by Megan Leigh | August 8, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
I’m not saying I started this podcast as a way to defend my increasingly expensive reading habit, but… I definitely did just that! And it is books like Agnes Gomillion’s The Record Keeper that continue to make me excited about genre fiction. If...
by Megan Leigh | July 25, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
What’s your ideal novel pitch? I read somewhere that Katie Lowe’s debut novel, The Furies, was The Craft meets The Secret History. While I may not have thought about what the perfect novel might sound like in a pitch, I now have a damn good idea. Not only...
by Megan Leigh | July 11, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we love supporting indie publishers and authors. One of our favourite indie publishers in the spec fic space at the moment is Unsung Stories, who are publishing challenging, unique speculative fiction narratives, with a healthy...
by Megan Leigh | June 27, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
Space opera. Gods. AI. Female scientists. Lovecraftian-overtones. Ada Hoffman’s debut novel The Outside seemingly has it all! We asked her about writing autistic characters and why the development of AI’s is causing so much fear in society today. Why did...
by Megan Leigh | June 13, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
Space opera and… chocolate?! What an intriguing mix! We just had to dig into what inspired Amber Royer’s Chocoverse series. Chocolate and sci-fi! These aren’t a traditional combination. How and why did you come up with this mix? One of my all-time...
by Megan Leigh | May 30, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
I love Star Trek and Star Wars, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. People would constantly tell me that I had to like one or the other. Nonsense. I could – and do – simply like what I like. So while some people may baulk at TJ Berry’s mixing of genres tropes...
