Status: My story "Dig for Fire" is in this year's AE Micro anthology of 200 word stories: http://bit.ly/YpOob1 (1 month ago)
| Name | JamesBambury |
| Location | Ontario, Canada |
| Member Since | Jul 24, 2012 |
| Votes Received | 43 |
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I write science fiction and fantasy stories. I try to keep them short yet full of ideas because I think your time is precious. Several of these have appeared online and a complete list can be found at my blog: http://jamesbambury.blogspot.ca/p/stories.html I have some recommendations of stories you should read by other WattPad writers. There's three so far in this thread but I'll add more entries if I come across worthwhile stories: http://www.wattpad.com/forums/vanilla/discussion/280873/three-very-good-and-very-short-stories I recently wrote up a quick guide on using Inkscape to help make book covers and posted it to the Wattpad forums: http://www.wattpad.com/forums/discussion/266295/Make+Better+Book+Covers+With+Inkscape Need some cover art? I have some art I'm not using this thread that you're welcome to take and use for whatever you'd like. You'll need to add your own titles, name and text: http://www.wattpad.com/forums/vanilla/discussion/269982/strange-and-free-book-cover-art-just-take-and-add-your-own-title-and-name
Works
 | The World and its Mostly Deserving People Will Have to Find Their Own Way14 parts / 4 pages, updated Apr 20, 2013 Thirteen very short science fiction and fantasy stories:
- A Tower of Babel built to extend the Internet into the heavens
- The final surviv... read more  393 reads  23  15 |
 | Leaves the City in Silence 1 page, updated Feb 22, 2013 How many ways are there to read music?
This story first appeared in "The Cafe Irreal", November 1, 2012:
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/bambury.htm 13 reads 2 0 |
 | The Dead of Veii 2 pages, updated Feb 22, 2013 An historical fantasy about the siege of the ancient Etruscan city of Veii. When the Roman legions came to conquer the city the conflict came to a deadlock outside of Vei... read more 38 reads 3 4 |
 | Estimated Time of Arrival5 parts / 4 pages, updated Jul 25, 2012 110 reads 8 7 |
 | Pointland 1 page, updated Jul 24, 2012 75 reads 4 5 |
 | Empire, Colorado 2 pages, updated Jul 24, 2012  58 reads 3 7 |
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KatharinaGerlac...
2 months ago
Thank you for following me.
MotazAbumathkou...
5 months ago
Great job with "Leaves the City in Silence"!
WaterRaven
6 months ago
Wonderful doing a panel with you at SfContario and wonderful meeting you! All the best! ~Sarah
MotazAbumathkou...
6 months ago
@JamesBambury or hurricane Sandy
JamesBambury
6 months ago
@MotazAbumathkour About Halloween? Hmm...nothing coming down the pipe right now but I've wanted to do some darker stories to submit to places that are into those kinds of stories.
MotazAbumathkou...
6 months ago
Bring us a story about Halloween, please!
TheOrangutan
6 months ago
Hi James, thanks for fanning, always nice to meet a fellow scifi and short story writer. I hope you enjoy anything of mine you happen to read and please do feel free to leave comment / critique, it's always nice to hear what people think. Cheers, Gav
MotazAbumathkou...
7 months ago
@JamesBambury oh God, I never would have thought of that this way! I guess that's what makes a great writer! Well done!
JamesBambury
7 months ago
@MotazAbumathkour Thanks for taking the time to seek that story out--I've been happy with the response it's getting. The inspiration? Hard to say, it started as kind of a riff on the idea of Zeno's paradox and went from there. Sorry I've been busy with work and haven't checked in here in a while, I'm going to look at your recent postings now!
MotazAbumathkou...
7 months ago
@JamesBambury just read "Thirteen Generations", it is both touching and thought-provoking... How do you get the inspiration for that? Can't wait to read more from you :D
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@Poetical_Friday Thanks for reading and your very kind comments. I'm not too bothered about rankings, I haven't seen much co-relation between...The Dead of Veii
As with your other works, you manage to break any number of narrative rules and avoid conventions on the sheer strength of your imagination. I...
The Princess of Travancore
Good start on this story@Julieta_Ackay. I look forward to the next chapter.
Luxterra
@MotazAbumathkour Here's my take on the first few paragraphs: The villagers rushed to the tent at the child's cry. They looked at him and wished...
The Dry Spell
Very nice. There's a few places I'd look at tweaking some words or phrases for flow or tense but generally this falls into the camp of "less is...
The Dry Spell
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