KRIS ASHTON

My first boss in publishing once said something that I have subscribed to ever since: “Everybody needs an editor. Especially the editor.”...

When an unpublished writer has been rejected enough, I suppose it's inevitable that he will develop a complex. In its early stages, the...

Journalism is one of the few remaining careers where a qualification isn’t the be all and end all; even if you don’t have a Bachelor of...

As of January 10, it had been nearly two months since I wrote any fiction. Part of the problem was that a change in my job and my new...

Sooner or later a publishing writer will be asked: “Where do you get your ideas?” Answers traditionally have been facetious or sarcastic;...

As more than one writer of horror fiction has noted, there are a finite number of tropes in the genre which authors have been milling...

The wisest minds in the writing world will tell you how important it is to get a third party perspective on your story when it comes time...

If there's one thing would-be writers are never prepared for, it's chronic rejection. The key word in that previous sentence, of course,...

It's rather apt that I write my inaugural blog post for this website on Halloween, since the great preponderance of the stories I have...