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  Author Interview with Aaron Hodges Author of  Oathbreaker, and the Descendants of the Fall series,  Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I am currently just writing the blurb for my next new release, Age of Gods, which is due to hit shelves on the 8 th November. The third book in my Descendants of the Fall series, the book is set in a world where humanity is at war with the Tangata, a humanlike species with inhuman powers. And humanity is losing. Where did you get the idea for this book or series? It is something I’ve been thinking of for a while, a kind of combination of a post-apocalypse series with a medieval setting, with two species of humanity vying for supremacy. There’s also the Gods, but we won’t get into any spoilers just yet 😉   Do you write in more than one genre? I mostly write in Epic fantasy, but I have been trying to mix things up a bit lately. As I mentioned, this series is set in a fallen world, kind of post-a...

  Author Interview with Poppy Kuroki Author of ABard's Lament, Oath, and Rhoda Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I’m currently working on a steampunk adventure about two female characters, one rich and one a poor runaway. It’s my first time writing steampunk and it’s a whole lot of fun!   Where did you get the idea for this book or series?   The gap between the rich and the poor is widening, and the classes tend to judge each other. Of course, humans tend to do that anyway based on the tiniest of differences. The story has a lot of themes, but one of them is learning to get to know people and accept them for who they are, not making assumptions about them because of their upbringing. I was thinking making it a medieval setting, but then I realized I really wanted Zoya to have a motorbike. Jumping into the steampunk genre has been an awesome journey. Do you write in more than one genre? My existing books are all dark fantasy, but I’m ...

  The Great Christmas Chicken Chase: An after action report and lesson in tactical brilliance.*   The story you are about to hear read is true, only the names have been changed to protect the writer. She came through the door and pulled off her coat. “What took you so long?” I asked. “One of the chickens got out. I’ve been chasing it. I couldn’t get it back in.” The chicken in question was down the lane at the neighbors. They had gone out of town for a few days and had asked us to feed the animals. The lady in question shall remain nameless. She grew up in town and knows not the wily ways of barnyard fowl. Apparently she engaged in the fruitless chase for several minutes. “I need your help,” she begged. “It ran away.” Of course she did. She didn’t seem to care that she was interrupting my requisite inviolate time of sitting at the table in my new thermals and my bathrobe while perusing the latest witty memes and political rants on social media. Actually, I w...

 Interview with Troy Young Author of  Seeker of Solace, The Other, and The Stone of Death   Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I am currently writing the sequel to my most recent work, The Seeker of Solace.   The sequel is called The Denial of Deliverance and is due out December 16.   It follows the continuing adventures of Orlan Bazhaev, a member of a criminal gang saved from the gallows by a Frontier Marshal.   The price for his life? Hunt down the surviving members of his gang and eliminate them.   It’s a space western. Where did you get the idea for this book or series? I’d played and thoroughly enjoyed both Red Dead Redemption games. The idea of doing a western appealed to me.   But it was watching the Mandalorian that sealed it for me.   The Mandalorian is basically a western in space, and that is what I’ve written.   It’s got your typical western tropes with some hard science fiction thrown in. ...

  Author Interview with A.A. Warne Author of: Hidden Truths trilogy, The Reluctant Wizard, and more   Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I’m currently finishing Hidden Truths Trilogy book three. This is the next book after Concealed Power. It has turned out to be one of those stories that get deeper and darker the further I go into it and the characters keep surprising me. While I’m finishing that, I’m brainstorming and planning book two for The Reluctant Wizard. I’ve re-read the first book six times now and each time I find something new, something important, and Eli reminds me that the world is just too big to get into a couple of books. I think he wants me to write a never-ending number of books for him. Wouldn’t that be nice.   Where did you get the idea for this book or series? Concealed Power and The Reluctant Wizard, even though they are two very different books, tend to go hand-in-hand during the writing process. Concealed Power...

  Interview with Jonathon Lively Author of The Oreniah Codex Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I am working on the sequel of my first book, The Last Soul. I am working on the sequel following book two as well. In fact, I am writing them as one book, a continuous story, and then finding a good breaking point to split it into two novels. Also, I am writing a side story to my trilogy and I am considering turning it into a podcast. We’ll see. It’s still in the works and not my main focus at the moment.   Where did you get the idea for this book or series? Oof. I spent three months combing through a multitude of documents collected since I was in middle school. Most of the documents were character designs because I originally wanted to be a graphic designer. I parsed literally hundreds of pages down to an outline that was about thirty-three pages long. From all the inspiration, I ended up with my story. It wasn’t a story that I planned, but one...

  Movie Review Algiers (1938)   Hypnotic. Not so much a roller coaster as a merry-go-round. Algiers, directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer as Pepe le Moko, Sigrid Gurie as Ines, and Hedy Lamarr as Gaby, is a hypnotic merry-go-round of a movie. A jewel thief, Pepe, is wanted by the French police. He remains untouchable in the confines of the Casbah—that maze of attached buildings, alleys, terraces, and dead-ends. He lives like a king in the Casbah, but he longs for Paris. Ines, whose eyes smolder with desire and hate, longs only for Pepe. She’s his girl—until he meets Gaby. The beautiful, high-class, jewel-flaunting Gaby is affianced to a wealthy man she doesn’t love. The marriage is strictly a business arrangement. She reminds Pepe of Paris and all his favorite places there. To Pepe, Gaby is Paris. A detective has come from Paris to put the bag on Pepe for his thefts. He soon learns that the Casbah is nothing like Paris. However, the law has a man in the...

 Author Interview with John Rosenman Author of Inspector of the Cross , The Merry-Go-Round Man , Alien Dreams , and A Senseless Act of Beauty Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I’ve just finished going over the galley for Dreamfarer , a novel about a future when people can choose to be put to sleep in dream boxes or Cerebral Interface Units when they reach the age of 32 so they can have wonderful, exciting dreams for the rest of their lives that are much more fulfilling than real life. Go East, Young Man , my WIP, is the sequel and like Dreamfarer , it focuses on Sam Adams. Sam has joined the movement to overthrow the dream industry and he is traveling east from San Francisco to Denver. There he will meet fellow members of the Resistance for his next mission. Where did you get the idea for this book or series? The word “Dreamfarer” came to mind and I was off to the races. Since we have words like “wayfarer,” “seafarer,” and “starfarer,” then why not...