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Jordan Reyne & Anarchy: A Short Story-Writing Competition!

Jordan Reyne, New Zealand’s premiere bloodthirsty Celtic rock and machine sounds superhero, has teamed up with Anarchy Books to bring you a dazzling short story writing competition! Jordan Reyne’s new album, Children of a Factory Nation, is released September 2011 and follows a family who lived in Wales [...]

Arts and Literature, Promotions

Voices in the Dark

By Dr. Alex Scully: The darkness has an allure. Taken at face value, this is just a phrase scrolling across your average gothic board. Reach beneath the surface, however, and you will find something lurking there. Scholarship, academia, and intellectualism [...]

Arts and Literature

And the Lightening Splits the Sky! An Interview With Author Michael J. Lee

by Alex Mcdermott: When the thunder rolls and the lightening splits the sky you know Dr. Frankenstein will be in his lab. Mary Shelley challenged us to question the nature of humanity with her monster and the sinister doctor who created [...]

Arts and Literature, Arts and Literature Interviews, Interviews

Eyes of the Bersai: The Relic

They began when the world remained shrouded in shadow and mankind had not yet evolved into being. The first of their kind, a male and a female, happened to find one another amidst the barren landscape and forged a home [...]

Arts and Literature

My Frankenstein

In a small village in early 19th Century young Eva is enthralled by the new young baron, Viktor Frankenstein. Viktor promises to transform the traditional little town into a beacon of science and gives the book loving Eva access to [...]

Arts and Literature

“The defining element of a good story for me is that the main characters must go through a learning curve.” -Syrie James

DarkMedia interviews author Syrie James: Syrie James is an author and screenwriter. Her name is pronounced “Sear-ee” (rhymes with Dearie.) Apparently, her first name was inspired by a character in a radio show her mother listened to as a little [...]

Arts and Literature, Arts and Literature Interviews, Interviews
Eyes

CAN YOU TRUST YOUR FRIENDS?

Written by Richard Jay Parker Title of this week’s blog sounds like a strapline for a movie about body snatching pod people but I’m actually curious about other writers and how they road test their material. Nobody immerses themself in a [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

Independent Authors vs $$$

Written by Benjamin Jones Let me start by saying…. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, just had to scream and get that out. Now that that’s out of the way, for us unsigned/independent authors, especially those like myself who have spouses and children to support, [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

Using Research for Harder Fantasy

Written by staticsan Amongst the works of Science Fiction, there is a significant subset called Hard Science Fiction. You may have heard the term. Works in that sub-genre usually have science that works, or is at least plausible, and little if [...]

Arts and Literature