BELINDA: Tell us about Aleesha, what makes her an antiheroine? ALISON: Aleesha is a survivor. She’s had to fend for herself on the streets since she was six years old in one of the roughest parts of a dystopian city. […]
BELINDA: Tell us about the science in your books. KRISTIN: My first two books, After the Green Withered and Burden of Truth, were born from research I had done while writing a graduate course in environmental education. The course I […]
BELINDA: Tell us about Flow. CLARE: Flow centres around Quin, a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in The Beck, a walled-in community constantly threatened by floodwaters. Regular appraisals are a way of life, but when the shocking results of their most […]
Way back when, I used to play a story-based roleplay game set in the Star Trek universe. I never got into the nuts and bolts of Star Trek (I was just there for the writing), but I had time to […]
BELINDA: Tell us about the science in the Selfless Series. My Teen Sci-fi Romance book series “Selfless” is about a 17-year-old girl who gets transported to a parallel world and gets mistaken for her genius scientist alternate self whose life […]
I’m an idea magpie, picking up bits of inspiration from everywhere (books, movies, songs, games, random conversations, etc), most of which find their way into my stories. Cold Between Stars is no exception. Below are two of the books and […]
BELINDA: Tell us about Alastair Iszler. MISTY: Where to begin without giving any spoilers away from my first book: The Outcasts: The Blood Dagger: Volume 1 . . . I feel like I need one of those intricate, impossible-to-read maps—you […]
Sami Valentine is the author of the urban fantasy series, The Red Witch Chronicles. When she agreed to an interview, I was expecting the usual written response to my questions, and then she sent me a link, and surprise! I […]
BELINDA: Tell us about living amongst other cultures. GLENDA: I’m a white Australian, but I married a man from an Islamic culture that is also Asian and matriarchal. (Hey, every woman should marry into a matriarchy, right?) At 25, I […]
Shiulie Ghosh is a TV journalist, chicken curry devotee and author of the Daughter of Kali series, about an Anglo-Indian teen, Hindu mythology and butt-kicking awesomeness. (Psst. These are so on my to-read list!) BELINDA: Tell us about Daughter of […]