by Megan Leigh | July 30, 2019 | Blog
WorldCon is now only a few weeks away and we have exciting news! Not only will Lucy and Megan be there in person, but they will also be recording a live episode of Breaking the Glass Slipper! If you want to see us in action – at the live recording or elsewhere, look...
by Megan Leigh | July 25, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
What’s your ideal novel pitch? I read somewhere that Katie Lowe’s debut novel, The Furies, was The Craft meets The Secret History. While I may not have thought about what the perfect novel might sound like in a pitch, I now have a damn good idea. Not only...
by Megan Leigh | July 18, 2019 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSToday’s episode was inspired by an article that appeared on The Guardian with the headline ‘Picture book bias worsens as female characters stay silent.’ The piece was based on research into books...
by Megan Leigh | July 11, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we love supporting indie publishers and authors. One of our favourite indie publishers in the spec fic space at the moment is Unsung Stories, who are publishing challenging, unique speculative fiction narratives, with a healthy...
by Megan Leigh | June 27, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
Space opera. Gods. AI. Female scientists. Lovecraftian-overtones. Ada Hoffman’s debut novel The Outside seemingly has it all! We asked her about writing autistic characters and why the development of AI’s is causing so much fear in society today. Why did...
by Megan Leigh | June 20, 2019 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn our last episode, we had author Aliette de Bodard on to discuss the absence of mothers in speculative fiction. One explanation put forward was the focus of chosen one narratives – these stories rely on the...
