Two years after he kicked off eSpec Book’s Systema Paradoxa series — in which different writers pen novellas about different cryptids — writer John L. French is bringing his time with this series to a close with Daylight Comes (paperback, Kindle), his third and final contribution.
In the following email interview, he discusses how he picked the last cryptid to write about, as well as why it’s the final time he’ll be writing about these mysterious monsters.
Apologies for spoiling a movie you should’ve seen 31 years ago, but one of the big shocks of 1992’s Alien3 came when Bishop from Aliens showed up, only it wasn’t that Bishop, it was Michael Bishop Weyland, the creator of the Bishop android. And while he wants the queen growing inside Ripley, he also wants his ‘droid back.
Which is where the story begins for T.R. Napper’s cyberpunk-infused military science fiction thriller Aliens: Bishop (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Napper discusses how he came to write this book, as well as whether the real Bishop, iconic actor Lance Henriksen, has gotten his copy yet.
For nearly thirty years, writer Matthew Hughes has been telling stories set in The Archonate series. So many, in fact, that, as he says in the following email interview, the new ones “have no real relation to The Archonate series.”
Which is where we find the latest, A God In Hiding (paperback, Kindle), a follow-up to his 2019 novel, A God In Chains.
It’s always interesting to see who an author choses to center their stories around.
Take Bradley P. Beaulieu’s new epic fantasy novel, The Dragons Of Deepwood Fen (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), in which one of his two main characters is agoraphobic, while the other is a thief with scruples.
To find out what trouble these two get into, literally, check out the following email interview, in which Beaulieu talks about what inspired and influenced this tale…and the series it’s launching.
In the following email interview, sci-fi writer Charles E. Gannon talks about Protected Species (hardcover, Kindle), the seventh book in the Caine Riordan Novel series. Though as he reveals, it’s also the second in a subseries, and both have a ways to go.
With The Infinite Loop (paperback), Cuban poet Oneyda González is presenting her poems in English translation for the first time. In the following email interview, González discusses what inspired and influenced these poems and this collection.
(Oh, and if you’d prefer to read this in González’s native Spanish, click here.)
In an interview we did about his novel Zombicide: All Or Nothing, writer Josh Reynolds explained how his central character, Westlake, is “a self-aware zombie.” And no, he didn’t mean the guy was aware of his living impaired privilege.
Well, it’s time for another adventure with Reynold’s percipient undead hero. In this new email interview, Reynolds discusses Zombicide: Do Or Die (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), his third novel based on the titular survival board game.
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 concerns 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 discusses what inspired and influenced this story.