I regularly guest-host for the podcast Small Publishing in a Big Universe. It’s great fun!.
This weekend, producer Steven Radecki put up a page featuring all the hosts, including those of us who try to reduce the workload of primary host Lisa Jacob.
How sweeet! But, my goodness, this is all the biographical info he had space for:
Vanessa MacLaren-Wray writes about worlds where people matter. She is the author of All That Was Asked, Shadows of Insurrection, and Flames of Attrition as well as the MG novel The Smugglers, and she also writes short fiction and poetry.
My readers deserve the full story. Here you go:
Vanessa MacLaren-Wray began her audio career by voicing the demands of the Permies, a community of invisible little people residing under her grandmotherās coffee table. She parlayed that skill into a successful childhood, such that Barbie could explain why GI Joe (the 60ās version) was a far better marriage prospect than Ken, all the ponies she knew could provide running commentary on the foibles of humans, and she could anchor segments of Walt Whitman Intermediate Schoolās famous in-school newscasts. As a semi-adult, she voiced a documentary encouraging other young women to study engineering and obtained four years of acting training through the Little Country Theater at the University of Southern North Dakota at Fargo, gaining lead roles in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Thurber Carnival, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, among others.
Vanessa is the author of science fiction and fantasy works that imagine worlds where people matter. Shadows of Insurrection, Flames of Attrition, The Smugglers, and All That Was Asked are available from Water Dragon Publishing and everywhere books are sold. Her short fiction has appeared with Dragon Gems and Fault Zone: Reverse, and her poetry has appeared in Fault Zone: Detachment, Hadrosaur Tales, and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. She reads classics (Austen, Clemens), mysteries (Reichs, James), manga and light novels (Nagabe, Kazuki), SFF and poetry (of course), and street signs. She loves to chat with authors and publishing professionals about their struggles and joys in bringing art, poetry, and stories to readers. Heads-up: if you talk to her at any books-related event, she might put you on her āgotta interview themā list.
Do remember to stop over at SPBU, listen to the grand backlog of episodes (Lisa keeps ’em short and sweet), and subscribe so you don’t miss any. Meet all the hosts here.