KRIS ASHTON

Many thanks to Isabella Hargreaves, fellow Steam eReads author, for involving me in this blog tour. What am I working on? A week ago I...

Many thanks to Isabella Hargreaves, fellow Steam eReads author, for involving me in this blog tour. What am I working on? A week ago I...

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...

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...

Anyone who has ever called Stephen King a hack needs to go and read The Shining. It is a masterpiece of modern horror, taking the classic...

Anyone who has ever called Stephen King a hack needs to go and read The Shining. It is a masterpiece of modern horror, taking the classic...

When I was a child I had no musical tastes of my own. I more or less listened to what my mother listened to, with the odd compilation of...

When I was a child I had no musical tastes of my own. I more or less listened to what my mother listened to, with the odd compilation 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...

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...

When I was about 12 or 13, I bought a videotape called Stephen King’s World of Horror. It appeared to be a TV documentary pieced together...

I detest consumer holidays and I particularly dislike the commercialisation of Christmas. That there are certain days of the year when...

This week I made the painful decision to retire a story I loved. Written in 2008, I’ve spent the past five years shopping it to 15...

Why do we expect our sportsmen and women to be saints? It’s idiotic. Australia’s professional athletes are under microscopic scrutiny day...

Earlier this year, Esquire ran a wonderful ad campaign propounding the virtues of magazines. The tagline was, ‘We surf the internet. We...

This video was doing the rounds among my circle of Facebook friends last week. If you can't be bothered hitting the link, it's a series...

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...

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...