Tips on how to write serial fiction and be a more productive writer from Simon K Jones. Find more at simonkjones.substack.com.
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Previously: King Guijus rules the valley of Lagonia, a hidden kingdom entirely locked within the ring of Barrier Mountains. His daughter, Princess Kirya, grows restless, as do the rival powers in the north…
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26 Oct 2026
Short story: On the Other Side of the Street
Today we take a break from our regular programming for a one-off, self-contained short story. This one’s been buzzing around my head for years and I wanted to get it written before it turned from science fiction to science fact.
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19 Oct 2026
Reid & Jones #2: Building the Future Britain anthology with Martin Grace
Note: We experienced some considerable lag during the livestream due to Martin currently being stationed in orbit around the moon. The recording has smoothed out some of it, but bear with: there’s good stuff in here for those with patience.
Everyone has a podcast these days, it seems. My first foray into podcasting was producing the Writing Life podcast a decade-or-so back, and it was an absolute joy, and I rather missed hosting it when I moved on to other things.
If you get the subject right, a podcast is essentially an excuse to talk to interesting people on a regular basis. Hence chatting to S.E. Reid (https://substack.com/profile/80396624-se-reid) once a month, where we can natter about whatever writerly things are on our minds. This month we’ve our first guest, in the guise of Martin Grace (https://substack.com/profile/396956422-martin-grace).
Martin has been the driving force being Future Britains, a new anthology of dystopian near-future short stories that is out this week from Sol Stories (https://open.substack.com/pub/solstories). The collection began as a call-out to the Substack fiction community and now exists as a Real Book. It’s a brilliant example of what happens when a bunch of creative people combine forces, and in the show we pick Martin’s brains about how it all happened.
Also on the agenda:
* Are we living in the best time or the worst time to be a writer?
* Why is ‘indie author’ not as cool as ‘indie filmmaker’ or ‘indie band’?
* Writing cliché of the month: ‘kill your darlings’
* Weird snack of the month: Fairy bread (with thanks to Leanne Shawler (https://substack.com/profile/98359013-leanne-shawler))
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