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...
by Megan Leigh | April 11, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSReligion has been part of our society for centuries. Is it any wonder then that it can make up a large part of our fiction – from CS Lewis’s allegorical Chronicles of Narnia series to Anna Smith Spark’s Empires of...
by Megan Leigh | March 14, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLove can last a lifetime, but revenge is forever… Love is a common driving force for novels, and it comes in many forms. It could be the pursuit of true love, or the quest to turn unrequited love into a...
by Megan Leigh | December 7, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSModern fantasy owes much to J.R.R. Tolkien, including his problematic colonialist views and othering of cultures and races different from his medieval European-inspired setting. Many authors since then have used...
by Megan Leigh | November 30, 2023 | 5 Q's, Blog
I know, I know, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover… but LOOK! It is gorgeous! 😍 Let me be shallow this time, alright?! Ever since Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series, I’ve loved reading stories about what happens after the supposed...
by Megan Leigh | September 14, 2023 | 5 Q's, Blog
In Joan Smith’s latest YA novel, The Other Side of Infinity, she pairs the story of star-crossed lovers with clairvoyance. We asked the author about her favourite stories featuring a character who is able to see the future, mixing speculative elements with...
