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Exclusive Interview: “Fall Into Fantasy 2024” Editor Andrew M. Ferrell

 

There’s such a thing as being too clever. Which is what I might’ve said to Cloaked Press editor Andrew M. Ferrell when I realized their series of fantasy short story anthologies, Fall Into Fantasy, usually come out in September, while the companion series, Spring Into SciFi, are typically released…well, you know. Took me a moment, too.

That is, until I read through the following email interview he and I did about Fall Into Fantasy 2024 (paperback, Kindle), in which Ferrell made a point of saying, “…this is a passion for me. I don’t choose my authors based on their marketability or only look for bigger names. … This is an anthology for fantasy lovers curated by a lover of fantasy.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Thyme Travellers” Editor Sonia Sulaiman

 

Given what’s going on with the Israel-Hamas War, and how some people have reacted to it, it would be understandable if the editor of a short story anthology by Palestinian writers said something about how their collection shows that Palestinians are people, too.

But in the following email interview about Thyme Travellers: An Anthology Of Palestinian Speculative Fiction (paperback, Kindle), editor Sonia Sulaiman says that while it features “…writers who identify as Palestinian in the diaspora,” she notes that, “…none of these stories are meant to ‘humanize’ us. We’re already human.”

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Exclusive Interview: “All Our Ordinary Stories” Author / Artist Teresa Wong

 

It’s both a great and terrible time to be an immigrant, no matter what country you’re emigrating to. But it is in great and terrible times that we often get the best art.

In Teresa Wong’s new collection of cartoons, All Our Ordinary Stories (paperback, Kindle), she presents stories about “…my life growing up as a child of Chinese-Canadian immigrants.”

In the following email interview, Wong talks about what inspired and influenced this memoir, as well as whether she’s shown it to her parents yet.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Forest Of Lost Souls” Author Dean Koontz

 

In the following email interview about his new novel The Forest Of Lost Souls (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook), Dean Koontz says this “suspense novel with fantasy elements” is “a story about myths, how they are created, why they endure, and how they shape us.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Something, Not Nothing” Author / Artist Sarah Leavitt

 

We all deal in grief in our own ways. Some people retreat into themselves, others find solace in a bottle, still others turn to their friends and loved ones for solace.

For cartoonist Sarah Leavitt, the death of her longtime partner Donimo — who had chronic health issues, and chose to end her suffering in April of 2020 — her way of dealing was to write and draw the comics she’s now collected as Something, Not Nothing: A Story Of Grief And Love (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, Leavitt explains what she wrote about in these comics, why she decided to release them for all to see, and whether doing all of this helped her deal with her grief.

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Exclusive Interview: “Rumor Has It” Author Cat Rambo

 

They say the third time’s the charm.

But that isn’t the case for the characters in Rumor Has It (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the third book in author Cat Rambo’s Disco Space Opera series.

As Rambo explains in the following email interview about this hopepunk- and military fantasy-infused science fiction space opera story, “things there don’t go as smoothly as they hoped.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Megacosmic Rift” Author Abby Goldsmith

 

With Megacosmic Rift (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Abby Goldsmith is presenting the fourth entry in her six-part science fiction space fantasy series Torth.

In the following email interview, Goldsmith talks about the origins of this series, and her plans for it moving forward, while also noting that Megacosmic Rift is, “…secretly my favorite of the series.”

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Exclusive Interview: “The Royal First Irregulars” Author Marshall Ryan Maresca

 

Since kicking off The Maradaine Saga with The Thorn Of Dentonhill in 2015, author Marshall Ryan Maresca has added more than a dozen novels to this epic fantasy series.

But he’s also included some shorter stand-alone novellas as well in a subseries he calls The Maradaine Saga Shorts, which he started in 2022 with The Mystical Murders Of Yin Mara.

In the following email interview, Maresca talks about the fourth novella in The Maradaine Saga Shorts series, The Royal First Irregulars (paperback, Kindle), including what inspired and influenced this shorter story, and why you don’t have to read the 19 previous books first.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Place Between Waking And Forgetting” Author Eugen Bacon

 

For her sixth and latest collection of short stories, A Place Between Waking And Forgetting (paperback), author Eugen Bacon has assembled a collection that — as she explains in the following email interview — “largely comprises black people stories exploring affection, dread, anguish, or hope.”

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