Hi! My name is Stephen Wilk, and I've just set up an account and a blog here at GoodReads. I'd like to thank everyone who has commented on my work this far. My main purpose in starting this blog was to interact with readers about my forthcoming book "How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap!", which is due to come out next month (September 2013), although it probably won;t be on shelves until the beginning of October. But I can see that there's a lot of material I can fill in about my prior work.

Nobody develops in a vacuum, and I've been writing since I was seven years old. I've been publishing my work since 1979. Much of that has been technical work, but it hasn't all been in scientific journals -- my first piece, for instance, was in Scientific American, and I've published in a lot of non-technical journals since, including Weatherwise, Parabola, and New Jersey History.

I've been writing fiction (historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and even some non-genre contemporary fiction) for a great many years, but it's only been in this past year that I've been able to get it published beyond the high school or college literary magazine. One thing I'd like to do in this post is list the online stories you can read.

Stephen Wilk's free on-line fiction:

"The Tale of the Sweet Strength"
A historical mystery, podcast on "Tales of Old" January 2013
http://www.talesofold.org/

"The Ipswich Abhorrence"
Fantasy/Horror
"Roar and Thunder" March 2013
http://roarandthunder.com.au/2013/the...

"Bullseye"
Science Fiction
"Asbury Pulp" February 2013
http://asburypulp.com/

That's enough for now. In the next post I'll tell you about my prior book, "Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon", which came out in 2000, and about its soon-to-be-published, long-delayed follow-up, "The Scarecrow of Os".

-- Stephen R. Wilk