by Lucy Hounsom | February 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are back for 2025! We took a hiatus during the second half of 2024 due to our lives becoming that much busier. But loving what we have built with the show over the almost 10 years we’ve been running (!) we...
by Megan Leigh | July 18, 2024 | Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWelcome to… summer! Megan here, just dropping into your feed briefly today… We hope you all have lovely plans this summer – or are wrapping up warmly if you’re in the southern hemisphere. We are taking a little...
by Megan Leigh | July 4, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe have a lot of authors on our podcast, talking about their books, what inspired them, how they’ve written them etc. Quite often they’ll get drawn into the TV series or films that inspired them [*coughs* Star Trek]....
by Lucy Hounsom | June 20, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen we say the word “novel,” most of us think of a book written in prose, split into chapters and possibly parts. But every now and again, we come across novels that defy our expectations. Pratchett’s early work not...
by Megan Leigh | June 6, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA few decades ago, if you said the word “Gothic haunted house novel,” the phrase would very definitely have brought to mind something with a rambling Victorian mansion, tortured heroines, mad women in the attic,...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 23, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA short story isn’t just a novel in miniature form. It isn’t even a shortened novella. It is a creature of its own devising. There’s only time for a snapshot of reality, and in the space of a few thousand words, you...