Category: Interviews
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Elizabeth Bear Interview
Elizabeth Bear — The Hugo Award winning author of Ancestral Night and other books — sat down for a wide ranging interview about Rockapella, DOOM mods, RPGs, and death or glory stands to defend this run. Elizabeth won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “Tideline“,…
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Grady Hendrix Interview
Grady Hendrix writes fiction, also called “lies,” and he writes non-fiction, which people sometimes accidentally pay him for. He is the author of Horrorstör, the only novel about a haunted Scandinavian furniture store you’ll ever need. It has been translated into 14 languages and is being turned into a movie. His novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism, is…
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Halloween Coloring Book Pumpkin by Brandon Goostree
My earliest and most favorite collaborator — Brandon Goostree — released this coloring book pumpkin on the front cover of his halloween coloring pages for adults and kids. There’s a great blend of scary halloween coloring and funnier stuff for kids. I asked him a few questions as the artists and kids from our Third Saturday event…
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John Vorhaus interview
Lancelot Schaubert — What was the impetus behind this book, John Vorhaus? John Vorhaus — In my professional life I have two classes of clients. One is, broadly speaking, writers and other creative types. The other is, unexpectedly, people trying to get into to business schools like HBS and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. I noted…
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Matthew Kressel Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Hey there, Matthew Kressel! So when did you first dip your toe into the genre? Or into make believe? Matthew Kressel — The first time I wrote anything with the hope of it being published was in college after I had one of the most incredibly vivid dreams of my life, and…
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AT Sayre Interview
Thanks to AT SAYRE for joining us for this wide-ranging interview and to his publisher for making it possible for you, the reader, to download the book directly from this site: links for that will be nested throughout the piece. The piece will be broken up into early years, philosophy, and then will go into…
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Zach Weinersmith Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — What was the first picture you remember drawing? Zach Weinersmith — Oh wow, that’s a good question. The earliest one I’m sure I can remember would have been, I think, in second or third grade. It was a giant talking bomb insisting that everything would be fine. I believe it was part of a…
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Gabriel Kellman Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, Gabriel Kellman. How’d you get into speculative fiction? Gabriel Kellman — Well, I was a vividly imaginative kid, so I spent a large chunk of my childhood with my brain in other universes. I also read a lot as a kid, and most of it was fantasy or sci-fi, so…
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Gordon Linzner Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, Gordon Linzner. When you were growing up, what was the speculative fiction that dominated your imagination? Gordon Linzner — Hard to narrow down, after so many decades. I’d say initially authors like Isaac Asimov, Fred Pohl, and far too many others to name, I learned to read early on, to…
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Zoe Kaplan interview
Author’s note: Zoe Kaplan has passed at the tragic age of 28. We are hosting an article and an event for her memorial here. If you have a memory to share, please share it. Lancelot Schaubert — Zoe Kaplan, thanks for joining us for the Of Gods and Globes III launch, to which you contributed a…
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Benjamin Chandler Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Hey there Benjamin Chandler. When was the first time you imagined another world or the implications of a new tech? Benjamin Chandler — Oh, I’m sure it was during childhood, setting up plastic dinosaurs in the garden or playing with toy monsters and spaceships. It wasn’t until high school, though, that I tried…
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Andrew Najberg Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — When was the first time you made up a story, Andrew Najberg? Andrew Najberg — Hm. I started writing short stories in 5th grade. To put it nicely, I was a bit…disruptive…in my classes. I’d just been moved to a new city and school from a place I’d been very happy, and…