by Lucy Hounsom | April 30, 2020 | 5 Q's, Blog
We’re thrilled to welcome Tiffani back to BtGS – this time to introduce her debut novel! Threading the Labyrinth is your debut novel – congratulations! – but you also have a PhD in Creative Writing. Was Labyrinth your PhD project? Can you tell us a little...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 9, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSpeculative fiction has always been a genre that challenges traditional views and established ways of seeing. We regularly discuss how the worlds that genre authors create are arenas in which it’s possible to tackle...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 2, 2020 | 5 Q's, Blog
We are long-time fans of Stark’s Nunslinger so we’re thrilled that Stark is publishing another western with an equally punny title: Triggernometry. We asked about the roles of women in westerns, where the genre is going and the experience of...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 26, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt has long been obvious that our world’s power structures are set up to benefit men, so how does women’s power play out in our narratives? What happens when women are suddenly given a power they are...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 27, 2020 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe three of us are children of the 80s and like many of our generation, we love to revel in nostalgia. For us, this has meant revisiting some of our favourite fantasy films of that decade: Labyrinth, The Dark...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 20, 2020 | 5 Q's, Blog
We love this novel’s premise – two women separated by 8000 years, united in the fight to protect their families – so we invited Rym onto the blog to tell us all about Dark River! Dark River is your debut novel. Was it also the first full length...