"I tried to be really nice and like the things other people liked and do the things other people were..." — Kameron Hurley

I write for free online out of love, passion, and often, rage.

Writers of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to Philip Pullman to Tanith Lee - and it's an obsession that likely isn't going away any time soon.

I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy.

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.