The SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author Krystal Wade
Krystal Wade is a mother of three who works fifty miles from home and writes in her “spare time”. Her debut novel, Wilde’s Fire, is available now with Curiosity Quills Press....
View ArticleThe SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author K. B. Hoyle
K. B. Hoyle is a wife to a wonderful husband, a mother to three little boys, and a classical educator. Her favorite genre to read and write is Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction, and from this...
View ArticleYA Report: “Pod” by Stephen Wallenfels
by Michelle Ristuccia POD by Stephen Wallenfels is a post-apocalyptic scifi YA that follows two teenage characters after the catastrophic arrival of the mysterious UFOs, nicknamed Pearls of Death. The...
View ArticleThe SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author Stephen Wallenfels
Stephen Wallenfels lives in the sunny desert of Eastern Washington. He enjoys spending time with his wife, and when the stars align, his Seattle-based son. His activities include any sport that uses a...
View ArticleEdge of the City – Setting-why it is important to get it right
By Sarah Hendrix There are several things that set Urban Fantasy apart from some of the other sub-genres of fantasy. For one, it features main characters that don’t quite fit into their world....
View ArticleEdge Of The City: Urban Fantasy – Reluctant Heroes
by Sarah Hendrix The heroes of Urban Fantasy aren’t your usual characters. They sling magic, change forms, drink blood and in some situations do much more. For the most part, they aren’t sword...
View ArticleYA Report: “Shadowfell” by Juliet Marillier
by Michelle Ristuccia Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier follows Neryn as she discovers her power and responsibility in the fight against king Keldec’s oppression of all things magic. The obstacles she...
View ArticleThe SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author Juliet Marillier
by Michelle Ristuccia Juliet Marillier is a New Zealand-born writer who now lives in Australia. Her historical fantasy novels for adult and young adult readers include the popular Sevenwaters series....
View ArticleYA Report: “Quantum Coin” by E. C. Myers
by Michelle Ristuccia Quantum Coin by E. C. Myers, sequel to Fair Coin, follows Ephraim and his friends as they attempt to puzzle out why parallel universes are disappearing, before the worlds that...
View ArticleYA Report: “Apollo’s Outcasts” by Allen Steele
by Michelle Ristuccia Apollo’s Outcasts by Allen Steele is a near-future YA following Jamey, a ‘looney’ who is crippled on Earth because of his lunar birth, as he and five other political refugees flee...
View ArticleYA Report: “Four Winds, One Storm: The Bone Brick City” by Aaron Hollingsworth
by Michelle Ristuccia “Four Winds, One Storm: The Bone Brick City” by Aaron Hollingsworth is the first in an epic Science Fantasy series following an unlikely band of crime fighters. In this first...
View ArticleYA Report: “The Crossing” by Mandy Hager
by Michelle Ristuccia The Crossing is the first of the Blood of the Lamb trilogy by Mandy Hager and takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a group calling themselves the Apostles of the Lamb...
View ArticleThe SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author Allen M. Steele
by Michelle Ristuccia Allen M. Steele was a journalist before turning to his first love, science fiction. Since then he has published eighteen novels and nearly a hundred short stories. His work has...
View ArticleYA Report: “London Eye” by Tim Lebbon
by Michelle Ristuccia London Eye is the first book in the Toxic City series by Tim Lebbon, set in near-future England after London has been cordoned off to contain Evolve, a virus that kills most of...
View ArticleThe SFFWRTCHT Interview: Tim Lebbon
by Michelle Ristuccia TIM LEBBON is a New York Times-bestselling writer from South Wales. He’s had almost thirty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories....
View ArticleThe SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author Mandy Hager
by Michelle Ristuccia Mandy Hager is a New Zealand author and educator. She writes fiction, non-fiction and scripts, with a drive to tell stories that speak of the important issues affecting the world...
View ArticleYA Report: “Earth Girl” by Janet Edwards
by Michelle Ristuccia Earth Girl by Janet Edwards brings us to Jarra’s Earth, in the year 2788, when travel between the stars is as easy as stepping through a portal. Except that, for “throwbacks”...
View ArticleThe SFFWRTCHT Interview: Author Janet Edwards
by Michelle Ristuccia Janet Edwards lives in England. As a child, she read everything she could get her hands on, including a huge amount of science fiction and fantasy. She studied Maths at Oxford,...
View ArticleYA Report: “Emilie & The Hollow Word” by Martha Wells
by Michelle Ristuccia Emilie & the Hollow World by Martha Wells is a YA gas light fantasy adventure that follows Emilie on her accidental journey to the center of the Earth. Martha Well’s strong...
View ArticleYA Report: “Cascade Effect” by Leah Petersen
by Michelle Ristuccia Cascade Effect, the sequel to Fighting Gravity by Leah Petersen, is a deeply moving science fiction novel told from the perspective of Jacob Dawes, the Emperor’s newly wed...
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