Apex Magazine is currently fundraising to come back from their hiatus. Before the break, they’d been a professional magazine publishing a wide range of award-winning speculative fiction. In an amazing outpouring of support from readers, they achieved their initial funding goal to cover the first two issues of the magazine. …
State of the INK 2020 It’s a tradition in the Inkubator Community to provide a kind of editorial statement about the community and to highlight individual statements of our outgoing Board members. I think it is fair to say that 2020 has been one heck of a year and it …
Hey everyone! Bex here. Jaz is rather busy, so you’re stuck with me today. And our fabulous guest (getting to her in a moment). Last fall I got the opportunity to read E. Catherine Tobler’s The Kraken Sea as part of Apex’s Back Catalog Blog Tour. I fell in love with …
Sometimes, a girl has to just walk up to someone and start talking to them. I have never had problems with that. Drop me in a room full of strangers, and I’ll have made a friend within the hour. If there’s a bar, I’ve probably also been offered at least …
Hello everyone, It’s me, your friendly neighbourhood Jaz. In September of last year I reviewed one of my favourite fiction podcasts on my blog. Half a day later, I was shrieking so hard it spooked the dogs. You see, the Podcastle crew had enthusiastically retweeted my blog. So after I …
Once, not so long ago, did a man join our INKubator server, and quickly integrated with our community. Before we knew it, he was family. Much to our surprise, it turned out he’d used the Necronomicon to aid in his efforts. He still speaks in the tongue of the …
Bex: INKLINGS! PEOPLE! EVERYONE! You gotta see this. Jaz: See what, Bex? Bex: Apex! Apex! Jaz: Apex? What’s up with Apex? Bex: WORDS! NEW WORDS! Jaz: New words. Well, we’re a writing community. We have new words all the time, don’t we? Bex: Yeah, but… bounces off the walls… They’re …
The other day I was discussing my budding writing career with a friend when she suggested I talk to one of her writer friends. insert eye roll here We all have those friends who know “writers.” Right? Except my friend tends to know really cool people… Imagine my surprise when …
