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.
Some people think hard rock and heavy metal is the music of the devil. Which may be true, or maybe not, you don’t know him. What we do know is that Lisa Maxwell’s new historical fantasy novel The Devil’s Thief (hardcover, Kindle) — the second book in a trilogy that began last year with The Last Magician — was, in part, inspired by her love of “loud music.” Or so she explains in the following email interview.
In a lot of World War II alternate history novels (and comics, and games…) the Nazi’s rumored interest in the occult plays a big part. But in Serpent In The Heather (hardcover, Kindle), the second book of her Dark Talents trilogy after At The Table Of Wolves, writer Kay Kenyon once presents the story of a psychic WWII-era spy whose special powers didn’t come from making a deal with the devil.