Thank you so much to all of last week’s guests! Here are their guest posts in case you missed any of them:

• “Four Godmothers” — E. Lily Yu (On Fragile Waves, “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees“) celebrated women in fantasy by discussing four authors whose work taught her about writing, giving her gifts like the wrong (but actually right) dreams and showing her the sorcery of language.
• “Creativity in Crisis” — H. M. Long (Hall of Smoke, Temple of No God) discussed the difficulty of writing after the pandemic hit and shared a few things that helped her continue to create.
• “Of Being So Damn Tired” — Leona Wisoker (Children of the Desert, “Dragon Child“) discussed Tove Jansson and what it meant to her that she included a story arc about Moominmamma just being so damn tired in one of her Moomin books.
• “Writing Dark Fiction: An Exercise in Self-Acceptance” — Alexis Henderson (The Year of the Witching) discussed her complicated kinship with horror.
• Diane Duane (Middle Kingdoms, Young Wizards) discussed food and the role it can play in science fiction and fantasy worldbuilding.

All of the guest posts from April 2021 can be found here.

And the next week of guest posts will resume tomorrow! This week’s guests are:

April 19: Ciannon Smart (Witches Steeped in Gold)
April 20: Ashaye Brown (Dream Country)
April 21: Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights, Our Violent Ends)
April 22: Angela Mi Young Hur (Folklorn)
April 23: Tori Bovalino (The Devil Makes Three, Not Good for Maidens)