by Bill Ward on November 29, 2008
Welcome to BillWardWriter.com! 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 it already, it won’t hurt you. I [...]
by Bill Ward on November 26, 2008
Jordan Lapp, co-editor of one of my favorite markets Every Day Fiction, just rebooted his fallow blog with a post that got some people talking. Jordan has recently won the top spot in one of the quarterly rounds of The Writers of the Future Contest, so he’s come back to blogging now that he has [...]
by Bill Ward on November 15, 2008
In part one of the article I talked about what a slush pile was, and how attaining a position as a slush reader for a small or amateur press editor can be a great learning experience for a writer; helping him understand the submission game from both ends of the process. In part two I [...]
by Bill Ward on November 5, 2008
In part one of this article I talked about why a writer, especially a beginning writer of short fiction, should seriously consider looking for a position reading slush with a small press magazine or ezine. In this article I’ll look at ways someone with no contacts can go about looking for a volunteer position as [...]
by Bill Ward on October 28, 2008
A recent discussion over at the SFReader forums on developing a thick skin in the short fiction submissions game got me thinking about rejection, and how it doesn’t really bother me anymore. I’m not bragging, I certainly haven’t had nearly the level of success or landed the sales to many of markets that I most [...]
by Bill Ward on October 25, 2008
Nothing is ever lost. If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. From an ever-roaming curiosity in all the arts, from bad radio to good theatre, from nursery rhyme to symphony, from jungle [...]