by Megan Leigh | January 23, 2020 | 5 Q's, Blog
For our first set of five questions in 2020 – in the decade – we are excited to have a chameleon of creative mediums. Maura McHugh is a master of short stories, long-form prose, comics, and radio plays. Maura’s most recent work Judges: Psyche, a novella set in...
by Megan Leigh | December 19, 2019 | Episodes, Live
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA bonus Christmas episode for you all! Back in December 2018, Charlotte was asked to interview RJ Barker and Micah Yongo at perhaps one of the most beautiful bookshops in Britain – the Bradford Wool Exchange branch...
by Megan Leigh | December 12, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
I still remember the day my father showed me The Terminator for the first time. We were sat at breakfast one morning when he turned to my mother and said, ‘I think she’s ready.’ Once I had finished eating my breakfast of Eggo waffles and ice cream,...
by Megan Leigh | November 28, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
We asked Helena to come on the blog today to discuss YA fiction in all its guises – does it suffer from mostly being written by adults? Why are women so central to YA? Why does YA tend to gravitate toward dystopian narratives? All this and more… What do you...
by Megan Leigh | November 21, 2019 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen our favourite television series come to an end on our screens, it doesn’t always mean goodbye. Firefly was revived with Serenity and Buffy the Vampire Slayer found a second life in a celebrated comic...
by Megan Leigh | November 7, 2019 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBefore you listen to this episode, you should be warned: your to be read pile will become unmanageable. If you’re anything like us, you already have a huge to-read list, but we discuss so many epic horror short...