Author Lisanne Norman is best known for the science fiction novels in her Sholan Alliance series.
But in her first short story collection, The Pharaoh’s Cat (paperback, Kindle), Norman is exploring her fantasy side.
In the following email interview, Norman talks about what influences these stories, as well as how she, “…wanted to show I could do more and with another genre.”
With Shadow Of The Smoking Mountain (hardcover, Kindle), author Howard Andrew Jones has reached the half-way point of his five book sword & sorcery / sword & sandal fantasy series The Chronicles Of Hanuvar.
In the following email interview, Jones discusses what inspired and influenced this third book, as well as where things stand for books four and five.
When we think of The Grim Reaper, we usually think of a man in a hooded cloak with a scythe and no sense of humor.
But in author Maxie Dara’s novel A Grim Reaper’s Guide To Catching A Killer (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — which she calls a “cozy mystery against a magical realism backdrop” — there’s more than one soul catcher, and one of them is named Kathy. Yeah.
In the following email interview, Dara talks about what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as the series it kicks off, the S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery Series.
If I told you author Nghi Vo’s new fantasy novel The City In Glass (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) was about someone who loves their city, but that said city is destroyed, and that the principals involves were a demon and an angel, you’d probably think the city was beloved by the angel and destroyed by the demon.
You’d be wrong.
As for why, well, you’ll just have to read the following email interview to find out why Vo decided to defy expectations.
With The Armageddon Protocol (paperback, Kindle), author Dan Moren is presenting the final book in The Galactic Cold War series.
Though as he explains in the following email interview about this sci-fi space opera spy novel, “final” might not be the right word…
When putting together collections of their short stories, some authors do so around a theme. And some of them pick a theme that’s big: love, life, family.
But in the following email interview about her short story collection, An Astonishment Of Stars (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Kirti Bhadresa says she assembled hers around something small: kitchens.
Writers of fantasy stories are often inspired and influenced by, well, other fantasy stories.
But in the following email interview, author Lynn Buchanan says she was inspired to write her fairy tale-esque adventure fantasy story The Dollmakers (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) by a painting, and influenced in how she wrote it by watching a certain Japanese animation studio’s iconic movies.