Lawrence M. Schoen

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Lawrence M. Schoen
Born (1959-07-27) July 27, 1959
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation Psychologist, researcher, publisher, author
Nationality American
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Website
www.lawrencemschoen.com

Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language.[1][2]

Biography

The youngest of four children, Schoen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to Southern California when he was 18 months old, and he grew up in Culver City.

In 1983, he graduated with B.S. in Psycholinguistics from California State University, Northridge, having designed his own major, and then moved on to Kansas State University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology. In graduate school, Schoen's research focused on cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics.

Doctorate in hand, he spent the next ten years in academia as an assistant professor at New College of Florida, Lake Forest College in Illinois, and Chestnut Hill College in Pennsylvania. He then moved to the private sector and currently serves as the director of research and analytics for a medical center which provides mental health and addiction treatment service works throughout Philadelphia.[3]

Schoen lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Author

Schoen attended the 1998 session of James Gunn's two-week Writers' Workshop in Science Fiction on the campus of the University of Kansas.[4] In 2010, he participated in Walter Jon Williams' two-week master class, the Taos Toolbox.

He has been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and the Nebula Award for Best Novella three times.

Some of his more notable works as an author include the Amazing Conroy series of science fiction stories and novels, the first of which appeared in 2001,[5] about a space-traveling stage hypnotist and his alien companion animal (a "buffalito") that can consume anything and farts oxygen. Among these, the short story "Yesterday's Taste"[6] and the novellas Barry's Tale (2012),[7] Trial of the Century (2013),[8] and Calendrical Regression (2015)[9] have received award nominations. Much of his work is intended to be light and humorous, despite recurring themes involving thwarting death via science fictional means.

Schoen appeared at Book Expo America in May 2015, where he was presented as one of four authors described by Tor Books as the next generation of science fiction and fantasy, based on his novel Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard, anthropomorphic SF that explores prophecy, intolerance, political betrayal, and a drug that lets one talk to the dead.

In the Summer of 2015, he joined the staff at Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show as Reprint Editor, replacing Darrell Schweitzer as the magazine's interviewer.

Klingonist

Schoen founded the Klingon Language Institute[10] and has published Klingon translations of William Shakespeare's plays Hamlet (The Klingon Hamlet, ISBN 978-0671035785) and Much Ado About Nothing (ISBN 978-1587155017), as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh (ISBN 978-1587153389) and the Tao Te Ching (ISBN 978-0964434523). In the realm of Klingon nonfiction, Schoen edited and published The Grammarian's Desk (978-0964434530), a collection of essays written by Captain Krankor (Rich Yampell). He also served as the editor of HolQeD (ISSN 1061-2327), the quarterly journal of the KLI, for the entirety of its 13-year run. He was featured in Director Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary about the Klingon Language Institute, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water (2004).[11] In 2011, he produced a daily Klingon language podcast called DaHjaj Hol.[12] (See Klingon Language Institute#Publications.)

Small press publisher

Schoen is the publisher and chief editor for Paper Golem, a speculative fiction small press started in November, 2006. The first book it published was Prime Codex, an anthology of previously published stories by members of the Codex Writers Group, of which Schoen is a founding member.[13] Paper Golem is Schoen's vehicle for "paying it forward," and focuses on two mains tracks: publishing single author collections by relatively new authors (e.g., Cat Rambo in 2009, Eric James Stone in 2011), and the Alembical series, which produces anthologies of original novellas (J. Kathleen Cheney's novella "Iron Shoes", from Alembical 2, received a nomination for the Nebula Award).[14]

Hypnotist

In 2013, Schoen took a page from one of his fictional creations and became certified as a hypnotherapist by the International Association of Professional Conversational Hypnotists (IAPCH), with the intention of developing materials to aid other writers grappling with problems common to their field (e.g., writer's block).

Published works

The "Conroyverse"

Novels

Novellas

Novelettes

Short stories

In addition to the above, the following stories include characters from or are set in the same universe as the Amazing Conroy works:

Novels

Collections

Short fiction

Poetry

Edited works

Awards and nominations

Interviews (text)

Interviews (video)

References

  1. ↑ "Lawrence M. Schoen - IMDb". Us.imdb.com. 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  2. ↑ "About the Author". Retrieved 2014-09-14.
  3. ↑ "Study will test unusual but creative format to empower outpatients". Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  4. ↑ "Speaker to Talk on Klingon: Sci-Fi Language Star". Retrieved 2014-09-14.
  5. ↑ Reichert, James S. (2001-06-12). "Reviews: Absolute Magnitude, #16, Summer 2001". Tangent. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  6. ↑ "Yesterday's Taste". Transtories (Aeon Press). October 2011.
  7. ↑ Schoen, Lawrence M. (2012). Barry's Tale. Hadley Rille Books.
  8. ↑ Schoen, Lawrence M. (2013). Trial of the Century. World Jumping.
  9. ↑ Calendrical Regression author=Schoen, Lawrence M. NobleFusion Press. January 26, 2015. ASIN B00STWXR3I.
  10. ↑ Gorman, James (1993-04-05). "Klingon: The Final Frontier". TIME. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  11. ↑ "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water - IMDb". Us.imdb.com. 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  12. ↑ "Lawrence M. Schoen | Archive | Podcasts". Lawrencemschoen.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  13. ↑ "Codex Writers' Group: Links". Codexwriters.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  14. ↑ "Nebula Award Nominations Announced!". Tor.com. 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  15. ↑ "Locus Online News: Hugo and Campbell Awards Nominations". Locusmag.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  16. ↑ "Locus Online News: 2010 Hugo and Campbell Awards Nominees". Locusmag.com. 2010-04-04. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  17. ↑ "Locus Online News » 2012 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced". Locusmag.com. 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  18. ↑ "Locus Online News » 2013 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced". Locusmag.com. 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  19. ↑ "Locus Online News » 2014 Nebula Awards Ballot Announced". Locusmag.com. 2015-02-20. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
  20. ↑ "Locus Online News » 2015 Nebula Awards Ballot". Locusmag.com. 2016-02-21. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  21. ↑ "The Furry Writers' Guild » Final Ballot for 2015!". coyotlawards.org. 2016-04-02. Retrieved 2016-04-02.

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