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Exclusive Interview: “The Winter Knight” Author Jes Battis

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 10, 2023
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There’s been a number of novels that have retold or put a different spin on the legends of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table. And there’s been plenty of stories about supernatural and paranormal detectives. But forgive my ignorance if I’m wrong, but I believe that Jes Battis’ urban fantasy mystery novel The Winter Knight (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) is the first time anyone’s done both, and more, in the same story. In the following email interview, Battis discusses what inspired and influenced his modern medieval mystery.

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Exclusive Interview: “Blind Spots” Author Thomas Mullen

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 6, 2023
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Read enough murder mysteries, or watch any cop shows or movies, and you’ll inevitably hear a police officer say that the victim, “Never saw it coming.” But what if no one ever saw it coming because they were blinded by the murderer? This is the idea behind Thomas Mullen’s new novel Blind Spots (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook), in which something caused people all over the world to go blind, and while they’ve since compensated with cybernetic implants, a murdererous hacker is now taking advantage of these devices. In the following email interview with Mullen, he discusses what inspired and influenced this cyberpunk sci-fi noir mystery thriller.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Killing Grounds” Author Joan Tierney

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 4, 2023
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For some readers, the fun of a murder mystery is figuring out who did it. Sorry, whodunnit. But in the following email interview with writer Joan Tierney about her Northeastern Gothic murder mystery novella The Killing Grounds (paperback, Kindle), she admits to turning this whodunnit on its head…and does something similar with the setting.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Mimicking Of Known Successes” Author Malka Older

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 6, 2023
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When we think of humans colonizing other planets in our solar system, we typically think of the Moon, Mars, or maybe one of the moons of Saturn — something solid. But in her new romantic sci-fi mystery novella The Mimicking Of Known Successes (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Malka Older decided to set her mystery somewhere a bit gassy.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Shapes Of Wrath” Author Melissa Yi

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 22, 2023
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Having put Dr. Hope Sze through the ringer nine times already in her Hope Sze Medical Crime series, author Melissa Yi is giving her crime solving medical professional a break…by adding paranormal elements to the mix. Which is as much of a break as the good doc is ever going to get. In the following email interview, Yi discusses The Shapes Of Wrath (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book of her new spin-off series, Hope’s Seven Deadly Sins.

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Exclusive Interview: “Drunk On All Your Strange New Words” Author Eddie Robson

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date June 27, 2022
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In science fiction, communication between alien races often comes courtesy of a universal translator, which instantly converts one person’s language into another’s. But what if communication has certain unintended consequences…like, say, getting the recipient drunk? Handy for parties; a problem for work. But in writer Eddie Robson’s science fiction mystery novel Drunk On All Your Strange New Words (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), getting hammered on language isn’t the biggest problem for Lydia, the cultural attaché for an alien diplomat. In the following email interview, Robson explains what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Peacekeeper” Author B.L. Blanchard

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date June 2, 2022
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With a murder taking place in a very different version of our universe, B.L. Blanchard’s new novel The Peacekeeper (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) certainly sounds like an alt-history murder mystery. But as she explains in the following email interview about it, it has more in common with an animated animal movie than any whodunnit .

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Exclusive Interview: “Abbott In Darkness” Author D.J. Butler

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 4, 2022
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Usually when I interview the author of a science fiction novel for this site, and get to the questions about influences, they’ll cite other sci-fi novels or movies or TV shows, even occasionally some games. But in the following email interview with D.J. Butler about his situationally-humorous sci-fi mystery thriller Abbott In Darkness (paperback, Kindle), he instead cited such decidedly not-science fiction-y stuff like Horatio Hornblower, Rudyard Kipling, and the East India Company.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Quarter Storm” Veronica G. Henry

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 3, 2022
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As anyone who’s read any non-fiction books about it, Vodou in the real world isn’t like it is in the movies. It’s this stark difference — as well as other things — that prompted author Veronica G. Henry to write a more authentic work of Vodou-related fiction with her new urban fantasy / noir mystery novel The Quarter Storm (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Henry explains why this was important to her, and what else inspired and influenced this story.