Paul E Cooley
Paul Elard Cooley is an American contemporary speculative fiction writer, prolific podcaster and Systems Administrator from Houston, Texas.
Life and work
Cooley has been writing since the age of 12. In 2009, he began producing free psychological thriller and horror podcasts, essays, and reviews available from Shadowpublications.com and iTunes. Cooley is the author of 'The Street' series and 'The Black' (forthcoming, Severed Press), and has co-authored the forthcoming novella 'The Rider' with Scott Sigler along with contributing to Sigler's 'The Crypt' audio anthology series.
Cooley's works have been published via Blue Moose Press, e-published by Dark Overlord Media and self published. Many works of fiction are also available as digital audio downloads in podcast form.
Cooley co-hosts the Dead Robots' Society podcast, a weekly roundtable discussion podcast examining issues related to writing with a speculative fiction focus.
Awards
In 2010, his short story 'Canvas' and novella 'Tattoo' were nominated for Parsec Awards. Tattoo became a Parsec Award finalist. Cooley is a co-host on the Dead Robots’ Society writing podcast and has contributed his voice talents to a number of podcast fiction productions.
Charitable works
Cooley donates $2 from each sale of The Street (which Cooley characterizes his 'The Street' series of horror/satire stories as 'dystopian muppet fiction') to the Sesame Workshop.
Cooley contributed the story 'Breakers' to the horror anthology "Dead Ends", a charity anthology with all net proceeds going to benefit the Office of Letters and Light: http://lettersandlight.org/.
Books in Print
- Paul E Cooley (2014), The Street, ISBN 978-0615994529, Shadowpublications.com
- Paul E Cooley (2011), Fiends, Volume 1, ISBN 978-1936960019 Blue Moose Press
eBooks Available
- Paul E Cooley (2014) The Black (forthcoming from Severed Press)
- Paul E Cooley (2014), "The Rider" (forthcoming, with Scott Sigler)
- Paul E Cooley (2014) The Street
- Paul E Cooley (2014) Garaaga's Children: Ancients
- Paul E Cooley (2013) Tattoo
- Paul E Cooley (2013) The Hunt (Tony Downs)
- Paul E Cooley (2013) After Image (Tony Downs)
- Paul E Cooley (2013) Closet Treats
- Paul E Cooley (2011) Fiendlettes—4 Stories from the Fiends Collection
Podcast fiction
- Shadow Publications (RSS)
- Dead Robots Society