by Lucy Hounsom | January 30, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS There needs to be a serious fucking cultural conversation about the storytelling desire to turn everyone into an edgy badass that thinks all problems are best solved with violence and what the overwhelming...
by Megan Leigh | January 11, 2018 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAre you ready for your to-read and to-watch lists to explode? Charlotte, Lucy, and I discuss our favourite genre pieces of 2017 and what we’re most looking forward to in 2018. We lament terrible accents and...
by Megan Leigh | January 19, 2017 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLove triangles are as a common as mud when it comes to fiction. Is your story lacking tension? Throw in a love triangle! Do you want to hook in a teenage audience? Throw in a love triangle? Want some audience...
by Megan Leigh | December 1, 2016 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhile we may wish we only appreciated science fiction, fantasy, or horror that presented ideas of gender equality, we’d be lying if we tried to make that claim. There are plenty of books, films, tv shows out...
by Megan Leigh | November 17, 2016 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt should come as no surprise to regular listeners ofย Breaking the Glass Slipper that we take issue with female characters being included in a narrative purely to act as a love interest. Unfortunately, it happens all...