Love triangles

Love triangles

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLove triangles are as a common as mud when it comes to fiction. Is your story lacking tension? Throw in a love triangle! Do you want to hook in a teenage audience? Throw in a love triangle? Want some audience...
Foz Meadows on portal fantasy

Foz Meadows on portal fantasy

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPortal fantasy has long been a popular subgenre of fantasy, from classics such as The Chronicles of Narnia to Alice in Wonderland and newer interpretations like Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. One of my favourite...
The 2017 speculative fiction prospectus

The 2017 speculative fiction prospectus

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt is the holiday season and everyone is thinking about presents. Don’t lie, you know you are. You’ve been making a list (even if only in your head) of presents you’d like to receive and trying to...
Guilty pleasures

Guilty pleasures

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhile we may wish we only appreciated science fiction, fantasy, or horror that presented ideas of gender equality, we’d be lying if we tried to make that claim. There are plenty of books, films, tv shows out...
Unnecessary romance and token love interests

Unnecessary romance and token love interests

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt should come as no surprise to regular listeners of Breaking the Glass Slipper that we take issue with female characters being included in a narrative purely to act as a love interest. Unfortunately, it happens all...
Interview with Emma Newman

Interview with Emma Newman

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhile Megan was sunning it up in Australia, Charlotte and Lucy interviewed on of Breaking the Glass Slipper’s favourite people: Emma Newman. Emma is a woman of many talents, including being a fabulous writer,...