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....
by Lucy Hounsom | April 24, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt seems like these days you can’t go into a bookshop without seeing a display of romantasy books. It’s a broad term that applies to everything from secondary fantasy worlds with devilishly handsome princes to...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe live our lives burdened with responsibilities, and expectations of how we should act. Those expectations are placed on us by society, by family, and even by ourselves. However, fiction allows us a space in which...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are back for 2025! We took a hiatus during the second half of 2024 due to our lives becoming that much busier. But loving what we have built with the show over the almost 10 years we’ve been running (!) we...
by Megan Leigh | July 4, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe have a lot of authors on our podcast, talking about their books, what inspired them, how they’ve written them etc. Quite often they’ll get drawn into the TV series or films that inspired them [*coughs* Star Trek]....
by Lucy Hounsom | June 20, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen we say the word “novel,” most of us think of a book written in prose, split into chapters and possibly parts. But every now and again, we come across novels that defy our expectations. Pratchett’s early work not...