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Exclusive Interview: “Night’s Edge” Author Liz Kerin

 

One of the more interesting aspects of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire was how it treated vampirism like a medical condition.

It’s what writer Liz Kerin does as well in her vampire novel Night’s Edge (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first in a duology that will conclude April 23, 2024 with First Light.

But as Kerin explains in the following email interview about Night’s, just as her bloodsuckers don’t follow all of the established rules about vampires, so too does Night’s not follow the rules about vampire novels.

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Exclusive Interview: “Capture The Sun” Author Jessie Mihalik

 

With Capture The Sun (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Jessie Mihalik is concluding the romantic sci-fi space opera trilogy Starlight’s Shadow that she launched in 2022 with Hunt The Stars and continued that same year with Eclipse The Moon. In the following email interview, Mihalik discusses what inspired and influenced this final chapter.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Edge Of Sleep” Co-Authors Willie Block & Jake Emanuel

 

The path for literary adaptions usually goes book to movie or book to TV show, or maybe book to movie to video game. Unless, of course, you’re Willie Block and Jake Emanuel, the co-authors of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller mystery The Edge Of Sleep, which went from podcast to TV show to novel (available in hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook). In the following email interview, Willie and Jake discuss what originally inspired and influenced this story, and how the print edition of this story is different from the one you already heard or saw.

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Exclusive Interview: “Many Worlds” Co-Editors Cadwell Turnbull & Josh Eure

 

When assembling a short story collection, some editors start with a theme or a concept. And if they do start with a specific setting, it’s usually one that’s already established, like the fictional universes of Star Wars or the Halo games. But for the new sci-fi short story anthology Many Worlds: Or, The Simulacra (paperback), co-editors Cadwell Turnbull and Josh Eure have created a new universe — or, more accurately, a new multiverse — which their contributors are helping design through their short stories. In the following email interview, Cadwell and Josh discuss what inspired and influenced the assembling of this anthology, and the construction of this universe.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Long March Home” Co-Authors Marcus Brotherton & Tosca Lee

 

In a war notable for its brutality, The Bataan Death March during World War II stands out as a particularly horrific event. In their new historical novel The Long March Home (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writers Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee tell the story of the march from the perspective of three best friends. In the following email interview, Marcus and Tosca discuss what inspired this story, as well as how they came to write it together.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Puzzle Master” Author Danielle Trussoni

 

While there are a lot of characters in fiction with unusual physical abilities, ones with unconventional cognitive skills are less common, if you discount such mental superheroes as Professor X. Think Adrian Monk, the obsessive-compulsive detective from the TV show Monk. Or, more relevant to the topic at hand, Mike Brink, the Savant Syndrome suffering puzzle master in Danielle Trussoni’s new The Puzzle Master (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview about it, Trussoni discusses what inspired and influenced this brainy thriller.

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Exclusive Interview: “On Earth As It Is On Television” Emily Jane

 

Like someone stalking their ex, the aliens in Emily Jane’s humorous sci-fi novel On Earth As It Is On Television (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) stop by long enough to be noticed, and then leave just as quickly. Though in the following email interview about it, Jane says it wasn’t influenced by an ex, but by a current.

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Exclusive Interview: “Flight & Anchor” Author Nicole Kornher-Stace

 

You know you’re onto something when you inject realistic aspects into your science fiction novel, and people complain that it hit, “too close to home.” Which is what happened to author Nicole Kornher-Stace when people got a hold of their dystopian sci-fi novel Firebreak. Which raises the question: What existential horrors await readers in the follow-up, Flight & Anchor (paperback, Kindle). You’ll just have to read the following email interview about it (or, well, the book itself) to find out.

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Exclusive Interview: “Savage Crowns” Author Matt Wallace

 

With Savage Crowns (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Matt Wallace is concluding the Savage Rebellion trilogy, which he calls “…a self-aware epic fantasy” series. In the following email interview, Wallace discusses what inspired and influenced this final chapter, as well as why, despite the humor and satire in all three books, “I wouldn’t call any of them comedies.”

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