[HPforGrownups] Tim Powers (was: A pet peeve about Sirius-like men. . .)

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 2285

voicelady at mymailstation.com wrote:

> On Mon, 25 September 2000, Peg Kerr wrote:
>
> Oh my goodness. <snip> You know Tim Powers, too?

Yeah.  I know LOTS of writers, but I met Tim because he was one of my teachers when I went to the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop in 1988--he was the best of the six teachers I had.  A very gracious gentleman and a
wonderful mentor.  We've kept in touch sporadically since.

When I was in graduate school, I interviewed him about the writing of _On Stranger Tide_ for one of my papers for my masters degree.  (It was during that interview that I teased him about character development by
dismemberment.)  Fascinating experience to interview him--and the paper was fun to write, too.  I have a copy of that interview on tape somewhere around here. . .

I do really recommend his fiction.

Peg