With The Fate Of Silent Gods (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), author Scott Drakeford is presenting the second installment of his secondary-world fantasy series The Age Of Ire.
In the following email interview, Drakeford talks about what inspired and influenced this epic military fantasy novel, as well as how he hopes the in-progress third book is not the end of the story.
We’ve all done dumb things in the pursuit of love.
But what’s terrible in real life can often be good in fantasy. Or, in the case of author Samantha Mills and her new novel The Wings Upon Her Back (paperback, Kindle), secondary world fantasy / science fantasy.
In the following email interview, Mills discusses the kind of trauma that inspired Back, as well as the things that influenced this story.
In their new fantasy novella The Bruising Of Qilwa (paperback, Kindle), writer Naseem Jamnia introduces us to the queernormative, Persian-inspired secondary world of Firuz-e Jafari, a nonbinary refugee healer. But as they explain in the following email interview about it, while Qilwa may be your introduction to this fictional space, it’s not the first story they’ve told from there.