Empress Of Mars Magazine
November 28th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Dear All -
The glossy, full-colour, 76-page inaugural issue of the long awaited Empress of Mars quarterly SF magazine is now available either in print, or in downloadable ebook format, from Magcloud: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/296025
This issue features fiction and poetry from Hive Mind authors, Bren MacDibble, Tracie Mcbride, Stuart Sharp and Mark J. Howard, and an interview with SFF author, Gregory Frost, of the Shadowbridge series of novels, by Alexandra Wolfe.
Artwork featured in the issue comes from the talent of Martyn Rotherham, Jane Hunter and Mark J. Howard.
Check it out now!
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Occupy The Dark
November 11th, 2011 § 2 Comments
THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH FOR ME
Hey All -
The most amazing, splendiferous John Claude Smith has a collected works of horror, The Dark Is Light Enough For Me, out in all e-formats and ready for your reading pleasure. Stop in and grab yourself a copy at either Barnes & Noble or Amazon!
“Twelve intricate, dark tales of bittersweet madness, twisted desires, and souls in crisis explore the deepest realms of the human, and not so human, condition.”
Lulu: The Process of Self-Publishing “The Many Live of Inez Wick”
March 1st, 2011 § 1 Comment
Print – $14.00
eBook – $6.00
I’m puzzled, fascinated, and inspired by the emergence and overwhelming success of genre books featuring strong women protagonists, such as Sookie Stackhouse, Mercy Thompson, and Annja Creed to name a few. It’s not that I think there is no market for male leads in genre books, but the trend says that women are hot. Thus, I started to rethink my male protagonists. Could I insert a woman in a traditional male role like Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in Battlestar Galactica?
In environmental activism fiction, men rule the genre, attempting to live up to Edward Abbey’s character Hayduke. I wanted to see if I could insert a female lead character and still tell a successful environmental activism – action – story. Several of my early drafts were published about the internet, so I believed that there must be some market for both environmental activism fiction and environmental activism that starred a female protagonist that aspires to be like Hayduke.
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