Friday Fry-Up
YA author Diana Peterfreund posted a glib-but-accurate list post about the difference between Revising and Rewriting earlier this week, but even more interesting was the follow-up post about the way...
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The big publishing news this week included the launch of HarperCollins 360, a global publishing program that ensures all books published by any division of HarperCollins around the world are available...
View Article‘The horror! The horror!’: An interview with Geoff Brown
For those of you who have been seduced by the dark side of writing, it’s time to give form to your finest literary golems, and unleash them on an unsuspecting public: the Midnight Echo goblins will...
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The writers’ con: An interview with Conflux President Nicole Murphy
Set phasers to fun, because it’s time for a good ol’ fashioned SF convention. But leave your Spock ears at home, kids, because this is a convention for the pros. Conflux 8 is a SF convention run by...
View ArticleThe fiction of history: An interview with James Vella-Bardon of the...
Historical fiction is huge. It roams across time and space, tethered only by the strands of history, through the Senates of ancient Rome to the shoguns of Feudal Japan, from the cloisters of medieval...
View ArticleCharacter is key: An interview with Ticonderoga’s Russell Farr and Liz Grzyb
GenreCon is nearly upon us, and with this in mind it’s time to check out one of Australia’s ace indie genre publishers, Ticonderoga Publications (TP). Ticonderoga is the brainchild of writer and...
View ArticlePulp fiction: An interview with Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
If you’re anything like me (e.g., massive nerd and proud of it) then you understand and appreciate comedy’s place in speculative fiction. Whether it’s Gulliver’s creative fire fighting, the glorious...
View ArticleNavigating the maze of romance: An interview with RWA President Nikki Logan
Do you write romance? If so, you probably don’t need to be told that romance is big business. It’s ultra-competitive and, like most areas of the publishing industry, it’s labyrinthine to an almost...
View Article‘Characters circling the drain’: An interview with Crime Factory editor...
Calling all crime writers, Melbourne based magazine, Crime Factory, will soon be opening its doors to fiction submissions, so if you’ve got a hardboiled story, a noir story, or some dark fiction with a...
View ArticleSometimes, the unknown slips out: An interview with Waylines editors David...
What are waylines? According to David Rees-Thomas and Darryl Knickrehm they are a phenomenon recently discovered by NASA. They elaborate on this with the rather cryptic quotation: ‘Waylines are the...
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