Charlie Jane Anders
Credit: Sarah Deragon
Charlie Jane Anders is an award-winning author and journalist who was a founding member of the popular site io9 and whose latest novel, Victories Greater Than Death, is out next week and kicks off a new YA trilogy. She's also the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Crawford and Locus awards, Choir Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award, and The City in the Middle of the Night. Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Boston Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Wired Magazine, Slate, Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed, ZYZZYVA, Catamaran Literary Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and tons of anthologies. Her story "Six Months, Three Days" won a Hugo Award, and her story "Don't Press Charges And I Won't Sue" won a Theodore Sturgeon Award. Charlie Jane also organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series, and co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct with last week's guest, Annalee Newitz.
We had great fun chatting with Charlie Jane about her writing career, learning how she broke into the industry, and how it felt when All The Birds In the Sky won all those awards. We also hear about her new YA trilogy, and discuss how easy it is (or isn't!) to make changes to a trilogy once the first book is out. Plus we hear what she's been reading and watching, and hear about which Marvel TV show she would love to be writing!