I write fantasy and science-fiction books, copyedit other people’s fantasy and science-fiction books, play music (mostly Irish traditional), and do some 3D modeling and rendering.
I’m a member of the Tabula Rasa writers’ workshop, the Authors Guild, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which I served as vice-president back in the mists of time; I also served on the vestry at All Saints’ Church in Sunnyside, New York, and on the board of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. I worked at The New Yorker for fifteen years, the last six or so as a Page O.K.’er (senior copyeditor/closing editor), and have been a freelance copyeditor since 1987. (Before that, I was a street trader in Ireland, an English major at Princeton, and a bartender in establishments both savory and un-.) I earned an orange belt in Krav Maga, and aspire to be worthy of it again one day; I got a smidge of MMA training, did a two-week intensive course in fencing at Hofstra, and have a first-level certificate in Western martial arts (longsword) from John Clements of the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts. I’ve been in a variety of gigging Irish bands (Orchids & Onions, Cá Bhfuil Seosamh?, L.I.M.) but am mostly a perpetual workshopper who yearns for a laid-back hyperlocal session; I play pennywhistle, tenor banjo, and octave mandolin. I miss choral singing, which I did in school and at church; at home I play Broadway show tunes and a bit of classical and jazz on a family-heirloom upright piano. CGI-wise, lately I’ve been modeling and rendering in Modo, but I’ve also worked with Zbrush and Hexagon, done a bit of texturing with Substance Painter, and rendered with Vue, Octane, and DAZ Studio.
Tá Gaeilge agam. Ba bhreá liom labhairt leat.
Representation
Russell Galen
Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency
276 Fifth Avenue, Suite 708
New York, NY 10001
www.sgglit.com
Press kit upon request.
About this site: Established in 2012 in order to comment on friends’ WordPress blogs, updated only sporadically for six years while I ran a self-hosted WordPress site, revamped in 2018. Any blog posts prior to November 2012 will be imported entries from Livejournal, if I decide to run an import. Art will post in blog entries; older work can be found at deviantArt and in the daz3d.com galleries under the username Limnery.
Terry McGarry 