Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Hi, everyone! Welcome to the SFF News and Interviews podcast, vol. 7!

I’m your host, Heather Dewey Pettet, and my guest this time is the amazing Renmeleon!

Before our interview, I will talk about some news relevant to our corner of publishing.

Then, we will get down to it and talk about something Renmeleon and I have a shared interest in: Writing Rules as Guidelines, and NOT ACTUAL RULES. (They’re just guidelines, anyway… 🏴‍☠️)


During the news portion of the broadcast, I mentioned three markets for writers of SFF.

One was

The second market was

And the third was



Then, we talked about our topic: (Not) Using writing rules to benefit your writing.

My guest Anna Maria Selvaggio, aka Renmeleon, spoke of her current genres, paranormal and paranormal