In many stories, magic is presented as being part of the natural world, and thus able to interact with it. And while that’s still true in Michelle D. Sonnier’s The Clockwork Chronicles series, what she adds to the mythos are people whose magic works instead on technology. In the following email interview, Sonnier talks about The Clockwork Solution (paperback, Kindle), the second book in this steampunk / gaslamp fantasy series.
Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands. It’s why Shade Nox, the main character of Sarah J. Daley’s new fantasy novel Obsidian (paperback, Kindle) is the hero of that story…and the center of the bad guy’s attention. In the following email interview, Daley explains why she put Shade in that position, as well as what inspired and influenced this epic tale.
When Gaie Sebold released her fantasy novel Babylon Steel in 2011, she probably wasn’t thinking she was ahead of the curve by making her hero an unapologetic sex worker. But a lot can happen in 11 years. Including interest in a book, which brings me to Bad Gods (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), a retitled, re-covered, but otherwise untouched new version of Steel. In the following email interview, Sebold discusses both the new and original versions of this fantasy tale.