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Edo Van Belkom Interview

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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

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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 [email protected] or comment below. 

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