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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths” Author Dayton Ward

 

While DC and Marvel did it first, Star Trek was an early pioneer when it came to have a shared universe. For instance, when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine launched in 1993, it did so with an appearance from Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Captain Picard, while the latter show’s Worf joined the former station’s staff in DS9‘s fourth season.

Now the connections between TNG and DS9 are being strengthened by Dayton Ward’s new Star Trek novel Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Ward explains how this crossover novel came together, as well as why it doesn’t also connect with a certain Captain’s late-in-life adventures.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Twisted Tower Of Endless Torment” Author Rob Renzetti

 

Rob Renzetti has made many kids laugh through his work on such cartoons as Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, My Life As A Teenage Robot, and Dexter’s Laboratory.

But lately he’s been trying to scare the crap out of them with the middle-grade horror novels in his Horrible Bag trilogy.

In the following email interview, Renzetti talks about the second installment in this series, The Twisted Tower Of Endless Torment (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), which is the sequel to last year’s The Horrible Bag Of Terrible Things.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Dissonance” Author Shaun Hamill

 

In the following email interview about his dark fantasy novel The Dissonance (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), author Shaun Hamill not only discusses what inspired and influenced this story, but also why — despite its timeframe and because of its location — it may or may not also be an urban fantasy story…and why he doesn’t really care either way.

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Exclusive Interview: “In The Shadow Of The Fall” Author Tobi Ogundiran

 

Like a lot of us, writer Tobi Ogundiran knows many stories about the Norse and Greek gods. And like a lot of us, he hasn’t experienced nearly as many about the Yoruba gods; though it’s not for lack of trying, but a lack of them. None of the Yoruba gods have been recruited to be superheroes in the MCU; none have fought Kratos in the God Of War games; none have had songs sung about them by Kiss or Led Zeppelin any other rock band.

It’s why Ogundiran decided to write In The Shadow Of The Fall (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first in a two novella series called Guardians Of The Gods.

In the following email interview, Ogundiran talks about what else inspired and influenced this secondary world fantasy story, and this duology.

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Exclusive Interview: “The West Passage” Author Jared Pechaček

 

Given that he hosts a podcast about J.R.R. Tolkien, you’d expect Jared Pechaček’s dark fantasy novel The West Passage (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) to be very Lord Of The Rings-ish.

But in the following email interview about it, Pechaček talks as much about the impact Moby-Dick, Hieronymus Bosch, and his religious upbringing had on this story as he does Frodo’s long walk.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Burning Gem” Author Don Sawyer

 

With The Burning Gem (paperback, Kindle), author Don Sawyer is kicking off an urban fantasy series called Soul Catcher.

In the following email interview, Sawyer talks about what inspired and influenced this first installment, as well as this series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Call Of Cthulhu: The Shadow On The Glass” Author Jonathan L. Howard

 

For the second novel inspired by Chaosium’s table-top role-playing game Call Of Cthulhu, the good people at Aconyte Books enlisted writer Jonathan L. Howard, who’s been playing the game longer than, well, some of the people who work on it.

In the following email interview, Howard discusses what inspired and influenced Call Of Cthulhu: The Shadow On The Glass (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

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Exclusive Interview: “The Chaos Clock” Editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail

 

In the new short story anthology The Chaos Clock: Tales Of Cosmic Aether (paperback, Kindle), writers including James Chambers, Jody Lynn Nye, and Jeffrey Lyman mix together the seemingly disparate genres of steampunk and cosmic horror.

In the following email interview, Chaos Clock editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail discusses how this anthology came together.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Down Deep” Author Catherine Asaro

 

With more than twenty books released over nearly thirty years, Catherine Asaro’s Saga Of The Skolian Empire series must seem rather intimidating for people just discovering this sci-fi saga.

But in the following email interview about the newest installment, The Down Deep (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), Asaro explains that this novel — which is the start of a new subseries called Dust Knights — also serves as a new entry point.

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