Banging your head against a brick wall would appear to be preferable to writing submission letters. In terms of simplicity and result it’s far quicker and easier with an obvious outcome. Because your novel, which you now wonder if it’s not just a steaming pile of manure, has taken on the properties of a stone […]
[Short story written for Fantasy Writers Forum August Challenge, 2019 – this was written pretty quickly and subject to a limit of 5k words, so apologies in advance for any rough edges.] Ankles, so called because he still bore the scars from his manacles. It was common amongst prisoners forced to march the dunes at […]
Greetings once more dear Readers. How the devil are we all? For those who follow me, you’ll know that I’ve been trying to catch up on some of the new voices in fantasy of late, and to that end I thought I’d give Priory of the Orange Tree a go. Some have balked at the […]
I know, I said I’d break a few promises, but you didn’t expect me to be absent for so long. And I’m sure you missed me, because I surely missed you all dear Readers. Well, here I am, fresh back from my extended leave. Last I wrote I was busy with the Angry Robot submission […]
(A Gibbering Fool Presents) Everything’s Ruined/Nothing Works Hello my delicious sinners. You look sad. What’s the matter? Still languishing in the horror of your own samasarian nightmares? Poor you. You have my sympathies, you really do. It’s not, after all, your fault so why pressure ourselves unnecessarily with personal responsibilities? I mean, look around. […]
Today I walked my son to school like I usually do. He likes to ride a push bike, one of those balance bikes without pedals. But recently he’s begun to outgrow it. With the coming of his fifth birthday he had also been making some changes – he is very much a person who decides […]
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13 Small Press Publishers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror The Big Five. That’s what we call the five largest publishing companies in the US: Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan Publishers, and Penguin Random House. All five of them have a New York, New…
