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Queer Creator Spotlight-Publishers Allied: FairSquare Graphics
Greetings comic book geeks, aficionados, nerds fanatic and all around appreciators! For this installment of the "Queer Creators Spotlight" we're doing something a little different and going to talk to one of the most unique and diverse indy publishers out there today....
Interview with Tessa Yang Author of The Jellyfish Problem
Tessa Yang is the author of the short story collection The Runaway Restaurant. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Cincinnati Review, Joyland, Foglifter, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Indiana University and currently...
Interview with the Creators of Hey, Mary!, Andrew Wheeler and Rye Hickman
Andrew Wheeler is a Toronto–based author born and raised in the south of England. His work includes the globetrotting heist comic Cat Fight, the occult noir Sins of the Black Flamingo, feminist fantasy comic Another Castle, and queer sports comedy Love and War. He is...
Interview with Mara Rutherford, Author of The Demonic Inventions of Aurelie Blake
Mara Rutherford began her writing career as a journalist but quickly discovered she far preferred fantasy to reality. Originally from California, Mara has since lived all over the world with her Marine-turned-diplomat husband. A triplet born on Leap Day, Mara holds a...
Interview with Rose Viña-Kathy, Author of Alicia Alonso Dances On
First of all, welcome to Geeks OUT! Could you tell us a little about yourself? Hi! I’m a Cuban American writer from California. I earned my MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge. ICE BREAKER: How Mabel Fairbanks Changed Figure Skating was...
Interview with Cassandra Khaw, Author of The Library at Hellebore
CASSANDRA KHAW is an award-winning game writer, and USA Today bestseller. Khaw's work can be found in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Khaw's first original novella, Hammers on Bone, was a British Fantasy award and Locus award...
Rebelle Interviews: Author & Illustrator Katie Risor
Children’s book author and illustrator Katie Risor is an artist of whimsy and wonder whose work maintains a loveliness that glows off the page. Welcome to the Forest: The Harvest Party, book one in her debut and seasonally-themed series was released back in August of...
Interview, with Peace Mbengei, Author of We Run the Night
Peace Mbengei grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. She graduated from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelors degree in Medicine & Surgery and earned a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of London. She was longlisted for the 2019 Writivism short story...
Interview with Kat Cho, Author of Gods & Comics
Kat Cho used to hide books under the bathroom sink and then sneak in there to read after bedtime. Her parents pretended not to know. This was helpful when she decided to write a dinosaur time-travel novel at the tender age of nine. Sadly,...
Interview with A.Y. Chao, Author of the Shanghai Immortal Series
A.Y. Chao is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Shanghai Immortal, the first in a trilogy following the shenanigans of charmingly profane, irreverent, sometimes petulant but always entertaining half hulijing fox spirit Lady Jing. She’s lived in Calgary, Taipei,...