Donna Maree Hanson, Author and PhD Candidate

Today I received in the post, two lots of books. Four of each to be exact. One was Scary Kisses edited by Liz Grzyb and the other Belong edited by Russell B Farr (Ticonderoga Publications). I have a story in both. They are well presented and I can’t wait to dip my nose into them and read the stories. Scary Kisses is paranormal romance and my story ‘Heat’ is a vampire slut story.

A couple of years ago, Nicole Murphy and I decided to do an anthology of speculative romance stories, called Kiss of the Lily. We didn’t get enough stories to fill it and it had to be canned. We also had a lot of really bad stories  submitted such as stories that weren’t speculative or romance and stories that were neither. So when we saw Scary Kisses submission call, we had to submit. I mean we had so many ideas while thinking up Kiss of the Lily,  it was time to put them to the test. Both Nicole and I had stories accepted for Scary Kisses. Vindication!

Belong is looking like an exeptional anthology based on the migration-belong theme. ‘Green, green grass of  Homeworld’ is a science fiction story of nearly 10,000 words. It took me 5 years of thinking and procrastinating to write it and when it came,  it came out smoothly. I can’t wait to read the rest of the stories.

Currently I am working on another SF story based on refugees, migration and exploitation. So far the draft is 7000 words but I think it might either turn into a novella or become a novel. I guess I’ll have to keep working on it.