Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
If you -like me – love flash fiction in all its declinations, you would also especially enjoy microfiction, which is, in many aspects, comparable to poetry. [I define as microfiction all prose between 0 and 300 words; arbitrary, sure, but…
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I don’t often blog about writing, for many reasons (the main is: there are *hundreds* of people out there that do it far better than me) but today I came across a couple of interviews / posts, one by Neil…
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One friend asked me this very question a couple of days ago, and I have to say I didn’t know how to answer. Sure I had blogs I read every week, had I not? Good observation. But, as a matter…
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Salome’ is a new UK literary magazine I’ve recently discovered, and I was so lucky to get Jacs, the Editor-in-Chief, here for a chat to present the zine and the concept behind it. I have to add that the graphics…
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to witness two (different) but related events – both in the field of writing and publishing. One, in Edinburgh, was the second year anniversary of Luna Press Publishing, an independent Scottish small press. Established in…
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I have always been an avid consumer of speculative fiction in all forms and format, and recently a writer, too. Therefore it’s always painful when magazines you love go into hiatus – temporary or permanent. In this first month of…
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2016 was not a bad year blog-wise, even though I went nowhere near my desired reading quota and even less in terms of book reviews. And I didn’t write as much as I wanted, either. So, in the best New Year’s…
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When I started, a couple of years ago, to write (again) fiction after many years of non-fiction / academic writing, I found myself a bit lost in terms of locating suitable venues. Of course, there are the journals /zines we…
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Yes, this week makes two years of blogging for The Earthian Hivemind – two years I’ve enjoyed a lot and had the opportunity to get to know amazing people online, especially fellow bloggers. They contributed to make this experience positive under…
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Done -yesterday night just in time I finally validated my wordcount: 51,299 – otherwise said, I made it. It has taken a lot of efforts, three trips to the UK Midlands (train is such a perfect place to write, provided you…
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