NextRead’s Short Story Month

Gav over at NextRead is dedicating May to short stories in his Short Story Month project. He’ll be reviewing short story collections, new and old, and he’ll be opening the discussion to your favorite short stories, among other issues related to the narrative form.If you’re interested in this sort of thing (as I am), you […]

Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series to Become Movie Trilogy

The news is spreading fast, but it seems like Ron Howard is working on creating a trilogy of movies based on Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. The series is to be produced through Imagine Entertainment by Brian Grazer, with Akiva Goldsman as the script writer. This trio might make a little more sense if you […]

Asimov’s Science Fiction: Now Taking Electronic Submissions!

For those of you who write science fiction and have grown as tired as I have of spending money on postage to send stories to the big three, this will come as great news. Asimov’s Science Fiction has officially adopted the electronic submission system used by Clarkesworld and several other magazines! That means you can […]

Shared Worlds Teams Up With Science Fiction and Fantasy Greats!

Matt Staggs recently sent me this via email: Sci Fi and Fantasy’s Best Writers Join Forces with Shared Worlds Writing Camp for Bestiary of Strange Beasts! Here there be monsters! And beasts! And fantastical creatures. The faculty of Shared Worlds creative writing camp has called on some of speculative fiction’s most compelling storytellers to chase […]

Question: Loading Time For This Blog

Someone recently brought up the unusual load times for this blog, which prompted me to make some changes to the content in the sidebars. With that in mind, I was wondering if those of you who are my readers could load up the blog and let me know if you notice any lags in load […]

Book Giveaway: Num8ers Winners!

The giveaway is over. The winners are: Carraka Blogicious Andrew Parsons All of you have an email or message of some sort from me asking for your address (you know, so I can send you the book). Congrats!