Women in SF&F Month: Sylvia Izzo Hunter
Today I’m thrilled to welcome fantasy author Sylvia Izzo Hunter! Her debut novel, The Midnight Queen, is an absolutely delightful story with magic, romance, secrets, a plot to foil, and two great main protagonists (plus one wonderful, outspoken little sister!). It’s set on our world if it had followed a different course of history and is followed by two more books in the Noctis Magicae series, Lady of Magick and A Season of Spells. How Fanfiction Made Me a Writer As any […]
Women in SF&F Month: Maureen Eichner from By Singing Light
Today I’m delighted to welcome librarian and blogger Maureen Eichner! She can be found sharing her love of reading at her wonderful blog By Singing Light, where she discusses a variety of books including lots of speculative fiction (as you can see from her favorite authors page). She has excellent taste in books and authors, and I very much enjoy seeing her take on the works she reads! When Women Teach You To Love Fantasy I learned to love fantasy in my middle […]
Women in SF&F Month: Katherine Arden
Today I’m thrilled to welcome fantasy author Katherine Arden! Her debut novel, The Bear and the Nightingale, was released early this year and is absolutely fantastic: it’s atmospheric with lovely writing, and it has a compelling heroine at the center of it all. Since it’s my favorite 2017 release and one of the best books I’ve read so far this year, I’m incredibly excited that there will be two sequels—and the first of these, The Girl in the Tower, is scheduled for publication in […]
Women in SF&F Month: Week 3 Schedule & Week 2 Summary
Thank you to all of last week’s guests for another great week! It’s now time to announce guests for Monday–Friday, but first, here’s a brief summary of last week’s articles in case you missed any of them: Gail Carriger (Parasol Protectorate, Finishing School, Custard Protocol) wrote about being asked why she included queer characters in her stories—and how it never occurred to her not to because of her discovery of Mercedes Lackey’s books as a young adult. Danya (Fine Print) analyzed the […]
Women in SF&F Month: Readers’ Recommendations Giveaway
This week I’m giving away one book from the list of nearly 2,000 recommended SFF books by women! In 2013, Renay of Lady Business came up with the idea of issuing an invitation to add some favorite science fiction and/or fantasy books written by women to create a recommendations list. We’ve increased the number of books every year since by continuing to ask for 10 SFF books written by women read and loved in the last year. (If you haven’t already contributed 10 of your favorites […]
