Tea in Space: Blood Moon

Check out or new official icon! Woohoo!! We are so sexy. Join Janet, Kitti, Lillie and me for tea and conversation, as we discuss the universe of genre fiction. This month, we partake of some lovely blackberry tea and discuss MR Sellars’ latest effort, Blood Moon. Click here to listen. Tweet

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Genre Chick Interview: Jim C. Hines

A fairy tale girl at heart, I was ridiculously excited about literary jester Jim C. Hines’s new young adult series. The Stepsister Scheme can be best described as Disney princesses crossed with Charlie’s Angels.  The story is a whole new take on what happened to Cinderella and her prince after the wedding. No… what really happened. In this month’s…

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Tea in Space: Watchmen

The League of Extraordinary Ladies Join Kitti, Alethea, Lillie, and Janet this month as we share some English Breakfast, toast Lillie’s birthday, and chat about Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel Watchmen. Oh yes, even comic book geek chicks have tea parties too! You can listen to the podcast here. The Fantastic Four of Ingram Book Company Tweet

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Tea in Space: Extraordinary Engines

Peach Tea & Stupendous Steampunk! Join the Genre Chicks Lillie, Kitti, Alethea, and Janet for this month’s podcast, where we discuss Extraordinary Engines, a steampunk anthology edited by Nick Gevers. Listen in on the conversation here. What you can’t hear in the background is the banging from the Men on the Roof — Ingram is in month four of…

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Genre Chick Interview: Ann & Jeff Vandermeer

Two for the price of one! This month, Genre Chick Alethea Kontis sits down with dynamic publishing duo Ann and Jeff Vandermeer. Ann is the fiction editor for Weird Tales magazine; her husband Jeff is an award-winning author. Together they often join forces and co-edit some out-of-this-world anthologies.  ************************* Alethea Kontis: What are the biggest challenges of working…

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How’s the Weather?

It may be Hotter Than Hell but the Dark Side has cookies! This month, join Genre Chick Alethea Kontis as she shares iced tea in the summer heat with sweet and spicy romance author Jackie Kessler. Enjoy! Read the interview here. Tweet

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Genre Chick Interview: Jackie Kessler

It may be Hotter Than Hell but the Dark Side has cookies! This month, join Genre Chick Alethea Kontis as she shares iced tea in the summer heat with sweet and spicy romance author Jackie Kessler. Enjoy! ************* Alethea Kontis: What exactly are succubi and incubi? What drew you to write about them as opposed to the traditional characters…

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Genre Chick Interview: Edmund Schubert

In October of 2005, Orson Scott Card launched Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show—an online magazine featuring spectacular science fiction and fantasy tales, gorgeous professional artwork, and an original story from Card’s Ender universe in every issue. Less than a year later, he named SF bad man Edmund Schubert editor of the now-quarterly ‘zine. A new anthology compiles a…

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Genre Chick Interview: Shane Berryhill

Ironman, Batman, Hellboy, Hulk–it’s certainly a splendid summer of superheroes at the cinema! Are your young adult readers hungry for more? Check out Chance Fortune and the Outlaws (The Adventures of Chance Fortune) –a superhero cut from a slightly different cloth. Join me as I infiltrate the lair of creator Shane Berryhill to find out more about what makes…

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Genre Chick Interview: Sarah Addison Allen

Sarah Addison Allen’s debut novel Garden Spells was one of my all-time favorte books. I was pleased to find that her sophomore effort, The Sugar Queen, was equally delicious and her characters just as memorable as they were colorful. There’s Josey, the rich girl with a closet full of romance novels, a secret cache of sweets, and a squatter-cum-fairy-godmother named Della…

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