Welcome once more to Women in SFF!

We are back for our fourth year celebrating and giving a platform to women in the SFF genres, and now we’ve reached the end of our second week

Each week, we’ll try and round up all this wonderful content into one summary-wrap-up post – if we’ve missed you, please comment and link below! We’d love to see the ways you’re taking part.

Week One

So, what have you all been up to…?

Reviews

It’s been a quiet first week for reviews so far this year…

Beth reviewed Chasm by Stacey McEwan:

..a deeper read than her sister, plumbing new depths of her characters. Some questions are answered, but as all good Second Books do, they merely raise more questions and mysteries

Nils reviewed The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem:

blazes with rich worldbuilding, compelling characters and magic that will leave you singed.

And over on Instagram,

Carla reviewed The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao:

The magic is so well built, the world is luxurious and lush, but with a sense of impending doom.

Jordan reviewed The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem:

I am honestly so impressed that this is a debut! It has some of my all time favorite tropes and was executed so well!

SahiBookNerd reviewed The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao:

I have been thoroughly thrilled by this debut science fantasy, with a very unique and complex world which got my brain working quite a bit, and characters who can be infuriating but I couldn’t help but love them

Posts, Articles and Threads

There were plenty of ways we all celebrated Women in SFF this week –

• We shared an exclusive excerpt from Sylvia Mercedes’ upcoming fantasy romance Bride of the Shadow King: read here
• We also shared an exclusive excerpt of Gabriele Houston’s Slavic-folklore inspired fantasy The Bone Roots: read here
• Lavanya Lakshminarayan, author of The Ten Percent Thief, wrote a fascinating guest post about the rise of AI: read here
• Nils interviewed H. M. Long  on the publication of her nautical fantasy Dark Water Daughter: read here
• Nils also interviewed Sara Hashem on her upcoming debut novel The Jasad Heir: read here
• Talonsister author Jen Williams returned to the Hive and explored the folklore influences on her writing: read here
• J. R. Dawson joined us for an interview on their spellbinding debut novel The First Bright Thing: read here
• We shared an excerpt from The Pomegranate Gate, Ariel Kaplan’s Jewish-folklore inspired historical fantasy: read here
• K. E. Andrews joined us for a chat about her SPFBO experience and her novel Hills of Heather and Bone: read here
• Juliet McKenna, author of the Arthurian retelling The Cleaving, wrote a very interesting guest post discussing the male gaze in fantasy: read here

• And we shared our sent Friday Favourites post, looking at our Top Three favourites authors we either discovered through Women in SFF or discovered recently: read here

Photo Challenge

And finally, the photo challenge. This year, we scaled it back with only the three prompts a week, but the response has been bigger than ever!

Mon 10th: Welcome to the Sisterhood

2023 debut

Wed 12th: Favourite Audio Narrators

or Most memorable female narrative voice

Fri 14th: Friday Favourites

Favourite author discovered through WSFF or Newly discovered favourite female author