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Five questions with Teresa Frohock
Teresa Frohock came to my attention under less than ideal circumstances. Last year, ebook piracy reared its ugly head, as genre authors highlighted just how much piracy hurt them. Teresa was one of the authors that spoke out. Her comments, along with Maggie...
Award Eligibility in 2018
As well as a gentle reminder that we're eligible for a couple of SFF awards, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our listeners for their support over the last year (and more)! BTGS has been going now since April 2016 and we can't believe we're approaching our...
Five questions with Jasmine Gower
If the cover art for Jasmine Gower's new novel Moonshine doesn't catch your breath, I don't know what will. Fantasy stories are rarely set in new and different faux-historical settings, but Moonshine has an art-deco, prohibition-era aesthetic that's all its own....
Five questions with Anna Stephens
This week, BTGS is lucky enough to host one of the major fantasy debuts of 2017: Anna Stephens. We asked her about grimdark, what it's like being a woman in the industry, how she writes female characters and why you should be reading Godblind. Without further ado,...
Five questions with AC Macklin
This week we talk to AC Macklin, author, LARPer, and organiser of the SF&F writing event Right on Paper. 1. You regularly post “Twitterature”, a story told in 140 characters or less. How do you come up with so many fresh but concise ideas? I outsource! Every so...
Five questions with G. V. Anderson
I had the immense pleasure of reading alongside G. V. Anderson at a recent Bristolcon Fringe, and following her World Fantasy Award-winning story 'Das Steingeschöpf’ was pretty tough. She's here to tell us a little about herself and her work and why you might like to...
Five questions with Jeannette Ng
I was lucky enough to be on a panel with the fabulous Jeannette Ng at FantasyCon 2017, where her debut novel Under the Pendulum Sun had its launch. The panel involved a kind of crowd-sourced Dungeons and Dragons that was both insane and incredibly fun. I'm not sure we...
Five questions with Callie Bates
I know, I know, they tell us not to judge a book by its cover, but when I saw the cover (US version) for this book, I was immediately intrigued. What great art! If you aren't quite as shallow as me, why not trust Robin Hobb's rave review? I spoke to Callie about her...
Five questions with Selena Chambers
I am always in awe of authors who explore the darker sides of humanity in interesting ways. As such, I was very excited to talk to Selena Chambers about her work in weirding people out! What do you love most about speculative fiction? What drew you to writing in the...