Recent content by Nikky Lee

Yes please :)

I submitted a few times before I was fully informed about it. Got an honorable mention once. I'm vague on how connected to it he is apart from it using his name.

Sorry @Bloo, you're outnumbered. Tennant was my favourite Doctor too :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

So, this is a cool project brought to life by Andy Peloquin, who is fairly well-known in the indie author community. Essentially, it's a website that lists every author's complete bibliography and gives readers a chance to add them to their "TBR" or "Already Read" piles (with customizable...

Meanwhile, I learned there was a difference between who and whom from Castle :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

I was not taught grammar in school. It was dropped from the Australian school curriculum before I started; they thought we would learn it by osmosis. (Spoiler: you don't.) Having to learn it all as an adult has been a slow and steady grind. I wrote a blog about it with some grammar hacks that I...

Oo, a fellow sci-fier! Welcome, welcome!

Every year or so Jane Friedman releases a handy chart that compares all the different pros and cons of the various publishing routes (trad and non-trad, including hybrid). It's well worth a read, even just to catch up on the state of the industry.

So my surprise news last week was The Rarkyn's Fall and A Night So Dark And Full Of Stars were longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards. An anthology I'm part of was also longlisted (Cursed Shards: Tales of Dark Folklore). Given I'm in New Zealand, I didn't even realise I...

Wow, I made the BSFA longlist for Rarkyn's Fall and A Night So Dark And Full Of Stars! (I didn't even know I was eligible ) Vote for the BSFA Awards

Ooo, yes, I second this!

Here's mine in no particular order of importance (just what came to me first): 1. You and your editor will edit the book to within an inch of its life. You will then hand it over to your proofreader confident they won't find much. Proofreader will then find over 100 typos, grammar errors...