Congratulations! To Tim Napper, whose story is a finalist for the first quarter of the 31st Writers of the Future contest. (Fingers crossed that CSFG will soon be adding our fourth WotF winner!) To all our members on the preliminary ballot for the 2014 Ditmar Awards: Cat Sparks, The Bride Price - Best Collected Work and [...]
The Return of EWKASWLFLOTR: Three for the Elves, and One Rule To Rule Them All writtern by Ian McHugh, on behald of the CSFG Hivemind The final chapter of the epic crap-talking journey that began with The Fellowship of EWKASWLFLOTR and continued with The EWKASWLFLOTR Towers! XV: The Unfeasibly Large [...]
The Stars Like Sand, a new speculative poetry anthology edited by Tim Jones and P.S. Cottier and featuring poetry by CSFG's Simon Petrie alongside the likes of (holycrap!) Les Murray. It's being launched by our very own Kaaron Warren.
Zena Shapter has posted about how writers should respond to trolling and bad reviews: Last week, I asked how far you usually go to solve unpleasant experiences in your life. At what point do you let things go? Well, after I wrote that post, I wondered how other authors handle [...]
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