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Kris Ashton
Jun 14, 20171 min read
Infernal Ink available to pre-order
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...
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Kris Ashton
May 23, 20172 min read
News update: novella accepted, interview coming soon
My novella ‘Blood and Light’ has been accepted to appear in Argosy’s upcoming Apocalyptica anthology which, as the name suggests, will...
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Kris Ashton
Apr 18, 20173 min read
Ignorance composes the strongest conviction
I grew up with grandparents who seemed to know everything about the natural world, even though they’d never had a lick of formal...
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Kris Ashton
Apr 12, 20173 min read
Why the Green Shirts are a danger to democracy
When I was in high school in the 1990s, the teaching staff suggested it might be time to change our uniforms from grey to green. I will...
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Kris Ashton
Mar 16, 20172 min read
The devaluation of creativity in the digital age
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...
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Kris Ashton
Mar 15, 20175 min read
Hope you’re having a Ball in your Slice of Heaven
The intensity with which we feel things as children has a way of resounding with unexpected ferocity in later life. When I heard that...
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Kris Ashton
Mar 1, 20172 min read
A tale of the world’s unluckiest story
Yesterday I approved the final editorial changes to ‘Starting from Scratch’, a sci-fi/horror story of the ilk popular during the 1970s...
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Kris Ashton
Jan 10, 20172 min read
Netflix and e-books are internet porn
I’ve been reading Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke for the better part of a year and I’m only halfway through it. It’s no War and Peace or...
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Kris Ashton
Nov 24, 20161 min read
Just enough to keep your chin up
Between raising two kids and holding down a full-time job, it sometimes feels as though my writing career has stalled. But apparently I'm...
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Kris Ashton
Oct 23, 20161 min read
Blood in the Rain 2 due for Halloween
The anthology of erotic vampire stories, Blood in the Rain 2, goes on sale from October 25. It contains my tale 'The Stag Night', which...
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Kris Ashton
Sep 11, 20162 min read
The time I interviewed… Hugo Weaving
Celebrity recollections #5 Career film critics often have an encyclopaedic knowledge of their subject. They are the sort of folks who...
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Kris Ashton
Sep 10, 20161 min read
The time I interviewed… Sandra Bullock
Celebrity recollections #4 While most of the interviews I conducted over the years were one-on-ones in hotel rooms or over the phone,...
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Kris Ashton
Sep 9, 20163 min read
The time(s) I interviewed… Sir David Attenborough
Celebrity recollections #3 In 2003, when I was on What DVD magazine, a publicist called and asked if I’d like to interview Sir David...
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Kris Ashton
Sep 8, 20162 min read
The time I interviewed… Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
Celebrity recollections #2 Everyone knows Dwayne Johnson as a physically imposing specimen. When I shook hands with him in a hotel room,...
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Kris Ashton
Sep 7, 20161 min read
The time I interviewed… Michael Richards
Celebrity recollections #1 Whenever backyard barbecue chat turns to work and I happen mention to a new acquaintance that I used to...
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Kris Ashton
Sep 5, 20161 min read
Top 5 unforgettable celebrity interviews
Between 2002 and 2008, I worked as a writer in the entertainment industry, first as editor of What DVD magazine, then as editor of...
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Kris Ashton
Aug 22, 20163 min read
Why doesn’t anyone love my story?
It can be difficult to determine whether multiple rejections are a sign that there is something wrong with a story, or if you have simply...
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Kris Ashton
Aug 10, 20163 min read
A metal classic: 'The Great Southern Trendkill' 20 years on
Music is an odd thing; familiarity with a song can breed contentment rather than contempt. For that reason, I’ve always been sceptical of...
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Kris Ashton
Aug 8, 20162 min read
Turning the final (printed) page
Last night I received an email which said that Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine would no longer produce a print edition as of issue...
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Kris Ashton
Jul 15, 20166 min read
Review: Andromeda Spaceways #62
One of the two great Australian journals of speculative fiction (the other, of course, being Aurealis), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...
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