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Exclusive Interview: “Halo: Empty Throne” Author Jeremy Patenaude

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 19, 2025
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When he was the lead writer for 343 Industries, Jeremy Patenaude helped shaped the science fiction space opera saga told by the Halo video games, while also writing Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, co-writing Halo Mythos, and penning the short story “Sacrifice” that was included in a now unavailable special edition of Troy Denning’s novel Halo: Shadows Of Reach.

But while he may not work for 343 anymore (and 343 is Halo Studios now), he’s still contributing to the Halo saga with the new novel Halo: Empty Throne (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Patenaude talks about what inspired and influence this sci-fi story, as well as where it fits into the Halo-verse.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hoodwinked” Author John Mahaffey

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 18, 2025
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Given that he was a professional golfer, you might expect author John Mahaffey to write stories about things happening on golf courses: romances, murders, alien invasions in which the aliens are small, round, and easily dispatched by someone swinging a nine iron correctly…

But while golf does play a (small) role in the novels in his Nemesis Series, these books are actually cybercrime thrillers.

In the following email interview, Mahaffey talks about the newest installment, Hoodwinked (paperback, Kindle), and how it links (get it?) to the previous books in The Nemesis Series.

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Exclusive Interview: “I Got Abducted By Aliens And Now I’m Trapped In A Rom-Com” Author Kimberly Lemming

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 17, 2025
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It’s amazing some of the things people have done out of spite. Like how Lamborghini started making sports cars to piss off the owner of Ferrari. Or how Sony made the PlayStation after Nintendo backed out of a deal for them to make CD-Rom drives for a Nintendo game console.

Well, it looks like there’s another one for the list: Kimberly Lemming’s science fiction / romantic comedy novel I Got Abducted By Aliens And Now I’m Trapped In A Rom-Com (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

And yes, as she explains in the following email interview, the title is part of the spite process.

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Exclusive Interview: “But Not Too Bold” Author Hache Pueyo

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 13, 2025
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In her first novella, Bem Mal Me Quer, author Hache Pueyo conjured a fable-like story that has “elements of different genres, like fantasy, mystery, and romance, and a light touch of horror.”

With Bem now being released in English as But Not Too Bold (hardcover, Kindle), I spoke to Pueyo about what inspired and influenced this story, including why the main character is the way she is.

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Exclusive Interview: “One Message Remains” Author Premee Mohamed

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 11, 2025
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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.

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Exclusive Interview: “Casual” Author Koji A. Dae

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 10, 2025
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Having a kid, especially your first, can be stressful for anyone.

But imagine if you lived in a somewhat dystopian future, and had anxiety, and were then told you couldn’t legally use the very thing that makes your life that helps you manage said anxiety because you’re having a baby…and the kid was coming under somewhat stressful circumstances.

Such is the condition under which we find Valya, the main character in author Koji A. Dae’s dark science fiction novel Casual (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, Dae explains what inspired and influenced this rather personal sci-fi story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hammajang Luck” Author Makana Yamamoto

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 5, 2025
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You know what I hate? When you finally get released from prison, but the person waiting for you is the one who double-crossed you. And it’s not like you can avoid them, since you’re on a space station. In the future. Where are you going to go? McDonalds!?!

But as so often the case, annoying situations in real life make for interesting ones in fiction. Which is why I wanted to do the following email interview with author Makana Yamamoto about their noir sci-fi crime story / cyberpunk lesbian space heist novel Hammajang Luck (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

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Exclusive Interview: “The Miranda Conspiracy” Author James L. Cambias

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 3, 2025
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Like the previous novels in his Billion Worlds series, author James L. Cambias’ Picaresque / pulpy sci-fi space opera novel The Miranda Conspiracy (paperback, Kindle) is set thousands of years in the future.

So it might surprise you to learn that, in the following email interview, Cambias says this story was influenced by a novel from 1939 that was made into a famous movie in 1946.

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Exclusive Interview: “At The Fount Of Creation” Author Tobi Ogundiran

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date January 29, 2025
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As those wise sages The Rolling Stones once noted, “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.”

It’s a song that popped into my head as I was editing the following email interview with author Tobi Ogundiran about his new “secondary world fantasy story with elements of mythology and cosmology” novella At The Fount Of Creation (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the companion to last year’s In The Shadow Of The Fall in his Guardian Of The Gods duology.