WRITING WOMEN CHARACTERS (Wait, Aren’t You A Dude?) By Adam Rakunas
Earlier this year at the Emerald City Comicon, I was on a panel with my fellow Angry Robot authors Peter Tieryas, Danielle Jensen, Patrick…
Category: Articles
Why use Kickstarter for your anthology project? By Adrian Collins
Kickstarter can be a small publisher’s best mate. The crowd funding platform is a brilliant way to market, fund, and produce large anthology projects.…
Guest post: Great Grandchildren of the Apocalypse by M.E. Parker
When I was a kid, the word apocalypse kept me awake at night. It stalked my dreams and conjured images of four horsemen wreaking…
Guest post: Why Ley Lines? by Joshua Palmatier
I was reading fantasy rather heavily back in the *coughcough* 80s and back then nearly every fantasy novel had ley lines in them, because…
Article: Sticking the Landing by Melinda Snodgrass
SFFWorld is very pleased to present an article from Melinda Snodgrass, an Emmy award winning scriptwriter (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and a bestselling author of over a…
COVER REVEAL: CHILDREN OF THE DIFFERENT by S. C. Flynn
They used to say “never judge a book by its cover”. Well, forget that. Just look at that cover – look at it! This…
Article: My Debut Rollercoaster by Ren Warom
Getting your first book published is always a thrill for the author, though it can take work to get there. We invited Ren Warom,…
Guest post: Where’s My Flying Car by Chris Gerrib
Back in the 1950s, 1960s and even 1970s, we were promised flying cars. (Actually, Popular Mechanics has one on the cover every year or…
Perlmutter talks animation – The Openhearted many, the broken hearted few
One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many, the broken-hearted few And no one knows where the night…
Windows On Other Worlds – illustrating Science Fiction (part two) by Alex Storer
Last time, I talked about my journey into science fiction cover art and defining my own style. This time, I’m going to go a…
Guest post: PODs and Butterflies by Jeff Provine
Alternate History (or “alternative history” for the grammatically strict) has been asking “what if things had gone a little differently?” since the days of…
Guest post: Windows On Other Worlds – illustrating Science Fiction by Alex Storer
I have good faith in the old adage of its not what you know, but who you know. In 2007, I had reached a…
Guest post: The Long Lost Art Being Stuck In A Weird Small Town by Todd Berger
My favorite television show when I was a kid was The Twilight Zone. Reruns used to come on cable every night, and I loved never…
UK GAMES EXPO (10TH ANNIVERSARY)
NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND Attended by David Paul Hellings @HellingsOnFilm Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Horror gaming fans were well served as usual as the…
Guest post: Obsessed with Robots! By Brenda Cooper
I don’t know of any other women as obsessed with robots in their fiction as I am. I’m not sure I know of any…
Guest post: Staying True to the Vision: The Setbacks and Joys of Universe Building by M.J. Kelley
We were on the eve of another final draft deadline and the second round of edits had just been returned by our editor. After…
Guest post: The Return of the Body Snatchers by Adam Aresty
In her 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster,” Susan Sontag touched on the role of science fiction in our society. “Ours is indeed…
Guest post: If time travel were ever invented, what would we become? by Peter Ward
Do you remember when the first cell phones came out in 1984? I certainly don’t because I was only four years old at the…
MIND MELD: Recent SF/F/H You’ve Read & Enjoyed About Which You Knew Little
This one requires a little bit of introduction. As many in the online SFF community now know, John DeNardo and J.P. Frantz closed the…
Guest post: Good Guys and Bad Guys by Sean Danker
When I was working on Admiral, a novel with a somewhat ambiguous protagonist, I was focused on telling the story. I didn’t give much…
