KRIS ASHTON

While nosing around for short fiction markets recently, I came across an Australian literary journal called The Canary Press. I liked the...

The thought is as old as reasoned thought itself: the older one becomes, the more contemplative and deliberate one becomes. It’s both a...

No matter how many academics try to dissect it, and no matter how many greedy hacks try to turn it into a commodity, the process of...

In the publishing world (whether you’re talking books, magazines or online), silence is almost always a bad sign. I learned this lesson...

The novice writer who is trying to get published is prone to developing a persecution complex. I know I did. After all, I had spent my...

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

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...