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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.

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Exclusive Interview: “Point B” Author Drew Magary

 

Usually when someone writes a science fiction story about a technology that doesn’t exist…yet, the writer will base their version more on fictional depictions than real science. But in the following email interview with writer Drew Magary about his romantic sci-fi novel Point B (paperback, Kindle), which involves teleportation, he explains that he consulted with an “actual physicist” to make sure his transporter functioned properly.

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Exclusive Interview: “Driving The Deep” Author Suzanne Palmer

 

Last year, writer Suzanne Palmer introduced us to space ship repossession specialist Fergus Ferguson in her cheeky sci-fi caper novel, Finder. Well, as they say, you can’t keep a good man down…or a man who tries really, really hard to be good. And so we have Driving The Deep (hardcover, audiobook, Kindle), the second in Palmer’s The Finder Chronicles. In the following email interview, Palmer discusses what inspired and influenced this second story, as well as her plans for this series going forward.

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Exclusive Interview: “Like Bismuth When I Enter: Poems” Author Carlos Lara

 

Some poets over-think things. They look for a theme where none exists, or decide to center a collection of their work around a theme whether it needs it or not. But poet Carlos Lara has no need for your…themes. In the following email interview about his new collection, Like Bismuth When I Enter (paperback), he explains why this book has no intentional theme…and why that was intentional.

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Exclusive Interview: Ballistic Author Marko Kloos

 

With Ballistic (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), iconic science fiction writer Marko Kloos is continuing the military sci-fi space opera saga The Palladium Wars that he began last year with Aftershocks. In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced this second installment, as well as his plans for this series going forward.

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