memories, he’s sent back to the field—haunted by the fear his history of hallucinations makes him a liability.”
Wilder is a formerly tall philosopher who likes writing fantasy, horror, and sci-fi (usually Queer and probably haunted) but mostly ends up writing stuff like this. Otherwise, he’s wandering around cemeteries at the crack of dawn in search of mushrooms and answering awkward questions from concerned locals. Then he’s asking the caffeine-deprived officer ‘what he looks so grave for, ‘ and digging himself deeper until he awkwardly blurts out, “I’m conducting an ecological survey of residual arsenic from 19th-century burial sites!” which, while not wholly untrue, is also a lie, and this not-wholly-untrue lie lands him in a city planning meeting in a capacity he is in no way qualified for: professionally or spiritually. As you may have gathered, he’s got a great deal of all-too-specific knowledge on Victorian death practices and mycology, and makes it everybody else’s problem. His parents would like him to let you know that he has a Ph.D. in philosophy, but the truth is he spends very little time philosophizing, and way more time begging his dog to please, please just come inside, and trying to remember what the hell he came downstairs for anyway.
Snodgrass studied opera at the Conservatory of Vienna in Austria, graduated from UNM with a degree in history, and went on to Law School. She practiced law for three years, and discovered that while she loved the law she hated lawyers so she began writing science fiction novels. In 1988 she accepted a job on Star Trek: TNG, and began her Hollywood career where she has worked on staff on numerous shows — Reasonable Doubts, Profiler, and has written numerous television pilots and feature films. She is also the co-editor and writes for the Wild Cards series with George RR Martin. In the prose world she has finished the fifth book and final book in her Space Opera series The Imperials. She has an urban fantasy series White Fang Law that follows the adventures of a young woman lawyer in a Manhattan vampire law firm. The four books in the Carolingian series which explore the war between science and rationality and superstition and religion — Lucifer’s War, Morningstar’s Heir, One Fatal Tree, and To Rule in Heaven will be released soon. For fun she rides her dressage horses, plays video games and enjoys role playing games with her friends scattered all around the country.
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