As a journalist (and I use that term loosely), I always use my skeptical eye when reading a press release that declares a book is one thing or the other. But in talking to Candace Beck Moesta about her debut fantasy novel Soul Shift, it seems the press release was spot on when it say the book is “Fantasy fiction for the anime enthusiast.”
Nearly forty years after it was first published, Howard Kaplan’s spy novel The Damascus Cover is making a comeback. Not only is a new edition coming to both bookshelves and eReaders, but a movie adaptation that stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Abigail Spenser, and Jurgen Prochnow is slated for next year.
But in talking to Kaplan about both, it becomes clear that his tale of espionage hasn’t aged a day.
Robert Jackson Bennett’s new novel City Of Stairs is not an easy read. Not because he uses big words or his grammar is atrocious, it’s because this fantasy novel isn’t easy to classify. It’s a spy novel with a murder mystery, and it doesn’t have a clear enemy, but instead shows both sides as having flaws. But in talking to Mr. Bennett, not being easy this is exactly how he likes it.
We’ve all loved someone who didn’t love us back. And no, I’m not talking about Chewbacca. I’m talking about someone we actually know, someone we’d like to know better but they just don’t feel the same way. Which is why we’ll probably all find things in Christy Heron’s new novel Unrequited (which is available both physically and digitally) that we can relate to. With the book coming to print this week, I spoke to Heron about where she got the idea for this book, what influences the way she writes, and why she thinks that while it may appeal more to women than men, men might like it, too.
A dark and stormy night. A double-crossing jerk. Booze, bullets, and babes. These are the tenets of hardboiled crime novels, and they, like the heroes of such books, still pack a punch. But after talking to author Marc Rosenberg about his own crime drama Headcase (paperback, Kindle), while he may be familiar with the crime classics, he tried to write a whole new caper.
UDON and Morpheus Publishing Limited have announced that they will publish manga versions of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables on August 27th. Both books will be available in softcover, hardcover, and digitally.
Henry Rollins may be best known for the music he made with Black Flag and The Rollins Band.
But for people who like to read, some of his best work has been the collections of journal writings that he’s released over the years, including (but not limited to) 2006’s A Dull Roar and 2007’s A Preferred Blur.
Though in talking to him about his latest collection, A Grim Detail, and how his journals go from his computer to the printed page, it’s clear that he doesn’t think as much about his writing as we do.
In his young adult novel Little Dead Man, (paperback, Kindle) writer Jake Bible introduces us to Garrett and Garth, two brothers just trying to get by in a zombie infested world. The kicker being that Garth is a himself a zombie, and Garrett’s conjoined twin. But before you assume that hilarity ensues, please read the following interview, in which Bible discusses the book’s origins and what influenced his depictions of the “living impaired.”
In most dystopian sci-fi novels written for young adults, the heroes have special powers that set them apart. But not the ones in The Last Human by Ink Pieper (the pen name of…well, he won’t say). In the following interview, Mr. Pieper talks about why his characters aren’t superpowered, its comic book and movie influences, and why this dystopian sci-fi novel written for young adults may also appeal to regular adults.