December 14, 2019
Welcome back to your favorite recap! How did this week fare for you? I don’t know about you, but I get exceptionally lazy this time of year, and it worsens as I get older. So, I had a small victory: I finally put up my Christmas tree. Christmas is a whole different thing in Japan, and while it’s starting to…
December 10, 2019
Jumpship Hope (2019) Written by: Adria Laycraft Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 300 pages (Kindle) Publisher: Tyche Books Ltd Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a fair review. The premise: Earth is a storm-ravaged wasteland Humanity has fled the planet, establishing bases off-world. But disaster has struck the food crops of Luna Base,…
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…
October 30, 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…
August 18, 2016
Even though I wrote my first short story in the third grade, my journey as a writer actually started 10 years ago. I was a 24-year-old recent college graduate who had majored in English and minored in journalism, but I had no idea what the word “genre” meant. I had spent the last two years writing four novels about a…