Volume 14, Issue 3 June/July ConNotations 2004 The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society A Conversation with Featured Inside CJ Cherryh and David Cherry SF Tube Talk Special Features All the latest news about A Conversation with By Catherine Book Scienc Fiction TV shows C.J. Cherryh and David Cherry by Catherine Book I asked CJ the obvious opening she was a freshman in college she was 24 Frames question: When did you start writing? She ready to start experimenting with said her first book was published around All the latest Movie News Slogging through the Blogs technique. She actually picked up a ‘how By Shane Shellenbarger 1975-6 but she was writing when she was to write’ book while in grad school but I ten years old. She was a very enterprising suspect she didn’t find anything new in it Pro Notes 14-year-old when she submitted her first by then. News about local In Memorium piece to the Saturday Evening Post and I asked her what else interested her. genre authors, artists and fans Katherine Lawrence received her first rejection slip. I com- Apparently…everything (except French- mented that she must’ve been a very brave Rococco architecture.) CJ told me that Musical Notes Plus our Regular Features: little girl and she answered no, she was just from an early age she had books around determined. The latest news of Filk and Filkers her on everything from Roman and from Tom Tuerff CASFS Business Report The next most Greek art and law to obvious question we geology and paleontology. all ask is: Who had She once tried to make a Costume Closet Event Calendar the most influence compendium of Roman Articles Covering Topics of interest Area events, TV premires, on your writing? She law and another time she in the constuming field DVD & Movie releases told me she read a tracked ethnic groups in lot of historical bronze-age Greece. 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