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Exclusive Interview: “Dance Of Shadows” Author Gourav Mohanty

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 3, 2025
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While many epic fantasy stories are rooted in European history and culture (The Lord Of The Rings, Game Of Thrones), other parts of our world have just as much to offer this genre.

Take Gourav Mohanty’s epic and grimdark fantasy series The Raag Of Rta trilogy, which is as influenced by the epic South Asian poem The Mahabharata as it is by Thrones. Maybe more so.

With the second book of the trilogy, Dance Of Shadows, now out in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook, and the first, Sons Of Darkness, recently released in paperback (though still available in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook as well), I spoke to Mohanty via email about what inspired and influenced both this series and this middle piece.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Last Shield” Author Cameron Johnston

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date September 10, 2024
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In the following email interview, author Cameron Johnston says his new novel The Last Shield (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) is a “gender-flipped Die Hard.”

But while that might conjure images of Zendaya or Sydney Sweeny or some other actress of the moment crawling through a skyscraper’s air vents, Johnston says Shield actually takes place in a “mysterious castle” and is a “heroic fantasy [story], with shadings of grimdark thrown in.”

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Exclusive Interview: “In The Grimdark Strands Of The Spinneret” Author Keith Anthony Baird

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date December 7, 2022
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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.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Free Bastards” Author Jonathan French

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date September 30, 2021
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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.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Blacktongue Thief” Author Christopher Buehlman

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date June 1, 2021
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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: “God Of Broken Things” Author Cameron Johnston

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date June 17, 2019
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With God Of Broken Things (paperback, Kindle), writer Cameron Johnston completes the Age Of Tyranny fantasy duology he began with last year’s The Traitor God.

In the following email interview, Johnston explains how the two novels fit together, what inspired them individually and collectively, and how he’d like to see this saga adapted into another medium.

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Exclusive Interview: Gates Of The Dead Author James A. Moore

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date January 21, 2019
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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.

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Exclusive Interview: Darksoul Author Anna Stephens

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date January 2, 2019
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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.