Author Alyx Dellamonica joins us in this episode of the podcast. She tells us about her first loves in the genre, including Spider-Man comics, Madeleine L'Engle's
A Wrinkle in Time, and Ray Bradbury's
The Illustrated Man. We'll also talk about how she grew up in a home where, from a very young age, she was free to read anything, from children's books like
Island of the Blue Dolphins, to more adult fare like
Jaws.
We'll also talk about her development as a writer, starting with her first attempts at "Dr. Seuss-inspired doggerel" during childhood, to submitting stories to magazines at 16, and her eventual success in getting published. Alyx tells us about how being steeped in the world of theatre helped her writing, and what other writers can learn from the dramatic arts. She also talks about why she feels most at home writing speculative fiction, and we discuss some of her work, including her
Hidden Sea Tales trilogy, and her contribution to the 007-inspired anthology
License Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond.
And Alyx tells us about some of her latest stories. Those include the short story "Tribes" in the anthology
Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts and "Bottleneck" in
The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound — both collections published by
Laksa Media as a benefit for people with mental health challenges. She's also working on a novella, "Of Things" and a novel,
Win Conditions — both set in a world of resource scarcity where popularity is like currency.
Our interview took place in December 2016 via a Skype connection between Alyx's home in Toronto, and my studio in the Lair of bloginhood, located on a house-sized chunk of ice in the rings of Neptune.
Find out more about Alyx Dellamonica on her website:
alyxdellamonica.com
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