The cardinal rule of real estate is “location, location, location.” And apparently the same rule applies to calling a story an “urban fantasy.” Which is just one of the things I learned doing the following email interview with writer dave ring about his urban fantasy novella The Hidden Ones (paperback, Kindle).
With The Last Days Of Hong Kong (paperback, Kindle), writer G.D. Penman is concluding the Witch Of Empire trilogy they started in 2017 with The Year Of The Knife, and continued in 2020 with The Wounded Ones. In the following email interview, Penman discusses what influenced this noir hardboiled detective urban fantasy mystery, how it connects to the second installment, as well as why you should never leave your cats alone. Ever. Not even for a minute.
Like the video games, to which there is no connection, Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International novels have people, well, hunting monsters…just in a different place, and in different ways, and more for profit than survival. All of which comes up in the newest installment, Monster Hunter Bloodlines (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Correia discusses both the series and this latest chapter, as well as two other newly released books that have his name on the cover.
We’ve all heard the clichés about how you should write what you know, and how you should look for a void and fill it, and how you should always check before crossing the street… Well, it seems that writer Jadie Jang took the first two to heart (and hopefully the third as well) when it came to writing her new urban fantasy novel Monkey Around (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Jang discusses what influenced this fantastic tale, as well as her hopes for future installments.
In the two decades that I lived in New Jersey, I never once saw the Jersey Devil. I saw a pissy turtle, some easily spooked deer, and a lot of hungry mosquitos, but not once did I ever see the namesake of our state’s hockey team.
But while he may or may not be real, that doesn’t mean he isn’t deserving of the kind of attention we’ve given Big Foot and Nessie.
Which brings me to All The Way House (paperback, Kindle), a new novella about the Jersey’s unofficial state cryptid. In the following email interview, writer Keith R.A. DeCandido discusses this supernatural thriller / urban fantasy mash-up.
With The Wayward Mage (paperback, Kindle), urban fantasy writer Sara Hanover is concluding the Wayward Mages series she started in 2018 with The Late Great Wizard and continued with 2020’s The New Improved Sorceress. In the following email interview, Hanover not only details this final chapter, but also who’d she’d cast if it ever made it to the big screen.
With Fortress Of Magi (paperback, Kindle), writer Mirah Bolender is concluding The Chronicles Of Amicae trilogy of urban fantasy novels she began in 2018’s City Of Broken Magic and continued in 2019’s The Monstrous Citadel. In the following email interview, Bolender discusses what inspired and influenced this finale.
With his new urban fantasy / noir mystery novel Titan Song (hardcover, Kindle), writer Dan Stout is once again putting detectives Carter and Ajax in harm’s way…and just for your amusement. Which is why you should feel obligated to read the following email interview, in which Stout discusses what inspired and influenced this third installment in The Carter Archives series.
Every author is influenced by other writers. But most aren’t so afraid of another writer that they write a story, in part, as a form of therapy. In the following email interview about his urban fantasy romantic comedy The Difficult Loves Of Maria Makiling (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Wayne Santos not only explains what inspired and influenced this novella, but how Margaret Atwood unknowingly became part of that process.