How to Sell Your Friends & Family On Genre Fiction
The Stars Now Unclaimed author Drew Williams gives you tips on how to get your family to read genre fiction.
Category: Author Features
Listen to the Midnight at the Blackbird Café Playlist
The perfect playlist for pie, tea, and Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe!
Of Writing and Watchmaking
Dragonslayer author Duncan M. Hamilton has a couple of hobbies to balance out his writing life. Sailing, diving, skiing–and watchmaking! We caught up with Duncan to learn about his unusual hobby while we wait for Dragonslayer this July.
Top Five Space Battles
A Chain Across the Dawn author Drew Williams shares his top five space battles.
Ewoks are Sci-Fi’s Most Dangerous Warriors
Patrick S. Tomlinson, the author of Starship Repo, has a pretty convincing argument for who claims the title of deadliest warriors in the galaxy…and it’s Ewoks?
Never Out of Date: The Past as Fantasy, and Our Fantasies of the Past
Amberlough author Lara Elena Donnelly takes on the tropes and trappings of vintage-inspired media.
The Poetry of A Memory Called Empire
“A Memory Called Empire elevates space opera to poetry—clever, deep, sometimes tragic, sometimes violent, always transcendent poetry that shines like the edge of a knife.” —Delilah Dawson By now you’ve read the lush, tense, dizzying and dazzling sci-fi masterpiece that is A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. And if you’re like us, you were probably pretty impressed…
What’s in a Teixcalaanli Name?
Arkady Martine’s brilliant space opera A Memory Called Empire came out today, and we’ve been waiting to share some of our many feelings. And our Teixcalaanli names.
The Ten Commandments of a Writer’s Life
Rachel Howzell Hall gives her writing 10 commandments for staying sane, kind, and productive as a writer!
St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland and America
Irish author Paddy Hirsch reflects on how different St. Patrick’s Day is in Ireland and America.