by Lucy Hounsom | December 9, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFantasy – and indeed most fiction – often involves bitter rivalries. Fights over a kingdom or territory, long-standing feuds where people no longer even remember why it began… Such opposing forces are also a key...
by Lucy Hounsom | November 25, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are destroying our planet. The scientists agree, there is no denying that catastrophic climate change is imminent. And yet our leaders continue to pay lip service to the issue without taking real, impactful...
by Lucy Hounsom | October 14, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe idea of perfection, the perfect being, is one of the oldest stories in the world. How that perfection might be tainted, or turn against the hand that made it, is something that has always intrigued writers of...
by Lucy Hounsom | September 30, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFemale friendships tend to take a back seat in our narratives, so that when they are given the space to exist, they exist almost solely to discuss a man. Virginia Woolf once commented that “all the great women...
by Lucy Hounsom | July 1, 2021 | 5 Q's, Blog
She Who Became the Sun has been described as Mulan meets The Song of Achilles, but it’s better to drop all expectations these comparisons conjure up and go in expecting to be dazzled. I couldn’t wait to get Shelley on the blog to talk about this...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 24, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS95 years after it was first published, the copyright on The Great Gatsby has expired. This great American novel has sold over 25 million copies since it was first published, despite initially disappointing sales. It...
