Emma Bull

Emma Bull is a fantasy writer and musician. Married to fantasy writer Will Shetterly, she got her writing start in Minnesota, where she was part of The Scribblies writing group. She and Will now live in Tucson, Arizona.

Works

Novels

• War for the Oaks (1987 novel), winner of Locus Magazine's Best First Novel Award
• Falcon (1989 novel)
• Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles (1991 novel), nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award
• Finder (1994 novel)
• The Princess and the Lord of Night (1994 children's picture book)
• Freedom and Necessity (1997 novel; with Steven Brust)
• Territory (2007 novel), nominated for the World Fantasy Award

Other Books

• Double Feature]], short story collection with Will Shetterly
• Editor, with Will Shetterly, the Liavek series:
  • Liavek
  • Liavek: The Players of Luck
  • Liavek: Wizard's Row
  • Liavek: Spells of Binding
  • Liavek: Festival Week

Short Fiction and Poetry

• "Rending Dark" in Sword and Sorceress, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• "Badu's Luck" in ''Liavek'', edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly
• "The Well-Made Plan" in ''Liavek: The Players of Luck''
• "Danceland" (with Will Shetterly) in ''Bordertown', edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold
• "A Bird That Whistles" in ''Hidden Turnings'', edited by Diana Wynne Jones
• "For It All" (poem) in ''Life on the Border'', edited by Terri Windling
• "Silver or Gold" in After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Martin H. Greenberg
• "The Stepsister's Story" (poem) in The Armless Maiden
• "Joshua Tree" in The Green Man, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• "De La Tierra" in The Faery Reel, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• "The Black Fox" in Firebirds edited by Sharyn November
• What Used to Be Good Still Is" in Firebirds Rising edited by Sharyn November

Essays

• "Why I Write Fantasy," Pulphouse 6
• "Wonders of the Invisible World: How I Came to Write War for the Oaks," New North Artscape.
• "Unreal Life," Something About the Author Vol. 103, Alan Hedblad, ed.

Music

• Cats Laughing, Cats Laughing (SteelDragon/Spin Art; re-released as Reissue,)
• Cats Laughing, Another Way to Travel (SteelDragon/Spin Art)
• Flash Girls, The Return of Pansy Smith and Violet Jones (SteelDragon)
• Flash Girls, Maurice and I (Fabulous Records)
• Flash Girls, Play Each Morning
• Wild Queen (Fabulous Records)

Screenplays

• Nightspeeder. A feature-length science fiction script (written with Will Shetterly). Commissioned by Perfect World Ent.
• William Tell, a feature-length historical adventure script (written with Will Shetterly and Don Helverson). Optioned by Synchronicity Productions; now available.
• Dogland, a feature-length script (written with Will Shetterly). Optioned by Consolidated Heavy Industries; now available.
• Masters of Earth, a TV series bible (written with Will Shetterly). Commissioned by SciFi Channel.

Online Fiction

Bull is the originator of Shadow Unit, an online fiction site which is designed as the fan site for a fictional television show. Her collaborators in the project are Will Shetterly, Elizabeth Bear, and Sarah Monette. While not expressly feminist, the "show" features a wide variety of strong women, including one Asian and one mixed-race woman with African-American ancestry.

External Links

• Coffee Em (livejournal)
• SciFi Channel, meet The Female Geek (on gender in Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series))
• Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Bull, Elizabeth Bear, Will Shetterly, and Sarah Monette