Kat Howard Interview Concerning An Unkindess of Magicians
Cover detail from An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard. Magicians. They have been in our stories long before we were writing them down — and we have continued to tell those stories, no matter the...
View ArticleStephanie Perkins Warns There’s Someone Inside Your House
You might know Stephanie Perkins best as the author of several romance novels for young adults, but she has a darker side. We recently sat down with Perkins to discuss her secret love of horror movies...
View ArticleLore Podcast Host Aaron Mahnke on His New Book and TV Series
Aaron Mahnke is the host of the hit podcast Lore: an ongoing series that shares strange and curious tales from the darker corners of history and culture. He is also the author of a new book inspired...
View ArticleMeddling Kids Author Edgar Cantero on Scooby Doo, and Cthulhu, Too
We spoke with Spanish author Edgar Cantero at NYCC 2017 about his latest novel Meddling Kids: a frighteningly original story that pits a group of one-time kid detectives against the cosmic horror of...
View ArticleMyke Cole on Siege Line and Wrapping up the Reawakening Trilogy
Myke Cole’s Reawakening Trilogy comes to an explosive end on Halloween with the release of the third and final volume: Siege Line. We spoke with Cole about his new book and more at New York Comic Con...
View ArticleJason Segel on Otherworld and Whether He’ll Finish His Dracula Musical
By Dora Britt – The Discovery premiere during day 2 of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 20, 2017 in Park City, Utah, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link Jason Segel (“Forgetting...
View ArticleCharlaine Harris Talks The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
Cover detail from The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories by Charlaine Harris. Short stories are magical. Short story collections more so. The short story is a powerful form of writing, able to do so...
View ArticleKevin Hearne Discusses The Squirrel on the Train And More
Cover detail from The Squirrel on the Train by Kevin Hearne. Kevin Hearne and Del Rey Books are publishing Scourged, the final book in the Iron Druid Chronicles, April 3, 2018. It will be a...
View ArticleKen Scholes Finishes Hymn and the Psalms of Isaak
Cover detail from Hymn by Ken Scholes. I relish in authors pushing the envelope of what has come before. Ken Scholes is one of those authors, a writer whose Psalms of Isaak is parts fantasy, science...
View ArticleStephen R. Donaldson Interviewed About His Seventh Decimate
Cover detail from Seventh Decimate by Stephen R. Donaldson. Stephen R. Donaldson is one of our finest writers. I happen to think his body of work is unparalleled. He has written an intricate and long...
View ArticleInterview: Django Wexler Unleashes The Infernal Battalion
Cover detail from The Infernal Battalion by Django Wexler. Magic and the military. Several authors have combined these two elements into fantasy fiction. Glen Cook. Steven Erikson. Brian McClellan. A...
View ArticleInterview: Seanan McGuire Is Back Beneath the Sugar Sky
Cover detail from Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire. Seanan McGuire is one of our bright writing jewels. It started for me with her short fiction. I even published a McGuire short story in the...
View ArticleInterview: Chuck Wendig Darkly Flies With The Raptor & The Wren
Cover detail from The Raptor & the Wren by Chuck Wendig. Chuck Wendig has many writing talents. And we are lucky to have all of them. The marvelously-bearded author spends his time working in many...
View ArticleThe Legend Before the Legend: An Interview with Tamora Pierce
Photo by Erik Stine on Unsplash What are legends like before they’re, well, legends? Tamora Pierce explores that question in February’s Tempests and Slaughter, the story of a Gifted young boy named...
View ArticleEmily St. John Mandel on Station Eleven, Katrina, and Apocalypse Lit
Cover detail from Station Eleven/ © Penguin Random House Author photo: © Dese’Rae L. Stage Last Saturday, Virginia’s Central Rappahannock Regional Library System and the University of Mary Washington...
View ArticleThe Feed Author Nick Clark Windo: Social Media Alters Your Brain
Photo © James Eckersley In the not so distant future of author Nick Clark Windo’s The Feed, society falls apart after a neural network hardwired into the brain of every human being unexpectedly...
View ArticleInterview: Bradley P. Beaulieu Unleashes A Veil of Spears
Cover detail from A Veil of Spears by Bradley P. Beaulieu. Art by Donato. The Song of Shattered Sands series by Bradley P. Beaulieu is epic fantasy done right. It’s not hard for me to say that. I’ve...
View ArticleInterview: Elizabeth Moon Goes Into the Fire
Photo by Matt Nelson on Unsplash Ky Vatta is back! Science fiction is filled with fantastic characters, from Paul Atreides and Guy Montag to Honor Harrington and Offred. While big ideas rule science...
View ArticleChandler Klang Smith on Her Genre Defying Novel The Sky is Yours
Chandler Klang Smith is the author of The Sky is Yours, a weird and wonderful new novel about a self-centered ex-reality TV star, his reluctant fiancée, and a feral girl in a high tech city slowly...
View ArticleMark Lawrence Brings The Blood In Grey Sister
Cover detail from Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence. Mark Lawrence is back with his Grey Sister! But first, let’s talk about the first book in the series. With Red Sister, Lawrence has created a...
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