The fourteenth annual Women in SF&F Month continues tomorrow, with four new guest posts and a cover reveal/book giveaway coming up this week. Thank you so much to last week’s guests for their wonderful essays!
Before announcing the schedule, here are last week’s guest posts in case you missed any of them.
All guest posts from April 2025 can be found here, and last week’s guest posts were:
- “Crayon Trails: On Friendship, Grief, and an Unlikely Book Deal” — Roanne Lau (The Serpent Called Mercy) discussed centering friendship in her debut novel and reflected on why she got a book deal during a time when romantasy is such a big industry trend.
- “The Women of Miserere” — T. Frohock (Miserere: An Autumn Tale, Los Nefilim) shared about revising her debut novel and how she approached strengthening its characterization and making it more gender balanced.
- “Yes, Nigerian Girls Read And Write Fiction. No, It’s Not A Waste Of Time.” — Lucia Damisa (A Desert of Bleeding Sand, A Winter of White Ash) wrote a response to some disparaging comments she gets as a Nigerian reader and writer.
- Antonia Hodgson (The Raven Scholar) shared about how revolutionary Kelley Armstrong’s novel Bitten and its female protagonist were when she acquired it for a publisher more than 25 years ago.
There is also currently a book giveaway for One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson, a science fiction novella with a simulated world. This is a US-only giveaway where two winners will each receive a trade paperback copy, and it ends on April 18.
And there is more this week, starting tomorrow! This week’s guests and feature are as follows:
April 14: A. G. Slatter (The Crimson Road, The Path of Thorns)
April 15: J.D. Evans (Mages of the Wheel)
April 16: Karin Lowachee (The Crowns of Ishia, The Warchild Mosaic)
April 17: Sara Hashem (The Jasad Heir, The Jasad Crown)
April 18: The Essential Patricia A. McKillip Cover Reveal and The Book of Atrix Wolfe Giveaway
