Thank you very much to last week’s guests for their essays! Here are links to the final pieces in this year’s series in case you missed either of them:
- Mary Fan (Jane Colt, Starswept) discussed writing female secondary characters who are not sidekicks to the male protagonist—and how she avoided this in her dark YA fantasy novel Flynn Nightsider and the Edge of Evil (coming out on May 15!).
- Ann Aguirre (Sirantha Jax, Razorland, Ars Numina) shared some of her early experiences as a new writer in the science fiction/fantasy community and examined progress for women writing SFF since the publication of her debut novel ten years ago (with input from Ilona Andrews and Piper J. Drake).
Also, thank you again to all of this month’s guests for your wonderful essays! To those who may be coming in at the end of this month’s series, you can find all of the Women in SF&F Month 2018 guest posts here, or you can find the ones that came before last week individually below:
- Melissa Caruso — “Fighting in Ballgowns”
- Ausma Zehanat Khan — “The Companions of Hira”
- R.F. Kuang — “Be a Bitch, Eat the Peach”
- Rowenna Miller — “Women and the Authenticity Falsehood in Fantasy”
- Cass Morris — “Historical Resonance”
- Jeannette Ng — “An Incomplete Taxonomy of Fairies, with examples”
- Claire North — “Strong Women!”
- Renay from Lady Business on Diversifying Her Reading & the List Project*
- Peng Shepherd — “The Time-Traveling Book That Made Me Love SFF”
- Kim Wilkins — “Princess Leia and Beyond”
* The Reader-Recommended SFF Books by Women Project
In 2013, Renay started the recommendation list project linked on the sidebar—and it’s been a part of Women in SF&F Month every year since! In her guest post earlier this month, she revealed the latest list of recommended books by women including submissions from 2017, and she also issued an invitation to add up to 10 science fiction and/or fantasy books by women that you read and loved in the last year so the list continues to grow this year!
Though the month of guest posts has ended, there is still time to add books to the list using the link above. It will remain open for at least another couple of weeks to allow those just finding out about it time to enter some books.
Thanks for reading!
