Australian editor, writer, and reviewer David McDonald is running a series on his blog called ‘Paying for Our Passion’. The issue is a salient one: the sacrifices authors make in the current economic in order to be able to write. …
I assumed The Paris Review, a literary publication I’ve only ever been dimly aware of, was too high-brow for genre. Man, was I wrong. They’ve published wide-ranging interviews with the likes of Sam Delany, Ursula Le Guin, David Mitchell, and …
We live in a world as hyper-capitalist as any point in history, with inequality approaching the extremes of Dickensian England circa 1850. Yet, consumers increasingly expect music, films and books to come free.
This is the problem faced by writers: …
With a sale in recent days to the excellent, criminally under-read Interzone magazine, I’ve hit the small milestone of ten short story sales.
Given I started my writing career with barely a thought for short fiction, ten sales in under …
For those of you unfamiliar with the rather esoteric world of short story markets, Asimov’s is one of the oldest and most prestigious science fiction magazines in the world. Some, such as this site, rate it as the best. …
Holy shit. Half the year is gone already. More.
It is times like this I think back on the year and wonder why I haven’t lost five kilograms, or learned 
Kung-Fu, or sufficiently explained to my 3-year-old the importance of …
I was a few days into writing my first time travel story when I realised I was screwed.
After a particularly difficult session involving much grinding of teeth trying as I tried to figure out the implications of time-travel on …
I used to play a lot of poker. Took it pretty serious, as well: serious enough to make the trip to Vegas in 2009 to play in the World Series of Poker.
I played regularly for about ten years, every …
If you want to look at galleries of gorgeous science fiction and fantasy art, then look no further. The dozen young artists (and they are all very young) who were the winners of this year’s Writers and Illustrators of the …
After a quiet start to the year I’ve had two acceptances in quick succession. The first is a novelette to the excellent Interzone magazine, my third sale there.
The story – A Shout is a Prayer / For the Waiting …
