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A sad thing happened to Australian fiction
While nosing around for short fiction markets recently, I came across an Australian literary journal called The Canary Press. I liked the...
Kris Ashton
Jun 29, 20147 min read
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What the hell is writing anyway?
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...
Kris Ashton
Jun 9, 20143 min read
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Social media’s insatiable appetite
Modern wisdom has it that to be successful, an author needs to have a strong presence on social media. If you don’t have a website, a...
Kris Ashton
Mar 26, 20142 min read
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A heretical review of Doctor Sleep
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...
Kris Ashton
Jan 14, 20145 min read
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The allure of the peculiar little town
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...
Kris Ashton
Nov 7, 20132 min read
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Editing from an ivory tower
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...
Kris Ashton
Nov 3, 20133 min read
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