Category: Writing
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Yet One More Blogversary –9 years
It doesn’t look as if another year passed by from the last time I have posted about a blogversary. Sure, if 2021 was challenging,…
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Blogversary #8
It looks strange to celebrate a blogversary after a year like 2021. So many things happened in the last twelve months, and if I…
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A year like none other before.
…at least for what I can remember. My late grandmother, who lived through two World Wars, a Spanish flu, a Great Depression, the Holocaust,…
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Frozen Wavelets- submission statistics
The second submission period for Frozen Wavelets closed on 16 December. It had started on 2 December –so, roughly two weeks. We have just…
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2019: One Year in Review
December is traditionally for me not only the end of the year but also The Earthian Hivemind‘s blogversary (it started in December 2013, Day…
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Milford 2019
This week I am attending Milford Conference, the yearly gathering with other writers from the SFF community that takes place at Trigonos, Snowdonia (North…
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(Good) Outlets for your drabbles
Frozen Wavelets is temporarily closed for submission (we’ll reopen at some moment in Fall 2019), but it doesn’t mean there aren’t other good outlets…
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Frozen Wavelets- summary of July submissions
The first submission period for Frozen Wavelets (the upcoming speculative flash fiction and poetry zine hosted by this blog) closed on 15 July. It…
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Interview with Kelly Matsuura, Publisher and Editor of The Insignia Series Anthologies
I am thrilled to host this month an interview with Kelly Matsuura, the Publisher of the Insignia Series, anthologies of Asian SF and Fantasy. Who…
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Magazines that publish historical fiction
If you believed (as I did) that historical fiction is by nature more the domain of long novels than short stories (or flash fiction),…
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Slushing. Insights from the industry
What you’re going to see here is a video streaming from the SFF publisher Baen, which discusses in detail how their editors pick up…
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Ten Literary Magazines that welcome speculative fiction
I generally submit stories and poetry to speculative fiction venues. This is due to the fact that literary magazines more often than not do…
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(More) markets for microfiction
I have already written in the past about markets for microfiction (intended here as all the prose between 0 and 300 words) and compiled…
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EHM is changing. What’s coming next in 2019
Hello everybody. Today’s post is about an announcement and a query. The announcement is that, as I’ve briefly mentioned in December’s blogversary post, The…
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Open Submission Calls – What Indie Presses Would Like to See
I had recently a chat with the owner and Editor-in-Chief of an award-winning, independent Scottish press, Luna Press Publishing. I asked a few questions regarding…
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Guest Post -Andrea Jonhson and the Little Red Reviewer Blog’s Kickstarter
It is with a lot of pleasure that I welcome here Andrea Johnson, one of the best blogs around reviewing speculative fiction. Andrea is…
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Earthian Hivemind turns 5
Actually, it has turned five last week on 16th but, as it happens, I was neck-deep in preparing the submission filed for my non-fiction…
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Interview with Nadia Gerassimenko, Founder and Editor of Moonchild Magazine
I am thrilled to have Nadia Gerassimenko here this month to present her amazing Moonchild Magazine, one of the best new venues for short…
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NaNoWriMo and 2019 plans
November is, as always, the Nano-month par excellence -even though there are now NaNo-camps during the year, November remains the month when writing is…
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Astronomical Clocks in Modern History
Let’s admit it: astronomical clocks are probably one of the most charming types of historical monument, and they’ve had their halcyon days during Modern…
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Best applications for writing
If you are like me, and writing is part of your full-time job and/or takes up all your free time, you might well regularly…
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Markets for your Haiku
If you like me love the short-short form both in fiction and poetry, you already know what haiku (and other short poetry forms, such…
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Wordbuilding -Creating your alien life
I have already written in the past about how alien (in the sense of odd) nature can possibly be. Today I’d like to explore the…
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Pitch your novel. Best Twitter parties
If you have a complete (and polished) novel you want to find an agent and/or a publisher for, AND you’re NOT engaging in any…