Category: Author Interviews

A series of interviews with established authors about writing as a life and as a career.

Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Cat Rambo

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Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches by the shores of an eagle-haunted lake in the Pacific Northwest. Her 200+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and Tor.com. Her short story, “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain,” from her story collection Near + Far (Hydra House Books), was a 2012 Nebula nominee. Her editorship of Fantasy Magazine earned her a World Fantasy Award nomination in 2012. Cat Rambo is as gracious as she is prolific. It’s hard to find an anthology lately that she doesn’t have a story in.  And she has the coolest name. We’reContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Cat Rambo

Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Norman Partridge

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Norman Partridge’s fiction includes horror, suspense, and the fantastic—“sometimes all in one story” says his friend, writer Joe Lansdale. Author of six short story collections, Partridge’s novels include the Jack Baddalach mysteries Saguaro Riptide and The Ten-Ounce Siesta, plus The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted for film. His novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Books of 2006. Partridge’s compact, thrill-a-minute style has been praised by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and his collections and stories have received both the Bram Stoker and IHG awards. We are totally revved up to haveContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Norman Partridge

Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Ken Scholes

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Ken Scholes is the award-winning author of four novels and over forty short stories. His series, The Psalms of Isaak, is being critically acclaimed as “a towering storytelling tour de force” by Publishers Weekly. Ken’s eclectic background includes time spent as a label gun repairman, a sailor who never sailed, a soldier who commanded a desk, a preacher (he got better), a nonprofit executive, a musician and a government procurement analyst. He has a degree in History from Western Washington University and is a winner of France’s Prix Imaginales for best foreign novel and of the Writers of the FutureContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Ken Scholes

Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Mur Lafferty

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Mur Lafferty is an author, pioneering podcaster, and Parsec Award-winner. Producer of such podcasting legends as Geek Fu Action Grip and I Should Be Writing, a long-time inspiration of this writer on long dark road trips with the iPod and Mur’s ephemeral voice as his companion, Mur has also been the editor of Escape Pod. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer in 2013. Her book, The Shambling Guide to New York City, is currently on sale from Orbit Books, with The Ghost Train to New Orleans forthcoming. We are delighted to have her with usContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Mur Lafferty

Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Seanan McGuire

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Hugo Award-winner Seanan McGuire writes things. Constantly. She cannot be stopped. She will destroy us all. Where is the hero who will save us? Oh. The hero is reading the things she wrote. We are all doomed. To stave off the agony, we recommend reading some of the things Seanan has written, either under her own name, or under the name “Mira Grant.” People seem to like the things she writes, which is nice. Seanan McGuire is the author of eleven novels and dozens of short stories published in places like Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, and Apex Magazine. We are thrilledContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Seanan McGuire

Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Nick Mamatas

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Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including the recent Love is the Law and The Last Weekend. His short fiction has appeared in slicks such as the men’s magazine Razor and the music magazine Spex, in leading SF publications including Asimov’s Science Fiction and Tor.com, and in the 2013 volume of Best American Mystery Stories. I first met Nick at one of the big conventions, World Fantasy I believe, and I was already familiar with his work from horror fiction podcast Pseudopod. His book Starve Better has some good advice for writers chasing the freelance life, and hisContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Nick Mamatas

Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Jay Bonansinga

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Jay Bonansinga is a New York Times bestselling author of eighteen books, including the Bram Stoker finalist The Black Mariah (1994), the International Thriller Writers Award finalist Shattered (2007), and the wildly popular WALKING DEAD novels. Jay’s work has been translated into nine languages, and he has been called “one of the most imaginative writers of thrillers” by the Chicago Tribune. Jay has won major film festival awards, including a Gold Remi at the Houston International WorldFest and a Best Comedy Feature at the Queens International Film Festival, and his 2005 novel, Frozen, is in development as a major motionContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Jay Bonansinga

Cars, Cards & Carbines – A New Multi-Genre Fiction Anthology

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Pardon me while I sweep away the dust and dead crickets…. OK, now to business! I went to a workshop on writing for and editing anthologies last spring, and since then I’ve had the bug to try my hand at editing. I spent a few months percolating ideas of various kinds, how I would go about putting such a book together, who I would try to get, etc. The idea for Cars, Cards & Carbines grew out of brainstorming things that I think are a lot of fun, and then I thought of the alliteration, and then this wild ideaContinue readingCars, Cards & Carbines – A New Multi-Genre Fiction Anthology

Author Interview Series #69 – Sam Knight

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Sam Knight is an author from the Colorado Front Range, and he experiments with all sorts of genres, from SF to horror to weird tales to children’s books. I met Sam soon after I moved to the Denver area myself, and found an incredibly rich community of working professional fiction writers at various stages of their careers, from a few early sales to established pros. The number of areas that rival the Colorado Front Range in sheer number of writers could probably be counted on one hand. Sam is an active, friendly part of that community.

Author Interview Series #67 – Christopher M. Salas

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As so often happens in this line of work, I met Christopher M. Salas at a convention. In this case, the convention was COSINE 2013, a local science fiction convention in Colorado Springs. Christopher Salas writes horror and science fiction from the Colorado Front Range area.  He is also a volunteer firefighter, martial artist, and purveyor of comic books. If that doesn’t pique your interest, I dunno what will.

The Next Big Thing – Author Interviews

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I have been tagged in The Next Big Thing, a series of interconnected interviews where writers talk about their current projects. I have tagged three fellow authors below, and you can follow the links to their web pages, but in the meantime, here is what I have been up to. 1)      What is the working title of your next book? Death Wind. 2)      Where did the idea come from for the book? It’s the adaptation of a screenplay that I wrote with my friend, Jim Pinto. Jim and I collaborated on a metric ton of roleplaying supplements, so a fewContinue readingThe Next Big Thing – Author Interviews