SHEREE RENEE THOMAS ON OCTAVIA BUTLER, THE POWER OF SHORT STORIES, WHY AFRICENTRIC WRITERS WORKSHOPS MATTER + EASY HACKS TO BOOST YOUR WRITING PRODUCTIVITY (MF GALAXY 119)
THE ORIGINS OF THE GROUNDBREAKING INDIE COMIC; AVOIDING THE 1990s COMICS INDUSTRY CRASH WITH STUNNING INDIE DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS; ARTISTS WHO WERE HIS BEST ALLIES IN LAUNCHING HIS BUSINESS Sheree Renee Thomas changed science fiction publishing by editing the anthologies Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Those books won the 2001 and 2005 World Fantasy Awards, and along with the novels of Nalo Hopkinson, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes relaunched Africentric science fiction and fantasy in the world of books and gave rise to the revolution which is growing around the African planet. Thomas grew up in Memphis, Tennessee loving science fiction, but abandoned the genre until she encountered the work of Africentric SF luminary Octavia Butler and then found her own path to expanding the genre. In addition to being an editor, Thomas is a poet and short story writer whose work has appeared in...