by Megan Leigh | October 18, 2018 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe spend a lot of time on this podcast talking about how authors are subverting or downright overturning classic SFF tropes. But there are still merits of entrenched tropes, after all, tropes became such because they...
by Megan Leigh | October 11, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
This week we’re talking to Jane Skudder, bookseller extraordinaire. Essex-born. Yorkshire-based. Once described by a colleague as having been bookselling since the dawn of time, Jane works for Waterstones based in the enviable Wool Exchange building in Bradford....
by Megan Leigh | October 4, 2018 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWriting better female characters is covered in a lot of writing advice. Many of these pieces will preface their comments with sarcastic comments like ‘Women are people too, duh’. This sort of statement, I think,...
by Megan Leigh | September 27, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
Freelance writer and journalist Jacqui Castle decided to turn her writing talents to fiction, giving us the debut YA dystopian novel The Seclusion. The novel, released in September, has been garnering great reviews. We asked Jacqui about her inspirations and why she...
by Megan Leigh | September 20, 2018 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRedshirts. No sooner are they introduced than they are killed. The tension rises, there are beads of sweat on Kirk’s brow… now the audience knows the peril is real. These stock, disposable characters exist in a story...
by Megan Leigh | September 13, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
I was back home in Western Australia recently and, as always, made a point to visit the local speculative fiction specialist bookshop (Stefen’s Books, if anyone is interested – I highly recommend a visit if you’re in the area!). While there, I was...
