KRIS ASHTON

Unless you are a bestselling author who can name his or her price, you’re only as good as your last sale. It’s been a lean year for me,...

There are more than the usual number of reasons to read the latest edition of Australia’s longest-running speculative fiction journal,...

And so are the sales. These are two unusual occurrences for me. You see, even though I’ve published three novels and nearly forty short...

A couple of weeks back, Antipodean SF editor, Ion ‘Nuke’ Newcombe (pictured) issued a call-out to former contributors, asking them to...

I consumed magazines voraciously in my youth, everything from Blitz and WWF to nature periodicals, Marvel Comics, and adult titles like...

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...

Over the past eight years or so, I have revisited the short stories I wrote in the early to mid 2000s and, if I thought their core...

A few weeks ago, while attending the launch of a university press literary anthology, I crossed paths with a person who ‘identifies as...

Along with Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways, AntipodeanSF was one of three Australian markets where I always wanted to get something...

In October 2017, I had a story published in Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers. As the title...

I’ve blogged before about my difficulties writing satirical fiction, and in recent months I’ve discovered how hard it can be shopping it...

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...

Between 2002 and 2008, I worked as a writer in the entertainment industry, first as editor of What DVD magazine, then as editor of...

It can be difficult to determine whether multiple rejections are a sign that there is something wrong with a story, or if you have simply...