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Exclusive Interview: “The Judas Blossom” Author Stephen Aryan

 

Sometimes it seems like every fantasy novel is set in modern times, the renaissance, or medieval times, and in places that resemble America or Europe. But in his new historical fantasy novel The Judas Blossom (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book in a trilogy called The Nightingale And The Falcon, writer Stephen Aryan is telling an adventure set in the relatively unexplored realm of 13th century Persia. In the following email interview, Aryan discusses why he set it then, and there, and what else inspired and influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Warrior” Author Stephen Aryan

 

The fantasy genre is full of ordinary people who step up and become heroes. But in his sword & sorcery fantasy novel The Coward, writer Stephen Aryan gave us an ordinary person who not only didn’t do anything heroic, but he feels bad when he’s rewarded for what he didn’t do.

Unfortunately for him (but fortunately for us), that isn’t where his story ends, as Aryan has now released a companion novel called The Warrior (paperback, Kindle), in which the non-hero’s undeserved rewards drive him to do something, well, heroic.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Coward” Author Stephen Aryan

 

In many fantasy novels, the hero is just that: a brave and noble hero who will eventually save the day. But in Stephen Aryan’s new fantasy novel The Coward (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the hero is no hero…people just think he is. In the following email interview, Aryan explains what inspired and influenced this different approach to a familiar path.