by Lucy Hounsom | March 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe live our lives burdened with responsibilities, and expectations of how we should act. Those expectations are placed on us by society, by family, and even by ourselves. However, fiction allows us a space in which...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are back for 2025! We took a hiatus during the second half of 2024 due to our lives becoming that much busier. But loving what we have built with the show over the almost 10 years we’ve been running (!) we...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 20, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen we say the word “novel,” most of us think of a book written in prose, split into chapters and possibly parts. But every now and again, we come across novels that defy our expectations. Pratchett’s early work not...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 23, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA short story isn’t just a novel in miniature form. It isn’t even a shortened novella. It is a creature of its own devising. There’s only time for a snapshot of reality, and in the space of a few thousand words, you...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 9, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe literature of our past is littered with casual gender biases. You describe someone as a “witch” and the natural assumption is that they are female. But according to Diane Purkiss, while mostly women were accused...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 28, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe have a bit of an unusual episode for you today! While it is amazing that we have so many authors who want to come on the show – we feel truly honoured – we thought it was about time we returned to talking among...
