KRIS ASHTON

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...

I introduced my four and a half year old daughter to The Twits by Roald Dahl last week. I wasn’t sure if she would be mature enough to...

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....

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

It’s all been happening over the past couple of days: 1. An anthology of stories by deaf and hard of hearing writers, Tripping the Tale...

Floating around in cyberspace is a 2006 blog post that refers to Aurealis as ‘The Grand Old Harlot’ and ‘The Lumbering Old Dinosaur’, two...

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

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...

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...

It contains my erotic black comedy ‘Dead Men Can’t Climax’, which is about… well, imagine a violent, sardonic, and funny story woven from...

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