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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Ross Hamilton (article in A Writer Goes On A Journey) The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. – Frank Herbert Dystopian fiction and why do we like it? An interesting question - but perhaps we should start by first [...]
Guest post by Nicole R Murphy Attending a conference like Conflux can take you into the area of being a writer that can be extremely uncomfortable – being a professional. Yep, even if you’re not getting PAID like a professional, it behooves you to behave like one. Yay me [...]
by Phill Berrie (at Phill's Phollies) I shot my first handgun today... and no this is not a dragonborn diary entry, I still haven't had the chance to play any more Skyrim since my last entry. My current WIP, a rewriting of my novella 'The Changeling Detective', has a contemporary [...]
Upcoming workshops, courses and events The list of courses and workshops being taught by CSFG members in 2013 has been updated - and there's more to come! Sales and publications Alan Baxter sold his story "The Fathomed Wreck To See" to Midnight Echo magazine Simon Petrie sold his story "Emptying [...]
Nominations are open until 20 March for the 2013 Ditmar Awards. The awards rules and nomination forms are available on the Conflux 9 website. A number of CSFG members have works eligible in various categories. (Links from story titles are to stories available to read free online; links from book or magazine titles or [...]
The e-book version of CSFG's Winds of Change anthology (the e-WoC) is out NOW! Available in most formats from Smashwords, Kobo Books, iTunes and Barnes & Noble for the very reasonable price of USD $4.99. Big thanks to Phill Berrie for his efforts to turn CSFG's first e-book into a reality. (Watch this space, there'll be [...]
by Leife Shallcross Lazy writing and the survival of the human race… in animated movies I was having a discussion with some writerly friends a while ago about female leads in spec fic films. The conversation was started by an article that was arguing for a female protagonist in the [...]