Shining Moon Episode 35: Writing Fantasy Religions

Samantha Mills is a Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning author from Southern California. You can find her short fiction in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and others, as well as the best-of anthologies The New Voices of Science Fiction and The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2023. Her debut novel, The Wings Upon Her Back is coming out in April 2024 through Tachyon Publications. You can find more at www.samtasticbooks.com.

Risa Wolf is a multi-gendered water elemental disguised as an ink-stained lycanthrope. They come from the Burned-Over District in upstate New York and they imagine houses for book-ghosts for a living. Their writing can be found in Apex, Clarkesworld, and Diabolical Plots, among others. Visit them at killerpuppytails.com.

Stories and Novels in this Episode:


Samantha Mills

The Wings Upon Her Back, Tachyon Press, April 2024


Risa Wolf

"The First Promise We Break" (https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-first-promise-we-break/

"Delicate Situations" in the anthology 99 Fleeting Fantasies. https://www.amazon.com/99-Fleeting-Fantasies-Fantasy-Anthology/dp/1950701077

"The View," https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds-1-the-view-risa-wolf/

Sarah Jackson
Great Mother Broth https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2023/02/15/great-mother-broth-by-sarah-jackson/

"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov

Piano music for closure

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