Nalini Haynes interviews fantasy author Jennifer Fallon in the above podcast (MP3) and below video (MP4). Jennifer Fallon left school at 15 and has has worked as a youth worker, a store detective, shop assistant, an advertising sales rep and executive secretary, among other things. She has managed 2 hire car companies, an ISP, a […]

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Nalini Haynes interviews Dr Francesca Haig, Visiting Writing Fellow (University of Chester),  in the podcast (MP3, above) and the video (MP4, below). Francesca grew up in Tasmania, gained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and was a senior lecturer at the University of Chester. Her poetry has been published in literary journals and anthologies […]

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Ben Aaronovitch was the guest of honor at Contact2016, Australia’s national science fiction and fantasy convention for 2016. While he was here I took advantage of a good Skype connection and being in (almost) the same time zone to interview him. Melanie Saward of Contact2016 asked me not to raise multiculturalism or representation in the interview so […]

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For too long, straight white non-disabled privileged characters have dominated literature. Fiona Wood, Michael Pryor and Meg Mundell have each written diverse characters: ethnic diversity, characters with disabilities and homeless teenagers. Nalini Haynes asks them about diversity in YA, their inspirations and why diversity is important. Fiona Wood Fiona Wood’s first young adult novel, Six Impossible Things, […]

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Internationally award-winning and best-selling romance author Anne Gracie talks to Nalini Haynes about her novels and career. This interview is available in audio-only (MP3, above) and in video format (MP4, below). Introducing Anne Gracie Anne spent her childhood on the move when her father’s job took them around the world. The gypsy life taught her […]

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The first time I heard about Kelley Grant was in an email from Caroline Perny, a HarperCollins publicist in New York. Caro said: I wanted to share a forthcoming Harper Voyager Impulse book with you: DESERT RISING, on-sale 4/21. It’s a really special, entertaining epic fantasy from debut author Kelley Grant. Publishers Weekly recently awarded […]

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Recently I interviewed Tripod. The award-winning storytelling band not the instrument. Tripod is a trio of musicians: Scod (Scott Edgar), Yon (Simon Hall) and Gatesy (Steven Gates). Over the course of an eighteen-year collaboration, the trio has covered a wide variety of performance styles and subject matter, anything from 3 men in space to a fictional […]

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In 2015, Nalini Haynes interviewed Joe Abercrombie about his Shattered Sea trilogy. Below are the planned introduction and interview questions. Joe Abercrombie spent much of his youth playing computer games, rolling dice, and drawing maps of places that don’t exist. He went on to Manchester University to study Psychology. The dice and the maps stopped, […]

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The Queers Destroy Science Fiction edition of Lightspeed Magazine is currently open on Kickstarter for financial contributions. Contributions’ terms and conditions are also listed on the kickstarter page. Lightspeed Magazine says Lightspeed is a science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: […]

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At PAX Australia 2014, the minion and Nalini talked to Sebastian Perri and Jonathan Strugnell. They taught computer games developers. This is that interview… AIE  The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) is Australia’s most awarded 3D animation, game design and visual FX educator. Created as a non-profit organisation to grow the creative digital sector, AIE […]

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