Congratulations to Kaaron Warren!
Kaaron has won Australian Shadows Awards for her collection Through Splintered Walls (Best Collection) and her novella "Sky" (Best Long Fiction). Go Kaaron!
Pre-order your copy of Next!
Next will be released on 26 April 2013 and you can pre-order now for the price of AUD$24.95, plus $7 postage within Australia. You can pay for your pre-ordered copy of Next by Paypal, or Contact Us to arrange payment by cheque, money order or bank transfer, or to enquire about contributor [...]
On Polishing Your Turds
Guest post by Ian McHugh The first drafts of stories tend to be turds. That can be a difficult thing to admit about your newly completed masterpiece, but it’s okay: Mythbusters have proved that you really can polish a turd. The easiest way to figure out how to polish up your [...]
Distilling Your Story
Guest post by Chris Andrews A few years back I found myself with an unwieldy manuscript that wasn’t working, and I couldn’t figure out why. So I rewrote the ending and half the story before applying for two manuscript development programs. I made the short list for both. BUT it [...]
Kaaron Warren News (March 2013)
Congratulations! To Kaaron, who was nominated for Ditmar Awards in the Best Novelette or Novella and Best Collected Work categories for her story "Sky" and her collection Through Splintered Walls. "Sky" and Through Splintered Walls were also nominated for Australian Shadows Awards in the Long Fiction and Collection categories, and Kaaron's stories "Creek", [...]
Next cover revealed!
We here at CSFG are very pleased to reveal the wonderful cover art by Shauna O'Meara, for our forthcoming anthology, Next. Next will be launched at the Conflux 9 convention in Canberra on 26 April 2013, and will feature thirty stories of fantasy, science-fiction and horror from some of the [...]
Word Frequency Analysis: Forensic Editing – Yes, This Editor is a Computer Geek.
by Phill Berrie (at Phill's Follies) Was Shakespeare really Francis Bacon? Or perhaps William Shakespeare was the name Christopher Marlowe used to publish his plays after secretly escaping death and fleeing into exile. These are both serious possibilities being studied by literature scholars(*) using computers and stylometric techniques like word [...]
Fantastic Verses
by Tim Roberts (at thegreencastle.wordpress.com) While I was having fun browsing various dealer tables and stalls at Worldcon in Chicago last year (Chicon7), I discovered some fine and intriguing collections of poems among all the anthologies, novels and books about Speculative Fiction. I ended up buying four different collection of [...]
What is being an editor like?
Guest post by Nicole R Murphy I love being an editor. I love working with stories. I love identifying an author’s strengths and using those to work on the weaknesses. I love the ‘aha’ moment when an author really GETS their story and then it flies. If you’ve never been [...]
The Cretin’s Top Ten Tips to Being the Greatest Writer Ever
by Chris Andrews (at fandelyon.com) 1. Don’t hold back. Bruce Lee taught martial arts and he was the best at what he did. What’s more, he got good by beating the snot out of people. Words, however, are your weapons, so verbally abuse your competitors with cutting cynicism and bludgeoning sarcasm via [...]