October 11, 2019
Greetings, faithful servants! Slip into that trusty white lab coat; wash those hands before sliding on your latex gloves; and don’t forget the proper eyewear! Get ready for a jolt to your electrodes as we mash some monsters for this month’s Roundtable! We’ve invited Speculative Chic contributors to share our favorite beastly horrors with you. From sexy to scary, bad…
October 10, 2019
Day 10 of our ongoing October horror movie series here at Speculative Chic — and now for more sunny horror for The Kasturi/Files! Chitchat, film discussion, book recs, and cocktail ideas from Gemma Files and Sandra Kasturi!
October 10, 2019
I write a lot about conventions — preparing, attending, volunteering. For this month’s column, I thought folks might find it interesting to peek into the backstage of how a con gets made. Multiverse Con is coming up next week, so the timing is really perfect. I run the WRITE Track for that convention and in this video, I talk about…
October 9, 2019
One of the most common questions authors face is a deceptively difficult one to answer: “Where do you get your ideas?” Yet, the answers to that common question can be almost as interesting as the resulting story. Welcome to You’re My Inspiration, a new column dedicated to discovering what inspires a particular author and their work. Whether it be a…
October 9, 2019
The High Unholy Days of October continue with The Kasturi/Files at Speculative Chic, now with a spanking new movie for Day 9! Plus, of course, cocktail and book pairings. Today we’re covering the ’90s horror classic, Candyman.
October 9, 2019
Whether it’s your first time or your hundredth, running a Dungeons and Dragons game can be intimidating. Every group will be unique and game will have its own flow but there are a few ways to help any game run a little smoother. Here are 5 quick tips on running your own Dungeons and Dragons game.
October 8, 2019
Welcome back to The Kasturi/Files at Speculative Chic, Day 8 of our October horror show of movies, books, and cocktails! We’re covering a couple of older movies today, so if you haven’t seen these yet, well, we guess there are spoilers? But, come on. There has to be a “best before” date. Like if the movie came out twenty years…
October 8, 2019
I first heard about Carnival Row from literally one million twelve second ads in promoted tweets on my twitter feed and while intrigued, didn’t really think much of it. Then I discovered it had Orlando Bloom (happy sigh) and Cara Delevingne (another happy sigh) as star-crossed lovers, and I got a hell of a lot more invested. No spoilers, I…
October 7, 2019
Welcome back to The Kasturi/Files at Speculative Chic! It’s Day 7 of our horror movie month-long romp through our favorite eerie films. Today we conclude our tour of Scandinavia with the Norwegian film, Trollhunter! SPOILERS, spoilers, we got yer spoilers right here!
October 7, 2019
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Erin Michelle Sky and Steven Brown, the dynamic duo behind…