Photo Credit: Ashley Taft Nicole Taft writes fantasy, science fiction, and enjoys tossing in a bit of romance. She has a Bachelors in English and accidental minor in Japanese from Illinois State University, and a Master of Arts from Seton Hill University. When she’s not wreaking havoc on the page, she goes hiking and camping […]

Lolli Lisa, former book blogger, is as geeky as they come. Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, she (naturally) got a job in tech at a big corporation. She makes up for it by spending all her free time reading SF/F, watching TV (SF/F, crime dramas, anime), following esports, playing video […]

Kristina Elyse Butke reads, writes, and teaches, while occasionally indulging in cosplay and all things otaku. She has a BA in English Literature from Capital University and an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She writes fantasy, horror, and poetry, and her work has been published by ExFic, First Class Literary, and Synaeresis Magazine, among others. […]

Photo Credit Brian Roache By day, J. L. Gribble is a professional medical editor. By night, she does freelance fiction editing in all genres, along with reading, playing video games, and occasionally even writing. She is currently working on the Steel Empires series for Dog Star Books, the science-fiction/adventure imprint of Raw Dog Screaming Press. […]

Throughout her life, Casey Price has studied science, history, and literature at various institutes of higher learning. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in English with a concentration in Literature (with a particular focus on England’s Romantic and Victorian periods), without reading a great many of the so-called classics, and thus expects her university’s S.W.A.T. team […]

Writing, writing, always writing. © 2016 Carey M. Ballard Carey M. Ballard delights in sniffing books and telling people where to go. These activities often coincide with wandering the Midwest and snapping the best ill-timed photos ever. Carey thinks Chris Evans makes the best-ever Captain America and that Captain Janeway was totally badass, can’t wait […]

March 27, 2020 I really love heist stories — heists, capers, feats of daring-do and espionage — and I’m realizing that I need to explore more of them, since my overall experience is limited to things like Ocean’s Eleven and The Italian Job. I especially love when I can get these types of stories in […]

March 28, 2020 Welcome back to another episode of Weekly Roundup! I’m your host, Kristina, coming to you live from the Land of the Rising Sun on the ancient island of Kyushu. What sort of speculative adventures can you expect this week? We’ve got reviews, recommendations, special guests, and more to appeal to your every […]

March 28, 2020 Welcome back to another episode of Weekly Roundup! I’m your host, Kristina, coming to you live from the Land of the Rising Sun on the ancient island of Kyushu. What sort of speculative adventures can you expect this week? We’ve got reviews, recommendations, special guests, and more to appeal to your every […]

July 2, 2020 I had a great deal of fun with the first two books, and with the whole COVID madness thing in the world, I’d forgotten that April was the release date for the final book. Until I remembered. Then I promptly got on the library’s wait list for the eBook. I prefer to […]

February 25, 2020 In 2016 (the year reading challenges really took off on the Internet) a good friend asked if I’d like to do a reading challenge. Most of the challenges I’d seen so far that year were fluffy — nothing wrong with popular fiction, etc., but I’d been looking for something different, as was […]

June 9, 2020 During this here quarantine I’ve been video gaming like it’s my erstwhile commute. Which is to say, daily and multiple times a day. Throughout my time in isolation, I’ve made it a point to stick to things I find comforting and calming. In gaming terms, this would be Dragon Age: Inquisition, which […]

June 12, 2020 At Speculative Chic, we feature a lot of authors who share everything from their favorite things to the inspiration for their work. But why not also share their fiction? Welcome to Fiction Friday, where you’ll be able to sample the fiction of a variety of authors, including those who write at Speculative […]

April 27, 2019 Hello once again! I’m writing to you from lovely Kumamoto as the Heisei era winds down to its final days, and the new emperor Naruhito will ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne. That sounds so majestic as I write it! And I think it’s exciting to be able to say I’m living through my […]