Reasons Shakespeare Rocks #9
He used the word dog more than 200 times in his works. Gotta love that.
Congratulations to the Collaborative Novel Contributors!
StarkLight Press would like to give a shout out to Laura Tyndall, who spearheaded the Collaborative Fiction exercise for the month of January. Laura gathered together a set of authors who contributed a chapter each to a mystery novel, writing the plot and developing its characters as they went along. Our own Virginia Carraway Stark…
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GAF Mainframe Overview
Www.gafmainframe.com As the vibrant heart of StarkLight Press’ science fiction universe, the Galactic Armed Forces universe is the theatre where we put on all our amazingly creative adventure presentations. For all our new friends and fans, here is a brief overview of our flagship creative site http://www.gafmainframe.com: Created in 2006, the GAF universe is an…
An Introduction to the GAF Universe
As the vibrant heart of StarkLight Press’ science fiction universe, the Galactic Armed Forces universe is the theatre where we put on all our amazingly creative adventure presentations. For all our new friends and fans, here is a brief overview of our flagship creative site www.gafmainframe.com: Created in 2006, the GAF universe is an active,…
Reasons Shakespeare Rocks #1
Shakespeare is a man of duality- actor and playwright, historian and creative writer, master of poet and prose. It is therefore fitting that this listing of the other aspects of the Stratfordian’s straddling nature top our charts at Number One. Although Shakespeare is the quintessential Elizabethan poet, it is necessary to remember the bulk of…
StarkLight Volume 3 Arrives End of February!
Well, the title rather said it all this time, didn’t it? Following weather troubles and shipping snafus, StarkLight Volume 3 will arrive at our offices by the end of February! Our StarkLight winners will receive their prize packs in March, as will the people who have so patiently awaited their pre-orders. As a side note,…
Thought for the Day
With StarkLight’s Fourth Short Story Contest ticking away merrily and the GAF Writing Prompts active, there’s no reason not to let your creativity run wild. You don’t want to be literally pinned to your seat- so get the lead out and onto that page today! – Tony Stark, CEO and Publisher, StarkLight Press.
Randy McCharles Gives StarkLight 3 A Grand Introduction
Here is the awesome foreword written for our latest short story Anthology by Randy McCharles, well-known Calgary author and writing retreat guru. Many thanks to Randy for his thoughtful, high-energy and excellently penned words! Congratulations again to all of our winners! Foreword- StarkLight Volume 3 By Randy McCharles “Katrina, she is death.” So begins…
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A StarkLight Press Definition of Speculative Fiction
Speculative fiction in the StarkLight Press sense is a very important and distinct concept. Canadian fiction is rather rigidly structured to include a firm, “grownup” attitude toward other worlds, magic and the paranormal- these elements must happen in the ‘here-and-now’, in a tightly controlled geographical and/or dimensional locus. While particularly confined in the Canadian context,…
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