With Into The Vortex (hardcover, Kindle), writer Charles E. Gannon is presenting the middle part of the epic fantasy Vortex Of Worlds trilogy he launched in 2021 with This Broken World. But as Gannon explains in the following email interview, this story is bigger than a trilogy…and the epic fantasy genre.
While Ruby Dixon is not the first person who’s wanted a more romantic version of Star Wars, she might be the first who thinks her take on it should be made into something that resembles the unholy spawn of Archer and Bridgerton. At least that’s what she says in the following email interview about the new version of her 2016 romantic sci-fi novel Barbarian’s Prize (paperback), the fifth book in her Ice Planet Barbarians series.
Like a lot of writers, Robert E. Hampson’s influences don’t start and stop with books; they include TV shows as well. As he explains in the following email interview, his new hard sci-fi novel The Moon And The Desert (paperback, Kindle) wasn’t just influenced by his fellow writers, but also by a classic (and expensive) show from the ’70s.
When we think of humans colonizing other planets in our solar system, we typically think of the Moon, Mars, or maybe one of the moons of Saturn — something solid. But in her new romantic sci-fi mystery novella The Mimicking Of Known Successes (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Malka Older decided to set her mystery somewhere a bit gassy.
Like a lot of people (but not nearly enough) writer Sim Kern is worried about our planet’s climate. And like a lot of people who are teachers (but not nearly enough of other people) Kern is trying to effect meaningful change by educating their students about this issue. Though they’re doing it not just through lectures and dioramas, but with Seeds For The Swam (paperback, Kindle), a young adult cli-fi sci-fi novel they hope students of all ages will find enlightening and entertaining.
There’s a joke about people on drugs saying spacy things like, “Oooooooooh, look at the colors.” But imagine if, instead, colors were weaponized; “Aaaaaaaaa! Look at the colors!”
It’s how Argentina won the Falklands War in Paz Pardo’s alt-history sci-fi allegory / police procedural novel The Shamshine Blind (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Pardo explains how being under the weather inspired this multilayered mash-up.
Having put Dr. Hope Sze through the ringer nine times already in her Hope Sze Medical Crime series, author Melissa Yi is giving her crime solving medical professional a break…by adding paranormal elements to the mix. Which is as much of a break as the good doc is ever going to get. In the following email interview, Yi discusses The Shapes Of Wrath (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book of her new spin-off series, Hope’s Seven Deadly Sins.
In the following email interview about his comic book Skull Cat: Book 1: Skull Cat And The Curious Castle (paperback, Kindle), writer / artist Norman Shurtliff admits that he drew some inspiration from his own life. And no, that’s not my way of telling you that Norman is a kitty. At least I don’t think he’s a kitty…
Some writers hate talking about genres, some don’t mind it at all, or embrace it. Then you have writers like James Callan, who created his own for what he calls his salacious misadventure cyberpunk sci-fi novel A Transcendental Habit (paperback). In the following email interview, Callan discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as what makes something a “salacious misadventure.”