Tuck and Ozzy chat with Violet Allen (she/her), author of Plastic, Prism, Void. Topics include:

Incorporating 40+ fonts, multiple languages, three timelines, a theme song, and approx. one trillion references into one sci-fi romantasy novel
Violet's personal beef with Joyce Carol Oates?!
Tuck & Violet's shared grievance against contemporary fiction
Channelling all your evil into books :) :)
Plus: CATS, Sailor Moon, Girls, Rejection, fanfic, heterosexuality, and the worm from Dune

This Week in Gender: Nicole Kelly highlights Best Practices Policy Project, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients. (Transcript here.)

Find Violet at violetallen.love and on Bluesky. Violet's new book, Plastic, Prism, Void, is now available for preorder.

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