The Writer's Chatroom  www.writerschatroom.com     Our mission is to:  Support and encourage writers at all levels of their careers.  Help our fellow writers achieve the level of success that is important to them. Educate writers on the business of writing. Visit our Previous Guests page  http://writerschatroom.com/formerguests.htm to catch up on what you've missed. And on the Products page http://www.writerschatroom.com/products.htm you will find some great recommendations. Please use our links to buy, and help support the chatroom! http://archives.zinester.com/58237  CHAT WITH STEVEN BARNES The Writers Chatroom is pleased to introduce this Wednesday's chat guest. The moderator will be interviewing Steve and also taking questions from the room. To find out more about our guest, see his bio below. Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone or any groups that you think may be interested.  Thank you. WHEN? Wednesday, April 5, 2006 Pacific Time ................................. 7 PM Mountain Time ............................. 8 PM Central Time ................................. 9 PM Eastern Time ............................... 10 PM Atlantic Time ............................... 11 PM London Time.................................3 AM Thursday Sydney, Australia Time ................. Noon Thursday   WHERE? The Writers Chatroom at:  http://writerschatroom.com  Click on "Enter Chatroom" and choose a log-in name for yourself. Wednesday's case-sensitive password is:                   lifewrite It will take a moment to load. If you can not see entire screen, click on the "Float" button to maximize or minimize your screen as needed.   CHAT GUEST STEVEN BARNES     www.lifewrite.com Steve Barnes is one of today's most exciting writers in the fields of speculative and science fiction. His books have been called "Exciting", "Inspirational", and "Ground Breaking". With Lion's Blood Steve has taken his work to a new level.   Steve, best-selling writer of the Emmy-winning OUTER LIMITS episode A Stitch In Time, as well as episodes of TWILIGHT ZONE, OUTER LIMITS, and ANDROMEDA., has been nominated for the Hugo, Endeavor and Cable Ace awards. (Check out Steve's bio on IMDB.) Steve lives in Longview, Washington with his wife, award-winning author Tananarive Due, and his daughter Lauren, and with a dog, an assortment of cats, and a houseful of tame, invisible tyrannosaurs. For twenty five years, Steve toiled in the trenches, creating books like "Dream Park" and "The Legacy of Heorot" (a New York Times bestseller) and writing for The Twilight Zone . His twentieth novel, Great Sky Woman (set 30,000 years ago in East Africa) comes out in June of 2006, and he has a film in development at Fox Searchlight.  (Check out his books on Amazon) Over the years, Steve has spent countless hours lecturing on story telling, myth, and human consciousness--as well as the nuts-and-bolts of practical, selling writing.    He taught at  UCLA and Seattle University, lectured at USC, Mensa, the Pasadena Jet Propulsion Lab, the Smithsonian Institute, the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop, and the Maui Writer's Conference.  Steve says "If Law Schools produced as few working lawyers as Writing programs produce working writers, they'd be prosecuted for Fraud!" He remembers when he was a little kid from South Central L.A. who just wanted to be a storyteller, and the agony he went through learning the lessons that enabled him to survive. After years of talking about it, he finally created a writing course called Lifewriting, designed to take the novice writer and zoom them ahead faster than they ever dreamed, in one year.   Lifewriting is a process that links the internal and external worlds of the writer, so that everything you learn in life automatically makes you a better storyteller, and everything you write automatically makes you a better person. Get more information at www.lifewrite.com . Novels Dream Park (With Larry Niven), Ace Books 1981. The Descent of Anansi (With Larry Niven) Tor Books, 1982 Streetlethal Ace Books, 1983. The Kundalini Equation Tor Books, May 1986. The Legacy of Heorot Pocket Books, written with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Simon and Schuster , July 1987. The Barsoom Project, Ace Books August 1989. FUSION Five-part graphic novel for Eclipse Comics. 1987 Gorgon Child, Tor Books, December 1989. Achilles' Choice (With Larry Niven), Tor 1991 The California Voodoo Game (With Larry Niven), 1991 FireDance-Tor, 1993 These works have been variously translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian and Polish. Beowulf's Children, Tor, 1995 (With Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) Blood Brothers, Tor, 1996 Iron Shadows, Tor, 1997 Far Beyond the Stars, Bantam, 1998 Saturn's Race, Tor, 2000 Charisma, Tor 2000 Lion's Blood, Warner 2002 Selected Short Stories "The Locusts" Analog Magazine, June 1979 (Nominated for the Hugo award) "Endurance Vile" Isaac Asimov's S.F. Magazine August 1980 "Retrospective" Destinies, summer 1980 "...but fear itself." The Magic May Return, Ace Books, 1981 "The Thing in My Head" Previews Magazine, October, 1985 "Yelloweye" for Robert Adams's Horseclans anthology 1987 "Killsister" for Robert Adam's Horseclans anthology 1988 "Sandman" for Roger Zelazny's martial arts anthology Warriors of Mist and Dream 1995 Non-fiction; Books Ki, Sen-do publications, 1976 LifeWriting (workbook and tape set), Ronin Arts Publications, 1992 Non-fiction; articles Los Angeles Magazine, Beyond, Daily News, Ampersand, Black Belt, Karate Illustrated, Fighting Stars, Vegetarian World, and over a dozen more. Kung-Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine June 1986-June 1989. Videotape Productions LifeWriting/TOTAL SUCCESS tape, 1993 Firedance Tai Chi tape, 1994 The Art of Storytelling, 1999 Lifewriting writing system, 1999 Profiled in Players Magazine, February, 1988. African Heritage Literature Review, July/August 1991 Signal newspaper, June 20th, 1991 Martial and Physical Arts Black Belt in Kenpo Karate (Aikka style), and Kodokan Judo, Instructor certificate inWu Ming Ta, Instructor candidate ranking in Filipino Kali stick and knife fighting, Advanced Student in Jun Fan Kickboxing (Bruce Lee method under Danny Inosanto), Instructor in Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan under Hawkins Cheung. Intermediate student in Self Defense pistol shooting (Turnipseed modified Weaver method).   Also holds Brown Belt in Shorenji Jiu Jitsu, intermediate rankings in Tae Kwon Do and Aikido. Additional (limited) experience in boxing, Western fencing, wrestling, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Shotokan Karate, and French Savate.   Completed the Yoga Works basic Hatha Yoga instructor program.   Presently studying Pentjak Silat (an Indonesian fighting system) with Guru Stevan Plinck, and Ashtanga Yoga (a rare, Aerobic form of yoga). Please check the Chatroom Schedule at http://writerschatroom.com/schedule.htm for information on upcoming guests and writing-related chat topics. DOOR PRIZE Our door prize for Wednesday is very generous. Our guest has donated a copy of "Lion's Blood". We will have a drawing for this prize at the mid-point of the chat.  You must be present in the chat to be in the drawing! We look forward to chatting with you!   Glenn Walker - Chatroom Moderator and Guest Scheduler http://comicwidows.com  Audrey Shaffer -  Chatroom Moderator and Guest Scheduler http://audreyshaffer.com  Linda Hutchinson - Moderator, Researcher and Bio Writer http://www.lindajhutchinson.com/  Renee Barnes - Moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRAILER_PARK_GAZETTE/ Diana Castilleja - Researcher www.freewebs.com/dianacastilleja