I’m happy to present a writer on this site whose career took off in the 21st Century. I haven’t highlighted enough writers of the modern era yet. Leslie Claire Walker is one of the first. Her short fiction has appeared…
Author: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Guest Blog by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
As I promised earlier in the week, I’m sharing guest blogs from the women who have books in the Women in Fantasy Storybundle that’s available until February 23. First up, Katharine Eliska “Cat” Kimbriel. Cat hit the field with a…
Women in Fantasy Storybundle
As I mentioned in the overall post for this site, I’m doing several women in science fiction projects. Although, really, that’s not entirely accurate. I’m doing women in sf/f genre work. That includes women in fantasy. One of the most…
Women of Futures Past
The first anthology in what I hope will become a series of anthologies has just become available for preorder. Women of Futures Past contains some (not even close to all!) of the stories I would love to teach in my…
Guest Blog by Toni Weisskopf
When it became clear to me that the sf field was losing its history, particularly the history of women in the field, I decided to do an anthology. And I immediately knew who would be the perfect publisher/editor: Toni Weisskopf…
Guest Blog by Pamela Sargent
One of the most important books published in the past forty years in the science fiction genre—or perhaps in any genre—is Pamela Sargent’s Women of Wonder. Although many editors have done similar books in the ensuing years, none have had…
Guest Blog by Ginjer Buchanan
I continue in my quest to show that women have had a place in science fiction since the beginning of the genre. Just as with the previous guest blog, this one is from one of the field’s long-term editors. Ginjer…
Guest Blog by Sheila Williams
One of the myths that exists concerning women’s relationships with science fiction is that editors didn’t (and don’t) want fiction from women. The corollary myth is that women have had to hide their identities under androgynous names like Leigh or…
Adventurous Pulpy Women
I happen to love Asgard Press’s Vintage Science Fiction Wall Calendar. We get it every year. Since I started editing the women in sf project, I’ve been quite sensitive to images of women and stories by women from the past. …
Spanish Women of Wonder
I love this new world of publishing. And I do mean “world.” The changes in publishing have enabled a number of new projects to come into existence. One that’s struggling to be born is this one, from Spain. It’s a…