Allie Bates
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Allie Bates is an American
United States
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 award-winning short story writer who has also written Romance and Science Fiction novels and screenplays. She is also an English teacher and freelance editor
Editing
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Biography

Bates received her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis
University of Memphis
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, and her Masters from the University of Memphis College of Education. In the early days of the internet, she worked in Writer's Ink and Macintosh
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 BBS on GEnie
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. She has written for Woman's World
Woman's World
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, Byline Magazine, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine was a quarterly fantasy magazine founded and initially edited by fantasy and science fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley. Fifty issues appeared from summer 1988 through December 2000. It was published by MZB Enterprises from 1988-1989, Marion Zimmer Bradley...

, Writers on the River and Softdisk
Softdisk
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 Magazine among others. She has written under the name Allie Bates and under other pseudonyms; and has ghostwritten books, screenplays, speeches and blogs.

She has won and/or placed in numerous writing competitions, such as the Tupelo Gumtree Festival Short Fiction Competition, NOLA’s Novel Beginnings, Deep South Writer’s Competition. Bates has edited for New Age Dimensions Publishing, Dark Romance Novel Group, Zumaya Press, as well as for several corporate clients. Her medieval novel Earthchild ISBN 1-59611-016-3 was well received. She worked in development on the movie Florida Road, for director Brad Glass.

Novelspot

Currently she writes reviews for Novelspot an online magazine, and has written for other review sites in the past. The initial core of Novelspot is currently made up of Bates, Steve Lazarowitz
Steve Lazarowitz
Steve Lazarowitz. is a writer. of Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. His fantasy serial Alaric Swifthand first appeared in Dragon's Claw Ezine Music to My Ears was selected for The Best of the Hood Special Edition In 2000, "A Creative Edge: Tales of Speculation" won the Anthology category in the...

, and Theresa Rhodes. Novelspot's noteworthy contributors include Mike Resnick, Diana Gabaldon and hundreds of others. In 2007, Novelspot was recognized by Writer's Digest
Writer's Digest
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 as one of the top 101 sites for writers.

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