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Author Anne Youngson and her debut novel, Meet Me at the Museum

Interview With an Author: Anne Youngson

August 15, 2018

Anne Youngson had a long, successful career in the motor industry before taking an early retirement to focus on her writing. She is currently studying for a PhD at Oxford Brookes. Anne and her husband live on a farm in Oxfordshire, where they have a two-acre garden open to the public.


Author Ruthann Emrys with her book covers

Interview With an Author: Ruthanna Emrys

July 26, 2018

Ruthanna Emrys lives in a mysterious manor house in the outskirts of Washington DC with her wife and their large, strange family.


Author Kathryn Harkup and her book Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

July 06, 2018

Dr. Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a Ph.D. then a postdoc at the University of York before realizing that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed far more than spending hours slaving over a hot fume-hood.


Author Ian McDonald and his book Time Was

Interview With an Author: Ian McDonald

June 22, 2018

Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.


Photo of author C.L. Polk  and her book Witchmark

Interview With an Author: C.L. Polk

May 31, 2018

C. L. Polk wrote her first story in grade school and still hasn't learned any better. After spending years in strange occupations and wandering western Canada, she settled in southern Alberta with her rescue dog Otis. C. L.


John Kessel and his book Pride and Prometheus

Interview With an Author: John Kessel

May 09, 2018

John Kessel holds a B.A. in Physics and English and a Ph.D. in American Literature. He helped found and served as the first director of the MFA program in creative writing at North Carolina State University, where he has taught since 1982. He is also an award-winning author.


Linda Addison and her award winning book

Interview With an Author: Linda Addison

April 27, 2018

Linda Addison is an award-winning poet and author writing in the genres of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction.


Sarah Kendzior: the view from flyover country

Interview With an Author: Sarah Kendzior

April 16, 2018

Sarah Kendzior is a writer, journalist, and researcher who has studied authoritarian states in Central Asia. She is a former columnist for Al Jazeera English and is credited with being one of the first to predict the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.


photos of Bacigalupi and Buckell, and their book The Tangled Lands

Interview With Authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell

April 10, 2018

Paolo Bacigalupi is the New York Times best-selling and multiple award-winning author of The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker, The Drowned Cities, Zombie Baseball Beatdown


photo of author Carter Wilson and his book

Interview With an Author: Carter Wilson

March 24, 2018

Carter Wilson is an award-winning, best-selling author who specializes in domestic thrillers filled with tension, paranoia, and psychological terror.


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