On the surface, L.R. Lam’s new epic fantasy / high fantasy / romantasy novel Dragonfall (hardcover, Kindle) seems like it’s all about that hot human-on-dragon action. And it is.
But as she explains in the following email interview, it’s also about false gods hating those who put them on their pedestals.
While some fantasy novels have a bit of romance in them, writer Sarah Hawley is taking the opposite approach with her new series, Glimmer Falls, by having them be fantasy rom-coms. In the following email interview, Hawley discusses both this series, and the book that kicks it off, A Witch’s Guide To Fake Dating A Demon (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
While Ruby Dixon is not the first person who’s wanted a more romantic version of Star Wars, she might be the first who thinks her take on it should be made into something that resembles the unholy spawn of Archer and Bridgerton. At least that’s what she says in the following email interview about the new version of her 2016 romantic sci-fi novel Barbarian’s Prize (paperback), the fifth book in her Ice Planet Barbarians series.
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.
It’s been ten years since we last heard from Tiger and Del, the titular characters of Jennifer Roberson’s romantic fantasy series. In the following email interview, Roberson discusses their return in the new novel Sword-Bearer (paperback, Kindle), including why fans won’t have to wait another ten years for their next adventure.
While abuse can take many forms, one commonality is that it can help if you share your feelings with someone who has suffered similarly. It’s what draws together the two participants of Martha Anne Toll’s dark fantasy romance novel Three Muses (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Toll discusses what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as why you shouldn’t let the genres listed limit your expectations of this story.
The writer has a degree in Shakespeare, the press materials reference Bridgerton, and the hero’s name unintentionally recalls a certain dark knight’s favorite reporter. But in the following email interview about the romantic young adult sci-fi space opera novel The Stars Between Us (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the aforementioned author, Cristin Terrill, cites Charles Dickens more than the bard, those Brits, or Batman.
War…war never changes. Which may be why some people are just happier when there’s a war. Such is the problem facing the crew of the Starlight’s Shadow in Jessie Mihalik’s sci-fi space opera trilogy of the same name. In the following email interview, Mihalik discusses the second book in this saga, Eclipse The Moon (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).