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Welcome to the web home of genre writer Bill Ward! If you’re a fan of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror — whether reading it, watching it, or writing it — then you’ve come to the right place. Go ahead and subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss a thing. Go on and click [...]
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I’ve been reviewing each issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly as it comes out (which you can read here and here), and have been really impressed with both the quality and the variety of the offerings on display. This time around I have the pleasant task of announcing my own inclusion in the issue, with a [...]
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Shameless brag time — two of my stories, Davy’s Toy Box and The Goon Eternal, have been selected by the brilliant and discerning connoisseurs of all things flash over at Every Day Fiction for their second annual ‘Best of’ anthology. I had the pleasure of appearing in EDF’s first anthology as well, and it’s a [...]
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Over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today I have a post that recalls my misspent youth with some fondness. You see, it turns out all that time I spent reading Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks and Warhammer’s White Dwarf Magazine, I was actually learning how to write flash fiction. Yup, it’s true, all those little snipets of [...]
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John Ottinger over at Grasping for the Wind has just posted part one of an ‘inside the blogosphere’ piece that asks book bloggers what world of fantasy or science fiction would they want to live in. An interesting assortment of answers that reveals each blogger’s personal take on various fictional realities. You’ve got a world [...]
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So, you’re feeling a bit down. Maybe things aren’t going the way you’d have imagined for yourself when, as a wee child, you had visions of your success as a star of stage and screen, or as an international playboy and jetsetter, celebrity look-a-like, ruthless cybernetic mankiller, or affable variety show host with secret knowledge [...]
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The list of participating online book review sites in Grasping For the Wind’s Linkup Meme has been posted, and it can certainly keep a person busy for a long, long time. Of course, last year one Crotchety Old Fan manged to visit every site and write a short review. Will anyone undertake such a journey [...]
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Over at The Cimmerian — a website devoted to pulp and heroic fantasy of both the new and time-tested varieties — Deuce Richardson has just posted a great review of Rage of the Behemoth.
Of my own contribution to the anthology, ‘The Wolf of Winter,’ he had this to say:
Bill Ward delivers the grim and gritty goods [...]
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