Just a quick update and intro to our first-round judging for the 5th annual SPSFC. For more team updates, check out our team page here. We’ve split our allotment of 25 books into two groups, one of 13 and one of 12. We split our four judges into two...

Here’s a set of links to our book intro posts for our contestants in SPSFC #5! Welcome to the initial round, and let the games begin! Our books, Part 1 Alternative Science Chad Eastwood Dragon City Iryna Karban Empyreax The Rise of Ca Ra Scott Frost...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here are the judges of Team 1.21 Gigawatts, our judging team for the 5th annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. For all the updates and links you could want, please check out our team homepage here. Allison Alexander Allison Alexander is...

Red Eye (from the BBC, on Hulu) was a bit of a mess. I’m always a sucker for airplane action shows, but they work better as movies, because there’s just no way to sustain tension on a plane for more than a couple hours. Last year’s Hijack (AppleTV) w...

Over the last couple months, I’ve been thinking about doing something to try to give indie authors a chance to see how they’re doing relative to others. It’s always interesting to me that indies are exponential. By that, I mean I look around the indi...