by Ian McHugh With the re-release of her Dream of Asarlai trilogy as an e-book omnibus, I took the opportunity to interview Our Nicole about the books, her writing process, cover letters, using life model decoys and planning like Rimmer from Red Dwarf (you’ll see). Dream of Asarlai Trilogy An [...]
Guest post by Ian McHugh So, you’ve got your story all planned out, you know your beginning and you know your ending, you know all the key plot points along the way. Maybe you’ve even got it all mapped onto an act structure and you know how many words you’ve got [...]
The EWKASWLFLOTR Towers: Five* Rules for the Dwarf Lords written by Ian McHugh, on behalf of the CSFG Hive Mind The eagerly anticipated sequel to The Fellowship of EWKASWLFLOTR! * yes, yes, but the other two were eaten by dragons X: The Precious Rule So, the Nazgul are pretty scary [...]
by Ian McHugh Following the release of her new e-book, Innocence Lost – part one of her For Queen and Country saga – I interviewed Patty Jansen about the new book, self-publishing and her writing process. This will be the first in an occasional series of interviews with CSFG members [...]
"Protocol", the first of Simon Petrie's seven drabbles at SpekLit. "Mappa Tuesdi", David Walker's latest flash fiction at AntiSF.
Well, three people, actually - but that's still pretty busy. Marianne De Pierres Glenda Larke And, disguised as her mild-mannered alter ego: Ainslie Paton
Guest post by Zena Shapter I don’t get writer envy. At least, I don’t get it anymore. I used to compare myself to other writers and wish I had their lives. It bugged me that their writery lives were so glamorous compared to mine and, although I knew envy was [...]
CSFG is acting as a "distribution affiliate" for D6, the new FREE (and DRM free) spec fic e-zine from Coeur de Lion Publishing. Issue #1 features stories by Richard Harland, Charlotte Nash and Jason Nahrung. You can download it in epub format here and mobi format here.
Guest post by Ian McHugh If you’re writing for publication, you’re going to encounter rejection a lot. As a short story writer, and even now that I’m selling most of my stories to professionally paying markets, my submissions still get rejected about nine times in every ten. So for my thirty-odd [...]
Congratulations! To Kaaron Warren, who continues to win all of the awards, taking out Best Science Fiction Short Story at the 2013 Aurealis Awards with her story "Air, Water and the Grove". To Rob Easterbrook for finishing his PhD! Covers! Alan Baxter's forthcoming novel, Bound Patty Jansen's new novel,For Queen [...]