In the following email interview about her new novel The Sins On Their Bones (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Laura R. Samotin talks about how not seeing someone like her in fantasy stories led her to write this queer, Jewish, dark fantasy novel with a heavy romantic subplot, which is the first of a two-parter.
David Ignatius is best known for his column in The Washington Post, and for appearing on news discussions shows.
But when he’s not writing about or discussing current events, he lets his mind (and fingers) wander as he writes such espionage thrillers as Body Of Lies, Agents Of Innocence, and The Increment.
In the following email interview, Ignatius discusses his newest novel, Phantom Orbit (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), including why this story about space warfare is spy-fi, not sci-fi.
We trust mental health professionals with our minds, and the minds of those we love. But if that trust is broken…
In Chris Panatier new psychological horror novel The Redemption Of Morgan Bright (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), a woman has more than just her trust broken, as he explains in the following email interview.
With Archangels Of Funk (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Andrea Hairston is giving us a third opportunity to hang out with Cinnamon Jones, the main character of her novels Redwood And Wildfire and Will Do Magic For Small Change.
In the following email interview, Hairston discusses what inspired and influenced this Afrofuturist story.
If you’ve ever eaten Mexican food or Italian food or, really, more than one dish from any country or region’s dinner menu, you know that people can use the same or similar ingredients but end up with something very different.
Which brings me to Simon R. Green’s Jekyll & Hyde Inc. series, in which monsters fight aliens. Which would seem to occupy a similar territory as Green’s Ishmael Jones novels, in which an alien fights monsters.
But as Green explains in the following email interview about Hyde & Seek (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the second book after 2021’s Jekyll & Hyde Inc., it’s not just who’s on which side that’s different in this sci-fi / fantasy / horror / mystery mash-up.
Violence towards women is a serious problem.
It’s also a rather disproportionate one; not just in real life, but in crime fiction, too.
Enter writer Julie Mae Cohen (or, as you may know her, Summer People author Julie Cohen), who is turning the tables in her new satirical serial killer rom-com novel Bad Men (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Cohen discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why she made the name change.
With Zombicide: Black Plague: City Of The Undead (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer C.L. Werner is concluding his series of medieval fantasy novels inspired by the zombie board game Zombicide: Black Plague.
In the following email interview, Werner discusses what inspired and influenced this supernaturally scary story, as well as why it’s the end of this saga.
Some people say that space is the final frontier.
But given how little of the deep ocean we’ve explored…
In his new science fiction novel Oceanus (paperback, Kindle), writer Scott Overton takes us under the sea, where we find…well, you’ll see.
In the following email interview, Overton discusses what inspired and influenced this story, including why he set it underwater instead of in that other as-yet unexplored void.
As a Dungeons & Dragons fan who was playing the game religiously during the infamous “satanic panic” of the 1980s, I still have a soft spot for my fellow dice throwers, especially when other people think badly of them.
It’s one of the reasons why I wanted to interview writer Stephen S. Schreffler about his sci-fi seasoned horror novel The Bleed (paperback, digital), in which a pair of D&D fans go on the run after some of their mates go M.I.A.
In the following email interview, Schreffler discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why this singer and guitar player didn’t write it as a rock opera.