Author Interviews

With her Off the Ice series, Bal Khabra has built a world where ice hockey, friendship, and romance collide.

Ariel Sullivan, author of Conform, shares her love of dystopian fiction and why the genre still matters today.

Seamus Sullivan reflects on writing Daedalus Is Dead during parenthood and political turmoil, and how myth and family shaped the story.

Charlotte Ingham’s debut A Match Made in Hell whisks readers into a witty, dangerous, and devilishly romantic afterlife.

Kat Ellis shares five horror movies that inspired her YA novel The Devouring Light, a chilling tale of rival bands trapped in a haunted house.

Myth, heartbreak, and the luminous pulse of Istanbul come together in The Book of Heartbreak by Ova Ceren.

Sweeping romance, dangerous secrets, and a kingdom full of intrigue make Catherine Doyle’s The Rebel and the Rose a spellbinding sequel to The Dagger and the Flame.

Kiera Azar chats her debut fantasy Thorn Season—a story of forbidden power, royal intrigue, strong friendships, and slow-burn romance.

Discover why myths endure in Maddie Martinez’s The Maiden and Her Monster—a powerful retelling of the Jewish legend of the Golem of Prague.

Ally Carter on safe houses, gadgets, and spy school in her new novel The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold, companion to The Blonde Identity.

Discover Cheon Seon-ran’s The Midnight Shift (translated by Gene Png): a genre-bending novel of vampires, mystery, and queer love.

All the Tomorrows After author Joanne Yi reflects on generational grief, unspoken love, and the silent strength of her Korean family.

Anna Fiteni chats Welsh mythology, mining history, and what’s next for the series that began with The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire.

"The female protagonist is ninety percent my own tempestuous teenage self: a curdled mix of arrogance and self-loathing, weaving an unsteady path through her adolescence, desperate to be wanted"

Sasha Peyton Smith on how much fun she had in writing The Rose Bargain, including imagining the Queen as a faerie.