Keith Anthony Baird isn’t the first person to write their own version of a fairy tale. But as he explains in the following email interview about his grimdark fantasy horror novella In The Grimdark Strands Of The Spinneret (paperback, Kindle), he didn’t just want to tell a fairy tale, he wanted it to “…come across like a fable” as well.
With The Free Bastards (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Jonathan French is bringing to a close The Lot Lands trilogy he launched in 2018 with The Grey Bastards and continued in 2019 with The True Bastards. In the following email interview, French discusses what did, and didn’t, influence this final installment, and hints and says it may not be as “final” as the end of a trilogy implies.
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.
With his grimdark fantasy novel Gates Of The Dead (paperback, Kindle), writer James A. Moore is concluding The Tides Of War trilogy he began in 2017 with The Last Sacrifice, and continued in 2018 with Fallen Gods. In the following email interview, he explains what this series is about, how the final volume connects to the other two, and whether this truly is the end of this saga.
Given its name and that it’s a dark fantasy novel — grimdark, even — it’s not surprising that Anna Stephens has been asked if her novel Darksoul (paperback, Kindle) is connected to the Dark Souls video games. In the following email interview, Stephens not only explains that no, it’s not — it’s the second book in her Godblind trilogy — but also how games, movies, and movie soundtracks inspired this fantasy tale.