While every parent worries about losing their child, the idea of seeing it happen, and being incapable of stopping it, is unimaginable. It’s also what happens to the main character in C.J. Tudor’s new thriller — er, “chiller” — The Other People (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview, Tudor discusses what inspired and influenced this new novel, as well as her second, The Hiding Place, which has just come out in paperback.
Though not the best choice, a lot of people do find comfort in running away from their problems.
But in Madeleine Roux’s new sci-fi horror thriller romance Salvaged (paperback, Kindle), we see the folly in running away from your problems by going into outer space and working as a janitor on a space ships whose crew is…lets just say they’re not themselves these days.
In the following email interview Roux discusses what inspired and influenced this novel, and her plans for more stories in this universe.
While many thrillers are set in the real world, and books with magic are fantasy tales, these are mere guidelines, not steadfast rules. Hence we have Zach Fehst’s American Magic (hardcover, Kindle), a magic-infused thriller that’s set in the “real” world. In the following email interview, Fehst talks about what inspired and influenced his new novel, as well as how the magic works in it and why it works the way it does.
When writer Emma Newman published the five urban fantasy novels in The Split Worlds series, it was clear you needed to read all of them to get the full story. But as she discusses in the following email interview about her new sci-fi psychological thriller Atlas Alone (paperback, Kindle), while it is also part of a series, it’s not one you need to read all of, or even in order.
We’ve all wondered what it would be like if pivotal moments in our lives had gone differently; if we hadn’t taken that job, if we hadn’t made that mistake, if we hadn’t kissed that certain someone. But in his new sci-fi thriller The Chaos Function (hardcover, Kindle), writer Jack Skillingstead has someone accidentally making such a substantial change that the outcome doesn’t just change their life, but everyone else’s as well.
