Upcoming Chris Barzak interview: a preview!

Just a heads up that on August 28th, I'll be posting a great interview with debut novelist Christopher Barzak, author of the forthcoming One for Sorrow. (The novel goes on sale the same day, yo - go order yours now!)

Here's a quick snippet from the interview:

It’s also been an odd and somewhat neurotic experience becoming a writer after all. For years I’d been telling people that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up, and at first I think it was thought of as cute, and then as potentially an issue, and then as an issue (amongst family and friends), and then as a real problem when I went to college and majored in English. This was disturbing to my family, who felt if I were going to go to college at all, I should go for something that had an actual job waiting for me at the end of a Bachelor’s degree. And there weren’t many people from this area who had ever become a published writer that I knew of. So when I started to publish short stories eventually, and then to have sold a novel, at first I was like, this is cool, but then I realized I was actually doing what I’d always wanted to do and a part of me became afraid. I sometimes find myself at writing conventions or in conversations with publishing people, and think at any moment this person is going to realize I don’t belong here.

Come back on August 28th to read the whole interview (and try your hand at winning one of four copies I'll be giving away). In the meantime, Midori Snyder at Endicott Studio has a new review of One for Sorrow here.