Author Dean Koontz is known for scaring the crap out of people, and freaking them out.
But he can also be a weirdly humorous guy, something that’s evident in his new comic suspense novel Going Home In The Dark (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) — and in the following email interview he and I did about it.
Given what’s going on with the world, you might think this would be a bad time to offer sanctuary to a stranger, even if they have a child with them.
But that’s exactly what Charlie does in Christopher Golden’s new folk horror thriller novel The Night Birds (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
And yeah, it ends up being a bad time. It’s a horror novel; not a warm and fuzzy novel.
In the following email interview, Golden discusses what inspired and influenced this horror story.
Most time travel stories mine similar territories. People go to the past, people go to the future, and either way something gets screwed up or fixed or both.
But in Philip Fracassi’s new time travel science fiction thriller The Third Rule Of Time Travel (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) he puts a new spin on this chronological conundrum.
As he details in the following email interview, it’s the titular third rule — and the second, and the first — that really change what you can do when you travel as well as where and when you can do when you get there.
For her new “witchy thriller” The Bane Witch (paperback, Kindle), author Ava Morgyn wanted to “subvert the traditional archetypes of the evil witch with her poisonous apple and the prince who saves the day.”
But that’s not all she’s doing in this fantasy thriller, as she explains in the following email interview.
They say a woman’s work is never done. And, it seems, neither is the work of a freelance government agent specializing in international anti-terrorism. Which is a good thing for fans of Jonathan Maberry’s iconic character Joe Ledger, who’s back for another adventure in Burn To Shine (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the fourteenth Joe Ledger novel, and fourth since Joe joined the RTI.
In the following email interview, Maberry talks about what inspired and influenced Joe’s newest outing, as well as how it may be coming to TV thanks to a friend of John Wick.
Given that he was a professional golfer, you might expect author John Mahaffey to write stories about things happening on golf courses: romances, murders, alien invasions in which the aliens are small, round, and easily dispatched by someone swinging a nine iron correctly…
But while golf does play a (small) role in the novels in his Nemesis Series, these books are actually cybercrime thrillers.
In the following email interview, Mahaffey talks about the newest installment, Hoodwinked (paperback, Kindle), and how it links (get it?) to the previous books in The Nemesis Series.
Not every moral question has a right answer. Or no wrong one.
Take the question that inspired author Brad C. Anderson to write his new novel, Ashme’s Song (paperback, Kindle): “Is a hero someone who dies for their country or someone who gathers their family and gets them someplace safe?”
In the following email interview, Anderson talks about how that question inspired this story, which combines elements of science fiction, cyberpunk, political thrillers, and space opera into what he calls “spacethrillerpunk.”
It used to be that if someone was murdered in a house, no one would want to live there. And for some people, that’s still true.
But for others, being the site of a gruesome murder is a selling point. Or at least a reason to attend the open house.
It’s the decision to embrace or deny its murderous past that the town on Rainier has to grapple with in author Shelley Burr’s noir murder mystery thriller Murder Town (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). And a decision that the residents have to grapple with further when someone turns up dead.
In the following email interview, Burr discusses what inspired and influenced this murderous story.
Over the years, the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” has been turned into a classic cartoon by Bugs Bunny, an iconic musical by Stephen Sondheim, and a blood bath by Family Guy.
But in the following email interview about Cursed By Fur (paperback, Kindle), her take on the classic fairy tale, author D.C. Gomez’s Red says she’s turned the hoodie lover into, “…an assassin / serial killer with a vendetta against werewolves.”