Women In SFF: Indie Edition
19th October 2016
If everyone reads the same things by essentially a small group of authors, it limits us. So diversity matters if we're to imagine more boldly and enjoy fiction that isn't confined to the stale tropes of past decades.To help anyone who wants to broaden their reading, Joanne Hall compiled a non-exhaustive list of women in SFF. However, given the scale of that project she's only listing traditionally published authors. So this list features recommendations of women writing in SFF outside of the major publishers. It will include self-published writers and those publishing through small presses. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes between the two. There will be grey areas in terms of what counts as a small press, and many authors are "hybrid" between self and traditional publishing, so in general this will be a list of writers who are mostly not traditionally published.
The following books are recommended by me, or through the hashtag #indiewomeninsff on Twitter, as potential starting points for these authors' works. Please add your own suggestions via Twitter.
- Aimee Easterling - Wolf Rampant series
- Alexandra Moody - Tainted
- Alicia Michaels - The Bionics
- Amanda M. Lee - Wicked Witches of the Midwest series
- Amy McNulty - Nobody's Goddess
- Andrea Pearson - Discern
- Andrea K. Host - Stray
- Angela Roquet - Graveyard Shift
- Angie Fox - The Accidental Demon Slayer
- Ann Christy - The In-Betweener
- Annie Bellet - The Twenty-Sided Sorceress series
- Athena Grayson - Huntress of the Star Empire series
- Augusta Blythe - Winterborne
- Autumn Kalquist - Better World
- Becca Lusher - Sing To Me
- Becca Mills - The Emanations series
- Beth Revis - Across The Universe
- Blair MacGregor - Sand of Bone
- C. B. Lewis - Out Of Time series
- C. Gockel - Loki series
- Charissa Dufour - Cornered Magic
- Charlotte E. English - Miss Landon and Aubranael
- Chele Cooke - Dead and Buryd
- Cheryl Mahoney - The Wanderers
- C. J. Archer - The Medium
- C. J. Brightley - The King's Sword
- Clare K. R. Miller - Golden Hearts
- Claudie Arseneault - The White Renegade
- Debra Dunbar - A Demon Bound
- Dianna Hardy - The Witching Pen
- Donna S. Frelick - the Interstellar Rescue series
- E. J . Frost - Neon Blue
- Elizabeth McCoy - All That Glitters
- Eliza Green - Becoming Human
- Elle Casey - War of the Fae series
- Emigh Cannaday - The Flame and the Arrow
- Emily Martha Sorensen - Fairy Senses series
- Erica Stevens - The Survivor Chronicles series
- Fletcher DeLancey - The Caphenon
- Francesca Forrest - Pen Pal
- Genevieve Jack - The Ghost and the Graveyard
- Grace Draven - Master of Crows
- Grace McDermott - Mirrorfall
- Heather Rose Jones - Daughter of Mystery
- Heidi Garrett - Beautiful Beautiful
- Helen Harper - Bloodfire
- Intisar Khanani - Sunbolt
- Janeal Falor - Mine series
- Jayne Faith - Sapient Salvation
- J. C. Andrijeski - Rook
- Joanne Hall - The Art of Forgetting series
- Jolie Du Pre - Benton series
- Jordan Castillo Price - PsyCop series
- Jordan L. Hawk - Widdershins (Whyborne and Griffin series)
- Joyce Chng - Dragon Sisters
- Jo Zebedee - the Inheritance trilogy
- Julie Ann Dawson - Nancy Werlock's Diary series
- Kaitlyn Davis - The Shadow Soul
- Kathryn Meyer Griffith - Dinosaur Lake
- Kayla Bashe- Graveyard Sparrow
- K. B. Spangler - Greek Key
- K. M. Carroll - The Strider of Chronos
- Kimberly Loth - Kissed
- Krista D. Ball - Spirit Caller series
- Krista Walsh - Evensong
- Kyoko M. - The Black Parade
- Kyra Halland - Daughter of the Wildings series
- Lauren Jankowski - Sere From The Green
- Laurie A. Green - Inherited Stars series
- Linda Acaster - Torc of Moonlight
- Lindsay Buroker - Fallen Empire series
- Lindsey Duncan - Taming the Weald
- Lisa Medley - Reap and Repent
- Lise MacTague - Depths of Blue
- Lola StVil - The Noru series
- Lyssa Chiavari - Fourth World
- Maria E. Schneider - Under Witch Moon
- Marilyn Peake - Shade
- M.C.A. Hogarth - Earthrise
- Megg Jensen - Anathema
- Misa Buckley - Amazing Grace series
- M. J. Haag - Depravity
- Monique Martin - Out Of Time series
- M. Pax - The Backworlds series
- Nicole Zoltack - Black Hellebore
- Odette C. Bell - Witch's Bell series
- Pat Spence - Blue Moon
- Pauline Baird Jones - The Key
- Pauline Creeden - Chronicles of Steele series
- Pauline M Ross - The Plains of Kallanash
- Patty Jansen - Icefire series,
- Pippa DaCosta - The Veil series
- Rabia Gale - Rainbird
- Rachel Sharp - The Big Book of Post-Collapse Fun
- Renae Jones - Hellcat's Bounty
- R. J. Crayton - Life First
- RoAnna Sylver - Chameleon Moon
- Robyn Peterman - Hot Damned series
- Ruth Nestvold - Looking Through Lace
- Sara C. Roethle - Xoe
- Sarah Dalton - White Hart
- Sarra Cannon - the Shadow Demons Saga
- Saruuh Kelsey - The Beast of Callaire
- S. E. Diemer - The Dark Wife
- Shira Glassman - The Second Mango
- S. L . Huang - Zero Sum Game
- S.M. Reine - Seasons of the Moon series
- S.M. Schmitz - Resurrected
- Stacy Claflin - Deception
- Susan Grant - the Star series
- Susan Jane Bigelow - Broken
- Susan Kaye Quinn - Open Minds
- Tasha Black - Reconstructed
- Teyla Branton - The Change
- Valmore Daniels - Angel Fire
- Val St. Crowe (aka V. J. Chambers) - Dancing Days
- Vera Nazarian - Cobweb Bride
- W. R. Gingell - Masque
- Wynne Channing - What Kills Me
There are more specific recommendations for LGBTQIA books on Shira Glassman's Tumblr.
© Ros Jackson
