Don’t you hate it when you get hired to be the enforcer for the ruler of a corrupt city-state, but the new job requires you to have magic that’s flesh binding, and will thus kill you if you do anything wrong? Yeah, me too. But while this makes me glad I’m not Ig, the main character in Clay Harmon’s new dark fantasy novel Flames Of Mira (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), it does, as they say, make for good readin’. And not just of the following email interview Clay and I did about Mira.
A.C. Wise is not the first author to put her own spin on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan stories, and she won’t be the last. But as she explains in the following email interview about Hooked (paperback, Kindle), the companion to her previous Peter Pan novel Wendy, Darling, this sequel / prequel / sidequel does have one thing the rest never will: A.C.’s unique perspective.
It is important to always keep your eyes on the road when driving. But while writer Paul Jessup admits in the following email interview that he doesn’t always follow that rule, it was because of this moving violation that we now have his new sci-fi-infused dark fantasy novel, The Silence That Binds (paperback, Kindle).
As a kid who grew up in the suburbs, in a cul-de-sac, and with an active imagination, few things were scarier when I was small than new neighbors. Though I never imagined they’d be like the emotional vampires in Tim Waggoner’s new novel, The Forever House (hardcover, paperback). In the following email interview, he not only discusses what inspired and influenced this horror-adjacent dark fantasy tale, but also how it was impacted by a certain alien he wrote about recently.
With last year’s The Midnight Front, an exciting tale of magicians fighting Nazis in World War II, writer David Mack kicked off his Dark Arts military fantasy series. But in the following email interview about his new Dark Arts novel The Iron Codex (paperback, Kindle), he explains why the second book in this ongoing series isn’t about those same magicians fighting the same Nazis in the same World War.
Some writers and stories can best be described as Lovecraft-esque. But in her dark fantasy series The Innsmouth Legacy — which began with the 2014 novellete “The Litany Of Earth” [which you can read here] and continued with last year’s novel Winter Tide — writer Ruthanna Emrys is telling new stories in Lovecraft’s (hopefully) fictional universe. In the following email interview, Emrys discusses how the third and latest installment, Deep Roots (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) continues this ongoing saga.