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,...

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...

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...

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

Along with the usual fictiony goodness one can expect from Australia’s pulpiest SF magazine, this edition features my review of Eugen...

I’m still on a high from my podium finish in The Fiction Desk’s 2018 Ghost Story Competition – and I’m pleased to report the story,...

This morning I woke to the news my short story ‘Highway Memorials’ had taken out third place in The Fiction Desk’s annual Ghost Story...

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...

While it took donkey’s years to see my first publishing credit with Andromeda Spaceways, I’m pleased to say that number two is impending....

‘Living Will’ by Brandon Alspaugh Follows the travails of three ‘emperors of men’ as they try to avoid death at any cost. This is a...

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...

Full disclosure: the 1990 mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s novel IT was one of the defining movies of my teenage years. When...

It was with some trepidation that I began watching the first series of Supergirl on iTunes. I’m a big fan of comic book superheroes, have...

The other night I finally got around to watching the first episode from series seven of The Walking Dead. Season six ended on a...

Music is an odd thing; familiarity with a song can breed contentment rather than contempt. For that reason, I’ve always been sceptical of...

One of the two great Australian journals of speculative fiction (the other, of course, being Aurealis), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...

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

Digital downloads have revolutionised my life. For years I was reluctant to give up DVDs because I saw them as part of my identity, but...