by Lucy Hounsom | February 21, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
With her debut fantasy The Ruin of Kings just hitting the shelves, we caught up with author Jenn Lyons and asked her a few searching questions about one of our favourite topics – dragons!* *may also contain kraken Dragons! What made you fall in love with...
by Megan Leigh | February 7, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
After the exquisite science fiction film Arrival, along with Ann Leckie’s breakout Ancillary Justice, I’ve been on a bit of a linguistics-inspired scifi journey. Like Leckie’s groundbreaking novel, Sue Burke’s debut is equally trailblazing....
by Lucy Hounsom | December 6, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
On the blog this week is author Genevieve Cogman, whose Invisible Library series centres around the eternal struggle between the forces of chaos and order, represented respectively by the Fae and the Dragons. The fifth and latest instalment, The Mortal Word, continues...
by Megan Leigh | November 22, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog, Uncategorised
In niche genres, independent publishers are more important than ever before. And one of the best speculative fiction presses currently out there is Luna Press. If you’ve never had the opportunity to speak to Francesca, I can’t recommend it highly enough –...
by Megan Leigh | November 8, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we love innovative genre fiction. Rowenna Miller’s debut novel, Torn, uses the traditionally feminine art of sewing as the basis for its magic system. We asked Rowenna how she fit so many different elements into the one novel, the...
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....
