While a lot of people are concerned with global warming, and rightfully so, there’s only so much we can do as individuals. But don’t say that to Christian Sparrow, the time traveling (and, hopefully, history-altering) main character in John Patrick’s new novel Time Bomb (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Patrick discusses what inspired and influenced this romantically-tinged sci-fi slipstream thriller.
When you subtitle your short story collection “Ghost Stories,” you’re setting expectations for what those stories are about, and like. But in the following email interview with Adam Soto, author of the short story collection Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), he reveals some of these tales may not be as horrifying as you’re expecting.
Often when a writer assembles their first collection of short stories, they do so by picking the best ones, or the best of their recent ones, or maybe ones that fit a theme or fall into the same genre. But in the following email interview about her first short story collection, Where You Linger & Other Stories (paperback, Kindle), writer Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam explains that the “theme” of sorts she started out with was geographical in nature.