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Exclusive Interview: “A New Clan” Co-Author Jane Lindskold

 

Ten years ago, after writing A Beautiful Friendship, the first book in his Star Kingdom series — a young adult spin-off of his long-running Honor Harrington sci-fi series — writer David Weber turned to friend and fellow scribe Jane Lindskold to collaborate on the second book, 2012’s Fire Season. And clearly she did a good job because the two have just released the fourth Star Kingdom novel, A New Clan (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview, Lindskold discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why, despite being the fourth book in a sub-series that itself has dozens of novels, A New Clan may be a good place to start this saga.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Spaceship Next Door” Author Gene Doucette

 

In his self-published science fiction novel The Spaceship Next Door, sci-fi writer Gene Doucette presented a world where aliens land on Earth…and then nothing happens for a couple years. With Spaceship being newly reprinted in paperback, and Kindle  by John Joseph Adams Books, I took the opportunity to send Mr. Doucette some questions about the novel’s origins and influences for the following email interview.

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Liv, Forever Author Amy Talkington

Sometimes life works in mysterious ways. Take author Amy Talkington. Before she penned her first novel — the young adult ghost story Liv, Forever — she was going to tell her tale as a screenplay for a movie. But after she wrote it as a book, it got optioned by a film company…who hired Talkington to write the screenplay. Though in talking to her about the book, it seems that some of what happened while she wrote the novel wasn’t so mysterious.