Today’s guest is fantasy author Nicole Peeler! She is the author of the Jane True series, an urban fantasy set in Maine beginning with Tempest Rising. Jinn and Juice, her latest novel and the first book in a new urban fantasy series, was just released in paperback after an earlier digital release. I Knew I Wanted to be a Witch When I Grew Up Well…sort of. I actually knew I wanted to be Diana Tregarde. For those of you not […]

Today’s guest is Tiara from The BiblioSanctum! She, Mogsy, and Wendy run an excellent blog—The BiblioSanctum is a great place for speculative fiction and graphic novel fans with lots of reviews, interviews, and discussions. It’s one of my favorite book blog discoveries of the last year or two due to the fantastic work these three are doing. Besides writing for The BiblioSanctum, Tiara also blogs at DigitalTempest.net. Before beginning, I’d like to say that this post is equal parts a […]

Today’s guest is fantasy, science fiction, and horror author A. C. Wise! She’s written numerous short stories, some of which have appeared in a variety of “Best of the Year” collections. Her story “The Double Bind” will be included in the upcoming anthology The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, and her first short fiction collection,  The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again, will be released later this year. She also writes the wonderful monthly column Women to Read: Where […]

Today’s guest is Mieneke from A Fantastical Librarian! This site is an excellent resource for speculative fiction fans, and clearly many others find it valuable as well: A Fantastical Librarian was nominated for a 2014 World Fantasy Award in the Non-professional Special Award category. It’s easy to see why given the great number of fantasy and science fiction book reviews and interviews with authors, bloggers, and editors. I especially enjoy the Blogger Query interview series in which Mieneke has conducted […]

The first full week of guest posts opens with science fiction and fantasy author Brenda Cooper! Her most recent novel is Edge of Dark, the first book in a new science fiction series. She is also the author of the Ruby’s Song duology beginning with The Creative Fire, the books in The Silver Ship series starting with the Endeavour Award-winning novel The Silver Ship and the Sea, Mayan December, Building Harlequin’s Moon (co-written with Larry Niven), and several short stories […]

The month is off to a great start, thanks to the guests for the first half-week! In case you missed it, here’s what happened in the first few days: Renay from Lady Business discussed working for ongoing representation and requested comments containing lists of five women. She also mentioned that the list of recommended SFF books by women she began in 2013 has been updated with the entries from 2014. It now has over 1,000 individual books, many of which […]