Tomorrow marks the start of the second week of the thirteenth annual Women in SF&F Month. Thank you so much to all of last week’s guests for making it an excellent first week!
There will be more guest posts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week, too. Before announcing the schedule, here are last week’s essays in case you missed any of them.
All of the guest posts from April 2024 can be found here, and last week’s guest posts were:
- “The WIP of Theseus” — Samantha Mills (The Wings Upon Her Back, “Rabbit Test“) discussed the heart of story and some questions about change and transformation that made their way into her upcoming debut novel. (Her post also includes a US-only giveaway of a trade paperback copy of The Wings Upon Her Back!)
- “Speculative War and Writing What You Cannot Know” — Premee Mohamed (The Siege of Burning Grass, The Butcher of the Forest, Beneath the Rising Series) shared about how she keeps writing fiction involving war and why she chooses to explore it in speculative settings.
- “Into the Retelling-Verse” — Eliza Chan (Fathomfolk, “The Tails That Make You,” “Joss Papers for Porcelain Ghosts“) wrote about the appeal of retellings, from different versions of Spider-Man to folktales, and why she chose to use and rework a familiar fairy tale and different mythologies in her debut novel.
And there are most guest posts coming up, starting tomorrow! This week’s essays are by:
April 8: Amber Chen (Of Jade and Dragons, “Hugging the Buddha’s Feet“)
April 10: Gabriella Buba (Saints of Storm and Sorrow, “Dying Rivers and Broken Hearts“)
April 12: Genoveva Dimova (Foul Days, Monstrous Nights)
