Less than a year after the publication of his collected short stories, Most Excellent and Lamentable, Jason Erik Lundberg is back with his 25th book and first-ever novel: A Fickle and Restless Weapon. Join Jason in conversation with Dean Francis Alfar, as they discuss the ins and outs of this book that took 15 years to come to fruition. Stay till the end of the Zoom session to stand a chance to win a set of three books by Jason. The set consists of: A Fickle and Restless Weapon, Diary of One Who Disappeared and Most Excellent and Lamentable.
Jason Erik Lundberg was born in New York, grew up in North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the author and anthologist of over two dozen books, including Most Excellent and Lamentable (2019), Diary of One Who Disappeared (2019), Carol the Coral (2016), Strange Mammals (2013), Embracing the Strange (2013), The Alchemy of Happiness (2012), Fish Eats Lion (2012), Red Dot Irreal (2011), the six-book Bo Bo and Cha Cha children’s picture book series (2012–2015), and the biennial Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series (est. 2013).
He is also the fiction editor at Epigram Books (where the books he’s edited have won multiple awards, and made various year’s best lists since 2012), as well as the founding editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction (2012–2018). His writing has been anthologised widely, shortlisted for multiple awards, honourably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and translated into half a dozen languages. A Fickle and Restless Weapon is his first novel, and twenty-fifth book.
VENUE: Online
LINK: To be sent to registrants
EVENT WEBSITE: Peatix (for registration)
DATE AND ITME
24 Oct 2020, 8.30pm–9.30pm