It’s that time again—time to announce this week’s Women in SF&F Month guests! But first, thank you to last week’s guests for another great week. In case you missed any of these articles, here’s what happened last week:
- Zen Cho (Sorcerer to the Crown, Spirits Abroad) discussed her path to learning to write women like herself as characters.
- Ilana C. Myer (Last Song Before Night) shared some insight into worldbuilding and discussed the depth that adding a religious system brought to her novel.
- Sara Letourneau (website/blog) explained why she finds characters with inner strength compelling and shared some favorite fantasy heroines with this quality.
- Elizabeth Bonesteel (The Cold Between, Remnants of Trust) discussed the joy of fighting stereotypes when writing characters.
- Helen Lowe (Thornspell, The Wall of Night series) examined some women in leadership roles in fantasy fiction and discussed how her own heroine Malian of Night fit into their tradition.
- I’m running an international giveaway for one book from the list of nearly 1500 recommended SFF books by women begun by Renay. If you haven’t added some books to the list already this year and want to share some recommendations, we are also collecting more submissions to add to the list this April:10 favorite science fiction and/or fantasy books written by women that you’ve read and loved in the last year (old or new books).
And now, the schedule for the following week, beginning tomorrow!
April 17: Rachel Cotterill (Strange Charm, Watersmeet, Chronicles of Charanthe)
April 18: Susan Jane Bigelow (Extrahumans series, The Daughter Star)
April 19: Kari Sperring (Living with Ghosts, The Grass King’s Concubine)
April 20: Dina (SFF Book Reviews)
April 21: Janny Wurts (Wars of Light and Shadow, To Ride Hell’s Chasm)
April 22: TBD
