Sci-Fi Stories are Human Stories (with Jill Tew)

About this episode

Tayler Simon interviews author Jill Tew about her journey into writing dystopian romance and middle-grade stories, focusing on her new work centered on climate justice.

In this episode, we interview author Jill Tew about how she got into writing dystopian romance and middle-grade stories. Jill shares how her love of sci-fi and nerdy Black kids and discusses her new climate-justice dystopian romance, An Ocean Apart, centered on wealthy elites escaping environmental collapse on luxurious sea ships while land communities suffer. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 00:36 Jill Tew Origin Story 01:16 From Corporate to Divergent 02:37 Middle Grade Breakthrough 03...

People in this episode

Host: Tayler Simon

Guest: Jill Tew

Topics covered

• dystopian romance
• middle-grade stories
• climate justice
• sci-fi
• writing process

Keywords

• Jill Tew
• dystopian romance
• middle-grade
• climate justice
• sci-fi
• writing

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: An Ocean Apart

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