About the Author
KJ Kabza walks among you. He eavesdrops on what you say, notices how you say it, and deduces what makes you tick. He likes your je ne sais quoi. He put some of it in a character once.
What's the preferred orthography of your first name?
K no period no space, J no period: "KJ" and not "K. J." However, a lifetime of listening to mutilations of my last name ("Kazba? Kibbiz? Kabaz? Kabaza? Kadla? Kazaa? Kizba? Kazaba?") has prepared me for whatever orthographical errors you may wing at me, to the point where I rarely bother correcting editors if they insist on doing it the other way. I mean... whatever.
I demand more info!
Try my (very) short author interview at New Myths.
Or try my (topical) interview at the F&SF blog, where I discuss my contemporary fantasy story "The Ramshead Algorithm."
About the Genres I Write
- Fantasy: My fantasy is heavily influenced by the fairytales I read as a kid, so I gravitate toward old tropes with new twists.
- Science Fiction: My SF is usually "soft" or sociological. Technology is interesting, but human reactions to technology are riveting.
- Horror: I had this job once at which I sometimes had to scrub blood off the walls. As such, writing horror with gore in it reminds me of being at work, which despite the description I've given you here, was actually not all that interesting. So when I write horror, it's often campy or absurd.
- Regular-Type: You know, regular-type fiction. "Literary." "Commercial." "Mainstream."
About the Website
This website was painstakingly built by Andrew Altman. (From nothing. With his teeth.) The leaderboard (by Nathan Bress) features a slice of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
