With He Wasn’t There Again Today (paperback, Kindle), writer Candas Jane Dorsey is presenting the third book in the Epitome Apartments Mystery series. In the following email interview, Dorsey explains what inspired and influenced this new installment, as well as whether there’s more mysteries to come.
It doesn’t matter how or why, but if you’re different in this world, someone will hate you for it. Just ask anyone who isn’t straight, white, cisgender, native to the country they’re living in…
Or, if you prefer, ask Jill and Charlie from the graphic novel Heart Attack (paperback, Kindle), in which gene therapy inadvertently leads to some people to have special abilities, and thus being the targets of bigotry from a government that fears them.
In the following email interview, Heart Attack writer Shawn Kittelsen and artist Eric Zawadzki discuss how this comic book came together.
Congratulations are in order: Erin Marie Lynch is putting out her first book of poetry, Removal Acts (paperback, Kindle). And if the poems I’ve read online are any indication, it’s going to be a good one. To find out who and what influenced these poems, and how this book came together, please check out the following email interview.
Having already gone South, and evil, and skiing, the kids at the center of Stuart Gibbs’ Spy School series of middle grade espionage novels are now going North in, what else, Spy School Goes North (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). Though as Gibbs explains in the following email interview, it’s not the first time he’s gone in that direction.
Oftentimes when I ask an author about the biggest influences on their new novel or novella, they either cite someone else’s book or something that happened in their real life. But in the following email interview with writer Brent Lambert about his epic urban fantasy novella A Necessary Chaos (paperback), he also cites a dark comedic action movie and a hip-hop-influenced R&B song.
With The Silent Hand (paperback, Kindle), writer Michael Mersault is continuing the military sci-fi space opera series he started last year with The Deep Man. In the following email interview, Mersault discusses what inspired and influenced this second story, as well as his plans moving forward for his series.
There’s a reason why Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International series has been going strong since 2007. And no, it’s not just because they’re fun pulpy, action-packed urban fantasy tales. It’s also because he keeps injecting new perspectives into the mix, be it in such short story anthologies as Monster Hunter Files or the Monster Hunter Memoirs subseries, both of which have other writers playing in Larry’s monster-filled sandbox. The latest of which is Jason Cordova, who’s joining Larry for Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (hardcover, Kindle), the fourth in the Memoirs subseries, but also a new beginning for it…sort of. I’ll let them explain in the following email interview.
