by Lucy Hounsom | March 15, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
This week we’re delighted to host Emma Newman: author, narrator and LARPer. Here she talks about science fiction, her writing routine and the lessons she’s learned from penning a multi-book series. In your Planetfall series, you have gone for quite hard SF...
by Megan Leigh | March 1, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
Teresa Frohock came to my attention under less than ideal circumstances. Last year, ebook piracy reared its ugly head, as genre authors highlighted just how much piracy hurt them. Teresa was one of the authors that spoke out. Her comments, along with Maggie...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 1, 2018 | 5 Q's, Blog
This week, BTGS is lucky enough to host one of the major fantasy debuts of 2017: Anna Stephens. We asked her about grimdark, what it’s like being a woman in the industry, how she writes female characters and why you should be reading Godblind. Without further...
by Megan Leigh | November 23, 2017 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMost science fiction and fantasy focus on humans – or at least societal structures that are recognisable from within cultures on Earth. Given that genre fiction is meant to be one of unlimited imagination, why...
by Megan Leigh | November 16, 2017 | 5 Q's, Blog
I was lucky enough to be on a panel with the fabulous Jeannette Ng at FantasyCon 2017, where her debut novel Under the Pendulum Sun had its launch. The panel involved a kind of crowd-sourced Dungeons and Dragons that was both insane and incredibly fun. I’m not...
by Megan Leigh | November 2, 2017 | 5 Q's, Blog
I know, I know, they tell us not to judge a book by its cover, but when I saw the cover (US version) for this book, I was immediately intrigued. What great art! If you aren’t quite as shallow as me, why not trust Robin Hobb’s rave review? I spoke to Callie...
