So, it is time for another psychological evaluation, and we’re staying with new female voices for the time being; partly because they’re still underrepresented and insufficiently valued in genre fiction, but also partly because I just spent a protracted period of time surrounded by Disneyland Princesses and a perpetually squealing two-year-old, and I feel the need to tear into a feminine psyche with a screwdriver and a bag of weasels.

Hear that? It’s my feminism, popping like a Mickey-Mouse-shaped helium balloon under a blowtorch.

Today’s unwilling victim participant is YA book reviewer and blogger turned novelist, Sara Zaske, author of The First.

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Today sees the first in a new series of interviews I’ve had with some exciting genre authors, both new and established.

In them, I try to take a look into the minds behind some great new books and see if I can’t put my years of tinkering with psychology to good use, finding out what kind of disturbing mental tick it takes to write really good speculative fiction.

My first subject to grace the therapy couch is new horror darling, Ania Ahlborn, author of Seed.

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