With his new urban fantasy / noir mystery novel Titan Song (hardcover, Kindle), writer Dan Stout is once again putting detectives Carter and Ajax in harm’s way…and just for your amusement. Which is why you should feel obligated to read the following email interview, in which Stout discusses what inspired and influenced this third installment in The Carter Archives series.
It is important to always keep your eyes on the road when driving. But while writer Paul Jessup admits in the following email interview that he doesn’t always follow that rule, it was because of this moving violation that we now have his new sci-fi-infused dark fantasy novel, The Silence That Binds (paperback, Kindle).
Every author is influenced by other writers. But most aren’t so afraid of another writer that they write a story, in part, as a form of therapy. In the following email interview about his urban fantasy romantic comedy The Difficult Loves Of Maria Makiling (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Wayne Santos not only explains what inspired and influenced this novella, but how Margaret Atwood unknowingly became part of that process.
Jaime Lee Moyer’s new novel Brightfall (paperback, Kindle) isn’t the first time someone’s put their own spin on the legend of Robin Hood, and it won’t be the last.
But as Moyer explains in the following email interview about this Marian-centric fantasy story, it may be the first that isn’t about Robin.
With Requiem Moon (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook) writer C.T. Rwizi is continuing the science fantasy saga he started in 2020 with Scarlet Odyssey. But as he explains in the following email interview, this second book is no longer the end of the story.
While sci-fi fans know writer Mike Brooks as the author of the Keiko space opera novels, fans of the Warhammer 40K role-playing game know him better as the author of such connected novels as Rites Of Passage and Brutal Kunnin. Well, now fans of fantasy can get to know him as well thanks to The Black Coast (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book in his epic fantasy trilogy The God-King Chronicles. In the follow email interview, Brooks discusses what inspired and influenced this first installment, as well as his plans for the series going forward.
And now, a good reason to study history. In her new historical fantasy novel The Conductors (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Nicole Glover introduce us to the mystery-solving power couple of Hetty and Benjy, whose adventures take place a hundred and fifty odd years ago. In the following email interview, Glover explains what inspired and influenced this magical tale.
Four years after releasing the first half, fantasy writer Michael Johnston is concluding the story he began in 2017’s Soleri with his new companion novel Silence Of The Soleri (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). Though as he reveals in the following email interview about it, this may only be the end of the first story.
Since launching in 1995 as a collectible card game, the Legend Of The Five Rings has not only expanded into a table-top role-playing game and a board game, but it’s also spawned more than a dozen novels, including three new ones since Final Flight Games bought the series six years ago. In the following email interview, writer Marie Brennan discusses her contribution, The Night Parade Of 100 Demons (paperback, Kindle).