by Lucy Hounsom | July 21, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAs you’ve hopefully worked out by now, we are big proponents of the need for diverse representation in speculative fiction. And while we are certainly seeing more LGBTQ+ relationships portrayed in the genres we...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 9, 2022 | 5 Q's, Blog
To support the incredible Books on the Hill kickstarter “Open Dyslexia: The Sequel” that launched on 7th June, we’re delighted to host historical crime writer J.M. Alvey on the BtGS blog. You may know J.M better as Juliet E. Mckenna. You’ve written...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 9, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s easy to see why haunted houses are frightening – most of us live in a house and share a terror of what might happen if some unpleasant force took up residence there alongside us. Similarly, folk horror that is...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 28, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairy tales are both timeless and personal. We see their themes and motifs repeated in stories spanning centuries.But while the characters and scenarios might be familiar, the morals change over time. The story’s...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 14, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen Madeline Miller published Circe, it heralded the start of a new wave of feminist retellings, in which writers revisited well-known classics in order to tell the stories of those excluded from the dominant...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 31, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSUrsula K Le Guin is the very definition of a legend. So many of us found our way to speculative fiction through her works, while others only realised later that the tropes we so loved – considered cliched now – were...
