Denise Longrie

Biography

Denise Longrie’s first foray into writing, undertaken at the age of seven, depicted the capture of a remarkably cooperative wild horse and displayed an equally remarkable disregard for the laws of physics. Her world has broadened since then and her respect for the laws of physics has come through experience, such as falling off flesh-and-blood horses.

In college, she studied journalism in the days when students used contraptions called typewriters.

Among her published work are several poems, appearing in small press periodicals. She has a self-published chapbook of poetry, Sotto Voce, and a self-published short story, Always Coming Home in which no one falls off a horse. She edited her mother’s memoirs of immigration to the U.S. as a teenager. A budding Esperantist, (saluton, nekonatajn amikojn!), she is also currently working a retelling of the Sigurd/Siegfried myths, titled Siegfried Dragon Slayer.

Smashwords Interview

What is your writing process?
Write, despair, ignore, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite.
Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
As my mother tells it, my brother and I had our bedtime stories memorized. When she skipped over a part, hoping to hurry the bedtime process up a bit, we helpfully reminded her, "Mom, you forgot this part."
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Books

By Firelight A Guide to Speculative Fiction Before 1900
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,610. Language: American English. Published: April 15, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Literary criticism » Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nonfiction » Literary criticism » Books & Reading
This is a compilation of reviews and short author bios of pre-1900 speculative fiction, such as John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Grey Woman.”
By Firelight: A Guide to Speculative Fiction Before 1900 (Text Only Version)
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 62,670. Language: American English. Published: April 14, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Literary criticism » Books & Reading, Nonfiction » Literary criticism » Science Fiction & Fantasy
This is a compilation of reviews and short author bios of pre-1900 speculative fiction, such as John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Grey Woman.”

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