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.
Most stories set in New York City happen in Manhattan. But there are four other boroughs in Big Apple, each with their own stories to tell. Which is where we find Alex Shvartsman’s new urban fantasy novel The Middling Affliction (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — in the “outer borough” of Brooklyn. In the following email interview, Shvartsman discusses what inspired and influenced this story, and why he decided to set in “The Borough Of Trees” as opposed to “Midtown” or “The Home Of Thomas Alva Edison.”
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.
They say no good deed goes unpunished. Just look at Tinker, the main character in Wen Spencer’s urban fantasy series Elfhome, who saved an elf’s life, and ended up in the middle of something for her trouble. But what’s bad for Tinker is good for anyone who wants to read about her adventures. In the following email interview, Spencer discusses the latest of these, Harbinger (hardcover, Kindle), including what else she might be putting Tinker through.
For those keeping score at home, Stephen Blackmoore’s new novel Suicide Kings (paperback, Kindle) is the seventh book in his ongoing series of urban fantasy stories about L.A.-based necromancer Eric Carter. But as he explains in the following email interview about it, Suicide Kings is also the beginning of a third trilogy of Eric Carter novels.
Seven years ago, when I interviewed writer Adam Christopher about his noir science fiction novel Made To Kill, he said it was his attempt to write what he imagined iconic noir author Raymond Chandler would come up with if he tried to write a sci-fi story. But usually writers aren’t that…exact when it comes to paying homage. So much so that it took this long for someone to say something similar. Though what’s interesting is that the book in question — Marion Deeds’ noir urban fantasy novella, Comeuppance Served Cold (paperback, Kindle) — would also be inspired by Dashiell Hammett, an iconic noir author who himself inspired Chandler.
Usually when we think of djinn, we think of fantasy tales. And usually when we think of AI overlords, we think of cyberpunk sci-fi. But one day, not so long from now, when we think of stories involving djinn and AI, we’ll think of Saad Z. Hossain, author of the cyberpunk sci-fi / cli-fi / urban fantasy novella Kundo Wakes Up (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Hossain talks about this genre-mashing story, the novella that narratively preceded it, The Gurkha And The Lord Of Tuesday, and the new novel that narratively precedes both of them, Cyber Mage.
