This is the first scroll in what is expected to be a multi-short scroll series on Moshe Feder, Tor editor to New York Times-bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.
Moshe Feder posing with a Dalinar Kholin Cosplayer at Worldcon 76 (complete with Shardplate and Shardblade Oathbringer), on August 18, 2018 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center located in San Jose, California. Dalinar Kholin is the main POV character in Oathbringer, the third book in Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series, which Feder edited. Feder also edited The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, the first two books in the aforementioned series. Feder will be editing future installments in the series until he retires.
Photo credit: Moshe Feder
FUN FACTS
Name: Moshe Feder
Pronounced: MOH-she FED-er
Personal homepage: https://about.me/MosheMF
Born in: Brooklyn, NY
Lives in: Flushing, NY
Age: 66
Chocolate cakeday: November 14, 1951
SAT: Perfect Verbal score
Education: English/Creative Writing, Queens College, City University of New York, Class of 1973
Political Affiliation: Registered Democrat (liberal/progressive)
Religious views: Agnostic but sentimental, non-observant-orthodox Jewish, open-minded scientific humanist
Owned by: Cats Destry and Nemo
Destry
Photo credit: Moshe Feder
Nemo
Photo credit: Moshe Feder
Favorite color: Orange
Favorite metal: Copper
Requires: Chocolate
Favorite chocolate brand: Valrhona
Favorite chocolate: Valrhona Guanaja 70% Cacao
Favorite budget chocolate: Trader Joe’s 73% Cocoa Super Dark
Preferred cocoa solids range: 70-75%
Favorite flavored Ghirardelli chocolate: Mint
How he likes his eggs in Shakshouka: scrambled, not poached
Onions in Shakshouka: Sometimes
Parsley in Shakshouka: Always
Cold pizza or cold Shakshouka: Shakshouka
Where he falls on the Gefilte Fish Line: Salty
Favorite Regional Chinese Cuisine: Szechuan and Hunan
Favorite savory dim sum item: Shu Mai
Favorite sweet dim sum item: Sesame balls
Loves: Spicy food
Will not try: Bugs
Foodie cred: Founder of Omnivore Dining Club in the 1970s
Coffee: started drinking only in his 50s
Favorite Tea: English Breakfast
Poison of choice: Beer
Favorite beer: Too many to pick one
Number of years drinking Guinness: 45
Reads: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Talks to: Cats
Collects: Coca-Cola memorabilia
Sports teams: New York Mets and New York Yankees
Barracks for: Collingwood Magpies (Australian Rules Football League team)
Profession: Consulting Senior Editor at Tor
First editor job at: Age 18
Fan of: Oxford comma
Current stable of authors: David Gerrold, Michael Haspil, Phillip Jennings, David Levine, Michael Moorcock, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Silverberg, Dan Wells and Gary K. Wolf
Has worked with: Isaac Asimov, Hal Clement, Harlan Ellison, Eric Van Lustbader, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Paul Park, Robert J. Sawyer, Scott Westerfeld, Charles Stross, F. Paul Wilson and Gene Wolfe
Award: 2015 E.E. Smith Memorial Award, "the Skylark", which is the New England Science Fiction Association's lifetime achievement award for fan and pro contributions to Science Fiction & Fantasy
Nomination: 2011 Hugo Long-Form Edit Award Nominee
Published work: Sandial, short story in Damon Knight’s Orbit 16 (1975)
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