Joanne Anderton

Horrorscope have just released their 2008 Dark Fiction Recommended Reading List

It’s SO exciting to see a story from ASIM #34 (otherwise known as the issue edited by yours truly) on the list!

“Bitter Elsie Mae” by Tessa Kum (ASIM #34)

Horray for Tessa!

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Oh I’m so far behind! I blame Christmas.

Check out the list of contributors for CSFG’s Masques anthology. What great company!

Amelia Walker ‘Gentlemen Prefer Pengs’
Andrew J. McKiernan The Dumbshow
Anne Mok The Gift of the Butterfly Queen
Ariella Adler Coppernic’s Sky
Astrid Cooper Still Life
Cat Sheely Hobnails in heaven
Cat Sparks Seventeen
Chris Jones The Whispering Walls
Donna Maree Hanson Night of [...]

This is it, people. Revelation time. Guess what? Writing is hard. That’s right. Hard.

It’s hard to sit at a computer when everyone else is taking the day off. It’s hard to look at a plot point or a sentence or a paragraph you love so much and concede it has to go. It’s hard to [...]

Today I learned Death Masque has been accepted into the CSFG’s Masques anthology! Horray!

My thanks go out to Gillian for her fantastic editorial feedback. And I couldn’t do any of this without dearest Rabia, the best critique-buddy a writer could hope for.

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I’m gearing up for the next revision of Debris and have been thinking a lot about how this stage feels. This might make me sound like a crazy person but I’ve been searching for the right metaphor. A bit like taking a very deep breath. A bit like setting out on a long journey. Neither [...]