Tag: science fiction
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Putting Together A Short Fiction Collection
You’ve been writing stories. Some have appeared in magazines and anthologies. A few are still making the rounds. And a few more—possibly the best of the lot—don’t seem to be a good fit for the current markets. But one thing’s for sure. You’ve got enough for a collection. So what do you do? Next week,…
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Writing & Resilience
Later this morning, I’m leaving for Milford, the town where Damon Knight, James Blish, and Virginia Kidd helped establish science fiction as a respected literary genre and where The Virginia Kidd Literary Agency still operates out of Kidd’s former residence. Blish and Kidd dubbed their residence Arrowhead, and during the 1960s it served as a…
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Writing in Private
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.” So said Ernest Hemingway when accepting the Nobel Prize in 1954. And yet, a few decades earlier (according to his recollections in A Moveable Feast) he wrote many of his short stories in public—surrounded by (and occasionally taking inspiration from) the strangers who came and went as…
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On a Night in November…
Shelley’s “Hideous Progeny” Comes Alive“It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.” So begins the creation scene in the book that The Guardian calls one of the top 10 novels of all time. And this November, that scene and more will come alive as Prime Stage Theatre premieres the first production…
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Today at Confluence:
Where To Next? Trends in Science FictionWriting horror in the days of covid is a bit like living in a science fiction novel. Not the Michael Crichton variety, where things pretty much go back to normal after humankind deals with the inciting incident, but the Richard Matheson kind (think I am Legend) where things change and those of us who get…
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Mystery Theatre Exclusive:
Signed copies of Nightmares and VisionsGauntlet Press is now shipping the numbered edition of the first English-language release of Nightmares, an anthology in which I rejoin three of my collaborators from the feature film Nightmare Cinema (2019). The stories featured in the book are: “As You Sleep” by Mexico’s bestselling author Sandra Becerill, whose most recent books include La Soledad…