With Savage Crowns (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Matt Wallace is concluding the Savage Rebellion trilogy, which he calls “…a self-aware epic fantasy” series. In the following email interview, Wallace discusses what inspired and influenced this final chapter, as well as why, despite the humor and satire in all three books, “I wouldn’t call any of them comedies.”
Before he embarked on his writing career, penning such stories as the epic fantasy novel Savage Legion and the Sin Du Jour urban fantasy novellas, a young Matt Wallace worked as professional wrestler, and even went to wrestling school. Now he’s bringing his past and present together in Bump (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), a new middle grade novel about a 12-year-old who goes to wrestling school to become a luchador. In the following email interview, Wallace talks about what inspired and influenced this story…besides the obvious, of course.
While many urban fantasy novels are centered around the local wizards and the magical creatures, most don’t concern themselves with the support staff, the working people who make life possible, let alone pleasurable, for the magical folk. But in his Sin Du Jour Affair series of novellas — which includes the novellas Envy Of Angels, Lustlocked, Pride’s Spell, Idle Ingredients, and Greedy Pigs, as well as the short story “Small Wars” — writer Matt Wallace has us spending time with the caterers. With the sixth and second-to-last book in the series, Gluttony Bay (paperback, Kindle), newly released, I did the following email interview as a primer on both this novella and the rest of the heptology.