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Exclusive Interview: “Last To Leave The Room” Author Caitlin Starling

 

Genre can be a tricky thing, and never let it be said I don’t listen to an author when they tell me a book is one genre or another. Or a couple genres at the same time.

Which brings me to author Caitlin Starling, who, in the following email interview about her horror novel Last To Leave The Room — which is now available in paperback a year after originally being released in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook — explains that while it has a scientist who may be sinking a city, and there’s an “impossible locked door,” and has some sci-fi flavor, Starling says, “it’s straight up horror to me.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Checkmate” Author Ty Drago

 

Usually when someone writes a novel involving a superhero, they’ve been influenced by the superheroes we all know and love: Superman, Spider-Man, and their super friends. Larger larger-than-life characters who use their superpowers for good.

But in the following email interview about his near-future science fiction superhero novel Checkmate (paperback, Kindle), author Ty Drago says his inspiration was not a powerful, larger-than-life hero with a big, cinematic history, but a smaller, more down-to-Earth character who predates them all.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Pharaoh’s Cat” Author Lisanne Norman

 

Author Lisanne Norman is best known for the science fiction novels in her Sholan Alliance series.

But in her first short story collection, The Pharaoh’s Cat (paperback, Kindle), Norman is exploring her fantasy side.

In the following email interview, Norman talks about what influences these stories, as well as how she, “…wanted to show I could do more and with another genre.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Shadow Of The Smoking Mountain” Author Howard Andrew Jones

 

With Shadow Of The Smoking Mountain (hardcover, Kindle), author Howard Andrew Jones has reached the half-way point of his five book sword & sorcery / sword & sandal fantasy series The Chronicles Of Hanuvar.

In the following email interview, Jones discusses what inspired and influenced this third book, as well as where things stand for books four and five.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hold Everything” Author Dobby Gibson

 

In the following email interview, poet Dobby Gibson talks about his fifth collection of poems, Hold Everything (paperback, Kindle), including how one was inspired by a famous club where royalty used to appear.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Grim Reaper’s Guide To Catching A Killer” Author Maxie Dara

 

When we think of The Grim Reaper, we usually think of a man in a hooded cloak with a scythe and no sense of humor.

But in author Maxie Dara’s novel A Grim Reaper’s Guide To Catching A Killer (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — which she calls a “cozy mystery against a magical realism backdrop” — there’s more than one soul catcher, and one of them is named Kathy. Yeah.

In the following email interview, Dara talks about what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as the series it kicks off, the S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery Series.

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Exclusive Interview: “The City In Glass” Author Nghi Vo

 

If I told you author Nghi Vo’s new fantasy novel The City In Glass (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) was about someone who loves their city, but that said city is destroyed, and that the principals involves were a demon and an angel, you’d probably think the city was beloved by the angel and destroyed by the demon.

You’d be wrong.

As for why, well, you’ll just have to read the following email interview to find out why Vo decided to defy expectations.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Armageddon Protocol” Author Dan Moren

 

With The Armageddon Protocol (paperback, Kindle), author Dan Moren is presenting the final book in The Galactic Cold War series.

Though as he explains in the following email interview about this sci-fi space opera spy novel, “final” might not be the right word…

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Exclusive Interview: “An Astonishment Of Stars” Author Kirti Bhadresa

 

When putting together collections of their short stories, some authors do so around a theme. And some of them pick a theme that’s big: love, life, family.

But in the following email interview about her short story collection, An Astonishment Of Stars (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Kirti Bhadresa says she assembled hers around something small: kitchens.