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Excerpt
Rutger's only freedom had been belief that a village unfettered by time or space appeared every hundred years in this valley.
Elzebeth spoke of losing her husband to plague, of arrangements that Elzebeth marry the Mayor of Marisfeld's son, who betrayed her. Brain fever came, Elzebeth falling into a white soundlessness, where even the rushing in the ears of one's heart's blood vanished too. Until she felt the soul of a man walking in her valley and woke up.
Staying the night in Nebeltal -- if Rutger could not get over the Berlin Wall, perhaps he could live past it.
From "In Valleys Where Eternities Lie"
Bio
Ada Milenkovic Brown spent her Sputnik-era childhood waiting for her dad to come home from designing his robot, which Ada's mom called "the Blonde" because he spent all his nights and weekends with it. Ada dreamed of someday becoming the female Isaac Asimov, and got biology degrees as a first step. She now writes spec fiction and humor at her home in eastern North Carolina amongst the greenery which inspired the setting for her Clarion West second week story, "Wisteria."
Ada's poetry has been featured on the NPR program Here and Now and will soon appear in Helix. Her fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Written Word, and on PodCastle. After graduating from Clarion West, she wrote work which has been awarded Quarterfinalist from Writers of the Future and two Honorable Mentions from the Speculative Literature Foundation's Older Writers Grant.
Publications
"Wisteria", a story I wrote at Clarion West can be found both on Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show and PodCastle.
"Kafka Respun", a spec fiction poem, will appear soon in an upcoming issue of Helix.
Writing Description
It's passionate and real. I try to put the reader completely in the head of my POV characters. Apparently I'm succeeding with that because my sister-in-law just read one of my stories and said I'd given away the secret of how women think. (I hadn't realized that was classified information.)
I also like lurking in the in-between places between genres, settings, disciplines. I like finding connections between things that most people don't think are connected. For example, I've recently written a hard sf quantum mechanics version of the story which Brigadoon is based on. It's not published yet, but it did get honorable mention from the Older Writer's Grant.
Actually the best description of the essence of my writing is this one by my Clarion West classmate, Mischa DeNola:
"It's just that when you read her work, even when it's funny, you know that she's not fucking around. She's not dicking around with a bunch of insecurity and slippery writing to try and hint at what her story is, or hide the story from you, but it's not plain and flat like a movie, it's all the complex and crazy stuff that we like in fiction. And that's why I love Ada Brown: because she's just not fucking around. You know, that should be her like motto or something; 'Ada Brown--not fucking around.'"
Goals
I am in the process of revising a contemporary fantasy novel which I'm hoping fits within the parameters of paranormal romance. It's called Analytical Magic. I plan to revise chapters 4-15 during the Write-a-thon at the rate of 2 chapters a week.
I have posted an open letter inviting donations on my blog. I have also done the same on the forum I participate in with my fellow Orson Scott Card Literary Bootcamp alums.
Website
My blog is countesslovlace.livejournal.com.
