An Interview with Quentin S. Crisp

Quentin S. Crisp is an English writer undaunted by the prospect of following his own muse, wherever it might take him. His fiction might best be classified as horror/supernatural, but has its own unique perspective as he lends his interest in Asian cultures to his work. In 2001, while he was teaching English in Taiwan, [...]

An Interview with Paul Di Filippo

Paul Di Filippo is a protean writer, able to blend disparate fictional elements in his own unique, wildly inventive way. As Cory Doctorow refers to him in the introduction to Paul’s most recent collection, Harsh Oases, “He’s like baking soda in the genre’s fridge, soaking up all its flavors, mixing them together.” Paul’s fiction has [...]

An Interview with Pat Cadigan

Since making her first professional short story sale in 1980, Pat Cadigan has had her work appear in Omni, SCI FICTION, Asimov’s, and Jim Baen’s Universe, as well as numerous anthologies. Her work has been translated into French, German, Polish, Japanese, and Czech. Born in Schenectady, New York, she grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and [...]

An Interview with Patrick Swenson

Patrick Swenson is the publisher and editor of Talebones Magazine, as well as Fairwood Press. Talebones has been publishing quality short fiction since 1995 and just released issue #37. In 2000, Patrick started Fairwood Press and has so far published 30 titles. He lives in Auburn, Washington, is father to his six-year-old son, Orion, and [...]

An Interview with T. L. Morganfield

Since selling her first short story in 1999, T. L. Morganfield has recently come to editorial attention. She has sold her fiction to Realms of Fantasy, Paradox, GUD, Tales of Moreauvia, and Lilith Unbound, to name a few. While she also writes horror, her bailiwick is Aztec culture, which she explores in her fiction, using [...]

An Interview with Kaaron Warren

Since selling her first story in 1993, Kaaron Warren has had her work appear in a variety of publications, including, Paper Cities, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007, Fantasy Magazine, Aurealis, and AGOG! She has stories upcoming in Canterbury 2100, Ellen Datlow’s Poe Anthology, and Datlow and Nick Mamatas’s Haunted Legends anthology. Her story, [...]

An Interview with Pete Butler

Pete Butler is the senior editor of the Triangulation series, which is published by the small press, PARSEC Ink. Following in the editorial footsteps of Diane Turnshek (2003) and Barb Carlson (2004, 2005), he took over with End of Time, the 2007 Edition of PARSEC Ink’s Annual Confluence of Speculative Fiction. His second issue is [...]

An Interview with M. K. Hobson

M. K. Hobson’s short fiction has been well-received for some time now. Her stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, SCI FICTION, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, and Strange Horizons, to name just a few. Her two novels, The Native Star and The Desired Poison are forthcoming from Bantam Spectra. She lives [...]

An Interview with Gregory Frost

Gregory Frost is a writer’s writer. His work employs a literary style, while still being accessible to a cross-section of speculative fiction readers. Since the early 1980s his work has appeared in The Twilight Zone Magazine, Asimov’s, Whispers, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and many anthologies, notably the retold fairy-tale [...]

An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal recently won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She made her first fiction sale in 2004, and since then, her work has appeared in a variety of markets, including Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Cosmos, Apex Digest, Talebones, and Twenty Epics. She is an active member of SFWA and was recently elected [...]

Dog Versus Sandwich, July 2008

Dog Versus Sandwich offers three stories for the month of June. Daniel Euphrat serves up a gonzo, offbeat tale in “Jack and the Tiny Kittens.” Life for Jack alternates between sitting in front of the TV at home watching the Bald Fat Man Show with his parrot, Mr. Chirpy, and his job at the office [...]

Electric Velocipede #14

Electric Velocipede #14, in acknowledgement of WisCon, the leading feminist-oriented SF/F convention, is a special issue featuring all women writers.
The first offering is “Hermit Crabs” by Elissa Malcohn. Fifteen-year-old Mandy is a bright student yet unpopular. Mandy is a cutter, finding relief from her pain with a razor blade. She meets up with Noah, [...]

An Interview with Bridget and Marti McKenna

In this brief interview, editors Bridget and Marti McKenna answer a few questions about their e-zine, Æon.
Tell us a bit about yourself. Background, education, etc.

Marti: Having come through the U.S. public education system, I can safely say I have very little formal education. I was lucky to get a writing job at smallish computer game [...]

Dog Versus Sandwich, June 2008

Dog Versus Sandwich begins the month of June with Mari Ness’s “Glass Dancing.” A flash fiction take on “Cinderella,” this offering is complete with a daughter, a mother, and more than one glass slipper. This story is so short I don’t want to give anything away, except to say there is a shattering of glass [...]

An Interview with Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo is no stranger to serious readers of modern short speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, to name just a few. She was a student in the MA writing program at John Hopkins, studying under John Barth and Stephen [...]