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It has been a while, authors. AI reared its ugly head causing widespread problems across the fiction industry for publishers, authors, artists, and competition runners, and because of that, we shut our gates for...
Loud as a Whisper
One of the freeing – and terrifying – things about writing a novel is when the characters take over. In The Darkness Before Them one character in particular made it very, very clear that...
An Interview with Matthew Harffy
Matthew Harffy is an author who has transported readers to vivdi historical landscapes since The Serpent Sword in 2015. His action packed and historically accurate novels excite readers around the world and his latest...
An interview with Miles Cameron
Miles – or sometimes, Christian – Cameron is a true Renaissance man. Writer of many genres, from historical to fantasy to science fiction, good with a sword, dashing in armor and knowledgeable on just...
Discussing 36 Streets, cyberpunk, and D&D with T.R. Napper
Many of our followers will know T.R. Napper from our publication of his brilliant short story collection, Neon Leviathan. On Jan 18 in Australia, and Feb 8 for the rest of the world, Titan...
Let the Characters Take the Wheel
Every now and then (eerily it’s often around the time of a book launch) I’m asked a question that boils down to “What Comes First, Plot or Character?” The answer – at least for...
An Interview with Richard K. Morgan
Richard K. Morgan is a Multi-talented bestselling author of the Takeshi Kovacs novels: Altered Carbon (2002), Broken Angels(2003), and finally, Woken Furies(2005). In Altered Carbon, the main protagonist Takeshi Kovacs is an ex-envoy now convict, downloaded into the body of...
REVIEW: The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus
The Living Dead, George A. Romero’s newly released final work, shows why he was a legend in the horror industry. His work defined the genre and influenced the next generation of horror filmmakers, horror...
WRITING COMPETITION: The Matthew Ward Pay it Forward Competition
Grimdark Magazine is running a writing competition. THIS WRITING COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN, AND CLOSES 6:00PM 5TH SEPTEMBER AUSTRALIAN EASTER STANDARD TIME The publishing industry is a people industry, and is only as good...
How to Make a Grimdark Setting
I’m a huge fan of Andrjez Sapkowski’s The Witcher novels. While most fans are familiar with the series through CD Projekt Red’s video game trilogy, the novels are an excellent grimdark series of their...