It’s every author’s main fear: That after working on a novel for years or decades, pouring your soul and sweat into the words, it finally gets published and…no one notices. Worse, it quickly melts off the shelves and sinks into obscurity, and you wind up buying all extant copies at a quarter each just to […]
Ireland isn’t just a country, it’s a repository of myth and legend that has been mined by genre writers for decades. Even today, Ireland seems to be bursting with magical energies that other countries couldn’t hope to match—I mean, who would imagine an epic fantasy set in the wilds of New Jersey? Naturally, that means that not only have some of […]
Publishing isn’t a game to be taken lightly. Aside from, you know, writing a book in the first place, there are numerous obstacles standing between a raw manuscript and its debut on bookshelves everywhere. Between things like war, suicide, despair, and government censorship, it’s sometimes incredible a book gets published at all. Here are 10 sci-fi or fantasy […]
No one knows what happens when we die. Religions, pyramids, and entire industries have cropped up in response to humanity’s quest to solve the mystery without, you know, actually dying. Arguably the entire institution of literature is a response to death—either to ruminate and philosophize on The End, or to snatch a piece of literary immortality. A few authors […]