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.
Category: Books
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.
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.
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…
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.
Writers of fantasy stories are often inspired and influenced by, well, other fantasy stories.
But in the following email interview, author Lynn Buchanan says she was inspired to write her fairy tale-esque adventure fantasy story The Dollmakers (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) by a painting, and influenced in how she wrote it by watching a certain Japanese animation studio’s iconic movies.
It’s not an understatement to say that the 2017 top-down medieval adventure video game 9th Dawn (a.k.a. 9th Dawn: Classic – Clunky Controls Edition) is a cult game. Try googling it; I dare you.
But people who loved that game are in for a treat as it’s not only getting an updated edition this week called 9th Dawn: Remake, it’s also getting a prequel novel called 9th Dawn: The Book Of Nameless, which is available as a PDF in a bundle with the game, and will be released individually as an eBook later this year, and as a limited edition print edition in 2025.
In the following email interview, The Book Of Nameless author L.R. Gaunt discusses what inspired and influenced this prequel novel, while discussing how exactly it connects to the new version of the game.
There’s such a thing as being too clever. Which is what I might’ve said to Cloaked Press editor Andrew M. Ferrell when I realized their series of fantasy short story anthologies, Fall Into Fantasy, usually come out in September, while the companion series, Spring Into SciFi, are typically released…well, you know. Took me a moment, too.
That is, until I read through the following email interview he and I did about Fall Into Fantasy 2024 (paperback, Kindle), in which Ferrell made a point of saying, “…this is a passion for me. I don’t choose my authors based on their marketability or only look for bigger names. … This is an anthology for fantasy lovers curated by a lover of fantasy.”