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Gotham Chopra has played many roles in huge projects across media, from writing books to producing Hollywood movies. He is currently Chief Creative Officer at Virgin Comics and Animation Q: Graphic novels and comics are the fastest growing market in fiction today, and Virgin Comics and Animation seems like a fascinating project. You’re not only [...]
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Mary Anne Mohanraj is a writer born in Sri Lanka. She’s actively involved in running SFF magazine Strange Horizons, DesiLit and the Speculative Literature Foundation. Q: A South Asian running a Speculative Literature Foundation. Fabulous. What’s the experience been like, and where is it going? A: Interesting, though we’re learning as we go, since spec [...]
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Payal Dhar‘s first novel, A Shadow in Eternity, a young adult fantasy novel, was recently published by Young Zubaan Q: You recently published a fantasy novel aimed at children/young adults.How has the experience been? Do you think there’s a market forspeculative fiction already, or is it a potential market?–Ans: There is already a thriving market [...]
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Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer, artist and cartoonist who writes, among various other things, speculative fiction for children and adults. Q: As a writer who’s done work across genres and across age groups andwho’s been published outside India, could you compare publishers’responses to your work? As in, how relatively difficult is it to getSF for [...]
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Jeff VanderMeer is a multiple award-winning much-travelled American speculative fiction writer, author of spec-fic novels like Shriek and City of Saints and Madmen. He blogs at vanderworld.blogspot.com Q: While acknowledging that spec-fic isn’t monolithic and there are a hundred different directions it’s growing in at any time, what do you feel are the most exciting [...]
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Anil Menon worked for about nine years in the software industry worrying about things like secure distributed databases. Then he shifted to a different kind of fiction. His short stories have been accepted for publication in magazines such as Albedo One, Chiaroscuro, Fusing Horizons, InterNova, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, New Genre, and Strange Horizons as [...]
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Matthew Cheney is a writer, teacher, critic and prolific SFF blogger (The Mumpsimus) Q: In your opinion, what are the most significant events in the world of speculative fiction publishing over the last decade, and what would they imply for the future? A: Most of the things that affect the SF publishing world are parts [...]
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Jai Arjun Singh is a writer, critic, journalist and blogger (Jabberwock) Q:Is there a market for speculative fiction already, or is it a potential market? Why do you think so, either way? A: Five years ago I would have said purely potential market. Now it’s probably a mix of both. SFF has acquired a cult [...]
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Cheryl Morgan is a writer, reviwer and blogger who runs the popular SFF-news/reviews site Emerald City Q: Though this point of view comes from a country where there’s very little work in speculative fiction or comics going on, it seems to me that while earlier there was much concern about speculative fiction not being given [...]
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Zoran Zivkovic is a World Fantasy Award-winning Serbian speculative fiction writer, essayist, publisher and translator Q: Though this point of view comes from a country where there’s very little work in speculative fiction or comics going on, it seems to me that while earlier there was much concern about speculative fiction not being given enough [...]
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