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The Hardest Part: Tony Daniel on "Islands"

Posted on 2014-09-11 at 19:21 by montsamu

Baen editor Tony Daniel has been a busy man of late. Since his 2012 novel Guardian of Night he has published 3 additional novels (Star Trek: Devil's Bargain and two books co-authored with David Drake: Manly Wade Wellman Award-nominated The Heretic and just-published The Savior) and two short stories, and directed and hosted Baen's Parsec Award-nominated podcast The Baen Free Radio Hour. He's also been active on the convention circuit, both as a panelist and (of course) as a frequent host of the Baen

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The Hardest Part: Lou Anders on Frostborn

Posted on 2014-08-25 at 14:1 by montsamu

In his ten years and counting tenure at Pyr, award-winning editor and art director Lou Anders has been on the other side of the desk from many fantastic fantasy novels and their authors, from James Enge's Blood of Ambrose to Clay and Susan Griffith's Vampire Empire and Allen Steele's Apollo's Outcasts, he's made suggestions and fought for cuts and rewrites. As he writes here, he intended to (and in fact did) approach writing a novel with a willingness to revise to sell, but something happened along the way

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The Hardest Part: Monica Byrne on The Girl in the Road

Posted on 2014-05-28 at 18:27 by montsamu

Durham author Monica Byrne's debut novel The Girl in the Road hit bookstores (and audiobook stores) last week, and both prior to and after publication the glowing reviews have piled up (from big names like Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Scalzi, and Helene Wecker, to blogs and ezines like Everyday eBook, to NPR and The Wall Street Journal). But it's been a long, er, ahem, road for this writer, from dreaming of becoming an astronaut to "falling back in love" with her artistic impulses: writing

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The Hardest Part: Jen McConnel

Posted on 2014-05-14 at 14:19 by montsamu

Durham author Jen McConnel is the author of the new adult novel The Secret of Isobel Key (out from Bloomsbury Spark and Audible for Bloomsbury) and most recently of Daughter of Chaos, a contemporary Durham-set young adult novel of witches and choices just released from Raleigh-based Month9Books [IndieBound | KoboKindle]. She's also published in non-fiction, as we briefly touched on in a Carolina Book Beat interview last month, and has a few more novels already well on the way. For "The Hardest Part", the

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The Hardest Part: Megan Miranda on Vengeance

Posted on 2014-04-10 at 16:7 by montsamu

Charlotte-area author Megan Miranda's 2012 debut novel Fracture introduced readers to teens Delaney Maxwell and Decker Phillips, the frozen waters of Falcon Lake, and a supernatural mystery both of Delaney's recovery from brain damage and her inexplicable ability to predict -- or perhaps cause? -- the imminent death of those around her. Written from Delaney's point of view, Fracture garnered a starred review from Publishers Weekly among a long list of other accolades, and she next published Hysteria, a

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The Hardest Part: Alexandra Duncan on Salvage

Posted on 2014-04-02 at 17:1 by montsamu

I first heard about Asheville, NC author Alexandra Duncan back in 2011, when her novella "Rampion" (published in F&SF) starting generating a lot of buzz -- it would go on to be selected by Rich Horton to appear in his annual "Year's Best" anthology for Prime Books. Reading "Rampion", a fairytale-infused historical fiction set in the Caliphate of Al-Andalus, I started following her writing, but... it appears she had something longer in mind, for which some serious waiting would be required. Luckily, I had

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The Hardest Part: Mur Lafferty on Ghost Train to New Orleans

Posted on 2014-03-19 at 19:49 by montsamu

Durham author Mur Lafferty already had a handful and a half novels out in the world when, last year, she both had her "debut" novel published by Orbit, The Shambling Guide to New York City, and she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards at the World Science Fiction Convention. Not a bad year, eh? Still, after all the books and the stories, she had to go back to the drawing board -- again and again -- to get a particular plot point right for book 2 in her Shambling Guides

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The Hardest Part: Jeremy Whitley on My Little Pony: Friends Forever

Posted on 2014-02-20 at 14:50 by montsamu

When I started looking more seriously into the local comic scene in 2009 and 2010, I found some big names: Tommy Lee Edwards, Scott Hampton, Richard Case. And, thanks to Ultimate Comics' Al Gill handing me a copy of The Order of Dagonet #1 I have been able to follow comics writer Jeremy Whitley for a few years now, through the original Dagonet run from Whitley and artist Jason Strutz's Firetower Studios, the re-issue of the comic from Action Labs, and a similar path for Whitley's next project, the Eisner

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The Hardest Part: Dario Ciriello on Sutherland's Rules

Posted on 2014-02-05 at 20:39 by montsamu

I can't quite place how I digitally ran into Dario Ciriello back in 2009. Probably it was that I had a silly idea that I would be a writer, thinking that the mess I was working on was looking like it would be a novella, and looking around to see who published at that length. Enter Panverse One, edited by Ciriello, which blew me away. An all-novella anthology (the first of three, so far, all excellent) with fantastic, varied stories, a beautiful cover, and a well-produced physical book, introducing me to a

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The Hardest Part: Lisa Shearin on The Grendel Affair

Posted on 2014-01-30 at 3:9 by montsamu

I first met Lisa Shearin at a 5-author science fiction and fantasy panel at the Cary Barnes & Noble in 2010, hearing about her Raine Benares adventure fantasy series and feeling a bit overwhelmed -- here's an Ace-published author with 4 (at that time, since the series has grown to 6) books and I had a lot of catching up to do. But now Shearin has started a new series with the release of The Grendel Affair, the first book in her SPI Files series, giving old fans a new adventure to begin and new fans an

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