Strong Women, Strange Worlds

6 authors * 8 minutes each! Let our slate of women and nonbinary authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror delight and amaze you. Every Strong Women - Strange Worlds QuickRead is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get! This SWSW QuickRead features: -Mari Costa-Jessica Levai-Elizabeth R. McClellan-CB Lee-Celia Seupel-Caitlin Rozakis-with K (Kel...

Morgan Chalut lives in Dallas, Texas with her delightfully handsome and silly, charming, supportive and lovely husband, Philip. They have two dogs together: Caramel, who absolutely wants to be your friend, and Sammie, who very definitely does not. She hopes to continue to discover characters and worlds she can plot and explore. You can find Morgan, and her other novels online at the links below. W...

S.I Clarke shares her home with her partner and an assortment of waifs and strays. When not writing convoluted, inefficient stories, she spends her time telling financial services firms to behave more efficiently. When not doing either of those things, she can be found in the pub or shouting at people online — occasionally practising efficiency by doing both at once. As someone who’s neurodivergen...

An experienced writer, Joan is the author of the nonfiction books Voyager: Exploring the Outer Planets and Boldly Writing as well as the novels Twelve, Defying the Ghosts, Sword of Queens, The Arachne Portal, Wondry Dragon Finds a Home, Countdown to Action!, Action Alert!, Deadly Danger!, Situation: Critical! , Extreme Hazard! , and Danger Zone! plus numerous short stories and articles. She is a m...

Samantha Bryant is a middle school Spanish teacher by day and a mom and novelist by night. That makes her a superhero all the time. Her secret superpower is finding lost things. When she's not writing or teaching, Samantha enjoys time with her family, watching old movies, baking, reading, and going places. Her favorite gift is tickets (to just about anything). You can find her Menopausal Superhero...

Karen Hough is a writer, editor and  blogger  with an Honours BSc. in Human Kinetics. She's more than just a finicky grammar nerd, though a finicky grammar nerd she is.  As a Canadian, I can handle either neighbor or neighbour, and prefer to go without the Oxford comma, but can be flexible if needed. My favourite thing is creating content with impact, whether it be your work of fict...

Barbara Krasnoff divides her time between writing short speculative fiction and editing tech as Reviews Editor for  The Verge . Her book The History of Soul 2065 is coming out in June, 2019 from Mythic Delirium Books . It is a “mosaic novel” made up of interconnection short stories about two uncanny families through several generations. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of publicati...

Jenn Gott is an author, fangirl, and jack of all hobbies who writes about sapphic leads fighting against darkness and falling in love. She lives in a fairytale forest where, when she's not writing, you can usually find her playing life simulation games, sketching, or entertaining her rambunctious cat. You can find Jenn online on these platforms. Twitter Mastodon Instagram Website #lesbiansuperhero...

Elaine lives in Florida where she writes horror, and regularly appears on podcasts and participates in Women in Horror writing prompts. Elaine enjoys a robust full moon, chocolate, paddleboarding, and collecting cats. You can find her online on the following platforms. Twitter Facebook Instagram TikTok LinkedIn Website

Valerie Valdes’s work has been featured in Uncanny Magazine , Time Travel Short Stories and Nightmare Magazine . Her debut novel Chilling Effect was published by Harper Voyager in September 2019 and Orbit UK in February 2020, with starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal . It was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was also named one of Library Journal’s best SF/fanta...

Terri Bruce has been making up adventure stories for as long as she can remember. Like Anne Shirley, she prefers to make people cry rather than laugh, but is happy if she can do either. She is the author of the paranormal/contemporary fantasy "Afterlife" series, which includes Hereafter (Afterlife #1) and Thereafter (Afterlife #2), and several science fiction and fantasy short stories, including "...

Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s short fiction has been featured in  The Adirondack Review, Orca Lit, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Carpe Articulum Literary Review,  Afternoon,  I Like Monkeys, New Witch Magazine, MudRock: Stories & Tales,  and many, many others; by far, however, her favorite short pieces are those she wrote specifically for anthologies as diverse as  Unn...

Karen Heuler is a prolific writer who has been writing since the 1980's first in literature and later in both science fiction and dark fantasy genres.  You can find her online on Twitter and on her Website .  #sciencefiction #politicalsatire #magic

Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book , a historical fantasy novel, and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (2018/2019). Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury , and The Magician's Workshop , published by Choice of Games. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locu...

Elle E. Ire resides in the Disney-created town of Celebration, Florida, with her spouse and two dogs. A graduate of the University of Miami, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in creative writing but left the MFA program when they refused to allow her to write genre fiction, instead receiving a Master’s in Literature mostly made up of writing courses. Currently, she teaches writing to middle school...

Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and mysteries in her early days. To her, the letter “A” means Asimov, Andre Norton, and Agatha Christie! Now that her kids have flown the coop, leaving behind the writer’s requisite cats, she’s gone back to her early loves with short stories that veer into several genres (sci-fi, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and horror). Carol is the...

Britta Jensen’s debut YA novel Eloia Born won the 2019 Writer’s League of Texas YA Discovery Prize and was long-listed for the 2016 Exeter Novel Prize. Reviewers are calling the book “both a dystopian narrative and a quest story; consider it a spiritual successor to Lois Lowry’s  The Giver  and M. Night Shyamalan’s  The Village .”  You can find Britta online at these sites. Web...

Juggling her roles as a wife, mom, and pet-wrangler doesn’t leave much free time, but what time Claudia has is filled to the brim with creating sci-fi and fantasy novels set in some worlds that are slightly familiar and some that are totally unique and new. Taking inspiration from all kinds of media, from Dungeons & Dragons to the Dresden Files as well as Alan Dean Foster and so much more, Cla...

Amy Grech has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including: A New York State of Fright, Apex Magazine, Dead Harvest, Flashes of Hope, Gorefest, Hell’s Heart, Hell’s Highway, Hell’s Mall, Microverses, Needle Magazine, Punk Noir Magazine, Scare You To Sleep, Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Tales from The Lake Vol. 3, The One That Got Away, Thriller Magazine, and many ot...

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E. C. Ambrose writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction, including DRAKEMASTER (Guardbridge, April 2022) about a clockwork doomsday device based on Su Song's astronomical clock of 1090 CE, the Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery, and the Bone Guard archaeological thrillers .  She is a graduate of, and sometime instructor for, the Odyssey Speculative Fiction Workshop, and lives in the...

Author Patricia Correll talks about her re-telling of a Brother's Grimm Fairy Tale - Juniper Bird. For more information on the author and her books, please visit her social media sites. Twitter Facebook Books: Amazon  #fantasy #fairytales