Finding or Creating a Writer’s Workshop Group
You’ve reached a certain level in your writing and you realize that you need feedback from people other than your friends in order to improve […]
Book Review: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror is an anthology series of — you guessed it — fantasy and horror that St. Martin’s Press has been […]
Getting Your Work Published
Okay. You’ve written your story or poem. You think it’s good. Your friends say it rocks. Your creative writing instructor gave it an “A” and […]
Pitching for Star Trek
From a writer’s standpoint, one of the most interesting aspects of the mid-90s Star Trek shows (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) was […]
Movie Review: Nature of the Beast
Nature of the Beast is a 1995 horror thriller written and directed by Victor Salva, who is also the writer/director of Jeepers Creepers and the […]
Lloyd Alexander’s The Iron Ring
The Iron Ring is a short fantasy novel written by noted children’s author Lloyd Alexander. Though is aimed primarily toward older kids, anyone with a […]
Why I Stopped Wanting To Be a Biologist When I Grew Up
It all started innocently enough. I had just begun my senior year as a biology major at a West Texas college, and I had just […]
So you want to start a webzine …
First, ask yourself why you want to start a webzine. There are lots of good reasons, but if you can’t give yourself a cogent answer, […]
U.S. Court Rulings on Parody in Advertising
Ever since the case of Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, advertising has been the unpopular stepchild of the First Amendment. […]
An interview with William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty was perhaps best known as the author of The Exorcist and the writer/producer of the 1973 film based on that novel (he won […]
An interview with Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, it turns out, is a prolific serial rapist. Wouldn’t have interviewed that bastard if I’d had an inkling of who he really is. […]
Book Review: The Sandman: Book of Dreams
a review by Damien Filer The sandman has been present for a very long time in folklore and fairy tales as the man who puts […]