KRIS ASHTON

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...

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...

Last week, I was browsing potential markets for a story (that will probably never find a home because it is too long and too Australian)...

Ostensibly a roman à clef based on Elvis Presley’s childhood and rise to stardom, Tender is in fact about the hero’s intense relationship...

The introduction to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is made entirely from recycled parts and isn’t the most auspicious welcome to King’s sixth...

I first encountered the chiefly American epithet ‘Uncle Tom’ many years before I picked up the novel from which it was derived, Uncle...

It's difficult enough to drum up new ideas in vampire fiction; trying write an original ghost story is like trying to mine tailings for...

How conscious are you of a novel’s setting? Have you ever thought about what goes into creating it and how it is used? Good use of...

In reviewing books over the past ten years or so, I have frequently criticised modern literature for its pretentiousness. This...