Electric Spec Founded in 2005, Electric Spec is a not-for-profit speculative fiction magazine published four times per year. The primary goal of the editors is to get great speculative fiction into the hands (or screens) of readers; they’ve published short stories from authors all over the world. Meet the editors! Grayson Towler has a lifelong…
There are a number of ways to convert an image to black & white in Photoshop; this post explains how to do it using an adjustment, which can be applied via either a smart filter or an adjustment layer. Both smart filters and adjustment layers apply changes to the color and/or tone of your image,…
Tim’s would-be girlfriend has snakes in her hair. His best friend appears to be incombustible. And during the night, a dragon tattoo has appeared on Tim’s arm, a symbol of his half-Korean heritage. Tim MacLaren was an ordinary student at Olympus High, until the day after his seventeenth birthday when he discovered that, like most…
Meet Chuck and Jim! Chuck Anderson and Jim LeMay are the editors of Edward Bryant’s Sphere of Influence, a collection of stories by writers whose lives were touched by the late Ed Bryant. In addition to creating this collection as a tribute to Ed, Chuck and Jim are both very talented speculative writers in their…
Prerequisites WordPress site. Pinterest account. A Pinterest board to embed on your WordPress site. Note that this doesn’t have to be your own board. Configure WordPress A specific instruction must appear in one of the PHP files on your WordPress site in order for embedded Pinterest boards to be displayed. Don’t worry – you don’t…
Being dead was unlike anything Chance Phillips had expected. For one thing, he’s forced to change his name. For another, he discovers he can move through time. When Chance learns a friend, an alive friend, is in danger will he and his ghost friend Jeremy be able to save her in time? …
“The Goblin and the Treasure” is in the Once Upon a Quest anthology, a collection of fifteen tales of adventure, all brand new fairy tale twists from bestselling and award-winning authors. With inspirations ranging from The Ugly Duckling to Snow White, and everything in between (including trips to Camelot and Oz), these fabulous tales…
Sometimes you can eyeball the spacing in an image, and sometimes it’s helpful to use a grid to make sure things are lined up correctly. Photoshop allows you to specify the distance between your gridlines, the style and color of the lines, and you can toggle them on and off. Toggle gridlines on/off View >…
When Thalassa’s Children—the mer-like, genderless protectors of the ocean—experience the trapped and suffocating death of one of their own, a single member chooses to take action. Against the wishes of the collective mind. But can a lone mer ever hope to convince the humans of what they have done to the ocean, in a language…
“Bane and Balm” is in the Once Upon a Quest anthology, a collection of fifteen tales of adventure, all brand new fairy tale twists from bestselling and award-winning authors. With inspirations ranging from The Ugly Duckling to Snow White, and everything in between (including trips to Camelot and Oz), these fabulous tales are full…
