David Conyers has just announced on his blog a new anthology he is co-editing, and it’s something that has my imagination soaring. The anthology is called Extreme Planets, and as David says: Chaosium is expanding into new lines of speculative fiction. Extreme Planets will be the first of these publications, with a science fiction anthology of short stories set on or about
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One of my New Year’s resolutions–which actually kicked off last week–is to first and foremost target pro markets (5c/word or more) with my writing from now on (unless there is an anthology I love the sound of, or am asked to contribute somewhere by someone I respect). To get a clear understanding of the state of pro markets, I browsed Ralan‘s market
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I’ve been reading a bit lately about the ‘new’ publishing world, and how self-publishing has become a legitimate way for a writer to become published. It’s an interesting time, to say the least, and one that’s making me sit down and seriously consider the direction I take my career. Some of the advice I’m reading (from more than one refutable
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The thing I struggle with most when it comes to writing is finding the right balance between short stories and novels. I invest so much of myself into the telling of either that to switch between them is really difficult. When I’m working on a novel, it’s all I think about; I live with my characters and explore their worlds,
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Great news! The eBook version of the Australian Shadows Award winning and Bram Stoker nominated Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears is now available via Amazon and Smashwords, and is expected to be available via all other outlets by Oct 30. It’s only $4.99, and that’s one hell of a bargain for this 672 page tomb containing 38 short
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Well, it turns out I get bored if I’m not waist-deep involved in the spec-fic scene… So say hello to the new (again) Executive Editor of Midnight Echo magazine. First point of business was to set up the magazine with it’s own website, which we’ve done. Check it out here (I had a slight accident with the url–don’t ask–but we’ll be
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So I have some cool news to announce but I think I’ll leave that for a bit and instead share with you one of my favourite childhood memories from TV land. Sesame Street, of all places, back when the Cookie Monster was only interested in cookies, and the only definition for the word ‘gay’ with Ernie and Bert meant laughter
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I’ve had my bum firmly planted in my seat lately, writing away til the wee small hours of the night when it seems I’m the only one left alive in the world. With so much silence surrounding me, the writing has been going well. Heck, I’ve even managed to cram in a short story, almost ready to submit. Got two
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It seems one of Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest films, ‘The White Shadow,’ has been unearthed in the land of the hobbits (that’s New Zealand, for those who don’t know their hobbits). It was found amongst a collection of unlabelled American nitrate prints that had been stashed away for the past twenty-odd years and only now come to light. Only the first
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