KRIS ASHTON

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...

I grew up with grandparents who seemed to know everything about the natural world, even though they’d never had a lick of formal...

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...

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...

Yesterday I approved the final editorial changes to ‘Starting from Scratch’, a sci-fi/horror story of the ilk popular during the 1970s...

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...

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...

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...

Celebrity recollections #5 Career film critics often have an encyclopaedic knowledge of their subject. They are the sort of folks who...

Celebrity recollections #4 While most of the interviews I conducted over the years were one-on-ones in hotel rooms or over the phone,...

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...

Celebrity recollections #2 Everyone knows Dwayne Johnson as a physically imposing specimen. When I shook hands with him in a hotel room,...

Celebrity recollections #1 Whenever backyard barbecue chat turns to work and I happen mention to a new acquaintance that I used to...

Between 2002 and 2008, I worked as a writer in the entertainment industry, first as editor of What DVD magazine, then as editor of...

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...

Music is an odd thing; familiarity with a song can breed contentment rather than contempt. For that reason, I’ve always been sceptical of...

Last night I received an email which said that Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine would no longer produce a print edition as of issue...

One of the two great Australian journals of speculative fiction (the other, of course, being Aurealis), Andromeda Spaceways Inflight...