They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Jeff Young, who is participating […]

Andrea Judy is a writer who makes her home in Atlanta, Georgia. Passionate about language, she writes in multiple genres, and has had poems and short stories appear in various literary magazines as well as in several anthologies. She also studies and writes about fandom and video games. Her first digest novel, The Bone Queen, […]

They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Troy Harkin, whose twisted poetry […]

The Pisces (2018) Written by: Melissa Broder Genre: Fiction Pages: 270 (Hardback) Publisher: Hogarth Why I Chose It: After reading Mira Grant’s mermaid novel Into the Drowning Deep and Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus’ romantic tale about a woman and an amphibious man, The Shape of Water, a love story featuring a merman sounded […]

They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Sandra Kasturi, whose short story, […]

Can you believe that we’re already through the first four months of the Speculative Chic Book Club? One thing we’ve learned is that everyone gets their hands on books a little differently, and as a result, they may need a little more time to do so and finish reading. Between that and social distancing making […]

March 17, 2020 Are you hiding from the outside world right now? Practicing “social isolation”? Welcome to my life! There are always good reasons to stay inside, especially if you’re an extreme introvert. However, there are other good reasons to sequester yourself. You may live in an area where COVID-19 has arrived. I’m so very […]

Strap yourselves in, kiddos — we’re going to talk about one of the recent travesties to come out of the coronavirus pandemic; one that hurts the literary community in a substantial way. Now I’m not a lawyer, but I’m a creator, and the onus is on creators to familiarize themselves with the laws that are […]

How do you get to the wondrous realms of speculative fiction? Why, you open a door and fall into another world, or pass through a gateway, one of which is the “The Jane Yolen Memorial Gateway to the West” — the arch through which you step, tentatively at first, elated but nervous, into the map. […]

March 21, 2020 Another week has come and gone, and that means it’s time for your favorite recap! As always, we’re bringing you reviews of genre greats, special guests, awesome advice, and the great escapism that the speculative genre provides — especially needed during these trying times. While you may be asked to stay homebound, […]

January 11, 2020 Hey, hey, hey! I’ve returned from my trip to Korea to visit family, and I have to give many kudos to Shara for taking the reins on my editing duties and all the Weekly Roundups while I was out. Thanks for your awesome work! And now I get to state my disbelief […]

They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Danielle Ackley-McPhail, whose Baba Ali […]

The Odyssey Writing Workshop is a six-week course that takes place every summer on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Like many contributors at Speculative Chic, I had the privilege of attending, and I graduated in 2005 with today’s guest writer, Scott H. Andrews, the World Fantasy Award-winning editor of Beneath Ceaseless […]

On the weekend of October 18-20, 2019, a brand new event was birthed! Multiverse Con, almost two years in the making, finally happened! Multiverse was created with the idea that each of us is our own universe, bringing uniqueness to our fandom, that there is room in the multiverse for all of us. We wanted […]