As if being a cop wasn’t hard enough, imagine doing it when you can visit alternate dimensions but also have to deal with zombies. Such is the life of Dana Rohan, the hero of S. Andrew Swann’s new noir-infused, paranormal urban fantasy novel Marked (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Swann discusses where he got the idea for this story, what inspired it, and which actress he’d like to typecast by having her star in the TV series…if she and some TV executives are so inclined, of course.
Tag: urban fantasy
Mirah Bolender’s urban fantasy novel City Of Broken Magic (paperback, Kindle) has been described as being like a magical version of the movie The Hurt Locker. But in the following email interview, Bolender admits that she hadn’t seen that movie when she started writing this story.
While many urban fantasy novels are centered around the local wizards and the magical creatures, most don’t concern themselves with the support staff, the working people who make life possible, let alone pleasurable, for the magical folk. But in his Sin Du Jour Affair series of novellas — which includes the novellas Envy Of Angels, Lustlocked, Pride’s Spell, Idle Ingredients, and Greedy Pigs, as well as the short story “Small Wars” — writer Matt Wallace has us spending time with the caterers. With the sixth and second-to-last book in the series, Gluttony Bay (paperback, Kindle), newly released, I did the following email interview as a primer on both this novella and the rest of the heptology.
Given how they both have penchants for dark, smoky rooms and equally dour moods, it’s not surprising that people who enjoy urban fantasy novels would like noir one as well, and vice versa. It is in the intersection that we find Michael F Haspil, the writer of the new noir-ish urban fantasy novel Graveyard Shift (hardcover, digital). Or should that be urban fantasy-esque noir novel?
While many fantasy novels take themselves seriously, occasionally you get a tale that’s not just of might and magic, but of mirth as well. Such is the case with A City Dreaming (hardcover, digital), a new urban fantasy novel from Daniel Polansky that’s not only been compared to the Harry Potter books and the Hellblazer comics, but also to the works of Kurt Vonnegut and the animated sitcom Archer. Though in talking to Polansky about the novel, it seems this tale was inspired by a certain city as well.