Tag: interviews

PA Spotlight Book Club Online – Oct. 23

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I’m excited to join the PA Spotlight Book Club to discuss Saturnalia! Meet us online on Thursday, Oct. 23, 6-7pm EST.

This event is in partnership with one of my favorite bookstores, A Novel Idea, a community-minded bookstore and event space based in East Passyunk, Philadelphia, run by Alexander Schneider and Christina Rosso-Schneider. Read more about A Novel Idea and purchase your books here.

Register and submit your questions for me here, and join the Discord group chat to discuss the book as you go.

Ten Minutes with the Coode Street Podcast

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Thanks to Gary Wolfe and the Coode Street Podcast for inviting me to discuss my favorite recent books and reading and writing during the pandemic. You can download the episode here or find it on your favorite podcast app.

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Crawford Award winner Stephanie Feldman joins Gary to talk about the unexpected complexities of virtual Kindergarten; writing about young adult characters and their attraction to the unknown; the appeal of short fiction by Daphne Du Maurier, Joan Aiken, and Angela Carter; the rewards of reading nonfiction; and her recent story “The Staircase” (published in the July 2020 issue of F&SF).

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Interview with From the Earth to the Stars

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I recently spoke to From the Earth and the Stars, the Asimov’s Science Fiction blog, about my new story “The Albatwitch Chorus.” I confessed to things like:

This idea, like most of my ideas, came both quickly and slowly. When I learned about the albatwitch, a kind of mini-Sasquatch from Pennsylvania folklore, I knew I wanted to write about it. I like cryptids and have a weirdly specific phobia of uncanny, humanoid tricksters.

Read the whole interview here.

#ForewordFaceOff Interview

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We also recognize that in order to fight for your values you must first be able to articulate them. My favorite response to the Writers Resist event came from an attendee who walked in with skepticism. He thought there was little use in preaching to the choir. In the end, he found a lot of value in publicly and collectively affirming our beliefs and our commitment to fighting for them.

(I said.)

Thank you to Foreword Reviews for interviewing us about Who Will Speak for America? Read the whole piece here.

Interview with the F&SF Blog

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Usually my process is thorny and angst-ridden, but I had so much fun writing this story. Maybe it comes back to my inspiration—the reckless energy of the music—or maybe it was imagining those kids speeding through the dark woods, both hunter and hunted. It was all adventure. (The characters would likely disagree.)

Read my whole interview about writing “The Barrens” at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction blog.