Jerry Oltion

I've been associated with Pulphouse almost from the beginning. I had a short story in issue #2 of the original Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, published back in 1988. After moving to Eugene, Oregon in 1989 I became part of the "Pulphouse Gang" of writers who hung out in the Pulphouse office, helped with production, attended the local writer's workshop, and helped each other move. (We had so many people moving into town to join our group or moving from place to place within town that we finally printed up T-shirts that said "Pulphouse: the Movers.")

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I've been associated with Pulphouse almost from the beginning. I had a short story in issue #2 of the original Pulphouse: The Hardback
Magazine, published back in 1988. After moving to Eugene, Oregon in 1989 I became part of the "Pulphouse Gang" of writers who hung out in the Pulphouse office, helped with production, attended
the local writer's workshop, and helped each other move. (We had so
many people moving into town to join our group or moving from place to place within town that we finally printed up T-shirts that said "Pulphouse: the Movers.")

When Dean re-booted Pulphouse in 2017, he started printing a story of mine in every issue, along with stories from Kent Patterson, one of our mutual close friends who died way too young back in 1995. Dean burned through quite a bit of my backlog of published stories and even printed several of my unpublished ones over the next several years. He's given that space to new writers now, a decision I wholeheartedly support. Pulphouse has always been a showcase for new talent, and I'm happy to see it continue to do so.

Most of my writing nowadays is nonfiction anyway. I write the science
column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (which Kris
used to edit, and which earned her a well-deserved Hugo Award for
Best Editor) and I also write a monthly column on amateur telescope
making for Sky & Telescope magazine. Amateur astronomy has become not just a hobby, but the driving force in my life, occupying far more of my time than fiction writing does anymore.

I do keep my hand in the fiction world, too, publishing stories
occasionally in Analog magazine, where I've been appearing for so
long that I've broken the record for most stories published in the
history of the magazine (102, soon to be 103). My story "Shepherd
Moons" won the Analog reader's choice award for 2022.

I've been writing since I was a child, and publishing since 1976. It's
been a long, wonderful journey, and Pulphouse has been a big part of
it. I'm totally jazzed to see it continuing on, showcasing new talent
and pushing the boundaries of genre fiction. May it continue to do so
for decades to come.