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When a postapocalypse is really an interregnum
I've long been a fan of postapocalyptic fiction, and there's just something about humanity on its knees that gives me goosebumps. There was a phase when I consumed naught but postapocalyptic stories, movies and video games like a starving man in a Sizzlers, and you...
I can’t bear it
Reviewage #2 – It Never Rains But Pours
Wow, these things are rolling out in quick succession! I truly appreciate when folks take the time to give reviews to short fiction, it's a bugger of a job and a proper review takes quite some time to prepare. In a previous life I did a lot of fiction reviewing for...
Reviewage
Over at Horrorscope, reviewer Mark Smith-Briggs has undergone the herculean task of reviewing three issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine in one hit! Of my issue #46 story The School Bus, Mark says: "Jason Fischer’s The School Bus also uses the innocence...
Failed concept #4369
[at work meeting, discussing upcoming Christmas stuff. A secret santa/Kris Kringle is proposed for our area] Me: "I think we need to change up the secret santa this year. Can't we make it some sort of tontine, where the last person standing takes everything?"...
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Why yes, I do make use of Google Alerts 🙂 Fellow Aurealis #44 contributor Adam Ford has posted a blog entry about his long years of subbing to the magazine (he sent in a story to issue #1!) and his long-awaited success in selling them a story. Well done mate,...
Stocking stuffers from the Fisch part 1
Much like a gift-giving grizzly bear on meth, Christmas is bearing down on us once more. With that in mind, I've got a couple of fiction-related presents coming out to the world. The first one is now official, Christmas Eve will see a brand new story of mine...
Some thoughts of a first time editor
So I've been around the traps a bit writing wise, and done all sorts of cool things in the past few years. I've dabbled in just about everything, and have been a slusher, reviewer, critiquer, general dogsbody, sympathetic ear, and always a writer. Some parts of my...
You’re the voice, try and understand it
Because everyone loves random Farnham-fueled friday violence. The deutsch version of this iconic scene from Hot Rod was the only one I could find online, but I think it somehow glues it all together.
Assault of the spam-lords, and the swag arriveth.
Turns out it's not only foot-fetishists with a thing for Marisol Nichols who swing past this site. I've been hit by wave after wave of increasingly sophisticated spam comments. It started off just being garbage link salad to what I assume are russian porn sites or...
Pandering to the masses
Oh Panda Cheese. Based on the following ads, you are my new favourite product. NEVER SAY NO TO PANDA (insert song, long stare, and meaningless animal-suit violence)
Review of EEEK over at Horrorscope
Horrorscope has just reviewed the first two issues of Jason Paulos' retro-tastic comic "EEEK!", which includes my story "The Harvest", a comic script retrofitted from my prose short story "Rick Gets a Job". Reviewer Shane Jiraiya Cummings says: "While clearly...