Though I’ve never felt the inclination myself, I understand why some people want a simpler life, away from the hustle and bustle. It’s also what I want for Talia Merritt, the main character in Monalisa Foster’s military sci-fi / space Western novel Threading The Needle (paperback, Kindle). Though after reading the following email interview (with Foster, not Merritt), I have doubts it will actually happen.
One of the big concern among authors these days is that publishers may someday use AI to write books instead of people. But what if there are no people? This is the set-up of Debbie Urbanski’s sci-fi novel After World (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Urbanski what inspired and influenced this story.
While it’s already pretty epic, author Robbie MacNiven is pushing the sci-fi space opera board game Twilight Imperium into even bigger spaces with Twilight Imperium: Twilight Wars: Empire Falling (paperback, audiobook, Kindle), the first book in a new prequel trilogy. In the following email interview, MacNiven discusses what inspired and influenced this first part of the story.
Twenty-five years after releasing Spirit, Hurry, author Rolly Kent has come back to writing poetry with Phone Ringing In A Dark House (paperback). In the following email interview, Kent talks about this new collection, what influenced these poems, and why he started writing poems again after a certain someone was elected president.
Before they used their money to build penis shaped rockets and penis compensating yachts, it seemed like the go-to splurge for billionaires was to buy their own islands. But in his Menippean satirical novel Settlers Landing (hardcover, paperback), writer Travis Jeppesen has his money maker going one step further by turning his billionaire boys club island into its own nation state. In the following email interview, Jeppesen discusses what inspired and influenced this novel, and no, true believers, it does include a certain acronym-loving Marvel bad guy.
Romance often involves a bit of mystery. And yet, mystery novels don’t always have romantic parts. But that’s actually what you’ll get from writer Bob Burnett’s Kate Swift Mystery series, which he’s kicking off with the novel Death Is Potential (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Burnett discusses what inspired this mystery / romance series, and this first story.
With Through The Storm (hardcover, Kindle), writers John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer are continuing the military sci-fi gamelit adventure series TransDimensional Hunters that they launched in 2022 with Into The Real. In the following email interview, John and Lydia discuss what influenced this second installment, how it ties in to the first book, and how their plans for this series have changed.
As William Shakespeare famously said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But you have to wonder what old Willy would say about something named a Mongolian Death Worm. Maybe it would inspire him the way it did Robert Greenberger, the author of the horror novella Sand And Secrets (paperback, Kindle), the latest in eSpec Book’s Systema Parodoxa series of novellas about cryptids. In the following email interview, Greenberger discusses why he liked the name so much, and how it inspired the rest of his story.
