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  Author Interview with A R Meyering Author of The Resurrectionist, and the short stories, FATHOM and Appeal Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I’m planning on writing a few sci-fi/horror shorts for an anthology that will be published by BHC Press in 2021 to go with my dark sci-fi stories FATHOM and Appeal. They’re all philosophical and disturbing looks at how we relate to machines, and to each other. All the stories are meant to take place in the same timeline, going in a sequence that reveals what has happened to the Earth from near future to the distant. Where did you get the idea for this book or series? I got the idea for the anthology’s main novella FATHOM while I was living in Japan. It takes place in the prefecture where I used to live. It’s about a man whose job is preserving the physical experience of the real world in digital format, as everyone is living in a full-immersion digital simulation in response to the climate crisis. Do you wr...

  Author Interview with  Cedar Sanderson Author of The East Witch, Tanager's Fledglings, and the Pixie for Hire series Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. The current works in progress are a space opera, with star-traveling pirates, a trader’s ship full of an odd family, and a plot to use them for espionage. It’s the sequel to my earlier work, Tanager’s Fledglings. The other one I’m working on when I get stuck there is a military fantasy my husband and I are cowriting, an imagining of how Ragnarok gets supported… you can’t have combat troops without support troops!   The book that was just published is contemporary fantasy in some aspects, but not urban fantasy. In fact, it’s set in the howling wilderness of Siberia. The title, The East Witch, refers to the old witch of Russia: Baba Yaga.   Where did you get the idea for this book or series? The East Witch is set in the same world as my Pixie for Hire series, but the idea behind t...

  Author Interview with William David Ellis Author of The Harry Ferguson Chronicles, and a Sherlock Holmes series Please tell me a little about your current work in progress.  I have two WIPs. One is the second of My She rlock Holmes series  Angels ,S aints and Sinners , and the other is the 5 th  in my Texas Fantasy series.     Where did you get the idea for this book or series?  The Texas fantasy series, called the Harry Ferguson Chronicles was inspired by the customers of a little café in Edom Texas. They gather together every morning to tell tall tales and generally see who can out lie the other. I couldn’t help but be inspired.   Do you write in more than one genre?  Yes, my fantasy series crosses over into scifi romance fantasy and time travel, and my Sherlock Holmes series is mystery and detective   Tell me about something that you believe makes your writing unique or worthy of attention.  An answer to that  might b...

 A couple Saturday's ago I prepared a Combat! recap. Here it is. Combat! Season 1 Episode 15:”Just for the Record” The episode opens with a farm in Normandy, and a cat inside an abandoned house (I'm wondering if it’s Altman who seems to have an affinity for cats—but it's not). The muzzle of a familiar Thompson pushes through the doorway. The familiar carrier follows. Saunders voice narrates the scene. They’re searching: 8 men and 20 farms to search—in the quiet, hidden danger. Saunders wanders about the house, rolling the search dice. At last there’s something. It’s the cat giving a troubled yowl. Saunders finds a record player. He starts to listen to the recording his mom made for him. The cat meows, and Saunders agrees, “It’s a little too risky.” He’s right. The DM has rolled for wandering monsters. German soldiers burst through the door. And the opening credits roll. Combat! Starring Vic Morrow and Rick Jason. Guest starring Micheline Presle—and the name Micheli...

  Interview with Cas E. Crowe Author of The Wayward Haunt Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I’m currently working on book two in my dark fantasy saga called The Wayward Series . The first book is titled The Wayward Haunt , which was published in June 2020. The story is set in a war-torn, dystopian world, where teenage prisoner Zaya Wayward is conscripted into the Haxsan Guard. W hen malevolent forces haunt her, she suspects her ability to see the dead is the key in a sinister plot to annihilate human existence. The sequel, which picks up directly where the first book ends, is titled The Four Revenants . I’m having a blast writing the second instalment. The entire plot from beginning, middle, to end has been plotted and structured, so it’s really just a matter of writing now. The Four Revenants focuses on the same themes as the first novel, centering on ghosts, hauntings, war, tragic pasts, and star-crossed lovers. When I look back at my writing, it’s i...