One of my favorite things about writing fantasy, science fiction and horror is the way the genres allow you to take everyday problems and project them onto extraordinary settings and circumstances. Take the challenges of motherhood, the simple desire to want to keep your children safe. Every day, we hear […]
What better way to wrap up 2019 than to review some of the best speculative fiction (sci-fi / fantasy / horror) I read this year? I’d recommend any of these novels or anthologies as a gift. Circe by Madeline Miller Recommended for: Everyone, especially feminists. The writing is this […]
The most common response I get when people learn I write fiction is, “Cool, what kind?” But when I respond “speculative fiction,” I usually get a blank stare. I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know the term because I think a lot of readers already love speculative fiction […]
I may have mentioned before that I did a teeny-weeny little bit of research for my novel-in-progress, Last of Kin. Set in a remote, New Guinea rainforest, it features two strong female protagonists — an ambitious paleontologist and a living descendent of the otherwise extinct hominid species homo floresiensis. Actually, […]
They say, “Write what you know.” So naturally, I decided to set my first novel on a remote Pacific island I’d never been to, in a mountainous rainforest few people have ever explored, and filled it with characters based on the extinct hominid species homo floresiensis, of which we have […]
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