Category Archives: On Publishing
My Precious!!
Warning: may contain an article by me about polishing your work through critiquing.
And stuff.
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
Cover art (c) Les Edwards (Fedogan & Bremer hardcover)
I’m very excited to reveal that Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, the third volume in the Stephen Jones edited Innsmouth series, has its Table
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Hannett + Horror = Teh Awesomes
Lisa L. Hannett has joined the team over at This is Horror for 2013, so we can look forward to a brilliantly written, well thought-out monthly column that prods and pokes the monsters under
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One Small Step
The lovely Tehani of FableCroft has announced the ToC for her new (early) 2013 anthology, One Small Step. Happy to see quite a few friends in this one!
You’ll note a story by Lisa Hannett and I, “By Blood
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Launch Readings
Okay, so here are our Midnight and Moonshine readings from last night.
I read from the end of the first story, “Seeds”, and Lisa read from the beginning of the last story, “Seven Sleepers”.
And there is some Trent Jamieson, totally worth listening to at the end 😀 .
Forgive the sounds of assorted stuff in the background – bottles being thrown into
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Inappropriate author behaviour tips
Okay, as part of a series of public service announcements for authors in general I’m going to occasionally do some posts about inappropriate author behaviour.
While you may think some of these are ‘promotional opportunities’ for your own work
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On Being a Writer – Kat Howard
Wonderful post from Kat Howard:
On being a writer
My students know that I write. So even though I don’t teach any creative writing courses, there are usually a handful of students from each class every semester who come and
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The Next Big Thing
Welcome to my edition of The Next Big Thing, which is a chain of book and author recommendations – so far luminaries like Sarah Pinborough, Paul Magrs, and Adam Nevill. One author tags five others, who
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Over at On Fiction Writing …
… I’m on The Rack.
Which means, yes, again, I am talking, talking, always talking ad infinitum – rather like the Doctor. Yes, I know I’m a Doctor too, but I have neither fez, nor bowtie, nor
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Sandpaper & Salt
So, Tessa Kum is available to edit your work and her flensing services are second to none. That is all you really need to know. Go here. 
Not quite convinced? How about listening to Jeff VanderMeer?
“I
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