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Exclusive Interview: “Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business” Writer Arvind Ethan David

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 20, 2025
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Detective Philip Marlowe is one of the most iconic noir characters in both film and literature, the former of which has seen him played by everyone from Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum to Liam Neeson.

Now Marlow is coming to a different visual medium in Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business (hardcover, Kindle), a graphic novel adaptation of Chandler’s 1950 novella.

In the following email interview, writer Arvind Ethan David — who worked with illustrator Ilias Kyriazis and colorist Cris Peters to adapt Business — talks about how this adaptation came to be, how its structure differs slightly from Chandler’s original novella, as well plans to adapt some of Marlowe’s other iconic cases.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Starving Saints” Author Caitlin Starling

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 19, 2025
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Here’s a tip: If the castle you live in is under siege, and there’s no way to defend it, get out however you can, even if it means working with people you dislike.

Don’t believe me? Just ask the ladies at the center of author Caitlin Starling’s medieval fantasy horror novel The Starving Saints (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), who hate each other but must collaborate if they want to live another day.

In the following email interview, Starling talks about what inspired and influenced this story, as well as how this story was originally going to be told interactively.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Eye Of The Bedlam Bride” Author Matt Dinniman

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 15, 2025
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Five years ago, author Matt Dinniman launched his science fiction / fantasy / LitRPG series Dungeon Crawler Carl when he self-published the titular first novel…and quickly caught the attention of fans of LitRPG stories. Which, in turn, caught the attention of Ace Books, who started reprinting these novels in 2024.

With the sixth book, The Eye Of The Bedlam Bride, newly available from Ace in hardcover — just weeks after reissuing the fourth [The Gate Of The Feral Gods] and fifth [The Butcher’s Masquerade] — I spoke to Dinniman via email to talk about both this series and Bedlam Bride.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Letter From The Lonesome Shore” Author Sylvie Cathrall

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 7, 2025
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On her website, Sylvie Cathrall identifies herself as a “romantic fantasy author.”

But while the two novels that comprise her Sunken Archive duology are romantic and fantastical — and other things — the central relationships in them are not between lovers, but two sets of siblings.

And no, these stories don’t get all Game Of Thrones-y.

In the following email interview about the second book, A Letter From The Lonesome Shore (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), Cathrall talks about what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as how it completes the story she started in the first, A Letter To The Luminous Deep.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Night Birds” Author Christopher Golden

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 6, 2025
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Given what’s going on with the world, you might think this would be a bad time to offer sanctuary to a stranger, even if they have a child with them.

But that’s exactly what Charlie does in Christopher Golden’s new folk horror thriller novel The Night Birds (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

And yeah, it ends up being a bad time. It’s a horror novel; not a warm and fuzzy novel.

In the following email interview, Golden discusses what inspired and influenced this horror story.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Poet’s Game” Author Paul Vidich

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 5, 2025
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On the surface, Paul Vidich’s novel The Poet’s Game (hardcover, Kindle) sounds like it’s a spy novel, just like his previous books.

But in the following email interview, Vidich says this is also, rather fittingly, “a love story that is disguised as a spy novel.”

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Exclusive Interview: “An Assembly Of Monsters” Editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 1, 2025
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For the last three years, fans of steampunk culture have gathered just north of Baltimore, Maryland, for The Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival, which has panel discussions, authors, and something called “Tea Dueling.”

The gathering also comes with a short story anthology from the good people at eSpec Books.

In the following email interview, eSpec’s Danielle Ackley-McPhail, who edits these anthologies, talks about what went into this year’s volume, An Assembly Of Monsters (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: “The Everest Enigma” Author Jeannette de Beauvoir

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 30, 2025
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After writing ten books in her Provincetown Mysteries series, author Jeannette de Beauvoir is going international with a new series, the Abbie Bradford Mysteries, which she’s kicking off with The Everest Enigma (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, de Beauvoir talks about what inspired and influenced both this new novel and this new series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night” Author James Swallow

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 29, 2025
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Fans of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are eagerly awaiting the release of the third season, as well as the announced but not yet filmed fourth.

But for the ones who just can’t wait, they can actually take a trip in time — way, way back to season 2 — with James Swallow’s new novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Swallow discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi space opera story.