by Lucy Hounsom | November 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSomething a little bit different this month! Anyone who follows us on social media will be aware that we were completely thrilled and surprised to win the 2025 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio last month. In our...
by Lucy Hounsom | October 30, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSo, this is a bit of an unusual episode. Normally, we get an author on to discuss their new book. But today we have three authors talking about a brand new non-fiction book they’re part of, and two of them are your...
by Lucy Hounsom | September 25, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFor many writers, history can be both an inspiration and a source of plot. No one is going to call a fantasy writer out for “making it up”. With historical fiction, however, you have to be more careful...
by Lucy Hounsom | July 31, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSZombies first shambled onto our cinema screens in the 1932 film White Zombie staring Bela Lugosi. Early incarnations involved voodoo reanimation and lacked the whole brain-eating aspect. (There’s a really...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 28, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPart of a murder mystery’s charm is the narrative movement from chaos to order. The natural balance of justice is overturned and it’s up to ordinary people – rather than the law – to fix it. The...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 30, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairy tale retellings are always popular. Fairy tales are some of the first stories we learn as children. As well as being entertaining, they are instructive. Don’t stray from the path. Don’t trust wolves, or men....
