A Guest Post by Ripley Patton—”Ghost Hand: Why ‘This’ Story?”—Plus, Ripley’s Kickstarter

Introduction:

I was privileged to get to know Ripley Patton when she was living in Christchurch and taking the initiative to “kickstart” SpecFicNZ into life. Yes, it took an American to do it, even though we have plenty of people actually writing fiction of the SF/Fantasy/Horror variety here in Aotearoa-New Zealand. So kudos to Ripley, and her original core team, for making it happen.

Ripley has since moved back to the United States with her family, but while in New Zealand she was working on h...