![]() ![]() It made her feel like there should really be more YA stories with QUILTBAG characters and since she’s a World Fantasy Award-winning publisher, she decided to do something about it. In any case, Alisa was listening to my podcast in the summer of 2012 and she heard an episode where Malinda Lo led a panel discussion about the lack of QUILTBAG characters in YA dystopian novels. ![]() I love Galactic Suburbia, and apparently I’m not the only one, because they’ve racked up *two* Hugo nominations. ![]() Alisa, my co-editor, is one of the members of Galactic Suburbia, which is an Australian feminist SF podcast. Right now, we’re having a fundraiser on Pozible so we can afford to make the book and pay our authors the SFWA professional rate of $0.05 per word.Īs for how this started, Kaleidoscope is a project born of podcasts! I host the Outer Alliance Podcast, which celebrates QUILTBAG content in SF/F. I’m co-editing it with Alisa Krasnostein, the publisher at Twelfth Planet Press in Australia. Kaleidoscope is an anthology of diverse YA contemporary fantasy stories. Julia is straight-up The Right Stuff, in the humble opinion of this blogger, and everything she touches has a tendency to turn to rainbows.īG: What is Kaleidoscope and how did the project come about? Herein we have Black Gate (or at least MOI, in my guise as doughty avatar) interviewing the inimitable Julia Rios, one of the editors for an upcoming YA fantasy anthology called Kaleidoscope. ![]()
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