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Exclusive Interview: “The Loosening Skin” & “Skyward Inn” Author Aliya Whiteley

 

While people joke about how prolific Stephen King can be, Maine’s scariest son would be impressed with how many books Aliya Whiteley has either just put out has coming out. Especially if he read them. Not only was her noir sci-fi story The Loosening Skin (paperback, Kindle) just released in the U.S. for the first time, and her military sci-fi novel Skyward Inn (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) being released everywhere, but she put out a short story collection called Fearsome Creatures (paperback, Kindle) in October, and has a second, From The Neck Up (paperback, Kindle), due out September 14. And that’s not even all of it. In the following email interview, Whiteley discusses what inspired and influenced The Loosening Skin and Skyward Inn, as well as those collections of shorter works.

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Exclusive Interview: Fearsome Creatures Author Aliya Whiteley

 

When writer Aliya Whiteley’s novellas The Beauty and The Arrival Of Missives were published in 2018, both came with bonus short stories. So it’s not surprising that she’s now releasing a collection of short stories called Fearsome Creatures (paperback). Though what’s also not surprising, given how close together those novellas were released, is that she also has five other books coming out in the coming months. In the following email interview, Whitely discusses how Fearsome Creatures came together, and how it differs from her forthcoming second short story collection, From The Neck Up, and all of the other books on her release schedule.

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Exclusive Interview: The Arrival Of Missives Author Aliya Whiteley

Earlier this year, Titan Publishing brought Aliya Whiteley’s 2014 novella The Beauty to the U.S. for the first time. I assume to get some pizza. Now, Titan are repeating the process with her 2016 novella,The Arrival Of Missives (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Whiteley talks about the origins and influences of this new-ish story, as well as what’s been added to this new edition of it.

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Exclusive Interview: The Beauty Author Aliya Whiteley

Given that it’s set in a world where all the women are dead, it would be easy to think that Aliya Whiteley’s sci-fi novel The Beauty (paperback, Kindle) has a socio-political agenda. But in talking to her about it, Whiteley admits that while the story is about gender, like all good political sci-fi, it’s about other things as well.