PaulineMorgan, Author at SFcrowsnest

Radix Omnium Malum & Other Incursions by Mike Chinn (book review).

Anyone who has heard of Mike Chinn will probably be familiar with either his steampunk versions of Sherlock Holmes or

There is something very annoying about cliff-hangers. It is fine at the end of a chapter when to find what

I had always understood that a prequel was something produced after the main action but returning to earlier chapters in

There are publishers from whom you expect quality publications. These are not necessarily of a literary standard as popular books

Traditionally, in any collection or anthology, the strongest story is put first. The rationale is that whenever a potential reader/buyer

It may be understandable to think that writers might have run out of dangerous supernatural or mythical beings to give

What exactly is a short story? It probably depends on the purpose of a piece of fiction. The concept that

There is a school of thought that considers that writing for the young adult market is easy. For a lot

Where once horror stories tended to involve the supernatural, these days writers have a choice, either to follow traditional patterns

One problem that a successful author has is that editors of anthologies or magazines ask them for short stories. This