Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Rita Woods’ Remembrance is a genre-defying novel transcending time and place – jumping from modern day Ohio to Haiti in 1791 to New Orleans and the Underground Railroad in 1857. Read more to discover where the debut novelist found her inspiration. By Rita Woods History has always been a bit of an obsession of mine.…
A Conjuring of Assassins is out next month and we’re SO ready to reenter Cate Glass’ world of forbidden sorcery and a ragtag magical crew of ready for whatever espionage, heisting, or skullduggery the Shadow Lord has in store for them. To keep us going we’re revisiting last year’s guide to forming the perfect fantasy…
By Nick Mamatas When I received the synopsis for my novel Sabbath from Macmillan Entertainment, it came complete with a Hollywood style logline: “Highlander meets Seven.” A dude from the past, in this case an eleventh century English knight inexplicably named “Hexen Sabbath,” travels to modern-day Manhattan and cuts off the heads of the Seven…
Want to join the 5 AM writers club? Here’s how The Impossible Contract author K. A. Doore stays committed to morning writing.
Champagne, martinis, and more glitz & glam than you can imagine…there’s a reason we call it the Gilded Age. Here, Tell Me No Lies author Shelley Noble shares the details behind her fascination with Gilded Age Manhattan, and the challenges of being (or writing about) a female sleuth in the era. By Shelley Noble The…
2019 has been a wild year so far, and it’s made a lot of us crave well…a different timeline. Thankfully, Tor authors Annalee Newitz and Alison Wilgus have wrote this year about one of our all-time favorite SFF subjects: TIME TRAVEL. So…Why time travel? Annalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline): Honestly, I never wanted…
Can you have it all? K.A. Doore, author of The Perfect Assassin and The Impossible Contract (coming in November!), has the advice you need to balance murder and family life.
Empire of Lies author Raymond Khoury shares the inspiration behind his alternative history novel!
Paddy Hirsch’s upcoming historical mystery tells the story of a fictional murder in New York City 1803, but he took inspiration from other famous murders of the time.
Kill Zone co-author Doug Beason chatted with us about moving from non-fiction writing to fiction writing!