by Megan Leigh | January 23, 2020 | 5 Q's, Blog
For our first set of five questions in 2020 – in the decade – we are excited to have a chameleon of creative mediums. Maura McHugh is a master of short stories, long-form prose, comics, and radio plays. Maura’s most recent work Judges: Psyche, a novella set in...
by Charlotte Bond | January 20, 2020 | Blog
Charlotte takes us on a tour of her 2019 in books. The grand total My various totals of books read for 2019 were as follows: Fiction: 40 books of which 6 were a re-reading (and not including the short stories I read for submission)Audiobooks: 39 books of which 32 were...
by Megan Leigh | December 12, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
I still remember the day my father showed me The Terminator for the first time. We were sat at breakfast one morning when he turned to my mother and said, ‘I think she’s ready.’ Once I had finished eating my breakfast of Eggo waffles and ice cream,...
by Lucy Hounsom | December 12, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
This week we’re joined by author and archaeologist V. S. Holmes, who discusses writing in different genres, the ins and outs of collaboration and whether spec fic is making any real progress in representing its full and diverse readership. You seem equally...
by Megan Leigh | November 28, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
We asked Helena to come on the blog today to discuss YA fiction in all its guises – does it suffer from mostly being written by adults? Why are women so central to YA? Why does YA tend to gravitate toward dystopian narratives? All this and more… What do you...
by Lucy Hounsom | November 14, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
We caught up with author C. B. Lyall, whose novel The Virus of Beauty poses some interesting questions about power dynamics in our image-conscious society. The way someone looks directly influencing their level of power is intriguing and echoes the media’s...
