Political fantasy with Katherine Addison

Political fantasy with Katherine Addison

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe talk about unequal societies a lot on this show, about privilege and power and who is in a position to use it. We wanted to take a critical look at a subgenre that maybe best reflects the democratic, bureaucratic...
Five questions with Cari Thomas

Five questions with Cari Thomas

We are loving the feminist stories that are reclaiming witchcraft as a positive force! As Cari Thomas discusses in the interview below, witchcraft has long been used to punish and control women. It is time for change! Cari Thomas’ brilliant debut novel...
The power of love with Tasha Suri

The power of love with Tasha Suri

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLove can raise us up. Love can tear us down. It can be our strength, our weakness, and everything in between. And inevitably, love makes fools of us all. While we all enjoy reading a good romance, a love story is...
Five questions with Hannah Whitten

Five questions with Hannah Whitten

It doesn’t look like the plethora of fairytale-inspired fantasy novels is going away any time soon and we at Breaking the Glass Slipper are enormously grateful! After all, I first met Charlotte at a convention where she was on a panel discussing fairytales – and...
Five questions with C.L. Clark

Five questions with C.L. Clark

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark has been one of my favourite reads this year. It was one of those novels that manages to be so different from everything else you’ve read while simultaneously capturing everything you’ve loved in the books you have read. This is...