Some people are inspired to write when their heart gets broken.
But in the following email interview with writer Karen Osborne about her sci-fi space opera novel Architects Of Memory (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — the first book in her Memory War duology — she says this story was inspired, in part, when her foot got broken.
With Noumenon Ultra (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Marina J. Lostetter is concluding the epic, multi-generational sci-fi space opera trilogy she started in 2017 with Noumenon and continued with 2018’s Noumenon Infinity.
In the following email interview about this series, and its concluding chapter, she explains how this third book concludes the saga, and how it took its name from a cartoon character and not, as we all suspected, Michelob Ultra Dragon Fruit Peach.
When Derek Kunsken released The Quantum Magician in 2018, his plan for The Quantum Evolution series was that it would be a trilogy with a prequel novel. But as he reveals in the following email interview about that prequel novel, The House Of Styx (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the series will now include four novels, a collection of short stories, and a soon-to-be-released reprint of the novella that predated Magician, Pollen From A Future Harvest (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) , while Styx is now the first book in a prequel duology.
With Kill Orbit (Kindle, audiobook), writer Joel Dane is concluding the Cry Pilot military science fiction trilogy he began in 2019 with Cry Pilot and continued a few months ago with Burn Cycle.
In the following email interview, he not only explains how this third and final piece came to be, but he also offers suggestions of what you should read while waiting for his next sci-fi story.
When author David Gerrold started writing his new sci-fi novel Hella (hardcover, Kindle), he figured it would be a stand-alone story. But as he reveals in the following email interview about it, Hella eventually took on a life of its own, and is now not only getting a sequel, maybe two, but it’s also inadvertently a sequel to three of Gerrold’s other books.
While real life would be so much better without jerks, the same can’t be said for fiction. Take the new pulpy sci-fi novel Red Noise (paperback, Kindle), which kicks off when jerks, well, act like jerks. What’s interesting is that, in the following email interview, Red Noise author John P. Murphy not only discusses what inspired and influenced this story, but also admits how it was almost derailed by some, well, furry jerks.