Another interview I did under my real name for Impakter magazine. Here it is: TOM CHALMERS – A COOL ENTREPRENEUR Claude Forthomme on 5 December, 2014 In less than ten years, starting when he was 25, he built a whole publishing eco-system ranging from fiction and non-fiction to licensing rights Tom Chalmers is young, perhaps…
Category: genre fiction
Elizabeth Jennings, Romantic Suspense Author and Founder of the Women’s Fiction Festival – Interview
Another article of mine on Impakter magazine, an interview of best-selling author Elizabeth Jennings who also founded the Women’s Fiction Festival in Matera eleven years ago. I attended this year’s Festival and had a chance to interview her – she is married to an Italian and lives in Matera (see photo below, she is presiding…
To Publish AND Perish – Will the Tsunami of e-books Destroy our Culture?
This article was published on Impakter (under my real name, Claude Forthomme): To Publish and Perish Claude Forthomme on 20 August, 2014 at 09:00 Amazon and its 3.4 Million E-Books: the End of Culture? For a long while now, people have debated how many e-books Amazon carried it in its Kindle Store, because Amazon has…
The 6-Word Novel: For Sale, Wedding Ring, Never Worn!
For Sale: Wedding Ring, Never Worn Ok, I plead guilty: the original 6-word short story, a.k.a. the six word novel, an extreme form of flash fiction, is Hemingway’s and it’s not about a failed relationship but a dead baby or perhaps an unborn child, precisely this: For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. He dreamt…
Why Climate Fiction is Here to Stay
Climate fiction has gone viral for a very simple reason: it deals with climate change and global warming, issues that are getting worse every year. We’ve been used to dire reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for years but now we are getting one, equally somber report from the United States,…
Why Science Fiction is Important
This morning Amazon reminded me of what matters in Science Fiction and why it is not useless fantasy but a very serious literary genre that is able to raise deep existential issues and make us think. Here is what I got in my email box: Your Amazon.com Today’s Deals See All Departments Customers who have…
Interview with the Father of Cli Fi: How this New Genre Was Born is Revealed
American climate activist Dan Bloom visiting a local university in Taiwan to do some research on climate change issues My blog post about Climate Fiction, a “hot new genre” (here) led me to “virtually” meet Dan Bloom, the journalist and “green” activist who coined the term “Cli Fi”. I was very happy to meet him,…
Climate Fiction: A Hot New Genre?
Is climate fiction really a hot new genre (no pun intended)? Something remarkable has happened when American colleges start to use climate fiction to teach how to prepare for the coming climate crisis. Expect writers to sit up and listen – especially science fiction writers. The New York Times recently reported on it (see here)…
Simenon, Some Lessons from the Grand Daddy of Genre Literature
We all know that Simenon is the father of Commissaire Maigret, a fat policeman in the French Brigade Criminelle with a penchant for staring down suspects, and that all through the 20th century he was considered a literary phenomenon. But exactly how phenomenal is not so well known. For example, I didn’t know that he…
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