Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author -

Bad Sex Day Tomorrow

The winner of the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award will be announced tomorrow (30 November). The purpose[…]

Malaysian Travel Scratchie Scams I knew I’d won at least $100,000 even before I’d scratched the cards. I was so[…]

Annie Proulx (pronounced “proo”) was born in 1935, but her first novel wasn’t published until 1992. That novel, Postcards, won[…]

Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]

After 21 years of MMP elections, I’m surprised at the number of people who don’t really understand the options available[…]

Fifteen more famously rejected writers who persevered. Can you identify who, and in some cases, what book, got rejected? (You’ll[…]

Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]

“In my world, the wrong-er something feels, the right-er it is. So to waste this much time on something this[…]

Lester Dent was the real name of the author almost all of the Doc Savage novels. (They appeared under the[…]

It’s over a decade old (2004) but a Slashdot post by acclaimed sci-fi author Neal Stephenson (left) is worth repeating:[…]