Join DLSaga for their interview with Edo Van Belkom (@edovanbelkom9304), an award winning author of horror fiction, notable to Dragonlance fans for Lord Soth.
You can find Edo Van Belkom on his website: https://www.edovanbelkom.com/, and on X: https://twitter.com/edovanbelkom
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga Professionals episode. My name is Adam and today I am talking with the award winning author Edo Van Belkom. He is also known in Dragonlance circles as the author of Lord Soth.
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Discussion
- Born in Toronto in 1962, van Belkom received a B.A. in Creative Writing from York University and now resides in Brampton, Ontario with his wife Roberta.
- former reporter on the sports and police beats for newspapers in and around Toronto,
- arrived on the horror scene in 1990.
- admired writers such as Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury
- His first short story sale, Baseball Memories, was selected for the prestigious Year’s Best Horror Stories edited by Karl Edward Wagner.
- The story was also nominated for Canada’s prestigious Aurora Award and appeared side-by-side with work by authors such as Mordecai Richler and W. P. Kinsella in The Grand Slam Book of Canadian Baseball Writing.
- 150 short stories have sold to a variety of top magazines and anthologies in the sf, fantasy, horror and mystery genres as well as Simon & Schuster’s BEST AMERICAN EROTICA.
- twice won the Aurora Award, taken home the Bram Stoker Award once, and been a finalist on many other occasions in a variety of categories spanning his work as a novelist,
- anthologist and non-fiction author, and his YA novel WOLF PACK won Ontario’s prestigious Silver Birch Award.
- published in Germany, Spain and Italy.
- SCREAM QUEEN (2003) and BLOOD ROAD (2004) are his first major mass market horror novels.
- Edo was also one of four on-air hosts for the launch of ScreamTV in 2000, hosting the segment Post Mortem during their late night movie block.
Links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_van_Belkom
- https://www.youtube.com/@edovanbelkom9304
- https://www.edovanbelkom.com/
- https://www.twitter.com/EdovanBelkom
Original works
- Lord Soth, 1996
- Dragon Dice, 1997
- Death Drives a Semi, 1998
- Wolf Pack, 2005
- Wyrm Wolf,[4] Mister Magick,[1] Teeth,[5] Martyrs,[6] Scream Queen,[7] Army of the Dead
- editor of Aurora Awards: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Science Fiction (1999)
Outro
And that’s it for my interview with Edo Van Belkom. He was incredibly gracious with his time. What do you think of his writing? Do you have a favorite novel of his? And if you could have him write another Dragonlance novel, what would it be about? Feel free to email me at info@dlsaga.com or comment below.
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