In her 2018 romantic space opera novel Free Chocolate, writer Amber Royer injected elements of telenovelas into a sci-fi story about how chocolate was Earth’s chief export, and the lengths some people will go to get some. In the following email interview, Royer discusses Fake Chocolate (paperback, Kindle), the third and final book of her Chocoverse trilogy.
In her sci-fi novel Free Chocolate, writer Amber Royer not only created a galaxy in which chocolate is worth killing for, she did so by melding elements of space operas with telenovelas. In the following email interview, she discusses the second book in this sweet saga, Pure Chocolate (paperback, Kindle), the next chapter in her Chocoverse series.
In Sam Hawke’s City Of Lies, Cassandra Khaw’s Food Of The Gods, and Matt Wallace’s Sin Du Jour Affair series, we’ve seen the emergence of a new fantasy subgenre based around food. Now it seems science fiction is making similar culinary inroads with Amber Royer’s Free Chocolate (paperback, Kindle), which she refers to as being “Comedic culinary space opera.” Though in the following email interview, she notes how this sci-fi story is also inspired by telenovelas.