Why are writers’ retreats boring?

In my recent profile in Grub Street, I alluded to applying for (and failing to receive) a fellowship at the prestigious Hawthornden Castle Retreat for Writers.  This was the first time I’d applied for a fellowship at a writers’ retreat.  I wanted to go to Hawthornden because you get to write for a month in a Scottish castleContinue reading “Why are writers’ retreats boring?”

Zombie Comic: ROTTEN

One of the best discoveries I made at ZomBcon 2010 was ROTTEN, a zombie comic set in the American West of the 1870’s.  This is the best zombie comic I have encountered next to Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead.  Whilst there are already several titles in the Zombie-Western genre, most of them feel like their creators hoped theContinue reading “Zombie Comic: ROTTEN”