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 angles, 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.
When nothing is as it seems, how much are you willing to sacrifice to save mankind…
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.
A tween makes a deal with the local urban legend to ensure that his final Halloween Trick-or-Treating goes according to plan.
There is magic in the theatre, ancient and powerful – not just of the stage, but of an elder and mighty god…one which Sucunde would see freed and restored.
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.
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.
The wild hunt calls, and it’s time for Ondine to depart this world, alongside her club-obsessed brothers and sisters. Yet she’s in love with a mortal – or is she? Her decision to stay or go must be made fast, for a terrible monster hunts her
A speculative riff on T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and the lack of interpersonal connection in the modern world. This is the way the world ends: When it can’t afford to pay the supporting cast.
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.
On a distant planet, a young alien and his human neighbor plot to escape to the paradise known as Earth.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a strange game the local children play in the woods, one where there are only three things you can be: the Witch, the Witch’s Wife, or Soup.
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.
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.
Cara McHenry has only one chance to get a lead on her kidnapped sister, but the only ace up her sleeve is surprise . . . if she can hold her nerve.
When a mysterious, dark figure keeps up with a family’s car at highway speeds, one little girl must inform her dad of the danger before it’s too late.
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.
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.
Jackson, a wanna-be bounty hunter in a post-apocalyptic city, has been hired to find the people responsible for several acts of industrial sabotage. A moral person living in a city where morality isn’t a particularly good survival trait, Jackson ends up facing a crisis of conscience.
In “Mortimer The Maus,” Picco conveys the childhood terror of becoming lost in a large crowd, and the perils of being found by something else.
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.
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.
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.
A magic lamp should have been a gateway to Imperceptibility’s every desire. So how did she end up in the underworld covered in slobber from a three-headed dog? And then there’s capture by fanatical priest-mercenaries, sacrifice to a quantum dragon, and getting trapped in a chicken coop. Will she ever find her way back home? More important still, what’s a goose feather got to do with any of this?
If you happened to have an illegal telescope, or proxied your galaxynet address well enough to pirate your way to satellite images of Mars, you might glimpse a damaged but operational Mars Orbiter 1, alive with ‘rebels. If so, you’d be witnessing Mars Wars.
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.
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.
In a world of seamless surveillance where virtual and real coalesce in a teasing dance, love is the trickster
Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the open. This is most pointedly apparent in the backlash over Disney’s much-anticipated “The Little Mermaid.”
An email subscriber becomes disillusioned and frustrated with the effects of a blog’s magical advice.
I put ChatGPT through its paces and discover that it is an excellent writers’ assistant.
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.
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.
Two new Valdemar books have just been released — perfect timing for holiday gift-giving for the fantasy fan on your list.
A woman is forced to write to her neighbors about the beast she keeps secretly in her house.
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.
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.
From AI art galleries in OpenSim to AI-created fully immersive three-dimensional environments, AI is already shaping how we experience virtual worlds.
