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,...

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

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...

Between 2002 and 2005 I was the editor on a magazine called What DVD. It was a dream job in many respects; not only I could review...

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...

Life has a way of giving you what you need when you need it most, and when you least expect it – that’s how it seems from the cocoon of...

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...

Parenthood changes your life. It’s natural to rail against this change, to try to retain your ‘old life’ as much as possible, but it’s...

I recently put the finishing touches on the first draft of an 82,000-word novel I have been nibbling away at for three years. I mentioned...

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

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

The past few days have been a trip back in time inside my own head. While searching the fiction submission database The Grinder (as...

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...