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Exclusive Interview: “Hammajang Luck” Author Makana Yamamoto

 

You know what I hate? When you finally get released from prison, but the person waiting for you is the one who double-crossed you. And it’s not like you can avoid them, since you’re on a space station. In the future. Where are you going to go? McDonalds!?!

But as so often the case, annoying situations in real life make for interesting ones in fiction. Which is why I wanted to do the following email interview with author Makana Yamamoto about their noir sci-fi crime story / cyberpunk lesbian space heist novel Hammajang Luck (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

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Exclusive Interview: You Can Go Home Now Author Michael Elias

 

If history is accurate, then it was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), the Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of France, who first said that revenge is a dish best served cold. Regardless of who first uttered that sentiment, though, there’s no denying that revenge is also a dish that works really well in crime novels. Consider Michael Elias’ You Can Go Home Now (hardcover, Kindle), in which the dish is served by an angry daughter. In the following email interview, Elias discusses what inspired and influenced this sordid tale, as well as why, despite being so sordid, he doesn’t feel it’s noir.

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Exclusive Interview: Gone To Dust Author Matt Goldman

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who’ve broken the bag from a vacuum cleaner and gotten dirt everywhere, and those who live in fear of doing just that. But while a certain someone in Matt Goldman’s new crime novel Gone To Dust (hardcover, digital) is in the former group, they probably don’t feel so bad about it, since it may help them get away with murder.

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Exclusive Interview: The Rebellion’s Last Traitor Author Nik Korpon

Since there seems to be a new Star Wars book every week, you’d be excused if you mistook Nik Korpon’s new novel The Rebellion’s Last Traitor (paperback, digital) for being yet another story about Luke and Leia and The Force. But in talking to him about it, it’s clear that this dystopian crime novel is less inspired by Han Solo, and more by another Harrison Ford movie.