Sigrid Ellis is a woman of many talents. She is not only an editor with some impressive credits to her name (she co–edited the Hugo–nominated Chicks Dig Comics with Lynne M. Thomas, and co–edited Queers Dig Time Lords with Michael Damian Thomas, and the comic Pretty Deadly), but also an author of fiction and non–fiction, an air traffic controller, a blogger, and a home–schooling mom to boot.
Read MoreInterview with Incoming Editor-in-Chief Sigrid EllisFrom the beginning women have played a central role in horror fiction and film in India and China — not just as victims, but as protagonists, and even as villains.
Read MoreWomen in Pre–1947 Chinese and Indian Horror Fiction and FilmThe summer air, already electric with the violence of the war, the assassination attempts successful and unsuccessful, the anti–war riots, became super–charged with the rumor.
Read MoreDispatches from the Revolution
The moon came up and the sun went down. The moonbeams went shattering down to the ground and the jackalope wives took off their skins and danced.
They danced like young deer pawing the ground, they danced like devils let out of hell for the evening. They swung their hips and pranced and drank their fill of cactus–fruit wine.
Read MoreJackalope WivesIn November of 2013 my family and I traveled to Guatemala. We looked at old churches and new coffee plantations, we roasted marshmallows in the vents at the top of an active volcano, we rode horses and ziplined through the jungle.
Read MoreResolute: Notes from the Editor-in-ChiefThe first time I met Lynne and Michael Thomas was at the 2012 Worldcon in Chicago, IL. Along with my senior editor, Janet Harriett, the four of us had gathered at a nearby café to grab a bite to eat and enjoy some coffee.
Read MoreWords from the PublisherMaria Dahvana Headley is not your average writer. She wears ball gowns and tiaras while writing on occasion. In New York, she once dated everyone who asked her out for a whole year just to see what would happen.
Read MoreInterview with Maria Dahvana HeadleyA few years ago, someone in the publishing industry crossed out a line I wrote in a novel. I’m pretty good with taking criticism; I don’t usually get gooey over the words I write, even if the stories are close to my heart.
Read MoreAnother World Waits: Towards an Anti-Oppressive SFFI was supposed to go to the ball, but I spent the night licking out my stepsister instead.
Read MoreAll That Fairy Tale Crap