Mermicide by Mina Rose
Richard Marpole
Elevator Pitch: Mermicide is the story of a queer romance between an innocent, psychologically damaged young woman, and a seemingly ageless, predatory mermaid. Also featuring wicked science, brutal violence, and…
LGBTQIA+
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
JC Kang
Mulan meets Swordsman 2. As a mostly-audiobook consumer with little time to actually read, it had taken me two weeks to finish Nghi Vo’s short novella, Empress of Salt and…
Big List of Julia’s Favourite Women Writing SFF
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
Some years back, I was prompted to look closely at my SFF shelves. Always preferring little to no romance, aside from very few exceptions, I found the ratio was quite…
An Incomplete List of Women Writing in SFF
Jennie Ivins
*Disclaimer* This is, as the title says, an incomplete list. I have tried to put each author in every subgenre they write in. It is very probable there are glaring…
The Worth of Hair by A. A. Freeman
A. M. Justice
In their original forms, fairy stories were often bloody and almost always filled with grim suffering. The grimmest of all were not the folk tales captured by the famous brothers…
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Reviewer’s Note: Upon finishing this novella, which took six days the first time around, I immediately wrote an initial review where I rated it 6/10 stars. Then, I re-read it,…
The Worth of Hair by A. A. Freeman – Cover Reveal & Interview
Good day Factioners! We have a treat for you! A cover made by one of my favorite artists, who also did the cover for the Fantasy-Faction Anthology! But I’m getting…
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart – Spoiler Free Review
Pippa
The Bone Shard Daughter is the first book in The Drowning Empire trilogy and marks Andrea Stewart’s debut into epic fantasy. It is a multi-perspective story set in a fictional…
Recommendations for SFF Authors of Various Identities
L. A. Young
Today’s society claims to be “woke” when it comes to the need for diversity, except we all know that isn’t true. The prejudice and bigotry presented on the news and…
Publishing and LGBT Erasure or My Issues with Robo-Boobs
A. A. Freeman
I always knew someone would tell me to add a Sexy Lady Robot to my book. When I first starting writing my novel, Echo of the Larkspur, I set out…
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
Jo Niederhoff
Karen Memory is the sort of book I’d like to write someday, and the sort I wish I could read more often. If you need to lose yourself in a…