Lancelot Schaubert
Poet, Writer, Author, Performative Reading
As the author of the novel "Bell Hammers," praised as "a hoot" by Publishers Weekly, Schaubert has published dozens of stories, hundreds of poems and essays.
A full voting member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, Schaubert edits "The Showbear Family Circus" and the anthology series "Of Gods and Globes." Schaubert believes art should change us for the better, motivating us to be true and good. My goal is to create work that fosters virtue in both myself and others.
Performative Readings that don't suck! Intro performance of "Bell Hammers,"
Presented by Lancelot Schaubert
The difference between oral manuscripts and literary manuscripts
Why most literary readings are bad.
What theater actors, rhetoricians, and preachers know that you don’t know.
How to find your authentic voice
How to know your present audience
Where voice and audience meet
There isn’t an audience: there only one reader
Lancelot Schaubert has sold work to markets such as MacMillan (TOR.com), The New Haven Review (Yale’s Institute Library), The Anglican Theological Review, McSweeney’s, Writer’s Digest, The World Series Edition of Poker Pro, Standard Publishing, the Poet’s Market, and many, many similar markets. Spark + Echo selected him as their 2019 artist in residence, commissioning him to craft more than a dozen short fiction pieces.
He has ghostwritten and edited for NYT Bestsellers, written copy for large international nonprofit orgs and companies, and has served as an editor for bestselling fantasy authors Juliet Marillier, Kaaron Warren, and Howard Andrew Jones (for Of Gods and Globes). He also worked as a senior editor / producer for The Joplin Toad and Showbear Family Circus — the circus in its heyday published works from over 400 academics, authors, and artists. Links available.
As a producer and director-writer, he started out at fifteen in high school as a radio DJ and a regional thespian and never quite slowed down: he reinvented the photonovel through Cold Brewed with Mark Neuenschwander. That work caught the attention of the Missouri Tourism Board (as well as the Chicago Museum of Photography), who commissioned them to create a second photonovel, The Joplin Undercurrent. He also worked on films with Flying Treasure, WRKR, etc.. He helped judge the Brooklyn Film Festival and NYC Film Festival. And he wrote and produced the albums All Who Wander and H.A.L.T.S., both of which he performed in NYC venues like Rockwood Music Hall.
This all culminated in the narration of his first self-published audiobook, which Publishers Weekly called “a hoot.” Can also send audio samples of that or the albums.
He’s currently on assignment in Alaska for a documentary film, in Brooklyn for a documentary film on the arts, a third in Brooklyn for a potential criminal justice story, and many other projects.
He lives and serves to help others make what they feel called to make: towards that end he has raised over $800,000 in the last seven years for small film, literary, audio, and visual arts projects. The second documentary film he’s working on this week focuses on those beneficiaries.
BookCAMP Presentor
Performative Readings: Techniques You Need (So They Don't Suck!)
4/24, 1:00PM
In his dynamic presentation, Lancelot Schaubert, author of Bell Hammers, challenges the notion that authors should merely "read" their work. Beginning with a live performance of his own prose, Schaubert dissects the fundamental difference between a literary manuscript meant for the eye and an oral manuscript designed for the ear. He argues that most readings fail because writers lack the tools of theater actors, rhetoricians, and preachers who understand how to command a room. By focusing on the intersection of an authentic voice and a deep understanding of the present audience, Schaubert teaches authors how to bridge the gap between the page and the stage. Ultimately, he reframes the public reading as an intimate act of connection, positing that "there isn’t an audience—there is only one reader" multiplied.