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Exclusive Interview: “The Splinter King” Author Mike Brooks

 

Usually when you ask the writer of an epic fantasy novel who influenced their tale, they’ll mention J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and other people with a bunch of initials in their name. But in the following email interview with writer Mike Brooks, author of the epic fantasy novel The Splinter King (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — which is the second book in The God-King Chronicles trilogy after The Black Coast — he doesn’t cite a person but a place…and not one from another fantasy novel, either.

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Exclusive Interview: The Black Coast Author Mike Brooks

 

While sci-fi fans know writer Mike Brooks as the author of the Keiko space opera novels, fans of the Warhammer 40K role-playing game know him better as the author of such connected novels as Rites Of Passage and Brutal Kunnin. Well, now fans of fantasy can get to know him as well thanks to The Black Coast (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book in his epic fantasy trilogy The God-King Chronicles. In the follow email interview, Brooks discusses what inspired and influenced this first installment, as well as his plans for the series going forward.

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Exclusive Interview: Dark Deeds Author Mike Brooks

We’ve all seen movies and TV shows in which someone is forced to commit a crime on someone else’s behalf because the latter is holding the former’s loved one hostage. But while that’s also the premise of Mike Brook’s new sci-fi novel Dark Deeds (paperback, Kindle) — the third in his Keiko series after Dark Run and Dark Sky — in talking to Brooks about this novel, he revealed that the kidnap victim in his story didn’t just sit back and let this all play out.

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Exclusive Interview: “Dark Sky” Author Mike Brooks

 

One of my favorite novels from 2016 was Mike Brooks’ sci-fi novel Dark Run. With the sequel, Dark Sky (paperback, digital), now out in the U.S., and a third installment, Dark Deeds (paperback, digital), slated for release on October 10th, I spoke to him about what inspired this second chapter and how it connects to the other books in his Keiko series.