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Exclusive Interview: Red Dust Author Yoss

 

Originally published in 2003, under the name Polvo, Yoss’ comedic sci-fi noir detective novel Red Dust (paperback, Kindle) is finally coming to the English-speaking part of the world, courtesy of Restless Books. In the following email interview — which had Spanish translation help from Jenna Tang — the Cuban-born author discusses what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as the new English language version of Miguel Collazo’s The Journey (Kindle), another classic of Cuban science fiction, for which Yoss wrote a new intro.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Patient” Author Jasper DeWitt

 

A few years ago, writer Jasper DeWitt posted a horror story called “The Patient Who Nearly Drove Me Out Of Medicine” on the reddit subreddit NoSleep.

But as he reveals in the following email interview, when it came time to translate that posting into the novel The Patient (paperback, hardcover, Kindle), DeWitt didn’t just cut and paste his original.

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Exclusive Interview: “In The Palace Of Shadow And Joy” Author D.J. Butler

 

On the surface, D.J. Butler’s new novel In The Palace Of Shadow And Joy (paperback, Kindle) looks like a Conan-esque adventure story, and sounds like an epic fantasy tale. But as he explains in the following email interview about it, there’s actually a bit of science fiction in this story’s foundation.

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Exclusive Interview: The Attic Tragedy Author J. Ashley-Smith

 

Many ghost stories are tales that have been passed down: from older brothers to younger sisters, from fathers to sons…. And many of the Greek tragedies have shared similar trajectories: from storyteller to apprentice, from college professor to student…. Which could bode well for J. Ashley-Smith’s novelette, The Attic Tragedy (paperback, Kindle), since — as he explains in the following email interview about it — it’s a ghost story with tragic Greek roots (among other things).

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Exclusive Interview: Scarlet Odyssey Author C.T. Rwizi

 

Often when writers blend science fiction and fantasy, it’s by adding elements of the latter into the former, like how Star Wars infused its space opera story with swords and magic. But in his debut novel, Scarlet Odyssey (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), writer C.T. Rwizi is taking the opposite approach by setting AN epic fantasy tale on an alien world. Though as he explains in the following email interview, it’s not the change in genres, but rather a change in heroes, that really got this story going.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hella” Author David Gerrold

 

When author David Gerrold started writing his new sci-fi novel Hella (hardcover, Kindle), he figured it would be a stand-alone story. But as he reveals in the following email interview about it, Hella eventually took on a life of its own, and is now not only getting a sequel, maybe two, but it’s also inadvertently a sequel to three of Gerrold’s other books.

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Exclusive Interview: You Can Go Home Now Author Michael Elias

 

If history is accurate, then it was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), the Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of France, who first said that revenge is a dish best served cold. Regardless of who first uttered that sentiment, though, there’s no denying that revenge is also a dish that works really well in crime novels. Consider Michael Elias’ You Can Go Home Now (hardcover, Kindle), in which the dish is served by an angry daughter. In the following email interview, Elias discusses what inspired and influenced this sordid tale, as well as why, despite being so sordid, he doesn’t feel it’s noir.

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Exclusive Interview: Wolf Author Douglas A. Martin

 

We never know when inspiration may strike. Take Douglas A. Martin new novel Wolf (paperback, Kindle), an anti-crime novel that, as his publisher Nightboat Books explains it, “Begun as a response to a front page photograph illustrating a tragedy that the media quickly sensationalized in the early 2000s…” In the following email interview, Martin discusses this new book, as well as the new reprint Nightboat are issuing of his first novel, Outline Of My Lover (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: “Red Noise” Author John P. Murphy

 

While real life would be so much better without jerks, the same can’t be said for fiction. Take the new pulpy sci-fi novel Red Noise (paperback, Kindle), which kicks off when jerks, well, act like jerks. What’s interesting is that, in the following email interview, Red Noise author John P. Murphy not only discusses what inspired and influenced this story, but also admits how it was almost derailed by some, well, furry jerks.