Building Blocs | Who's Afraid of Isaac Asimov?
A guide to avoiding savage nerds converging upon your innocent science fiction story and ripping it to shreds. By Raphaelle Race The journey into writing…
Grab Bag of Inspiration | Writers Bloc
This post is lenient cheerleading from online editor Sam van Zweden. — I feel guilty that I haven’t written more this month. I keep seeing…
Fiction Clinic
The short story is an art which, like poker, takes a day to learn the rules but a lifetime to master. It’s just as easy for a writer working on…
Be Kind To The Dog
This is a piece by Robert Lukins, on the sometimes long and always wonky road to publication. It’s all very strange. I’ve wanted nothing but…
Literary Cities: Karratha
This is a Literary Cities postcard from Karratha, by Megan Hippler. When my employer in San Francisco sent me to Karratha for a month,…
The Room with the Great Blue Roof
We are thrilled to feature a new short story by a talents from the next brilliant generation of Australian writers by Each day is a…
Ask Me Editing | The Kindly Pay Me Already Edition
Welcome to Ask Me Editing, the publishing advice column that acknowledges that while everyone has a book inside them, there’s also other stuff in there…
Interview: Lorelei Vashti
[ad_1] This is an interview with Lorelei Vashti. Lorelei Vashti is a writer, book editor, and one-time candy-bar bear. Her first book was book Dress, Memory published…
Café Purgatory
This is a Writers’ Other Jobs piece, by H.D. Thompson. Right next to my work in a train station platform, convergences of rats would race down…
The Zen Kitchen
This is a review of Adam Liaw’s The Zen Kitchen: Easy Japanese Recipes for Home Cooks. Too often cookbooks are treated as instruction manuals – a…