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Exclusive Interview: “Fit For The Gods” Editors Jenn Northington & S. Zainab Williams

 

Back in 2021, when the world was young, Jenn Northington co-edited a short story anthology called Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, in which contemporary writers put their own spin on the legends of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table. But in her new anthology, Fit For The Gods: Greek Mythology Reimagined (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), Northington and co-editor S. Zainab Williams have gone one step further, assembling a collection of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive versions of those classic Greek tales. In the following email interview, Jenn and S. discuss why they took this approach, how this collection came together, and what influence Jenn’s work on Sword had on Gods…and S.

Note: All answers are from both Jenn and S. unless otherwise indicated.

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Exclusive Interview: “Sordidez” Author E.G. Condé

 

While everyone was saddened by the images that came out of Puerto Rico after Hurricane María made landfall in 2017, writer E.G. Condé was among those who felt it personally, since some of those images included ones of his grandmother’s home. But as horrified as he may have been, as he explains in the following email interview, it also oddly inspired him to write an eco, cli-fi, sci-fi, Taínofuturistic novella called Sordidez (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: “Arkham Horror: The Ravening Deep” Author Tim Pratt

 

California is known for sun and fun. But for writer Tim Pratt, it’s also where he conjured an ancient evil. Well, an ancient evil in a story, that is.

Which is just one of the things you’ll learn in the following email interview we did about Pratt’s new supernatural adventure novel, Arkham Horror: The Ravening Deep (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), which is connected to fantasy Flight’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired card game, Arkham Horror.

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Exclusive Interview: “Lord Of A Shattered Land” Author Howard Andrew Jones

 

When you write a story about a hero named Hanuvar, and set it in the ancient past, you might as well just give him an elephant and a map to the Alps as well.

But I didn’t say stop. Especially not after doing the following email interview with writer Howard Andrew Jones about his sword & sorcery fantasy novel Lord Of A Shattered Land (paperback, hardcover, Kindle), the first installment of a five book series called The Chronicles Of Hanuvar.

In it, he not only discusses what inspired and influenced this epic tale, but also why you won’t have to wait long for the next installment.

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Exclusive Interview: “Wild Spaces” Author S.L. Coney

 

There are a lot of coming-of-age stories about boys, a lot of stories about boys and their dogs, and, of course, coming of age stories about boys and their dogs.

But in S.L. Coney’s cosmic horror / dark fantasy novella Wild Spaces (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), we get all of those things…and a monster story. In the following email interview, Coney explains how, and why, as well as where and when and what the hell?

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Exclusive Interview: “Nightborn: Coldfire Rising” Author C.S. Friedman

 

Nearly thirty years after she concluded the Coldfire trilogy with 1995’s Crown Of Shadows, author C.S. Friedman is returning to this series with the prequel novel Nightborn: Coldfire Rising (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Friedman explains how Nightfire connects to the trilogy, why it alters the formula from epic fantasy with some horror and sci-fi to sci-fi with some horror and fantasy, as well as her plans for other novels in the Coldfire universe.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Legend Of Charlie Fish” Author Josh Rountree

 

Between The Shape Of Water; Mallory O’Meara’s biography of Milicent Patrick, The Lady From The Black Lagoon; and the new version of The Little Mermaid, fish people are in the midst of having a moment. And now you can add to that The Legend Of Charlie Fish (paperback, Kindle), Josh Rountree’s new neo-Gothic Western novel. In the following email interview, Rountree discusses what inspired and influenced this fishy tale.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Possibilities” Author Yael Goldstein-Love

 

Like a lot of parents, Yael Goldstein-Love once pondered what would happen if she left her kid alone for just a moment. Except that unlike a lot of parents, Goldstein-Love’s thoughts didn’t exactly conform to the rules of physics…and that inspired her to write her literary / psychological suspense sci-fi novel The Possibilities (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Goldstein-Love discusses what else inspired and influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “New-Generation African Poets: Tisa” Editors Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani

 

For nearly 10 years, editors Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani have assembled an excellent anthology series of poetry by African writers called New-Generation African Poets. But unlike other geographically-based poetry anthologies, these don’t just present one or a couple poems by numerous poets. Instead, a handful each get their own 20 to 40 page chapbook in which to present their poetic vision. In the following email interview, Dawes and Abani discuss the newest installment, New-Generation African Poets: Tisa (boxed set).

 

Please note: All answers are from both Mr. Dawes and Mr. Abani.