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Exclusive Interview: “Dance Of Shadows” Author Gourav Mohanty

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 3, 2025
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While many epic fantasy stories are rooted in European history and culture (The Lord Of The Rings, Game Of Thrones), other parts of our world have just as much to offer this genre.

Take Gourav Mohanty’s epic and grimdark fantasy series The Raag Of Rta trilogy, which is as influenced by the epic South Asian poem The Mahabharata as it is by Thrones. Maybe more so.

With the second book of the trilogy, Dance Of Shadows, now out in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook, and the first, Sons Of Darkness, recently released in paperback (though still available in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook as well), I spoke to Mohanty via email about what inspired and influenced both this series and this middle piece.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Teeth Of Dawn” Author Marina Lostetter

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date January 28, 2025
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With The Teeth Of Dawn (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Marina Lostetter is concluding the epic fantasy with “a dash of horror” trilogy The Five Penalties that she launched in 2021 with The Helm Of Midnight and continued two years later with The Cage Of Dark Hours.

In the following email interview, Lostetter discusses what inspired and influenced this series and this final installment.

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Exclusive Interview: “Eternity’s End” Author Zachary Hagen

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Post date November 21, 2024
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With Eternity’s End (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), author Zachary Hagen is concluding the epic Christian romantic fantasy series The Eternal Chronicles, which he launched two years ago with Eternity’s Well.

In the following email interview, Hagen discusses what inspired and influenced both this series and it’s final installment.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Fate Of Silent Gods” Author Scott Drakeford

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 18, 2024
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With The Fate Of Silent Gods (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), author Scott Drakeford is presenting the second installment of his secondary-world fantasy series The Age Of Ire.

In the following email interview, Drakeford talks about what inspired and influenced this epic military fantasy novel, as well as how he hopes the in-progress third book is not the end of the story.

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

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date September 19, 2024
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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: “The Bright Sword” Author Lev Grossman

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date August 12, 2024
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In his Magicians trilogy, writer Lev Grossman put his own spin on the portal fantasy genre.

And now, with his new epic fantasy novel The Bright Sword (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), Grossman is doing the same — albeit in a very different way — to the legends of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table.

In the following email interview, Grossman discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why it’s about Arty and not some other King.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Dragons Of Deepwood Fen” Author Bradley P. Beaulieu

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date December 7, 2023
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It’s always interesting to see who an author choses to center their stories around.

Take Bradley P. Beaulieu’s new epic fantasy novel, The Dragons Of Deepwood Fen (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), in which one of his two main characters is agoraphobic, while the other is a thief with scruples.

To find out what trouble these two get into, literally, check out the following email interview, in which Beaulieu talks about what inspired and influenced this tale…and the series it’s launching.

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Exclusive Interview: “Spirit Of The Wood” Author Kristen Britain

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 14, 2023
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For Spirit Of The Wood (hardcover, Kindle), the latest installment of her epic fantasy saga, the Green Rider Series, writer Kristen Britain is taking a step back to give the backstory of one this ongoing tale’s most seasoned characters. In the following email interview, Britain discusses how she came to pen this character-driven short novel.

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Exclusive Interview: “Nightborn: Coldfire Rising” Author C.S. Friedman

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date July 27, 2023
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Nearly thirty years after she concluded the Coldfire trilogy with 1995’s Crown Of Shadows, author C.S. Friedman is returning to this series with the prequel novel Nightborn: Coldfire Rising (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Friedman explains how Nightfire connects to the trilogy, why it alters the formula from epic fantasy with some horror and sci-fi to sci-fi with some horror and fantasy, as well as her plans for other novels in the Coldfire universe.