Jerome Stueart

EVOLVE anthology covered in depth by Temple Library Review

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I got a thorough review in Temple Library Review–and so did everyone in the Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead.  Read the conclusion of his review of me here, and then go to the link to find the rest.  It’s really nice to have anyone review an anthology in this much depth.  Thanks!

How Magnificent is the Universal Donor does what few short stories manage. It remains strong on all fronts. Well developed characters, a clever and unorthodox world and enough suspense all result in a must-read page turner. It’s a true gem that fulfills the anthology’s theme and delivers a lot more.

Read his entire review of “How Magnificent is the Universal Donor” here.  

“Adopting My Mother” radio series is up

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Hi Folks, if you look under Radio Series, you’ll see I finally put up the 5 parts of “Adopting my Mother.”  It was my first radio series.  Be kind.  I had a lot of fun with it, but it was my first foray into radio series.  It tells the story of when my birthmother found me, when I was 30.  What follows is me getting used to having another mother, or trying to figure out how to fit in a person into my life who had a very important role in creating me.  It’s not easy adopting a new person into your life–when you have a mom, a happy life, and you think you really don’t have to know where you came from or your own history….

But it’s interesting how much that beckons when you’ve never really known where you came from….. or why….

And suddenly here’s someone who can tell you everything…  and they’re only an email away.

Come listen to “Adopting My Mother” on the Radio Series page.

“The Song of Sasquatch” up at Joyland

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“The Song of Sasquatch,”my poem/story of bigfoot romance in the style of Song of Solomon, is up at Joyland: a hub for short fiction.  Joyland is unique as an online fiction magazine. It has editors associated with a certain geographical place and all the stories come from writers associated with that place. Occasionally, editor Kevin Chong says, they like to pull a few writers from outside.  Thanks, Kevin, for pulling me in!  Enjoy!

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When Both the US and Canadian National Anthems Mean a Lot, You Sing Them Both With Your Hand On Your Heart

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I’m really proud to have been asked to sing the national anthems of the US and Canada at the Yukon Quest Banquet held in Whitehorse, this past February, 2010.  As an immigrant to Canada, it meant the world to sing both anthems–they have a special meaning for me.  

It was a race from the US to Canada that we were there to celebrate this year.  So I could relate.  

I also like how much the Canadians like to sing along when we start “O Canada”.  

Mac’s Fireweed signing of EVOLVE, Canadian Vampire Anthology, Friday, 4-6pm

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I’ll be at Mac’s Fireweed, Friday April 23rd from 4-6pm signing copies of EVOLVE: Vampire stories of the new undead–an anthology edited by Nancy Kilpatrick, where I have a story, “How Magnificent is the Universal Donor.”  It’s all-Canadian (or in my case, landed immigrant), all vampire and the theme is the evolution of vampires.  As far as I know, this has never been done.  Shaking up the old rules.  These are new kinds of vampires.

Come and find out how vampires have evolved and what they’ve become.  Or just come and say hi.  I’ll be behind a lonely desk, and will want company.  

This is the YUKON launch of the book–and we’re planning a reading in Tagish–sometime soon.  It’s been launched now in Brighton, UK at the World Horror Convention in front of other horror writers; it’s been launched in Toronto in front of fantasy, science fiction and horror enthusiasts; and it’s being launched in Winnipeg, Montreal and Vancouver as well.  

YUKON launch: Mac’s Fireweed, 4-6pm, Friday, April 23rd.  

See Reviews here at Innsmouth Free Press

Bitten by Books

Blog with Bite

Scifiguy.ca

The Librarian’s News Wire–an interview with Nancy Kilpatrick, editor

Toronto Launch of Evolve: the all-Canadian Vampire anthology, April 9-10

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Coming up, Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead will be launched in Toronto at Ad Astra, the science fiction convention there.  It happens April 9-10 in two separate events: one is a the Canadian Launch on Friday night, 7pm at the World’s Biggest Bookstore.  And the other is a reading on Saturday at Toronto Don Valley Hotel and Suites which is hosting Ad Astra.  

You can read more about it here.

What is Evolve?  Evolve is really 24 authors tackling the premise–what would happen if Vampires evolved? What would the new versions look like?  When you have a history of Vampires that takes you from the ghoulish looking Nosferatu to the sexy, sparkling Edward, then you already have an evolution of vampires from their horrific beastial state–where being bitten was a life sentence–to teen girls hoping and praying they’ll be bitten by Edward…  Where have we come to?  What have vampires already become?  And where will they evolve next?

As Nancy tells me, this is the first ever all Canadian effort to tackle contemporary vampire stories–and I think we have an exciting premise.  If anyone is wondering if Vampires have lost their direction post-Meyers, here’s 24 things to think about for future reference.  

Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead includes writing from Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff, Claude Lalumière, Mary E. Choo, Sandra Kasturi, Bradley Somer, Kevin Cockle, Rebecca Bradley, Heather Clitheroe, Colleen Anderson, Sandra Wickham, Rhea Rose, Ronald Hore, Bev Vincent, Jennifer Greylyn, Steve Vernon, Michael Skeet, Kevin Nunn, Victoria Fisher, Rio Youers, Gemma Files, Natasha Beaulieu, Claude Bolduc, and Jerome Stueart.

If you’re in Toronto and want to stop by the World’s Largest Bookstore, or by Ad Astra for the readings, you’ll enjoy it.  

“One Nation Under Gods” finds home in Tesseracts 14

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My story, “One Nation Under Gods,” was selected to be part of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology, Tesseracts 14, edited by Brett Savory and John Robert Colombo, due out in September 2010.  The Tesseracts series is devoted to Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror, and has had, as you might have guessed, 14 other volumes (a Tesseracts Q was for Quebec, and the requisite 1-13 which came before). 

You might have caught me reading a portion of this at the Yukon Writers Festival a couple of years back.  It involves two kids and a history test, and a complete restructuring of the United States based on values Americans, like me, hold sacred: patriotism, freedom, the just war, independence, religion.  I just personified them a bit.  I’m very pleased it found a home.  I’m now going to start work on the novel version of this story.  

The picture on the left is the construction of the Statue of Liberty, a figure which looms large on the landscape at the beginning of my story.  And as I was now an immigrant to Canada, the Statue of Liberty loomed large on my new immigrant’s mind…what a dramatic beginning to a new life for those coming to America.  For me, I saw her on my way out.  On my drive from Texas to the Yukon, I parked my red truck in Calgary for one month, flew to Vermont to be part of a writer’s colony, and in that time, snuck down to see her.  Like some mistress I was breaking up with.  

How do you explain to her that you are leaving?   

I put her in my story, though, and so in this way, she haunts me.

Seeing Things: a Captain Bly cartoon story of polar bears uploaded

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IMG_0677I used to be a cartoonist.  I had a comic strip for 4 years in the local student paper, The Maneater, at the University of Missouri.  I found that a visitor to Whitehorse had kindly uploaded some of my strips from a book called Captain Bly, 1994, as a way to show off my nifty book.  Thanks, Aniko!  So I decided to upload a short 6 page story not included in the book.   (The pic on the left is actually a pastel of the same bears–these bears are reciting Shakespeare’s The Tempest)

I’m still working on those bears.  They appeared a little in my short story “Lemmings in the Third Year” and I’m trying to work on a novel about them. 

Below is a short story I did for a Comic Strip 101 class I had with Frank Stack, an artist and cartoonist teaching there.  He is credited with the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus.  He was a great teacher.  Had us draw comic strips and pin them to the wall for critique and then he would go about busting us!  He thought we were a great class though.  Full of potential.  I’ve been playing with my cartooning roots, and working around in some other mediums.  But here is that short story.

 

Seeing Things, Page 1, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 1, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 2, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 2, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 3, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 3, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 4, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 4, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 5, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 5, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 6, Jerome Stueart, 1995
Seeing Things, Page 6, Jerome Stueart, 1995

Why I Love the Yukon in the Fall: Kluane Lake

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I had the chance of a lifetime this summer to work out at Kluane Lake.  The drive from Haines Junction to Kluane Lake has to be one of the most beautiful drives ever, but it really glows in the fall.  Holy Cow.  I took 92 pictures and movies.  This was my drive to work every week.  Today it looked like everything had turned to gold in the Yukon.  

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At the airport at the Kluane Lake Research Station.

 

The fall is brief here, but it sings.  Go outside and see the music.

The Moon Over Marsh Lake (and Tokyo) through Leaves in the Fall

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 My new story is up at Fantasy Magazine.  In honor of that, I took this footage out at Family Camp this weekend, a time where our church goes out and camps together.  A spectacular full moon found us there, and I took this footage through spruce and pine and poplar there at Marsh Lake.  It’s quiet at first, but wait for the screams at the end.  

The story, “Moon Over Tokyo through Leaves in the Fall,” which is up at Fantasy Magazine, is ready for your reading.  

Enjoy the peace of the full moon over Marsh Lake (and the screams).  Sorry it’s so black except for the moon….usually the moon lights up much more.  And enjoy the story.  Thanks!