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Wilde loves writing smart, flawed, wisecracking women who can solve a mystery, kick supernatural butt, and banter with hot men. Wilde tells Monster Complex how Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy changed her life, reveals what compels her stories, and explains why she seeks worldbuilding without common fantasy elements.

Including authors Jim Butcher, L.A. Banks, Patricia Briggs, Nalini Singh, Seanan McGuire, Zoraida Cordova, Kim Harrison, Maurice Broaddus, Faith Hunter, Nalo Hopkinson, Roshani Chokshi, Nnedi Okorafor and more.

Including L.A. Banks, Maurice Broaddus, Jessica Cage, Zoraida Córdova, Owl Goingback, Nalo Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Shweta Taneja, Kenesha Williams, and more.

It’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers…

She knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn’t save…

There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.

“When I realized wizards and PIs were the same character, it became real easy.” The Dresden Files is a hard-boiled detective and urban fantasy series by Jim Butcher.

With their sources of blood having reached depletion, vampires scour the earth in search of more blood. And when they find it, will this broken Huntress stand and fight to protect what is left of humanity? Or, is the only way to save the world she was sworn to protect is stand and watch it burn?

Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter novels take place in a world where archangels hold sway over both mortals and immortals—with the Guild Hunters caught in between…

The author talks about the ideas fueling her novel, her mission as an author, and why her fiction helps readers to better understand the female perspective.

While so many “best horror writer” lists are dominated by white and Western authors, here’s a list of authors of Indian ancestry—including Nalini Singh, Shweta Taneja, Mainak Dhar, and more. 

Seanan McGuire’s urban fantasy October Daye series follows changeling knight and sometime P.I. Toby Daye through the streets of San Francisco and into the mercurial world of Faerie.

Including tips and advice from Stephen King, Anne Rice, Zoraida Córdova, H.P. Lovecraft, Linda D. Addison, Peter Straub, Faith Hunter, Dean Koontz, Nalini Singh, Shirley Jackson, and more! 

“In her world, being a woman and a tantric is illegal.” The Indian author shares some background on her Delhi-based supernatural detective series.

The author of the Jane Yellowrock urban fantasy books, Faith Hunter shares how Yellowrock has grown as a character over the series, explains why she doesn’t write sex scenes, and reveals how she’ll know when it’s time to end the series.

Shweta Taneja is a F&SF author, comic writer and journalist based in India. Her work is described somewhere between feminist, horror, experimental and humorous.