by Megan Leigh | June 3, 2021 | 5 Q's, Blog
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...
by Megan Leigh | May 20, 2021 | 5 Q's, Blog
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...
by Megan Leigh | November 1, 2018 | Episodes, Live
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAlternate episode title: Magic goat sword (it will make sense if you listen!) If you’re planning a murder, always have a koala with you! Works of fiction are rarely confined to a single genre, especially when...
by Megan Leigh | May 25, 2017 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThis week, Charlotte interviews Victorian steampunk/alternate history/comedy/gothic/romance/surrealist/urban fantasy writer Gail Carriger. This is one writer you cannot easily slot into a neat classification. Her...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 19, 2017 | Blog
Women write genre books. Publishers publish those books. Readers read those books. So why are women still underrepresented in the adult SFF market? Why do they not feature on more recommended lists? Why does the community not discuss their books with as great a...