Mel has recently been a guest on the Shining Moon, a new speculative fiction podcast hosted by Deborah Davitt. In episode three we have talked about hard science fiction — what it is and why we like writing and reading it. The other two guests were William Ledbetter and A. T. Sayre. Mel will also be a guest on the forthcoming episode about space opera, where she will read a few pages from Refractions.