Interview
If Only She Had Spoken Like A Lady
Janeen Webb was recently guest presenter for Women’s History Month, hosted by Gillian Polack. Janeen’s article, If Only She Had Spoken Like A Lady, is a response to the media storm that erupted when outgoing Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, refused to smile for the cameras. Janeen uses the history of feminist sf to take a hard look at the gender inequality that still persists in socially embedded expectations of “proper” behaviour for women in the public arena.
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Short bio note: Janeen Webb is a multiple award winning author, editor, and critic who has written or edited a dozen books and over a hundred essays and stories. She is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Peter MacNamara SF Achievement Award, the Aurealis Award and four Ditmar Awards. Her most recent book is The Dragon’s Child (PS Publishing, UK, 2018). The sequel will be published in 2020. She is currently co-writing an alternate history series, The City of the Sun, with Andrew Enstice: the first book, The…
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Janeen Webb was recently guest presenter for Women’s History Month, hosted by Gillian Polack.Janeen’s article, No Place for a Lady, traces the colourful lives of three of the most famous women associated with the rough and tumble Victorian goldfields of the mid-1850s – Lola Montez, Celeste de Chabrillan, and Clara Seekamp. You can read the article here: https://gillianpolack.com/womens-history-month-guest-janeen-webb/ These wonderful women all star in the alternate history, City of the Sun, by Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice. The first book, The Five Star Republic, is now due for release from IFWG Publications early in…
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Has your interaction with fans, for example, at conventions, affected your work? Conventions are great for finding out what fans are reading, what’s hot and what’s not. I always pay attention. Is there any particular incident (a letter, a meeting, a comment that stands out? The comment that took me most by surprise came from a reader who cornered me and demanded to know how Red City ‘really’ ends – the story is deliberately open ended (and may possibly morph into a novel one of these days). To find out more, read…
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