While sci-fi fans know writer Mike Brooks as the author of the Keiko space opera novels, fans of the Warhammer 40K role-playing game know him better as the author of such connected novels as Rites Of Passage and Brutal Kunnin. Well, now fans of fantasy can get to know him as well thanks to The Black Coast (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book in his epic fantasy trilogy The God-King Chronicles. In the follow email interview, Brooks discusses what inspired and influenced this first installment, as well as his plans for the series going forward.