Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
It looks strange to celebrate a blogversary after a year like 2021. So many things happened in the last twelve months, and if I had thought 2020 was the worst on the record, I was badly mistaken. 2021 was challenging…
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Again, a late summary of this month’s reading, due to work. Oh well, the pandemic certainly changed the way people work and the personal space has shrunk rather significantly with the expansion of the Zoom-culture, which allows for working hours…
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…at least for what I can remember. My late grandmother, who lived through two World Wars, a Spanish flu, a Great Depression, the Holocaust, and some other niceties, would not probably be that impressed with 2020. But for me –a…
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This week I am attending Milford Conference, the yearly gathering with other writers from the SFF community that takes place at Trigonos, Snowdonia (North Wales). As usual, things are both intense and pleasant, with the morning devoted to writing or…
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As every year in Scotland, Edinburgh Book Festival is one of the main writing events to look forward to. Part of the Fringe Festival, it is one of the largest public celebrations of the written word in the world, bringing to…
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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 is Kelly Matsuura and how did she become a writer? I am Australian and grew up…
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I have already written in the past about markets for microfiction (intended here as all the prose between 0 and 300 words) and compiled a list of venues you can submit to. That list remains valid even today, and it…
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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 the recent open submission they held specifically for science-fiction, from 1 to 6 January 2019. The…
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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 book on the space sector. Now that the book is not complete (about 90%) but in…
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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 about. So, here I am, trying to fill my daily quota and hopefully meeting the 50k…
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