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Exclusive Interview: “Cascade Failure” Author L.M. Sagas

 

You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about some company doing something terrible, and getting away with it.

And by “these days” I mean the last fifty years (and maybe more, I’ve only been paying attention for my whole life).

But while there’s corporate malfeasance at play in writer L.M. Sagas’ new sci-fi space opera novel Cascade Failure (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — which is the first of two in her series, Ambit’s Run — in the following email interview about Failure, she says she’s also “…trying to inject a little, I don’t know, optimism back into it.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Tales Of Horror” Editor Bill Bowers

 

Sleep is essential for a happy and healthy life.

But try telling that to Bill Bowers, who’s put together a collection of classic horror stories he calls Tales Of Horror: Terrifying Stories To Keep You Awake Past Midnight (paperback, Kindle).

Though as he explains in the following email interview, his objective with Tales was not to ruin your day…or your night.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Haunting Of Velkwood” Author Gwendolyn Kiste

 

As a child of suburbia myself, I agree with author Gwendolyn Kiste who — in the following email interview about her new novel The Haunting Of Velkwood (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) — says, “There’s something so strange and haunted about suburbia.”

But that’s not all she has to say about this horror novel, which has, “…a few doses of other genres thrown in for good measure.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Zombicide Invader: Death System” Author S.A. Sidor

 

Don’t you hate it when you’re wrongly convicted and sent to space prison, only to have your escape plans altered by zombies?

While this has happened to most of us, it can still be interesting to read how other people handled this predicament.

Which brings me to author S.A. Sidor, who, in the following email interview about his new zombie-infested space prison novel Zombicide Invader: Death System (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), explains what inspired and influenced this sci-fi horror story, as well as how it connects to both the titular board game and the other novels its inspired.

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Exclusive Interview: “Your Shadow Half Remains” Author Sunny Moraine

 

You can’t have a story these days, in any medium, that’s about a pandemic without someone assuming it’s all about Covid.

But while Sunny Moraine does say Covid was the “immediate inspiration” for the short story they turned into their horror novella Your Shadow Half Remains (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), in the following email interview, they explain how it’s more about things they’ve been writing about for years.

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Exclusive Interview: “The House Of Last Resort” Author Christopher Golden

 

In many haunted house stories, characters who get a good look at the house in question are often surprised it’s haunted…but really? I mean, it’s dark and foreboding and covered in spider webs, what do you expect?

But in the following email interview with author Christopher Golden about his haunted house novel The House Of Last Resort (hardcover, Kindle), he makes it sound as if it takes place in a very nice house, one that couldn’t possibly he haunted…or have spiders.

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Exclusive Interview: “It Came From The Trees” Joel McKay

 

As you can tell from the full title, Joel McKay’s first collection of short stories, It Came From The Trees And Other Violent Aberrations  (paperback, Kindle), is obviously a collection of warm and fuzzy fairy tales for little kids.

And if you believe that, I have a very nice bridge in Brooklyn available for a low, low price.

In the following email interview, McKay discusses what went into this story collection, which includes a science fiction thriller, a grimdark fantasy story, and a Lovecraftian adventure tale.

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Exclusive Interview: “Shapers Of Worlds Volume IV” Editor Edward Willett

 

Edward Willett is clearly a lazy person. Sure, he’s a writer, runs Shadowpaw Press, and hosts The Worldshapers podcast. But what has he done lately?

Well, the answer to that is Shapers Of Worlds Volume IV (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories by writers who’ve appeared on The Worldshapers.

In the following email interview, Willett discusses how this series got started, and what went into this fourth volume.

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Exclusive Interview: “Weird World War: China” Editor Sean Patrick Hazlett

 

Of the many fears looming over our heads these days (and man, it seems like there’s a lot), none seems to loom as large, but also so abstractly, as the potential military conflict with China.

But for people who can’t wait — and who want it to be, well, weird — there’s the new alternative history / military science fiction anthology Weird World War: China (paperback, Kindle), the follow-up to 2020’s Weird World War III and 2022’s Weird World War IV.

In the following email interview, Weird World War: China editor Sean Patrick Hazlett discusses what went into assembling this short story collection.