Author Interviews

"Every brain and every body is deserving of love exactly as it is."

Taran Matharu is back with his adult fantasy debut, Dragon Rider, and he is here to teach us all the subgenres of fantasy.

Sharada Keats chats why she prefers grey characters and how her background in economics helps the worldbuilding in These Stolen Lives.

"It’s been an honor to share my community and my culture with readers, and I think Canto Contigo is so specifically a celebration of that."

Mandy Robotham on why she decided to write a memoir of a fictional author (The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux).

We adore Simon James Green's books and we love Tom Daley so it's no surprise that we are excited to read their collab, Jack Splash.

"With the lack of control and feeling of helplessness and also the need for some fun escapism, something just clicked in my head, so I picked up these two story-idea threads and weaved them together."

"when I think back to the music of my childhood, a lot of it is country"

"It’s been so exciting to see more and more books come out with trans protagonists, and I am so proud to add to that much-needed wave."

"I do, however, continue to write fanfiction in some different fandoms these days, and I will never admit to anyone which fandoms or who I am!"

"Part of fear is the unknown, and so that’s a balance I consider a lot."

"I can’t begin to tell you how wonderful it was to write about characters who are the grownups."

"We’ve been tricked into thinking that as adults, we should have the answers to those questions. We should have it all figured out by now. And we don’t. Or at least very, very few of us do. Almost none of us, to be honest."

"That got me thinking about the fallibility of memory and how reliant we are on other people to tell us the stuff we can’t remember ourselves."

Christen Randall on how her tabletop gaming experience and her own anxiety help shape The No Girlfriend Rule.