Allie Bates (born May 1957, in

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) is an American short story writer who has also written Romance and Science Fiction novels and screenplays. She is also an English teacher and freelance

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Biography

Bates received her BA in creative writing from the

University of Memphis } The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public university, public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering ...

, and her master's degree from the University of Memphis College of Education. In the early days of the Internet, she worked in Writer's Ink and

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BBS on

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. She has written for

Woman's World ''Woman's World'' is an American supermarket weekly magazine with a circulation of 1.6 million readers. Printed on paper generally associated with tabloid publications and priced accordingly, it concentrates on short articles about subjects such ...

, Byline Magazine,

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine ''Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine'' was a quarterly fantasy magazine founded and initially edited by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley. Fifty issues appeared from summer 1988 through December 2000. It was published by MZB Enterprises ...

, Writers on the River and

Softdisk Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines (which they termed "magazettes", for "magazine on diskette"). It was affiliated and partly owned by paper mag ...

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 nove
Earthchild
was well received. She worked in development on the movie Florida Road, for director Brad Glass.

Novelspot

Currently, she writes reviews for '' Novelspot.net'' 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, 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'' is an American magazine aimed at beginning and established writers. It contains interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles. History ''Writer's Digest'' was first published in December 1920 under ...

as one of the top 101 sites for writers.

References

External links

Novelspot

Florida Road

Tupelo Gumtree Festival

Bio
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