Posts by Sara-Jayne Slack

Do you ever get that feeling like every other writer has it all figured out? Like they have writing retreats, clever spreadsheets, a five-year plan pinned to their wall… and…

In part one of this series (Historical Monsters as Metaphor), we looked at the early myths of monsters and how they served as metaphors for the era’s time where anxieties…

What Is Steampunk? Steampunk fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction which commonly integrates science, fantasy, and historical fiction together to build an alternate timeline, set in the real world.…

Back in the 00s when Kickstarter began operations, only a few people knew about what came to be known as crowdfunding. Over the next 20 years or so, it became…

Traditional publishing doesn’t exactly have a reputation for being fast-paced, but the onslaught of AI (artificial intelligence) tools, ‘scandals’ and borderline (and over-the-line!) misuse might just have made an exception…

While the e-book was (incorrectly) hailed as “the death of the paperback”, many readers still love to see a well-stocked bookshelf standing pride of place. There’s just something about a…

We’ve all been there — you finish the last page, you close the book you were reading, and a feeling of emptiness crashes over you. You hopefully enjoyed the book,…

Most readers have a TBR pile, even if they don’t know what a TBR pile is. In book lingo, a ”TBR Pile” is your to-be-read pile. It’s all those books…

Our Authors Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Literary Evangelos is a photographer, writer and author of the speculative fiction novel The Hush. Originally from Athens, Greece, he has spent the last couple…

Over the last decade, buying books online has become commonplace thanks to big-name stores. And we’re not just talking about that online-only store, either. For any reader who’s trying not…

As much as individuality and the support of friends, (cyberpunk) music is one of the prime thematic focuses of Oshibana Complex. In a cyberpunk future where humanity is grown rather…

Avid readers know how book can be an incredible form of escapism where almost anything is possible and you never quite know what’s going to happen next. This is especially…

Magic and the fantasy fiction genre, they go together like Bert and Ernie – or should I say Frodo and Sam? Wherever you look in fantasy, you’ll see examples of…

When you first decide to be a writer, you might read books on how to write a blockbuster, you might work on your grammar and punctuation or you put hours…

Landscapes have a tendency to set off questions in my head, about what lies below the surface of a place and what possibilities there might be. Can Fairy Tales Be…

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