If you grew up playing video games, then you grew up with the frustration of some well-meaning relative buying you a terrible game you didn’t want and not the one you did. But while that’s also the indignity that Dul suffers in the graphic novel Super Trash Clash (paperback, Kindle), Clash writer and artist Edgar Camacho says in the following email interview that you need not be a frustrated gamer to understand, and enjoy, this heart-wrenching story.
Be it Goose in Captain Marvel, Spot in Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Jones from Alien, science fiction is lousy with cats. And now it’s getting even lousier (and louder) thanks to Edward Willet’s new sci-fi space opera novel The Tangled Stars (Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Willett not only explains what inspired this adventure story, but why he chose to include a cat and not a dog or fish or octopus.
While they’ve previously explored their fictional world the Birdverse in novellas and a novel, writer R.B. Lemberg has also penned a number of short stories and poems that are set in this realm as well. Now they’re collecting nearly a dozen of them in the new compilation Geometries Of Belonging: Stories & Poems From The Birdverse (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Lemberg discusses what inspired and influenced these stories, and how they connect to those novellas and the novel, as well as the larger world.
For the last few years, writer Andrew Rowe has been exploring the fictional realm of Venaya through the novels in his Arcane Ascension series. But with Crystal Awakening (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), he’s getting some help from fellow fantasy writer Kayleigh Nicol. In the following email interview, Rowe and Nicol discuss how this collaboration came to be, what inspired and influenced this progression fantasy saga, and their plans for expanding the world of Venaya even further.
As a fan of the music, I often find jazz to be rather magical. But while they do as well, writers David Sandner and Jacob Weisman take things even further in their magical ghost story Hellhounds (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, they discuss what inspired and influenced this novella, and how it connects to their previous collaboration, Mingus Fingers.
Writer / director Cameron Crowe recently set the Internet ablaze when he mentioned that he’d love to make a Marvel movie based about the musical mutant, Dazzler. But while comic book fans were excited by the idea, not everyone is as familiar with this member of the X-Men as, say, Wolverine or Professor X. No matter. Now you can learn more about her in Amanda Bridgeman’s new novel Sound Of Light: A Marvel: School Of X Novel (paperback, Kindle) — which, in turn, you can learn more about in the following email interview.
If you set a story in the future, and on the planet Mars, people will assume it’s a sci-fi story. I know I do. But in the following email interview with author Jane Killick about Edge Of Catastrophe (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the second novel she’s written connected to the board game Terraforming Mars, she explains that while yes, this story does take place in the future, and on the planet Mars, she sees it as less a hard sci-fi story and as more of a detective thriller.
With The Ice Orphan (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Kathleen O’Neal Gear is concluding the hard sci-fi / cli-fi series The Rewilding Reports that she began in 2021 with The Ice Lion and continued in 2022’s The Ice Ghost. In the following email interview, Gear discusses this epic conclusion.