The fourth week of Women in SF&F Month starts tomorrow, with four new guest posts and a book giveaway coming up this week. Thank you so much to last week’s guests for their fantastic 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:
- “The Long and the Short of It” — A. G. Slatter (The Crimson Road, Of Sorrow and Such) discussed how she approaches writing stories of differing lengths: short, long, and somewhere in between.
- “In Defense of the Kind Character” — J. D. Evans (Mages of the Wheel) wrote about the strength of kindness and the importance of kind characters in fiction.
- “Character and Worldbuilding in The Crowns of Ishia” — Karin Lowachee (The Warchild Mosaic, “Meridian“) shared about the web of ideas related to character, culture, dragons, and magic that went into her fantasy trilogy, including some inspirations like the philosophy of wu wei and North American frontier literature.
- “Along for the Ride: A Head Worth Inhabiting” — Sara Hashem (The Jasad Heir, The Jasad Crown) discussed realizing she needed to change her approach to writing her protagonist when she discovered that by trying to keep her “likable” she was turning her into someone she didn’t understand.
In addition to essays, there was also the cover reveal of The Essential Patricia A. McKillip with a giveaway of the 30th anniversary edition of the author’s fantasy novel The Book of Atrix Wolfe. (Two copies, US only.)
And there is more this week, starting tomorrow with both an essay and book giveaway! This week’s guests are as follows:
April 21: Pat Murphy (The Adventures of Mary Darling, The Falling Woman)
April 22: Linsey Miller (That Devil, Ambition; What We Devour)
April 23: Mia Tsai (The Memory Hunters, Bitter Medicine)
April 24: Lindsey Byrd (The Sun Blessed Prince)
