With The Undertakers (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Nicole Glover is continuing the magical adventures of Hetty and Benjy, paranormal investigators during the Reconstruction era who got their start in Glover’s previous historical fantasy novel, The Conductors. In the following email interview, Glover discusses what inspired and influenced this second story.
In his new horror-infused historical fantasy novel The Peculiarities (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer David Liss presents a version of Victorian London if magic was real, and a real problem…for some. In the following email interview, Liss discusses what inspired and influenced this fantastic tale.
When asked the inevitable “where did you get the idea for this story” question, writers will often cite something that happened in their real lives. And while that’s what writer Yoon Ha Lee did in the following email interview about his silkpunk historical fantasy novel Phoenix Extravagant (which is now available in paperback a year after being released in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook), the real life something he cited was a paint. Not a painting, not his cat getting into his paints, but an actual paint.
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.