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Author Interview: J.S. Morin

Posted on July 18, 2018 by KL Wagoner — 4 Comments

J.S. Morin, former engineer turned full-time science fiction/fantasy author, claims the title of “a creator of worlds and a destroyer of words.” He has loved exploring speculative fiction since childhood and now hopes his own stories will help influence a new…

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Author Interview: M. Pax

Posted on April 18, 2018 by KL Wagoner — 11 Comments

Speculative fiction author M. Pax is a self-professed workaholic with a dozen published novels and numerous short story collections. Her seven-book space opera series, The Backworlds, takes readers to a universe where bio-engineered humans survive on different planets and the…

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Author Interview: D Wallace Peach

Posted on March 21, 2018 by KL Wagoner — 78 Comments

Author D. Wallace Peach infuses her speculative fiction with vivid prose and intriguing plots. Her twelve published books are divided between two four-book series and four standalone novels. Kari’s Reckoning (2017) is the fourth and final novel in her Rose…

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An Interview with Author Joyce Hertzoff, Part 2

Posted on September 18, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 2 Comments

Joyce Hertzoff retired from a profession grounded in fact and science and now uses the power of the pen to write mystery and fantasy stories. Her first novel The Crimson Orb was published in 2014 by Phantasm Books, an imprint…

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The Benefits of a Genre-Specific Critique Group

Posted on May 29, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 6 Comments

If you’re blessed, as I am, to have some of the best critique partners…, you undoubtedly realize the benefit of having a watchful pair of eyes to run over your manuscripts, a merciless tongue to point out the weak points,…

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Call for Submissions: Speculative Fiction

Posted on February 7, 2014 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

For you speculative fiction writers, here are a few online magazines accepting short story submissions of science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror. LIGHTSPEED, a Hugo-nominated digital science fiction and fantasy magazine, has put out a call to women writers of science fiction…