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...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 9, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe literature of our past is littered with casual gender biases. You describe someone as a “witch” and the natural assumption is that they are female. But according to Diane Purkiss, while mostly women were accused...
by Megan Leigh | April 25, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS“In space, no one can hear you scream.” It’s an iconic tagline that can be applied to so many modern stories about space travel and exploration (except, perhaps, our beloved Star Trek). Obviously, space travel in...
