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Shown is a graphic that has a background of a dusky forest scene. Coloured lights dot the green grass and there are silhouettes of two creatures: a dragon (top left) and a fairy (top right). On the bottom right and left is the BFS logo, a shimmering dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Shona Kinsella (left); R.S.A. Garcia (right).

BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Interview with R.S.A. Garcia

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Our talented interviewee is R.S.A Garcia and will be interviewed by BFS Chair, Shona Kinsella.

R.S.A Garcia (she/her): R.S.A. is a Nebula and Sturgeon Award winning writer of speculative fiction. She is also the winner of the Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics’ 2023 Media Award, and a Locus, Ignyte and Eugie Foster Award finalist. Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (2015).

She has published short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, The Sunday Morning Transport, and Internazionale Magazine. Her stories have been long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards, translated into several languages, and included in a number of anthologies, including the critically acclaimed The Best of World SF, The Best Science Fiction of the Year, The Year’s Best Fantasy, and The Apex Book of World SF. Her scifantasy duology, beginning with The Nightward, is forthcoming from Harper Voyager in October, 2024. She lives in Trinidad and Tobago with an extended family and too many cats.

Learn more at R.S.A.’s website. Or you can follow her on Bluesky, Twitter or Mastodon. You can find her books at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Libro, and Goodreads.

Shona Kinsella (she/her): Shona Kinsella is a multiple-award-nominated Scottish fantasy author. Her works include The Heart of Winter, The Vessel of KalaDene series, The Flame and the Flood, and non-fiction Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for the Stuarts. She was the editor of the British Fantasy Society’s fiction publication BFS Horizons for four years and is now the Chair of the Society. She lives with her husband and three children on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

Find out more about Shona on her website. Or you can follow her on Facebook and Bluesky. Buy her latest book, The Heart of Winter, here.

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