James Beamon, Amazing Select’s editor for its No Police = No Future anthology that gathered stories about the future of policing and justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, discusses his work as editor […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Michael A. Ventrella (570-629-6322) On Saturday, April 20, local writers and authors will gather at the Hughes Library in Stroudsburg for the free annual Pocono Liars Club Writers Conference. The day-long […]
Publisher: RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM Publication date: 04/27/2021 Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780735214507 Author: David Epstein Range: How Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein includes several real world examples […]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Published Date: 2006 Author: Ray Bradbury Read By: Robert Fass ISBN: 0-7927-4519-1 Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury is the sequel, or maybe just the completion, […]
Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Published by: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000 ISBN 10: 0743506650 ISBN 13: 9780743506656 Author: Stephen King Read by: Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft […]
An unofficial and unauthorized overview of The X-Files (Parts 1 2 3 4) Part Four: The Journey A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces […]
Part 3 of John Pierce’s Xamination of the X-Files
Part 2 of John Pierce’s analysis of the X-Files
An unofficial and unauthorized overview of The X-Files (Parts 1 2 3 4) Cautionary Note If you’re looking for a treatise about the 2016-2018 reboot of The X-Files, which trashed both the human drama and […]
Always wanted to write a SFF novel but don’t know where to start? Want to improve your SFF writing skills? Join Orbit for a one-of-a-kind FREE virtual event series this fall that will take you […]
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Way back in issue #206, I reviewed Stephen King’s book On Writing. It was perhaps the best crash course on writing I’ve ever read, and the single most influential book on my journey as a […]
When I was invited to the American Library Association’s annual conference in Chicago, I felt dismay. So much of their schedule was focused on book bans and censorship. It’s not like I didn’t expect it. […]
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) Mentorship Committee has announced that the SFWA Career Mentorship Program is now taking applications for mentors and mentees for three-month-long mentorships, set to run June 10 – […]
One of my personal favorite writers, Charlie Stross, wrote an excellent post about Monomyths and Space Opera a while back. An excerpt of this is below and you can click the link at the end […]
Writing for audio offers a similar relationship to the listener that I imagine a novelist has with the reader: it’s a partnership; you’re not letting people sit back and passively watch something, you are asking […]
At CSSF, we celebrate the diverse community of students, scholars, creators, and fans who engage with speculative modes, challenging our conceptions of what is possible. As Octavia Butler writes in Parable of the Sower, “All that […]
This week Steve talks about two new, FREE, online genre magazines—one featuring sf/f poetry by Canadian poets; the other featuring sf/f poetry and fiction by Canadian writers and poets.
This Anthology is a collection of 50 speculative fiction stories chosen from 1969 to 2019 by Gail Jamieson, long-time editor of the SFFSA clubzine, PROBE, and Gary Kuyper, multiple winners of the Nova competition and […]
Veronica Scott for AMAZING STORIES: Today I’m kicking off a new series of author profiles, which will run here periodically. I’ve chosen author E. G. Manetti for my first interview because she’s done an adroit […]
Author and anthologist Jack Dann will be discussing writing on the Tuscon Hard-Science SF Channel this coming Saturday
Welcome to the January 2023 edition of the SFWA Market Report. The markets included on this list all pay at least $0.08/word in at least one length-category of fiction. For the full list go to […]
Prompt: Write an article about ChatGPT and how it will replace human writers ChatGPT is a new natural language processing (NLP) model developed by OpenAI that has the potential to replace human writers in many […]
Great things are coming for AmazingStories.com and we’re also looking for more volunteers to help with writing posts for the site! Amazing Stories is a great place to showcase your writing talent. We’re looking for […]
Magazines pay authors as if they are periodicals, but sell as if they are anthologies.
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