If you lose or break your Oscar, the Academy will give you a new one. And the same is true for most awards, though some make you pay for the replacement.
But that isn’t what happens to novelist Corey Fah in Isabel Waidner’s new novel, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (paperback, Kindle), which, in the following email interview, they describe as being, “…a literary novel that deliberately works across established genre distinctions.”
Surviving combat requires a great many things: the right equipment, good leadership, a lot of luck. But soldiers also rely on their compatriots.
In the new military science fiction novel Beyond Enemies (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Marisa Wolf introduces us to two soldiers who couldn’t be any closer. And no, I don’t mean that in a romantic way.
In the following email interview, Wolf discusses what inspired and influences this story, as well as why she chose to give it a snarky tone.
With Play Of Shadows, swashbuckling fantasy writer Sebastien de Castell is kicking off a new series called The Court Of Shadows, which is itself a spin-off from his Greatcoats series.
But before he does that, he has a prelude to present: Crucible Of Chaos (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), which, as he explains in the following email interview, has “plots and schemes” that are “harbingers of what will unfold in the main series.”
For people who don’t regularly read poetry, the idea of an epic poem conjures images of, well, epic stories told in verse: Beowulf, The Illiad, The Odyssey.
But Linnea Axelsson’s epic poem Ædnan: An Epic (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) has no monsters, no warriors, nothing from the fantasy realm.
Instead, it’s a real world story with political and social ramifications that’s as relevant now as it was when it came out in her native Sweden in 2018.
With a new English language translation bringing this book to the U.S. for the first time, I was pleased to send Axelsson some questions via email for the following interview.
Love…it’s exciting and new. Or at least it can be if you’re caught in a time loop.
Which brings me to Mike Chen’s new romantic science fiction novel, A Quantum Love Story (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Chen discusses what inspired and influenced this time loop love story, as well as how lovey it gets for those of us who are romantically challenged.
In many haunted house stories, characters who get a good look at the house in question are often surprised it’s haunted…but really? I mean, it’s dark and foreboding and covered in spider webs, what do you expect?
But in the following email interview with author Christopher Golden about his haunted house novel The House Of Last Resort (paperback, hardcover, Kindle), he makes it sound as if it takes place in a very nice house, one that couldn’t possibly he haunted…or have spiders.
Clearly not written in 2023, Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita tells the story of a middle-aged man who’s obsessed with a 12-year-old girl.
But while the novel’s story may not have aged well (assuming, of course, you think the man’s behavior was okay in the mid-’50s…), it’s still been one of the most influential novels of the last 100 years.
Well, usually.
In her new novel Swanna In Love (paperback, audiobook, Kindle), writer Jennifer Belle flips the script by having a 14-year-old girl trying to seduce a 38-year-old man. But as she explains in the following email interview about it, while Belle loves Lolita, it was not an influence on Swanna. Or, for that matter, on Swanna.
As you can tell from the full title, Joel McKay’s first collection of short stories, It Came From The Trees And Other Violent Aberrations (paperback, Kindle), is obviously a collection of warm and fuzzy fairy tales for little kids.
And if you believe that, I have a very nice bridge in Brooklyn available for a low, low price.
In the following email interview, McKay discusses what went into this story collection, which includes a science fiction thriller, a grimdark fantasy story, and a Lovecraftian adventure tale.
Edward Willett is clearly a lazy person. Sure, he’s a writer, runs Shadowpaw Press, and hosts The Worldshapers podcast. But what has he done lately?
Well, the answer to that is Shapers Of Worlds Volume IV (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories by writers who’ve appeared on The Worldshapers.
In the following email interview, Willett discusses how this series got started, and what went into this fourth volume.