NEW 2/08: I have released my Firefly novel, My Own Kind of Freedom, free for download under a Creative Commons license.

NEW, 1/08: Visit Words, Words, Words, the new weblog by Steven Brust and the other residents of the Dreamcafe.

NEW, 12/07: For inquiries about conventions after St. Patrick's Day, please contact Steven Brust via his convention liason, Reesa Brown.
She can be reached at reesa@dreamcafe.com.

The Dragaera mailing list is now officially open for use
go to dragaera.info for more information

I'm the author of nineteen novels and one solo record. I'm an enthusiastic amateur drummer, guitarist, banjo player, and poker player.

I'm being published by Tor Books, and most the information about the books can be found on the Dragaera page that some neat people have put together.

I have, as I mentioned above, one solo record, "A Rose For Iconoclastes".

I have written some of the songs for the Worldbeat band Boiled In Lead, including, particularly, Songs From The Gypsy, which is the recording of a cycle of songs I wrote with BiL guitarist Adam Stemple, which cycle turned into a novel I wrote with Megan Lindholm, one of my favorite writers.

Speaking of favorite writers, I have the honor to be in a writer's group with Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean, and Will Shetterly.

There's been some speculation on the Internet about my politics. Without going into great detail, I'll say that I am a Trotskyist sympathizer, and for more information check out The World Socialist Web Site. Enough said.

There's also been some speculation about the Pre-Joycean Fellowship. The best explanation I can make is that we exist to poke fun at the excesses of modern literature while simultaneously mining it for everything of value. Does that help? I didn't think so.

"Dream Cafe" is a reference to the title song of a record by Greg Brown, who, along with Dave Van Ronk, is among my favorite songwriter/performers. Check them out if you haven't.

If there are questions about the books, I probably won't answer them because I enjoy hearing the speculations. But you never know; there might be something I want to talk about here, like the Cool Stuff Theory of Literature, or something. So ask. I'm at skzb@dreamcafe.com.

Cheers. Catch you on the Funway.