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Exclusive Interview: “Kitty’s Mix-Tape” Author Carrie Vaughn

 

Since 2005, writer Carrie Vaughn has written more than a dozen urban fantasy tales about Kitty Norville, an advice-dispensing werewolf. But she’s also, in the same time, written even more short stories set in the same fictional universe. In the following email interview, Vaughn talks about Kitty’s Mix-Tape (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the second collection of Kitty Norville short stories, as well as about her two Robin Hood-related novellas, The Ghosts Of Sherwood (paperback, Kindle) and The Heirs Of Locksley (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: “Ghost Money” Author Stephen Blackmoore

 

Along with decimating the movie industry, and the avocado toast industry, it turns out that destroying Los Angeles would also cause an uptick in the world’s ghost population. Which is a real problem for necromancer Eric Carter, the “hero” (so to speak) of Stephen Blackmoore’s ongoing urban fantasy series of the same name. In the following email interview, Blackmoore discusses what inspired and influenced the latest of this noir novels, Ghost Money (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: The Finder Of The Lucky Devil Author Megan Mackie

 

No matter how long a writer has been working, no matter how much they write, or how often, they always feel their writing can be better. Well, the good ones, anyway. It’s something writer Megan Mackie realized while preparing the new reissue of her urban fantasy / cyberpunk novel The Finder Of The Lucky Devil, which originally came out in 2017, and kicked off her Lucky Devil series, and has now been released in paperback and digitally by eSpec Books.

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Exclusive Interview: Carved From Stone And Dream Author T. Frohock

 

With Carved From Stone And Dream (paperback, Kindle), writer T. Frohock is presenting the second of three novels in her Los Nefilim series of stand-alone urban fantasy horror novels. In the following email interview, she explains the origins of this series and how this new book fits into this world.

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Exclusive Interview: “Life And Limb” Author Jennifer Roberson

 

Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” For writer Jennifer Roberson, however, her newest journey begins with Life And Limb (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), the first book in Blood And Bone, a new, ongoing series of cowboy-flavored urban fantasy novels. In the following email interview, Roberson discusses what inspired and influenced this first installment, including the impact her pooches had on her process.

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Exclusive Interview: Death And The Crone Author Megan Mackie

 

It’s an exciting time to be urban fantasy / cyberpunk writer Megan Mackie (and a dangerous time to be a bookcase). Over the next few months, eSpec Books will be rereleasing three of her Lucky Devil novels, with a new one on the way, as well as reprinting the first book in the Saint Code spin off series, The Lost, which will also be getting a new installment as well. But first Mackie and eSpec have Death And The Crone (paperback, Kindle), another spin-off of the Lucky Devil series that has a bit of a romantic feel. In the following email interview, Mackie explains how these books all connect and what inspired this new side novel.

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Exclusive Interview: Magic For Liars Author Sarah Gailey

While a lot of books about magic schools have come out in the wake of the Harry Potter novels, some have used this trope as the jumping off point for something that isn’t a crass clone. Take Sarah Gailey’s Magic For Liars (hardcover, Kindle), a noir mystery that, Gailey notes in the following email interview, “is obviously in conversation with the Harry Potter books in a major way,” but is clearly not just a dark, smoke-filled version of J.K. Rowling’s books.

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Exclusive Interview: Fire Season Author Stephen Blackmoore

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In his noir urban fantasy novels Dead Things, Broken Souls, and Hungry Ghosts, writer Stephen Blackmoore has presented the ongoing adventures of L.A.-based necromancer Eric Carter. But as he explains in the following email interview about Carter’s latest excursion, Fire Season (paperback, Kindle), this series almost wasn’t about just one magic man.

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Exclusive Interview: Titanshade Author Dan Stout

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Unlike jazz musicians, authors aren’t usually known for their improvisational skills. But writer Dan Stout seems to be pretty good at is, as his new new noir urban fantasy novel Titanshade (hardcover, Kindle) actually started out as an impromptu-written short story. In the following email interview, Stout describes how this tale came to be, how it evolved as he wrote it, and what influenced it.

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