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Exclusive Interview: “All-The-Way House” Author Keith R.A. DeCandido

 

In the two decades that I lived in New Jersey, I never once saw the Jersey Devil. I saw a pissy turtle, some easily spooked deer, and a lot of hungry mosquitos, but not once did I ever see the namesake of our state’s hockey team.

But while he may or may not be real, that doesn’t mean he isn’t deserving of the kind of attention we’ve given Big Foot and Nessie.

Which brings me to All The Way House (paperback, Kindle), a new novella about the Jersey’s unofficial state cryptid. In the following email interview, writer Keith R.A. DeCandido discusses this supernatural thriller / urban fantasy mash-up.

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Exclusive Interview: The Wayward Mage Author Sara Hanover

 

With The Wayward Mage (paperback, Kindle), urban fantasy writer Sara Hanover is concluding the Wayward Mages series she started in 2018 with The Late Great Wizard and continued with 2020’s The New Improved Sorceress. In the following email interview, Hanover not only details this final chapter, but also who’d she’d cast if it ever made it to the big screen.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Coward” Author Stephen Aryan

 

In many fantasy novels, the hero is just that: a brave and noble hero who will eventually save the day. But in Stephen Aryan’s new fantasy novel The Coward (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the hero is no hero…people just think he is. In the following email interview, Aryan explains what inspired and influenced this different approach to a familiar path.

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Exclusive Interview: “Legend Of The Five Rings: Death’s Kiss” Author Josh Reynolds

 

Usually when a writer pens a novel that’s inspired by a game, any kind of game, the biggest influence on the novel is, well, the game. But in the following email interview about Legend Of The Five Rings: Death’s Kiss (paperback, Kindle) — which is connected to the Legend Of The Five Rings tabletop RPGs and card games, as well as the second book in his Daidoji Shin Mystery series after last year’s Poison River — Reynolds revealed it was also largely influenced by a series of classic mystery novels.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Blacktongue Thief” Author Christopher Buehlman

 

When it comes to fantasy novels, the names that came up as influences are usually J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and others with multiple letters.

But in the following email interview about his new “grindark” fantasy novel The Blacktongue Thief (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Christopher Buehlman credits a playwright / screenwriter with no initials in his name.

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Exclusive Interview: Honeycomb Writer Joanne Harris & Illustrator Charles Vess

 

Depending on your perspective, Twitter is either a great way to connect with people, a horrible spreader of misinformation, or a little of both. But for writer Joanne Harris, it was a place to spontaneously write some fantasy tales and fables. Now those stories are not only being collected in the book Honeycomb (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) as an interconnected short story novel, but she also got artist Charles Vess to do new illustrations for it. In the following email interview, Harris and Vess discuss what inspired their parts of this fantasy and fable collection.

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Exclusive Interview: “The House Of Always” Author Jenn Lyons

 

In 2019, when Jenn Lyons launched her epic fantasy series, A Chorus Of Dragons, with the novel The Ruin Of Kings, she said she had this pentalogy all planned out. But in the following email interview about the fourth and penultimate installment, The House Of Always (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), she admits that, somewhere along the line, that plan got thrown out the castle window.

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Exclusive Interview: Fortress Of Magi Author Mirah Bolender

 

With Fortress Of Magi (paperback, Kindle), writer Mirah Bolender is concluding The Chronicles Of Amicae trilogy of urban fantasy novels she began in 2018’s City Of Broken Magic and continued in 2019’s The Monstrous Citadel. In the following email interview, Bolender discusses what inspired and influenced this finale.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Helm Of Midnight” Author Marina Lostetter

 

In her first three novels — Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra — writer Marina Lostetter took readers on an epic, sprawling, sci-fi space opera trip that lasted over 4,000 years.

But for her fourth, she’s keeping things grounded…sort of.

In the following email interview, Lostetter discusses her horror-seasoned epic fantasy novel The Helm Of Midnight (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first book of The Five Penalties trilogy.