The Don’t Girls by Octavia Cade Bluebeard’s wife is told by her husband to never go into his...
Online literary festival reaches international crowds
Sarah Shaffi at The Bookseller reports: “Gollancz’s one-day physical and digital festival reached nearly three million people on...
Creative New Zealand Review
Want your say on how literature is supported and developed in New Zealand? Take some time to submit...
NZ book TV show looking for authors to interview
Face Television NZ has launched a new TV programme: The Book Show. Now they’re putting out a call...
Free talks around the country on authors’ rights
Jane C. Ginsburg, of the Columbia University School of Law, will be visiting NZ soon and giving a...
Litcoin: a new kind of Kickstarter
Interesting development on the crowdfunding front: novelist Julian Gough has launched ‘Litcoin’, as reported by Alison Flood in...
October events in Christchurch
We have a couple of workshop events going on in Christchurch which may be of interest. Brought to...
News from Steam Press
News from Steam Press on Beattie’s Book Blog – Paul Gilbert’s fantasy novel The Sovereign Hand is being well...
Superman comic sells for $3.2 million
Got any old comics in your attic? Dig them out and dust them off, they might be worth...
Space Opera is the new black
Great piece from Damien Walter in The Guardian: “Science fiction is not a genre … Today space opera...
‘Slow PR’ for authors
Some interesting ideas here in this piece by Michael Blanding for Publishing Perspectives: keeping the longer term in...
Go vote in the general election!
Here at SpecFicNZ we have no affiliations to any political parties, but we are very much in favour...
Did Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi predict the present?
Interesting piece from Sarah Jane Abbott about how Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi short stories relate to our present reality.
Hugo Awards winners
The full list of this year’s Hugo Award winners is out now. BEST NOVEL Ancillary Justice, by Ann...
Ray Bradbury’s Advice to Writers
The first piece of advice that Bradbury gave was to write a “hell of a lot” of short...