Star Wars Ep 7 Cast Reveal
Everyone else will be tweeting, Googleplussing, FBing and blogging about this. So why not me? I’m not sure whether to be hyperexcited or hypercynical about this. I’m so conflicted. On the downside: 1....
View ArticleWhat Good is Speculative Fiction?
RANT ALERT. Last weekend, a good friend (during one of his frequent diatribes) looked me in the eye and said, “I’d prefer to read a good biography, because novels in the end are just fantasy, they’re...
View ArticleGeoff Brown aka GN Braun: 5 Questions & 1 Statement
A true gentleman of the publishing world, Geoff Brown/G.N. Braun is an author, an editor, the irresistable force behind Cohesion Press and Cohesion Editing, as well as a prolific Facebook...
View ArticleJason Franks: 5 Questions & 1 Statement
A talented writer and artist, Jason Franks is the energetic force behind comic series such as McBlack and Left Hand Path, as well as the novel Bloody Waters (which I am halfway through...
View ArticleHow will the End come? (And why Post-Apocalypse is an evergreen genre)
As a writer (and a reader), I’m facinated by what humans do and how humans think. Reading about people thrust into dire situations through no fault of their own, making ethical decisions, getting in...
View ArticleEditing Capers
It’s incredibly humbling when you read back through your first draft and realise just how truly craptacular some of your initial writing was. The only other process that brings you face to face with...
View ArticleGuest Post: Kevin Ikenberry — How has science fueled my fiction?
When Pete put this question to me, it took a bit of time in hospital for me to fully grasp it. The question wasn’t the cause of my medical issue, but laying there without much to do besides think...
View ArticleNiteblade closes…
A sad announcement. And a funny song. I hope. Me venting my grief over Niteblade’s closure in song: http://niteblade.com/home/blog/2015/01/06/tribute-to-niteblade/
View ArticleBeth Cato: 5 Questions and a Statement
An extremely talented writer and cookie-chef, Beth Cato‘s short fiction can be found in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and many other magazines. She writes...
View ArticleB is for Broken…and r is for release
B is for Broken – an anthology Broken people, broken promises, broken dreams and broken objects are just some of the ways these 26 fantastic stories interpret the theme of ‘Broken’. From science...
View ArticleMy Favourite Reads of 2015: Fluency
4.5 stars Fluency (book 1 of a coming series) was an absolutely terrific read. Excellent characters and plotting. A great universe. One of the better first contact stories out there. It lost a half...
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Our scifi short story Illegal. Just yesterday, the #1 Amazon Best Seller on 45 Minute Science Fiction short read list and the top Hot New Release. Plus it moved to number 4 in 45-minute lit & fic...
View ArticleAuthor Interview: Kevin Ikenberry, author of Sleeper Protocol
Sleeper Protocol is a fun and fascinating sci-fi adventure set in future America and future Australia. My review can be found here. I caught up recently with the author, Kevin Ikenberry, and fired...
View ArticleWhere do characters come from?
Great characters make great drama, great fantasy, great adventure. So where does the writer draw them from? For me, it’s from one of two places: 1.Copying them from other works of fiction. This is —...
View ArticleUpcoming Short Story Release: C IS FOR CHIMERA
C IS FOR CHIMERA An Anthology This installment of Rhonda Parrish’s alphabet anthology series asks skilled storytellers to write around the theme of chimera. The resulting tales are part fable, part...
View ArticleWriters Circles, Workshopping and Crit Buddies
Writing groups. Love them? Hate them? Love to hate them? Whatever the case, we all need feedback as writers. I was amazed to meet a couple of writers last year who never showed their work to anyone....
View ArticleIn Human (audio story)
Hey there, folks. VERY excited and proud of this one. My turn of the 20th Century horror tale In Human has been produced as a an audio show as part of the Manor House podcast. Excellent voice acting,...
View ArticleSomething I’ve Been Tinkering with…
Cataclysm And the saurs did wage war with we raptors, time after time, land after land, chasing us across oceans, across islands, across jungles and forests and wastes of ice, intent on our...
View ArticleWhat’s the Good of a Short Story?
I have heard people say at Cons, “The only people reading short stories are writers” or comments like this. I’m not sure that’s true at all. But I would certainly accept that novels/novellas outsell...
View Article5 Questions, 1 Statement: Claire Fitzpatrick
Claire Fitzpatrick is a writer, an editor, all-round awesome human being. Recently, she launched Oscillate Wildly Press . We caught up on good ol’ Facebook recently whereupon I asked Claire some...
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