"It's a community space that we own, that's not governed by commercial relationships," Coppa said. "With everything else, you want a safe space to explore, but you're always already working from a framework where commercial and capitalist interests are at play. Which is particularly dangero...
extended short story from Playgirl Magazine version AND bonus poem A businesswoman's emotional conflict between overthinking versus her erotic needs is tested when she's caught in the rain with the man who keeps her mind and emotions distracted. ...
I know I’m a good writer. I’m also long-resigned to the truth that I’ll never be agreatwriter. Whatever literary merit my pulpy seriocomic adventure stories contain is largely the byproduct of having ingested enough canonically “great” literature that nanoscopic slivers of same will occa...
Review of City of Mann by L. Ross Coulter The author poses an interesting thought experiment and uses it as a vehicle to make many utopian s-f speculations about humanity, the almighty, and modern society. One must ponder the concept of intelligent design, entering into the strange world of...
(1955), in which a SF author reenacts the process of writing and publishing a story to escape the reality in which he lives. The pamphleteers further imagine a political reality dominated by “mystical sects and cults, enthralled by the vision of an immeasurably happier future in an inner...
ARC Review + Blitz: Defensive Play by Jamie Deacon December 5, 2018Series ReviewsComments: 0 Synopsis for Defensive Play (from Goodreads): One glance is all it takes to bring his defences crashing down… Seventeen-year-old Davey has never made friends easily. Shy, geeky, crippled with socia...
I’ve been collecting annotated fiction recommendations, but can’t say I’ve read most of these, myself. I haven’t been doing much fiction reading in the last 20+ years compared to the previous 40+ years; more meditating. BUT, I am an author and do support other authors, especially ...
also the surprise visitor at the end. But ultimately it’s not enough for me to say I enjoyed watching this. It misfires on some level. The info dump at the beginning was just too obvious and did come into play later. But I have to believe there was a better way to do this. So...
Though we play the married couple, in the months Durion and I have been exiled here in the human realm I’ve come to loathe him. He treats me like his possession, and there’s always an undertone of menace in his communication toward me. But I have no choice but to put up with ...
But yes, there's no reason that a US writer can't submit to a UK market, and I'd often get submissions from American agents. In fact, I think most of my submissions at Solaris were from US agents. Question: Should an author be thinking about merchandising, movie, and TV rights?