Author talk:Richard Lee-Fulgham

Typical screwed up writer's tale. I was most interested in writing Sci. Fi. & Fantasy when I holed up in a miserable sleeping room in Annapolis for a year back in 1975. I wrote dozens of short stories and a whole horror novel. I thought I was a total failure and began to drink so much that my few friends insisted I limp into residential rehab.

I never went back to Annapolis. Instead, I began to write and publish articles for national magazines like "Sports Afield". Six years later, when I got my first computer, I found out that one of my stories had not only been accepted for a national fanasy & horror magazine edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, but was chosen for a hardback anthology called "Tales By Moonlight" (CA: Garcia, 1983) and its mass paperback reprint (NY: TOR, 1984). My tales were good afterall! But I was pigeonholed as a historian/naturalist.

Now I wonder if my novel from back then might find a publisher. But I lack the money to have it retyped in Word format for a revision and submission. Oh well, when I get the money, watch for a horror novel by me. I know I'm a good writer of history and creative nonfiction works. But what about those incredibly intense words I did when I was having visions and lucid dreams?