If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The nominees for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense and dark fantasy fiction have been announced. Works appearing in the calendar year 2010 were eligible for nomination by publishers. The nominees in the [...]
The Shirley Jackson Awards in recognition of outstanding achievement in the literature of horror, psychological suspense and dark fantasy fiction published in 2009 were presented at the Readercon 21 Conference on Imaginative Literature, held 8 – 11 July 2010 in Burlington, Massachusetts. The award for a novel went to Big Machine (Spiegel & Grau), by [...]
Nominees for the Shirley Jackson Awards, which recognize achievement in the horror, psychological suspense and dark fantasy fiction genres, were announced in Boston, Massachusetts. The awards are a fairly new addition to literary awards in speculative fiction, and were first awarded in 2008, and were established in honor of Shirley Jackson, the author of such [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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