James Patrick Kelly Interview at Creative Commons
January 30, 2008 – 2:26 pm by Mur LaffertyJames Patrick Kelly, Hugo and Nebula winning science fiction author, is featured over at Creative Commons as their Featured Commoner. Jim is a favorite writer of mine, not only because he is vastly talented and very approachable, but also because of him being one of the first pro writers to embrace Creative Commons and podcasting. Sure, there are tons of us wanna-bes, but it’s Jim’s street cred that helps to impress on others how important it is.
Jim released his novella, Burn, on the Free Reads podcast, but also has podcasted stories, dramatic readings, and his older novel, Look Into The Sun.
…one of the things I continually try to impress on my students (and fellow professionals) is that real writing needs readers. Consider the old philosopher’s chestnut: If a tree falls in the forest and there’s nobody to hear it, does it make a noise? Now tweak it to writing: If a story gets published in a magazine and two years later nobody can put their hands on the magazine, is the story still published?
