For the last few years, writer Andrew Rowe has been exploring the fictional realm of Venaya through the novels in his Arcane Ascension series. But with Crystal Awakening (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), he’s getting some help from fellow fantasy writer Kayleigh Nicol. In the following email interview, Rowe and Nicol discuss how this collaboration came to be, what inspired and influenced this progression fantasy saga, and their plans for expanding the world of Venaya even further.
With The Quarrygate Gambit (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Marshall Ryan Maresca is presenting the fourth book in his epic urban fantasy series The Streets Of Maradaine…which is also the fifteenth book in The Maradaine Saga…and also the third book of phase two of The Maradaine Saga…
Yeah, it’s confusing to me, too. Good thing Maresca was willing to clear it up — while discussing what inspired and influenced Quarrygate — in the following email interview.
With Daughter Of Redwinter (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Ed McDonald is kicking off a new epic fantasy series called The Redwinter Chronicles.
In the following email interview, he explains what inspired and influenced this fantastic tale, and how it, and this series, will be different from his Raven’s Mark trilogy.
With The Stardust Thief (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Chelsea Abdullah is kicking off an epic fantasy series called The Sandsea Trilogy that was inspired and influenced by her Arab heritage. Though as she notes in the following email interview, it was also influenced by her video game heritage as well.
With The Girl And The Moon (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Mark Lawrence is concluding The Book Of The Ice trilogy he launched in 2020 with The Girl And The Stars and continued in 2021 with The Girl And The Mountain. In the following email interview, Lawrence discusses the conclusion to his epic fantasy series.
While sci-fi fans know him as one half of James S.A. Corey, the name on the cover of The Expanse novels, Daniel Abraham is best known to fans of fantasy for the four books in The Long Price Quintet, the five in The Dagger And The Coin series, and, soon, for The Kithamar Trilogy, which he’s launching with the new novel, Age Of Ash (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview about this epic fantasy series and this first step, Abraham discusses its inspirations and influences, and why he wrote this both on his own and under his own name.
Interview enough writers and you’ll start to see a pattern. Specifically, that some come to their stories the same way every time. Some always start with a character, some a scene, others the plot. But in the following email interview with writer Rebecca Ross about her new novel A River Enchanted (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), she mentions that the path to this epic medieval fantasy tale took a different route than her previous books.
Despite what the title may suggest, Alex Thompson’s new novel Spidertouch (paperback, Kindle) is not about an arachnid who works as a massage therapist, or a bug who is a bit grabby. It’s a fantasy novel in which some people communicate by touching. Probably best to let Thomson explain for himself in the following email interview.