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Exclusive Interview: “At The Fount Of Creation” Author Tobi Ogundiran

 

As those wise sages The Rolling Stones once noted, “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.”

It’s a song that popped into my head as I was editing the following email interview with author Tobi Ogundiran about his new “secondary world fantasy story with elements of mythology and cosmology” novella At The Fount Of Creation (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the companion to last year’s In The Shadow Of The Fall in his Guardian Of The Gods duology.

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

 

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: “Aurelia” Author Stephen R. Lawhead

 

Twenty-six years after he seemingly ended The Pendragon Cycle novels, author Stephen R. Lawhead has returned to the legends of King Arthur in a big way.

Not only is this fantasy / historical fiction series being adapted for television by the streaming service DailyWire+, while the first three books — Taliesin, Merlin, and Arthur — have been reissued, but he’s also written a prequel to the series called Aurelia (hardcover, Kindle).

In the following email interview, Lawhead talks about what makes The Pendragon Cycle different from other stories about King Arthur, as well as whether you should begin with the new novel or go back to it later.

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

 

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

 

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 Shiver Tree” Author Holly Searcy

 

It’s hardly surprising that many fantasy writers have played Dungeons & Dragons. Or that D&D has influenced their fantasy stories.

But in the following email interview with author Holly Searcy, she talks about how her high fantasy novel The Shiver Tree (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) wasn’t just written by a D&D player who was influenced by the role-playing adventure game. It actually started out as the backstory to her D&D character.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Legacy Of Arniston House” Author T.L. Huchu

 

When fantasy writers talk about the things that influenced their work, they often mention other fantasy stories: The Lord Of The Rings, Game Of Thrones, Harry Potter, and so on.

But in the following email interview about The Legacy Of Arniston House (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the fourth book in his urban fantasy series Edinburgh Nights, author T.L. Huchu says this novel also takes influence from a video game-inspired TV show of the bloody battle persuasion.

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Exclusive Interview: “Shadow Of The Smoking Mountain” Author Howard Andrew Jones

 

With Shadow Of The Smoking Mountain (hardcover, Kindle), author Howard Andrew Jones has reached the half-way point of his five book sword & sorcery / sword & sandal fantasy series The Chronicles Of Hanuvar.

In the following email interview, Jones discusses what inspired and influenced this third book, as well as where things stand for books four and five.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Grim Reaper’s Guide To Catching A Killer” Author Maxie Dara

 

When we think of The Grim Reaper, we usually think of a man in a hooded cloak with a scythe and no sense of humor.

But in author Maxie Dara’s novel A Grim Reaper’s Guide To Catching A Killer (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — which she calls a “cozy mystery against a magical realism backdrop” — there’s more than one soul catcher, and one of them is named Kathy. Yeah.

In the following email interview, Dara talks about what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as the series it kicks off, the S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery Series.