{"id":8133,"date":"2016-05-07T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2016-05-06T20:53:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T00:53:17","slug":"talkcast-315-books-for-ya-middle-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8133","title":{"rendered":"TalkCast 315 – Books For YA & Middle Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenise Aminoff & Susan Jane Bigelow<\/a> join us\u00a0to discuss the craziness that is the Kickstarter<\/a> of their new books The Witch’s Kitche<\/a>n and The Demon Girl’s Song<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"JenniseJenise talks about her secret identity, Dianna Sanchez<\/a> , and why she feels it’s so important to use it. This is her debut novel. She also shares details about being a an MIT alumna, her time as an editor of New Myths<\/a> magazine, teaching science in the Boston Public Schools and her Preschool Chef<\/em> cooking class for children ages 3-5<\/p>\n

Susan Jane Bigelow is a fiction writer, political columnist, and<\/p>\n

\"Susanlibrarian. She mainly writes science fiction and fantasy novels, most notably the Extrahuman Union<\/em><\/a> series from Book Smugglers Publishing<\/a>. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons<\/em>, Apex Magazine<\/em>, Lightspeed Magazine<\/em>\u2019s \u201cQueers Destroy Science Fiction\u201d issue, and the Lamba Award-winning \u201cThe Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard<\/em>,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

The discussion wandered as it usually does to talk about their writing styles, the importance of young readers, The Locus Awards<\/a>, the importance of diversity in writers and subject matter, how they work and their affiliation with Dreaming Robot Press<\/a>. It\u2019s a refreshing conversation with 2 very literate and entertaining authors.<\/p>\n <\/span>\nhttp:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast315.mp3<\/a><\/audio>

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