Genre: Speculative/Science Fiction (and one horror story).
Background: I’ve been interested in writing since I was in elementary school. I remember writing a terrible romance story, and my mom finding it. I was mortified. I didn’t write again until I was a teenager.
I then wrote on and off until I hit my early twenties. I sent one story into Aboriginal Science Fiction magazine. I got a personal rejection, which I was pretty proud of. Unfortunately, it got lost in time. I stopped writing for a while, dealing with real-life and all that crap, but started again in my 40’s. I wrote a novel I wasn’t happy with, then started writing short stories.
Writing Highlight: I’m good at writing morally ambiguous characters. I also live with a science consultant who has been known to point out when my science makes no sense. Usually, I listen. Sometimes, I go with bad science and call it Science Fantasy.
I used to think I was unique in my flagrant use of curse words, but apparently, there are others of my ilk. I was very proud of my last two novels until I realized how typo-ridden they were. I liked the short story I published in LampLight, “Atmospheric Pressure”. It’s creepy and dark. It didn’t hurt that they edited it well. My short in The Weird and Whatnot, “Dance, Monkey, Dance!” is another of my favorites. It is especially better after they illustrated it and formatted it very fancily.
Next Project: My next story, “Better SAF Than Sorry,” is due out in the anthology Imps and Minions at the end of August. I’ve been writing shorts that tie-in to that story and may eventually create a collection of them in the future. While I see my greatest strength in shorts, I am working on a hard corp Science Fiction novel that I’m about a third of the way into.
To keep up with Margret Treiber follow her website: http://www.the-margret.com/
You can also follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/margret.treiber
Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B0052U63BI
A note about Margret is that she has a wonderful sense of humor, which I appreciate. Under the “don’t ask” column she confessed she once wrote a ‘cell phone porn’. Since I can’t ask, we’ll let it go at that, but clearly this is a writer who is willing to explore the corners of Speculative Fiction!
Short fiction is an art form that isn’t always popular with writers; I was very excited to discover a writer who is using the format so successfully. For readers, anthologies allow the satisfaction of a complete story in a short period of reading time, as well as the variety of sampling multiple writers in one publication. If you aren’t reading anthologies, you should be!
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