KRIS ASHTON

My science fiction story ‘Slower Than The Speed Of Light’ is now available to read free in the bumper 250th edition of Antipodean SF. It...

While I can’t seem to give away a short story at the moment, I’ve been having much more success with my non-fiction writing. An essay...

The second edition of my sci-fi/horror novel Invasion at Bald Eagle, from Digital Fiction Publishing, is now on sale in paperback and...

Back in September 2015, I made the difficult decision to part ways with Grand Mal Press, which published my third novel, Invasion at Bald...

Several years ago I went on a road trip and began to reflect on the crosses that dotted the highway, marking the precise spot where...

The brand new edition of Andromeda Spaceways, containing my story ‘The Larval Stage’ and my review of Playback, Jury of the Heart by...

I have a soft spot for Australian author Liane Moriarty, because I ‘discovered’ her as a reader. Which is to say, I picked up her debut...

I introduced my four and a half year old daughter to The Twits by Roald Dahl last week. I wasn’t sure if she would be mature enough to...

I bought a copy of Andromeda Spaceways #68 the day it came available, with a view to posting a timely review. ‘Timely’ is a word...

The anthology Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers is now available to pre-order. From the...

The July 2017 edition of Infernal Ink, which contains my story ‘Dead Men Can’t Climax’, is now available to order for Kindle here. The...

My novella ‘Blood and Light’ has been accepted to appear in Argosy’s upcoming Apocalyptica anthology which, as the name suggests, will...

The longer I live, the more I think Ayn Rand was onto something with her objectivist theories about human nature. (Don’t worry, I’m not...

The intensity with which we feel things as children has a way of resounding with unexpected ferocity in later life. When I heard that...

I’ve been reading Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke for the better part of a year and I’m only halfway through it. It’s no War and Peace or...

Between raising two kids and holding down a full-time job, it sometimes feels as though my writing career has stalled. But apparently I'm...

The anthology of erotic vampire stories, Blood in the Rain 2, goes on sale from October 25. It contains my tale 'The Stag Night', which...

Last night I received an email which said that Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine would no longer produce a print edition as of issue...

Last week I finished reading the grandfather of the small-town horror novel, The Body Snatchers. Enough has been written about Jack...

Back in 2010, I published a story which began with a single-word paragraph: FUCK. ‘Mere Symptoms of Living’ is about a man trapped in a...