This year’s Women in SF&F Month ends this week with one more guest post and an international giveaway. Thank you so much to last week’s guests for their excellent essays!
Before announcing the rest of this year’s 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 Power of Community” — Pat Murphy (The Falling Woman, Points of Departure) revealed how she managed to keep working on her next novel, The Adventures of Mary Darling, for more than 20 years. (This includes a giveaway of two trade paperback copies!)
- “A Descent into Kindness” — Linsey Miller (That Devil, Ambition; What We Devour) wrote about kindness and some books (both her own and others) with characters who are kind but not necessarily what most would consider morally “good.”
- “Conflict and Discrimination in Secondary Worlds” — Mia Tsai (The Memory Hunters, Bitter Medicine) discussed creating new settings with conflicts that are not rooted in real-world discrimination and her upcoming novel’s central conflict around access to information.
- Lindsey Byrd (On the Subject of Griffons, The Sun Blessed Prince) shared some thoughts on the “not like other girls” trope and discussed two major female characters in her upcoming novel, including one who sees herself as being different from other girls.
In addition to The Adventures of Mary Darling giveaway with Pat Murphy’s guest post, there is still time to enter The Book of Atrix Wolfe giveaway that accompanied the cover reveal of The Essential Patricia A. McKillip. (US only for both giveaways.)
The month comes to a close with one more guest post and an international (non-US) giveaway. This week’s guest and feature are as follows:
April 28: Kate Elliott (The Witch Roads, The Spiritwalker Trilogy)
April 29: Winner’s Choice Giveaway (International, non-US)
