For her first graphic novel, Nicnevin And The Bloody Queen (paperback, Kindle), writer Helen Mullane has come up with a coming of age story that — as she explains in the following email interview — draws inspiration from ’70s horror movies, family dramas, and the work of young adult fantasy author Alan Garner.
With Noumenon Ultra (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Marina J. Lostetter is concluding the epic, multi-generational sci-fi space opera trilogy she started in 2017 with Noumenon and continued with 2018’s Noumenon Infinity.
In the following email interview about this series, and its concluding chapter, she explains how this third book concludes the saga, and how it took its name from a cartoon character and not, as we all suspected, Michelob Ultra Dragon Fruit Peach.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Chris Mooney’s new novel Blood World (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) is a vampire story or maybe a sci-fi thriller. After all, it has people doing weird things with blood. But in the following email interview, he explains that while this does take place in the not-so-distant future, and does get bloody, it’s actually more grounded and plausible than you might think.
In his new superhero novel Bystander 27 (paperback, Kindle), writer Rik Hoskin doesn’t focus on the hero or the villain but (obviously) one of the people nearby whose lives are effected nonetheless. In the following email interview about it, Hoskin explains what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as why the title doesn’t have an “Issue #1” after it.
In the novels that comprise his City-States series, writer Seb Doubinsky has portrayed life in a dystopian world that, more often than we might like to admit, isn’t that far off from our own. In the following email interview, Doubinsky discusses the inspiration for and influences on the newest installment of the City-States series, The Invisible (paperback, Kindle).
With The Shadow Commission (paperback, Kindle), writer David Mack is (probably) concluding the Dark Arts series of secret history fantasy novels he began in 2018 with The Midnight Front and continued a year later with The Iron Codex. In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced this third installment, while also discussing his new-ish Star Trek novel, More Beautiful Than Death (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
With Days Of Burning, Days Of Wrath (hardcover, Kindle) former military man turned military sci-fi author Tom Kratman is presenting the eighth and latest installment in his Carrera series. In the following email interview, he provides a primer on this ongoing series, how this new novel fits into it, and how it was influenced by another military writer…just not in the way you might think.
When Derek Kunsken released The Quantum Magician in 2018, his plan for The Quantum Evolution series was that it would be a trilogy with a prequel novel. But as he reveals in the following email interview about that prequel novel, The House Of Styx (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the series will now include four novels, a collection of short stories, and a soon-to-be-released reprint of the novella that predated Magician, Pollen From A Future Harvest (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) , while Styx is now the first book in a prequel duology.
