Ursula Pflug
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"Ursula Pflug is a writer!"
Female
50 years old
Canada
Last Login: 11/17/2008
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Ursula Pflug's Interests
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| General | Gardening, cooking and reading. Cooking only counts if it's out of things I grew. I'm particularly proud of the trees I started from seed: a Brazilian pepper, an almond, a lemon and an orange tree. At least I think they are a lemon and an orange. They might also be a grapefruit and an orange. I planted a bunch of citrus seeds together, and no longer know which actually germinated. In any case, they are all much taller and healthier than I had any right to expect. Go, Trees! And, thanks! | | Music | That's hard. In the last few years my musical tastes have been influenced alot by my kids, so I include Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins who I missed on their first go round. Really, though, musical tastes change by the day. From the old days I still love Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Velvet Underground. Coltrane's A Love Supreme got me through the purgatorial revision of my new novel, Thin Wednesday. No distracting lyrics, y'know? | | Movies | Favourite movies change over time. When I was young I used to say "Black Orpheus." Another Orpheus movie I like alot is Cocteau's "Orphee." Now I'm more inclined to say Tarkovsky's "The Stalker." More recently, I really liked Hirokazu's "Afterlife," and Richard Linklater's "Waking Life," more similar in theme than you might think. A friend of mine said he liked "Waking Life" except it was a bit too much like having a long conversation with Ursula. That's a clue. Oh, and Richard Kelly's "Donnie Darko" still beats all. More metaphysics, what can I say? | | Television | What's that?
When you don't watch box for a long time, the commercials seem even stranger than before. Were they always so weird, or have they gotten worse? Or is that better? The seams are starting to show, folks.
Nah, I watch the news sometimes. I've switched back to CBC as American news is too strange. | | Books | I'm going to use this corner for promotional purposes, listing some great anthologies I've been in recently, such as, "The Nine Muses," published in 2006 by Wheatland Press, edited by Forrest Aguirre and Deborah Layne. The story in Muses, an invitational anthology for women speculative writers with an introductory essay by Liz Hand, is called, "The Eyes of Horus," and yep, it's about Horus. "The Wizard of Wardenclyffe," about the Yugolslavian-American inventor Nicola Tesla, appeared in "Leviathan 4," and is available from Nightshade Books. This fourth anthology in the World Fantasy Award winning series was also edited by the clever Mr. Aguirre. I was also in "Land/Space," an anthology of speculative prairie fiction, edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Judy McCroskey, published by Tesseract Books. Jeff VanderMeer's Ministry of Whimsy published the very pretty "Album Zutique 1," in which my short story "Python" appears, although it can also be read on Keith Brooke's way cool UK website Infinity Plus. My most recent appearance in the excellent Canadian magazine "On Spec," was "Black Lace," in their Special Addictions Issue. All of the above titles can be purchased on Amazon, with the exception of On Spec, but back issues can be ordered from their website. "Late For Dinner" appeared in "Best of Strange Horizons, Year One," edited by Maryanne Mohanraj and published by Lethe Press. It was a nominee for The Pushcart Prize. It is also in the Strange Horizons Archive, along with one of my mom Christiane Pflug's amazing paintings as an illustration. I've put some anthology covers in My Pics. | | Heroes | My grandmother, Regine Faust, my mom, Christiane Pflug, and Judy Merril. I'm sure there's more, but I must've left them in the other room under a pile of papers. When I find them, I'll get right back to you. |
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Ursula Pflug's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | You people are nosy, aren't you? | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries | | Children: | Proud parent | | Occupation: | Writer |
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About me:
Green Music, my first novel, was published by Tesseract Books in 2002.
I am also author of over fifty short stories, published in professional venues, in print and online, in Canada, the US and the UK. I am author or co-author of four and half professionally produced plays. My non fiction about books and art appears frequently in The Peterborough Examiner, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and other venues. I also work as a freelance style editor and creative writing tutor.
For more detailed info about some great anthologies I've been in recently, check out the Books section.
I'm currently teaching a Continuing Education writing course out of Loyalist College.
My website is at:
http://ursulapflug.ca
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Who I'd like to meet:
There used to be some writers I wanted to meet, but nowadays I don't much care anymore. Frankly, the people I'd like to meet now are those I used to know, but they died. These include my mom and my grandparents.
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