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.
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.