December 17, 2019
When I originally watched IT: Chapter One in theaters, I had some mixed reactions. Yet, in the intervening years, IT became something resembling a favorite. So I was a little wary when friends of mine saw IT: Chapter Two on opening weekend and gave it a shrug as a review, with the added explanation of, “It was long.” Given their…
November 15, 2019
In 2005, I was privileged to attend the Odyssey Writing Workshop at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. My particular class (not that I’m biased or anything) had this amazing synergy together, and one of my fellow writers was Scott H. Andrews. Scott, ever the champion of literary adventure fantasy, went on to create Beneath Ceaseless Skies, which just won…
November 11, 2019
This is a hard post to write. Earlier this year, Sandra Kasturi of ChiZine Publications reached out to me with a wicked cool idea: a daily post in October that would feature a horror movie paired with a cocktail. The idea was right up my alley, so she and I began making plans to pull off the ambitious project. I…
November 2, 2019
It’s been a wild and wacky October, and at Speculative Chic, we decided that our devoted Weekly Round-Up Editor Kristina deserved a vacation, so we shooed her off into relaxation! With Kristina gone, it’s up to your Editor-in-Chic to catch you up on all of the goodies you might’ve missed this past week, so settle in and take a quick…
November 1, 2019
We came, we saw, and we lost steam. It’s nobody’s fault, really, that our first attempt at launching a book club didn’t gather a crowd. But I am nothing if not persistent, so I sat down with our previous book club moderator, Merrin, and we hashed out what we could do differently in the future. And we were both, if…
October 15, 2019
Much like the television shows we get sucked into on cable or network television, The Kasturi/Files is taking a mid-season break. Wait, what? That’s right, for Day 15, we’re allowing our awesome authors Gemma Files and Sandra Kasturi to recover from their Canadian Thanksgiving, and if all goes well, we’ll be back tomorrow with not just one, but two movies…
August 17, 2019
You know what they say…. time flies when you’re having fun, or when you’re so busy you forget what day of the week it is and you promised one of your contributors you’d take over the weekly roundup! Never fear! Your Editor-in-Chic shook herself off from dreaming about the weekend to make sure you had everything you need to stay…
August 8, 2019
Another year, another installment in J.L. Gribble’s urban fantasy/alternate history series! Speculative Chic’s resident Marvel Cinematic Universe fangirl-in-chic is taking a break from obsessing over all the new MCU Phase 4 news to share her latest book, Steel Shadows. This looks different from anything else in the series so far, but if you like a dose of weird with your fantasy,…
August 6, 2019
For better or worse, I’ve been bingeing a lot of television lately. Not all of it is speculative fiction: I could drone on for hours about how absolutely amazing HBO’s mini-series Chernobyl is, or how refreshing it was to see True Detective get back on track in season three, but that’s not what you’re here for. I’ve already discussed the…
August 1, 2019
The Magicians (2009) Written by: Lev Grossman Theme: Magical Schools! Discussion Date: Friday, August 30th The Premise: The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY: “The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea…. Hogwarts was never…