Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life
Nick Mamatas is the author of three-and-a-half novels, more than seventy short stories, and hundreds of feature articles, and is also an editor and anthologist. His fiction has been nominated for the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards and translated into German, Italian, and Greek; his editorial work withClarkesworldearned the magazine World Fantasy and Hugo award nominations. Nick's reportage, short stories, and essays have appeared in venues such asRazor,Asimov's Science Fiction,Silicon Alley Reporter, theVillage Voice,The Smart Set,The Writer,Poets & Writersand anthologies includingSupernatural NoirandLovecraft Unbound. He teaches at Western Connecticut State University in the MFA program in Creative and Professional Writing, was a visiting writer at Lake Forest College and the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Campus, and runs writing classes in the San Francisco Bay Area.