My interview with 2009 Nebula Award Winner Kij Johnson is now available at the Nebula Awards Blog. The interview was conducted prior to her winning the award for her short story “Spar” (NSFW) so the questions fail to take that into account, but Johnson’s responses to my queries are quite informative.
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Interview: Jonathan Maberry
My interview with Jonathan Maberry on zombie fiction went live this week at Strange Horizons.
Zombies are a very elastic storytelling trope, and as such they may ultimately prove to be better for original storytelling than vampires. Consider, in most recent vampire fiction the monster has been severely humanized. He’s charming, romantic, tragic, etc. He’s become [...]
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Brent Weeks
Orbit Books and I teamed up to interview Brent Weeks, New York Times Bestselling author of the Night Angel trilogy and author of the forthcoming The Black Prism.
Interview: Thomas Easton and Judith Dial
THOMAS A. EASTON is an accomplished author, reviewer, and professor of science at Thomas College in Maine. He has reviewed for the science fiction journal Analog, and his books include Classic Editions Sources: Environmental Studies, and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Issues in Science, Technology, and Society. He lives in Waterville, Maine.
JUDITH KLEIN-DIAL owns and [...]
COLUMN: Video Interview with Eric Flint on Publishing and New Writers
In March of this year, I attended a three-day writing seminar hosted by Kevin J. Anderson, David Farland, Brandon Sanderson, Rebecca Moesta, and Eric Flint. Video and Audio recordings of this outstanding event are available for purchase, and for preview on YouTube. Their next seminar will be held in either Salt Lake City or Provo, [...]
Inside the Blogosphere: What SF/F Stories should become Lego Construction Sets?
In this latest edition of Inside the Blogosphere, the irregular column in which I ask bloggers from across the internetz to respond to a personal question, my question comes out of my two loves (after my wife), books and Legos:
Lego has a history of turning popular stories like Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and Star Wars, [...]
INTERVIEW: Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor was born in the United States to two Igbo (Nigerian) immigrant parents. She holds a PhD in English and is a professor at Chicago State University. She resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her daughter Anyaugo.
Though American-born, Nnedi’s muse is Nigeria. Her parents began taking her and her siblings to visit relatives [...]
INTERVIEW: Jon Sprunk
Jon Sprunk is the author of Shadow’s Son and its forthcoming sequel Shadow’s Lure, both from Pyr Books.
John Ottinger: What was your path to becoming a writer?
Jon Sprunk: I finished my first novel shortly after college and sent it around to the tune of many, many rejections. I continued to muck around with writing, [...]
INTERVIEW: Yasmine Galenorn
New York Times bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn writes urban fantasy for Berkley: both the bestselling Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon Series for Berkley and the upcoming Indigo Court urban fantasy series. In the past, she wrote mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime, and nonfiction metaphysical books. Her books have hit the New York Times and [...]
