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Exclusive Interview: Peck – A Lonely, Little Lovebird Down Under Author Remi Nicole

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Post date May 10, 2017
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Peck A Lonely, Little Lovebird Down Under Remi Nicole

It stands to reason that if someone writes a book for kids, they probably have a kid themselves. Which is the case with writer Remi Nicole, the author of the new children’s’ book Peck – A Lonely, Little Lovebird Down Under (paperback, digital). Or, as I know her, the publicist for such video games as Batman: Arkham Knight and the upcoming Injustice 2. But in talking to her about this kids’ book, she revealed that she actually starting working on long before she had a kid of her own to read it to.

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Exclusive Interview: Killing Gravity Author Corey J White

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 9, 2017
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As one of the most interesting sci-fi novels of the last few years, Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice — and its sequels Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy — have undoubtedly inspired other authors in a variety of ways. But perhaps none so directly as Corey J White, who got the idea for his space opera novella Killing Gravity (paperback, digital) while reading Leckie’s novel. Though in talking to him about the first book in what he’s calling The Voidwitch Saga, White admitted that he was not only inspired by more than just Leckie’s book, but by anime and music as well.

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Exclusive Interview: “All Systems Red” Author Martha Wells

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 9, 2017
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Though she’s previously written books in both the Stargate Atlantis and Star Wars universes, Martha Wells’ original novels have all been in the fantasy realm. She even has calls her website, marthawells.com, “Martha Wells Worlds Of Fantasy.” But in her new novella, All Systems Red (paperback, digital), she’s returning to science fiction, and — as she explains below — for good reason.

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Exclusive Interview: Small Favors Writer, Artist Colleen Coover

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Post date May 4, 2017
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Seventeen years after was first released, Colleen Coover’s sex-positive lesbian comic Small Favors is being celebrated with Small Favors The Definitive Girly Porno Collection (hardcover), which not only includes the comics from both released volumes of Small Favors, but a previously uncollected color special and other fun stuff as well. In the following interview, Coover talks about how the comic initially came together, how this collection came to be, and why no, she’s not going to be writing any more Small Favors.

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Exclusive Interview: “City Of Miracles” Author Robert Jackson Bennett

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Post date May 1, 2017
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When it comes to fantasy novels, most writers will tell you their biggest influences are other fantasy writers: J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, etc. But in talking about City Of Miracles (paperback, digital, audiobook), the third and final book in his Divine Cities trilogy — which started with 2014’s City Of Stairs and continued with 2016’s City Of Blades — writer Robert Jackson Bennett cites a certain iconic spymaster as having a much bigger impact on this last installment, and the series as a whole.

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Exclusive Interview: The Guns Above Author Robyn Bennis

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Post date May 1, 2017
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In these political times, it’s easy to read too much into things. It’s why, when quizzing writer Robyn Bennis about her debut novel — the steampunk adventure The Guns Above (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), which has the tag line “Lean In. Fire At Will.” — I avoided asking any questions about feminism and its role in the book. Though after she told me what The Guns Above is about, I didn’t really need to.

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Exclusive Interview: Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy Author Nicholas Reynolds

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 28, 2017
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In 2011, Jennet Conant released the book A Covert Affair: Julia Child And Paul Child In The OSS, the real-life story of how the famous TV chef spent World War II working for the intelligence agency that became the CIA. But it seems Child wasn’t the only famous face pull a James Bond. In Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 (hardcover, digital, audiobook), former CIA officer and CIA Museum historian Nicholas Reynolds details how the writer of The Old Man And The Sea and The Sun Also Rises worked for the Soviet Secret Service. But in talking to Reynolds about this non-fiction tome, he discussed how his book is not just a ripping yarn about what Hemingway did, but also delves into why.

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Exclusive Interview: “Waking Gods” Author Sylvain Neuvel

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Post date April 27, 2017
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In his novel Sleeping Giants, writer Sylvain Neuvel told his giant robot sci-fi story through a series of interviews and journals, which made for a quick and fun read. Now he’s continuing the story, and the format, with Waking Gods (hardcover, digital, audiobook), the second book in what he calls The Themis Files. Though in talking to him about the new book, and this series, it seems like he’s more concerned with baby cats and plastic toys.

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Exclusive Interview: Roughneck Author, Artist Jeff Lemire

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 19, 2017
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Depending on which aisle of the comic book store you frequent most, you probably know writer and artist Jeff Lemire for such super heroic books as Hawkeye: Hawkeyes or Moon Knight: Lunatic, for his ongoing sci-fi series Descender, or for such real-world stories as Essex County. It is in the latter section that we find his new graphic novel Roughneck (hardcover, digital), an emotional story of a man whose glory days are behind him.