Reading Time: 11 minutes If you want to be successful as a human author in an age of AI-generated content, you will need to make your writing Personal, Emotional, Authoritative, New, Unique, and Trustworthy — PEANUT, for short.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine launched a crowdfunding campaign at the beginning of February and is already two-thirds of the way to its US $14,940 goal with 20 days to go.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes MetaStellar is now accepting works of fiction written with the help of AI assistants. Our next submission window for original fiction opens March 1, and we accept reprint and excerpts any time throughout the year.
Yes, you can submit AI-assisted stories to us. But they better be good. Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a witch saving the world, a starship captain on a dangerous mission, and a clever thief with a cloak of invisibility.
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Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification. This past week, a lot of people were talking about AI.
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Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a young lawyer trapped in a quirky, magical town, a girl who can see angels, a decommissioned spaceship that’s now humanity’s only hope to stop an alien advance, and book that’s been made into an action movie starring Mark Wahlberg.
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Reading Time: 11 minutes As writers progress in their writing journeys, they may face a drop in confidence and obstacles along the way. To overcome these challenges, focus on core skills, keep practicing, and level up by learning a new skill that aligns with your goals.
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes vampires, magic in space, a few dystopian worlds, futuristic horror, EMP, and humorous take on paranormal activity.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jan. 27, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes New Canadian anthology “Through the Portal: Stories From a Hopeful Dystopia” is now accepting submissions of eco-fiction that celebrates the complexity of relationships and the emotional and physical journey from catastrophe. Submit your work by May 31.
Hope in the face of disaster: anthology seeks eco-fiction submissions Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jan. 22, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutes How to use AI-generated art to illustrate blog articles and social media posts, for book covers and website design, character concept art, author images, and more.
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Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a genetically modified former soldier, a high schooler with illegal magic, a swashbuckling treasure hunter, and a solar flare that turns deadly.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jan. 20, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jan. 15, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 19 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes demon hunters, vampire killers, werewolves, a sentient space ship, and an epic fantasy billed as Game of Thrones meets Spartacus.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jan. 13, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jan. 8, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes dragon hunters, werewolves, monsters, magic, a cozy mystery, lots of fantasy, and a little romance.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jan. 6, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jan. 1, 2023 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been a stellar year here at the magazine, with our first anthology, a quarter million page views, a 150 YouTube videos, and more than 700 stories published by over 300 authors.
Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. This weeks list features a dragon keeper’s daughter, a vampire killer, and a prison inmate forced to serve in the space marines.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 30, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Dec. 25, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. This weeks list includes a time traveler, a dragon looking for his lost love, and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 23, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 27 minutes I put ChatGPT through its paces and discover that it is an excellent writers’ assistant.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Dec. 18, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, werewolves, few vampires, and genetically-engineered super soldiers.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 16, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two new Valdemar books have just been released — perfect timing for holiday gift-giving for the fantasy fan on your list.
Learn the story of the founding of Valdemar in Lackey’s new series Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Dec. 11, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has an alien invasion, a zombie apocalypse. magical druids, and a carpenter’s apprentice with no magic whatsoever. So he thinks.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 9, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Dec. 4, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a series of magical shenanigans at the North Pole, a tale of EMP survival, and a retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 2, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 27, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a sexy thief with high-tech gadgets, a man with the date of his death tattooed on his hand, and a crime-solving dragon.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 25, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 20, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features a cyberpunk bounty hunter, selkies, time travelers, and a hellhound on a mission.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 18, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutes Twitter has long been a friend to speculative fiction, with many sci-fi and fantasy authors and publications connecting with their audience on the platform. However, the turmoil sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition has caused some to have some serious concerns.
Reading Time: 8 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 13, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features fantasy warriors, creepy AIs, a fairy princess, shapeshifting reindeer, space accountants, and Sir Author Conan Doyle in the flesh.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 11, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 6, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an EMP blast that takes out all power, a drunk fairy, a steampunk serial killer, and a motorhome that breaks down in a magical town in the middle of Australia’s outback.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 4, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes cozy mystery, EMP, aliens, lots of witches, time travel, and a mermaid.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 28, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 23, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, witches, elves, fated mates, dragons, a post-apocalyptic world — and, just in time for the Halloween season, a haunted house!
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 21, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 16, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes dragons, EMP, magic, Viking romance, a ghost hunter, and a post apocalyptic world.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 14, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 9, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes racist elves, alien centipedes, a clever teenage thief,
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 7, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 12 minutes We read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list offers time travelers, vampires, space battles, and a Old West vampire hunter with magic charms.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 30, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutes The viral Dall-E 2 AI image generator is now open to all.
