Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
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…
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.
“Hope is a narrow, moonlit pathway through the thorns.” The Future of Another Timeline author Annalee Newitz talks writing hope.
So we sat down our Magic X Mayhem authors (Actually we sent them emails–they may have been sitting?) and asked about their favorite distractions from writing and editing the work we love so much.
Is there anything that says mayhem more than being on fire? Magic X Mayhem author S.L. Huang, the mad genius behind Zero Sum Game and Null Set, tells us about her mayhem-filled days stabbing batteries, chasing storms, and setting accidental fires.
Authors Sarah Gailey, Duncan Hamilton, Tamsyn Muir, Brian Naslund, S.L Huang, Saad Z. Hossain, and Cate Glass indulged us and wrote up Tinder profiles for a few Magic X Mayhem characters.
Some fantasy worlds leave us aching for a passport to another world. Some futures seem worth skipping the present for. Others…not so much. We asked our Magic X Mayhem authors which SFF worlds they would most and least like to try out and—not to sound like a lousy clickbait article—some of their answers might surprise…
We asked the authors of Magic X Mayhem to pick theme songs for their main characters. And the resulting playlist is definitely full of mayhem.
Our year of Magic X Mayhem continues with a list of chaotic pairings from The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday author Saad Z. Hossain.
An Illusion of Thieves author Cate Glass joined in the Magic X Mayhem to share her foolproof formula for forming a magical heist crew!