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Exclusive Interview: “The Headmasters” Author Mark Morton

 

Science fiction has often explored the subjects of slavery and servitude, and in unique ways.

In Mark Morton’s new novel The Headmasters (paperback, Kindle), some people have survived an apocalypse…only to find themselves enslaved by creatures who not only control their bodies, but their memories as well.

In the following email interview, Morton discusses what inspired and influenced this dystopian sci-fi story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Ferren And The Angel” Author Richard Harland

 

Many people have had dreams of writing a novel. Still others have written novels based on dreams. But in the following email interview about his YA fantasy / sci-fi / steampunk mash-up novel Ferren And The Angel (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Richard Harland not only says both are true, but that there was also some divine inspiration as well.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Grimmer” Author Naben Ruthnum

 

They say you should write what you know. Which is why someone might want to check on writer Naben Ruthnum, since his new novel, The Grimmer (paperback, Kindle), is a horror story about a “…demonic resurrectionist body-snatcher.” But as Ruthnum explains in the following email interview, the parts of this story that he knows are not the scary parts.

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Exclusive Interview: “Zarya Episode II: Sochi Unleashed” Author Jackiem Joyner

 

Jazz musician Sun Ra used to tell people he was from Saturn. But while smooth jazz saxophonist Jackiem Joyner makes no such claims — he’s from the planet of Norfolk, Virginia — he does have some spacy connections as well. Literary ones. Along with such albums as 2012’s Church Boy, 2019’s Touch, and the recently released Missing You, Joyner has also released two young adult science fiction novels: Zarya: Cydnus Final Hope and the new sequel Zarya Episode II: Sochi Unleashed (Kindle). In the following email interview, Joyner discusses what inspired and influenced these sci-fi stories, as well as his plans for future space adventures.

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Exclusive Interview: “Seeds For The Swarm” Author Sim Kern

 

Like a lot of people (but not nearly enough) writer Sim Kern is worried about our planet’s climate. And like a lot of people who are teachers (but not nearly enough of other people) Kern is trying to effect meaningful change by educating their students about this issue. Though they’re doing it not just through lectures and dioramas, but with Seeds For The Swam (paperback, Kindle), a young adult cli-fi sci-fi novel they hope students of all ages will find enlightening and entertaining.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Stars Between Us” Author Cristin Terrill

 

The writer has a degree in Shakespeare, the press materials reference Bridgerton, and the hero’s name unintentionally recalls a certain dark knight’s favorite reporter. But in the following email interview about the romantic young adult sci-fi space opera novel The Stars Between Us (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the aforementioned author, Cristin Terrill, cites Charles Dickens more than the bard, those Brits, or Batman.

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Exclusive Interview: “A New Clan” Co-Author Jane Lindskold

 

Ten years ago, after writing A Beautiful Friendship, the first book in his Star Kingdom series — a young adult spin-off of his long-running Honor Harrington sci-fi series — writer David Weber turned to friend and fellow scribe Jane Lindskold to collaborate on the second book, 2012’s Fire Season. And clearly she did a good job because the two have just released the fourth Star Kingdom novel, A New Clan (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview, Lindskold discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why, despite being the fourth book in a sub-series that itself has dozens of novels, A New Clan may be a good place to start this saga.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Spaceship Next Door” Author Gene Doucette

 

In his self-published science fiction novel The Spaceship Next Door, sci-fi writer Gene Doucette presented a world where aliens land on Earth…and then nothing happens for a couple years. With Spaceship being newly reprinted in paperback, and Kindle  by John Joseph Adams Books, I took the opportunity to send Mr. Doucette some questions about the novel’s origins and influences for the following email interview.

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Liv, Forever Author Amy Talkington

Sometimes life works in mysterious ways. Take author Amy Talkington. Before she penned her first novel — the young adult ghost story Liv, Forever — she was going to tell her tale as a screenplay for a movie. But after she wrote it as a book, it got optioned by a film company…who hired Talkington to write the screenplay. Though in talking to her about the book, it seems that some of what happened while she wrote the novel wasn’t so mysterious.