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.
As anyone who’s read any non-fiction books about it, Vodou in the real world isn’t like it is in the movies. It’s this stark difference — as well as other things — that prompted author Veronica G. Henry to write a more authentic work of Vodou-related fiction with her new urban fantasy / noir mystery novel The Quarter Storm (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Henry explains why this was important to her, and what else inspired and influenced this story.
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.