by Porter Anderson

A Few Words With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s John Joseph Adams

In the long-running tension between pure entertainment and meaningful science fiction and fantasy, anthologist John Joseph Adams says, ‘We can have both. It just takes more work.’ Read More

by Porter Anderson

Josh Malerman's ‘Bird Box’ Named Horror Novel Of The Year

Also: Finalist For A Bram Stoker Award You write because you love reading, and you write horror because you believe in the monsters, you believe in the imagination, you believe in the dark. I BELIEVE IN THE DARK. Josh Malerman Josh Malerman has won This Is Horror’s Novel of the Year award blindfolded. Don’t take it… Read More

by Porter Anderson

A Delicate Balance: Can Blurb Become All Things To All Authors?

‘The Best Parts Of Your 2014′ If you’re like me, you may find it somewhat difficult to remember “the best parts of your 2014,” but this, nevertheless, is the kind of talk we expect from Blurb. Here’s some more: The best parts of your 2014 were moments only you could live. Now turn them into… Read More

by Porter Anderson

Music For Writers: Cerrone’s ‘Cities’ Of Ancient Urban Mythology

Turn Off The Lights I have to agree with Tony Frankel at Stage and Cinema on this one: Get into your headphones and shut your eyes. Invisible Cities wants to live inside your head. And the darker that place might be, the better. Never in all my travels had I ventured as far as Adelma.… Read More

by Porter Anderson

You Tell Me: Why IS Romance Reviled?

So What Is It? Chopped Liver? Romance novels continue to be the most disdained of all genres. Often not just disdained or dismissed, but reviled with an unbridled hatred that oozes and splutters. Why is that? Serious question. Always among the more articulate author-contributors toWriter Unboxed, Barbara O’Neal took a brave step recently in writing The Perplexing Problem… Read More

by Porter Anderson

The Muse’s Town Hall: Jane Friedman on Literary in Digital Times

Jane Friedman: “Thoughtful, intelligent ‘literary’ work is doing quite well digitally if you step away from book-length or novel publishing and into journalism-driven or nonfiction-driven publishing…I wish there were a community aspect to it (maybe there will be), which the literary world needs. Where’s the literary person’s version of Wattpad? Does that even make sense? I’m… Read More