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 | June 6, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA few decades ago, if you said the word “Gothic haunted house novel,” the phrase would very definitely have brought to mind something with a rambling Victorian mansion, tortured heroines, mad women in the attic,...
by Megan Leigh | April 25, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS“In space, no one can hear you scream.” It’s an iconic tagline that can be applied to so many modern stories about space travel and exploration (except, perhaps, our beloved Star Trek). Obviously, space travel in...
by Megan Leigh | April 11, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSReligion has been part of our society for centuries. Is it any wonder then that it can make up a large part of our fiction – from CS Lewis’s allegorical Chronicles of Narnia series to Anna Smith Spark’s Empires of...
