Reading Time: 3 minutesTo celebrate her forthcoming collection, Shit Cassandra Saw — available January 11 from Penguin Books — MetaStellar’s Long Lost Friends YouTube segment hosts sat down with writer Gwen E. Kirby for an interview.
Reading Time: 19 minutesI 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: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list is all about romance — romance with dragons, romance with werewolves, romance with aliens, and romance with vampires.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 31, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 18 minutesI 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: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has evil space aliens, kick-ass monster hunters, witches galore, and hot Christmas elf action.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 24, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if aliens gassed a bunch of passengers on a plane?
Reading Time: 15 minutesI 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: 6 minutesThe winners for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced at DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, on December 18th, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe debut episode of The Wheel of Time has some strong characters and thrilling imagery, though clumsy storytelling and some awkward tonal choices overall results in this series stumbling out of the gate. Reliance, perhaps overly so, on aging fantasy-genre tropes in order to appeal to a mass-audience leaves the series still searching for its own identity.
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space battles, sexy aliens, dragons, magic, werewolves, and a demon hunter.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 17, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re looking for a delicious jolt of freakiness to get you through the holiday season, you can do a lot worse than Netflix’s Brand New Cherry Flavor
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if an ancient god had a dire warning for you?
Reading Time: 25 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has vampires, dwarves, magic, dragons, mermaids, fae, space battles, and post-apocalyptic survival.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 10, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if a horror author’s notebook had magical powers?
Reading Time: 16 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space travel, magic, shape shifters, vampires, time travel, and lots of sexy times.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 3, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesHow to make a panel on a Wordpress website to promote a new book release using Gutenberg blocks.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if everyone gets a magic tattoo and yours is most dangerous of all?
Reading Time: 22 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has werewolves, magic, space exploration, epic fantasy, and several box sets.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 26, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can now get four months of Kindle Unlimited for $4 a month — it’s normally $10 a month. Amazon also has great deals right now on Kindle devices.
Black Friday deal: Kindle Unlimited now $4 a month Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if a man had to enter an alternate reality to be with his wife?
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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: 2 minutesThe Halo video game series is all about protecting Earth from alien invaders in the 26th century. A teaser trailer has just dropped for the Paramount+ TV series, expected to hit the streaming service sometime next year, and it seems to indicate that the show will focus on characters.
Reading Time: 13 minutesThe occult has made a strong comeback with gen Z.
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has everything — werewolves, dragons, elves, a time-traveling private eye, post-apocalyptic survival, and — dinosaurs!
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 19, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a plan straight out of a sci-fi asteroid disaster movie, NASA will try to push an asteroid off-course by crashing a spaceship into it.
NASA to push asteroid off-course with new DART mission launching next week Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year’s survey of more than 1,000 indie authors from Written Word Media shows that 79 percent think that marketing is the toughest part of being an indie author — compared to just 14 percent who said writing was.
Marketing hardest part of being an indie writer, survey shows Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if you were caught doing illegal magic?
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has everything — zombies, werewolves, angels, demons, sword fighting, Martian mining, and a Christmas miracle.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 12 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesJPL and NASA need your help to identify objects on Mars so that the future Mars land rovers will have an easier time getting around.
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou, too, can smell like a witch. Magic and scent were linked in ancient Greece and Rome, and today, you can buy scents that can make you smell like Hermione, Hecate, and other famous witches of literature and history.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSeven visions for the metaverse we’ve been hearing about.
Seven Visions of the Metaverse, Including Facebook’s Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if you woke up trapped in a stranger’s body?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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: < 1 minuteThe Boston Metaphysical Society: The Ghost Ship, an eight-episode steampunk audio drama, has hit its $10,000 Kickstarter fundraising goal with two weeks still to go, and the creator, Madeleine Holly-Rosing, was on MetaStellar’s Life Long Friends YouTube show to talk about the project.
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, dragons, more witches, a space opera, giants, and a deal with the devil. Oh, and also an EMP survival book.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesFive fairy tale retellings with kickass female protagonists.
Five Fairy Tale Re-Imaginings With Stand-Out Female Protagonists Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree scientists set out to determine if it were possible for humans to survive on a planet like Dune. They say yes — but not where you’d expect from reading the book.
Dune: we simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMetaStellar’s open submission period for fall 2021 has officially ended. This was our best cycle for submissions yet, receiving over 400 stories in 31 days.
Fall 2021 submission period closes with more than 400 submissions Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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: 21 minutesMore than 200 completely free sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fonts for book covers, illustrations, and social media posts.
Master list of 200+ free sci-fi, fantasy and horror fonts Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, dragons, more witches, a Martian mining operation, and more witches.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 29, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook changing its name to Meta in order to focus on the metaverse. Facebook itself will remain, but will now be just one brand in the Meta portfolio, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook changes name to Meta, embraces metaverse Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlue Origin, Boeing and Sierra Space join forces on new commercial space station, Orbital Reef, to be operational the second half of this decade.
Blue Origin promises commercial space station by 2030, called Orbital Reef Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesI subscribe to dozens of 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: < 1 minuteThe trailer for the documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time, has just been released. The documentary, follows the science fiction writer from 1982 until his death in 2007, and is based on the 25-year friendship between the author and filmmaker Robert Weide.
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