Free Fiction!
CSFG member Mike Pieloor has a story out in the Dark Hall Press Cosmic Horror Anthology, which is free on Kindle (with tentacles!)
Musings on Writing
CSFG member and novelist Nicole Murphy has resumed her Monday Musings on Writing blog. The latest instalment is on the choreography of sex scenes. The previous instalment was on the sensuality of sex scenes. The one before that was on 'the what and the why' of sex scenes. The one [...]
Interview with Donna Hanson at Dark Side Down Under
AKA Dani Kristoff, following the publication of her new paranormal romance novel, Bespelled. Check out the interview here.
On Turning Ideas Into Stories
by Ian McHugh (writing at ianmchugh.wordpress.com) So, having an idea for a story and having a story are two different things. “Well, duh,” you might say. But the difference between the two isn’t just words. Having a notion that the world is round is an idea. A story is like [...]
CSFG Member News (January 2014)
(and for the last bit of December when we were all flaked out on holidays) CONGRATULATIONS! To Kaaron Warren, whose story "Air, Water and the Grove" has been included in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2014 from Prime Books. To Alan Baxter, whose story "The Fathomed Wreck To See" and [...]
New novel from Patty Jansen
Patty Jansen has released her latest book, Ambassador 2: Raising Hell, the sequel to her 2013 novel Ambassador: Seeing Red. Seeing Red is available as an e-book and as a trade paperback from Ticonderoga Publications. Raising Hell is currently available in e-book formats and Patty is running a 99c introductory offer [...]
On using technology to help your writing
Guest post by Marcus Amann As a full-time writer in the IT industry by day and a comedy writer by night, I take my writing tools seriously. With all the writing I have to do, I have to maximise my productivity. I’ve learned that to achieve my writing goals, I [...]
Free Stories
Ian McHugh has been posting more of his print fiction publications to read for free on his website: "Grey Snow in the Shadows" (from issue #58 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine) "Vandiemensland" (from the 2013 CSFG anthology Next) "From Sorrow's Gate" (from issue #1 of Crowded Magazine) “The Godbreaker and Unggubudh [...]
On passing the Bechdel Test
by Ian McHugh (writing at ianmchugh.wordpress.com) I’ve been talking with my little girl, age 8, about how stories work. This started a couple of years ago when we read the first of Cressida Cowell’s How To Train Your Dragon books. When the hero, Hiccup, got exiled from his Viking tribe at about [...]
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