For the Love of Pete, Don’t Mix Your Genres;
Or… The New York Times Book Review Hates YOU, but I Don’t;
Or… Why Where Your Book Gets Shelved Determines Your Intelligence, Work-Ethic and Value to Society
Read Part 1 at SF Signal
Read Part 2 at Debuts and Reviews
Part 3: For the Love of Pete, Don’t Mix Your Genres
Or [...]
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Part 3: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen
When Characters Come to Life by Leona Wisoker
Debut author of Secrets of the Sands, pub date 3/30/10
Listening to a colleague’s radio interview, I was struck by her comments about characters taking over and redirecting events in ways the author didn’t expect. While I know exactly what she meant, I can visualize friends and family members wrinkling their foreheads suspiciously at something [...]
A Golden Age for Short Fiction by Joe Sherry
Despite what you may or may not have heard, and rumors of its demise to the contrary, short fiction is very much alive and kicking in the SFF genre and we are surrounded by short fiction on the highest quality.
Now, I can only talk about the experience of the reader here. Things may be [...]
The Things An Author Does by Pamela Freeman
Or: Why There Is So Little Time Left For Writing
Most people I speak to seem to think that writers sit in the attic and scribble, full of inspiration. So when John asked me to do a guest blog, I thought it might be interesting to his readers to describe how a writer’s time is [...]
Science Fiction Ain’t Dead (So Shut Up) by Shaun Duke
Whoever keeps saying it needs to have a giant, Transformer’s robot pop them one in the mouth. SF ain’t dead. It ain’t dying. It ain’t even struggling to breathe. In fact, science fiction is probably doing better today than it ever was before. SF literature isn’t losing its place; it’s [...]
Shared World Fiction: Spinning Stories Out of the Unmapped Bits by Rosemary Jones
I love writing shared world fiction, especially when the creators of those worlds let me go exploring into the unmapped corners and tell the tales that I want to tell. So far, I’ve been very lucky in my forays into other people’s sandboxes.
I fell into shared world fiction much like Alice dropped down the [...]
Science Fiction and the Death of the Human by Shaun Duke
(This is a brief account of some of my research regarding the literal and figurative death of the human.)
The future holds some interesting things for us. Science fiction imagines great fleets of spaceships and intergalactic wars, super drugs and cloning, cybernetic and bionics, aliens and human-created beings, and a whole list of other fascinating [...]
The Write Stuff by Stephen Hunt
I caught an interesting panel interview on BBC Radio Four this morning between a group of writers chatting about the differences on writing with a pen & paper, and writing direct onto a PC.
Crime writer Robert Rankin was in the corner of the word processor, saying that ever since a child, he’s preferred the look [...]
Working With Young Writers by Shaun Duke
As some of you may know, I am the editor-in-chief of a small, almost unknown, completely new magazine called Survival By Storytelling. This magazine publishes writers 25 and younger. My co-editor is a teenager from Canada. Everything about this magazine is like working in an entirely different world, and for good reason: [...]
A Love Affair with Stories by Karen Miller
In thinking about writing this guest post (thank you, John!) I tried to remember when I first fell in love with stories – and for the life of me, I can’t! I vividly remember my primary school librarian introducing me to the world of Narnia with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and I [...]
