For her second collection of stories, One Message Remains (paperback, Kindle), author Premee Mohamed presents four novellas and novelettes that are all set in the same secondary world.
In the following email interview, Mohamed explains how this collection of dark fantasy tales came together, as well as her thoughts on visiting this fictional realm again.
While it sometimes seems like every fantasy story is inspired by The Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, or Game Of Thrones, there are writers who are doing something different with the form. Matt Wallace did food fantasy with his excellent Sin Du Jour Affair novellas, while Tomi Adeymi employed African fables and folklore for her impressive debut, Children Of Blood And Bone.
And then there’s JY Yang, who not only went more Eastern than Western with their inventive novellas The Black Tides Of Heaven and The Red Threads Of Fortune, the first two entries in The Tensorate Series, but who also got political in more ways than one.
In the following email interview, Yang discusses the third novella in this ongoing saga,The Descent Of Monsters (paperback, Kindle).
Like the first novella in her Danielle Cain series, The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion, Margaret Killjoy’s The Barrow Will Send What It May (paperback, Kindle) is yet another punk fantasy that skirts the edges of horror and, in doing so, takes influence from those most horrible of punks: Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of those meddling kids on Scooby-Doo.