An Interview From Another World: Michael A. Stackpole Talks About Second Life

Some of you may never have heard of Second Life, while others may believe that Linden Labs have brought into creation the gateway to the inevitable demise of mankind, but with over eleven million residents, it isn’t surprising that more and more people are viewing this computer generated world as a place to make some […]

An Interview with Tom Chalmers of Legend Press

Legend Press has published two short story anthologies in the past two years, The Remarkable Everyday and Seven Days, and have another planned for the beginning of 2008; they claim these anthologies are “Reinventing The Short Story,” and I just had to find out what exactly they meant by this.

Tom Chalmers is the Managing […]

An Interview with Michael Boatman

Michael Boatman is best known as an actor from television shows like the classic sitcom, Spin City, and L.A. Law, but he is increasingly demanding attention as a serious writer. With the release of his short story collection God Laughs When You Die by Dybbuk Press, Boatman looks set to launch a writing career to […]

PS Showcase #1: Sanity and Other Delusions: Tales of Psychological Horror by Gary Fry

The first of PS Publishing’s new Showcase range, Sanity And Other Delusions by Gary Fry is a collection of short stories which explores the human mind, takes the reader on a journey through the seemingly mundane, and forces them to face those nightmarish fears that keep us all staring at the ceiling after the lights […]

An Interview with Juli Klass of Mighty Erudite

Fledgling publishers Mighty Erudite state on their website:
“our mission is to find those courageous and often unpublished writers who will not bow to commercial pressure; those who write what they write regardless of ‘marketability’; those who will not fold under the weight of ‘more of the same.’ We aim to publish beautiful and collectable literature […]

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2007

Cover by Cory and Catska Ench

“Osama Phone Home” by David Marusek is a bold choice to open December’s issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This is the story of a group of old college friends who come together with one common goal—to track down Osama Bin Laden. They pool their collective talents, […]

Lone Star Stories #23, October 2007

Issue 23 of Lone Star Stories contains three pieces of short fiction. The first, “Stickmen” by Forrest Aguirre, is a delicate tale about loss of innocence and growing up. A group of boys on a camping trip create stick figures out of the materials available to them on the forest floor and reveal something […]