SFWA Short Story Bundle

A bundle so packed full of space opera we had to assemble it in orbit. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) joins with 18 different Authors in a massive 17 book storybundle to warp the spacetime of readers everywhere. Featuring New York Times Bestselling authors Michael Cooper, Mike Shepard, and Felix R. […]

Predicting the Future

The last time I made a prediction about the future was in 2010. I predicted that this decade would be dominated by robotics and AI, and that by the later half of the decade domestic robots would be common place. So half right isn’t bad, and we still have a few years left. My new […]

Author in Transition

I know. I’ve been neglecting you. I could give you a list of reasons, all of them good, logical, honest and inadequate. The truth is that I have been writing intermittently; switching projects, writing new stuff, writing old stuff, then writing some more new stuff. I have been in-between different jobs in my other […]

9 Hacks That Will Help You Get More Writing Done (and in Less Time)

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Regret – A Sufi Poem

Regret is such a fine emotional blessing It causes forgiveness in the wrathful Feel remorse for those who we offended Repent our trespasses against our Lord Cherish what moments we have left together – Nasrullah Anwar

How to avoid spoilers in ten steps?

1. Don’t answer the phone. 2. Avoid your siblings and friends 3. Rip your modem out of the socket 4. Drop your smartphone into toilet 5. Wrap your laptop in foil 6. Don’t go into work 7. Definitely don’t read a magazine or newspaper (do people still do that?) 8. Put earplugs in when outside […]

Hero Syndrome

A friend of mine posed a question on Facebook about who are our favourite fictional heroes. The archetypal hero is tall, handsome, square-jawed, muscular, white and male. He charges to the rescue without a second thought and heroically goes about looking for damsels in distress and no-gooders up to no good. Think Kevin Sorbo’s Hercules […]

Book Review: When the Silence Ends by Jade Kerrion

Introduction Dum and Dee, brother and sister, mutant and human, survivors of three tragedies; the murder of their father, the death of their mother and the fall of Elysium, the haven for those who society had rejected. Now they are in the care of the Mutant Affairs Council, but the only man who can really […]

Review: Douglas Hulick’s Sworn in Steel

Warning,: contains spoilers if you have yet to read Among Thieves (shame on you!) Drothe ventures away from Idrecca to reconcile his friendship with Bronze Degan and to runaway from being a Gray Prince. Drothe, is a Nose who managed to elevate himself amongst the Kin to the position of Gray Prince. In the process he […]

Review: Sawyer Jackson and the Long Land

Sawyer Jackson discovers that the world is a tapestry version of the matrix and that he is the One, destined to defeat a dark Lord. Sawyer has been raised by his grandparents and kept away from others. Aside from one traumatic experience during his childhood, he has lived an otherwise mundane life. But one day […]