Paul Semel
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3 days ago |
paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
While some writers hate equating their stories with specific genres, author Valkyrie Loughcrewe is taking a different approach by classifying their new novella Puppet’s Banquet (paperback, Kindle) with their own genre: “diseased Gothic.”To find out what they mean, and what inspired and influenced this story, check out the following email interview. To begin, what is Puppet’s Banquet about, and when and where does it take place?
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1 week ago |
paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
In the first Avengers movie, Nick Fury asks a member of the Security Council, “You ever been in a war, councilman? In a fire fight? Did you feel an overabundance of control?” It’s a line that kept repeating in my head as I played — or maybe survived is a better word — DOOM: The Dark Ages (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC), a ridiculously frantic but also ridiculously fun horror- and fantasy-infused science fiction first-person shooter.
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1 week ago |
paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
On her website, Sylvie Cathrall identifies herself as a “romantic fantasy author.”But while the two novels that comprise her Sunken Archive duology are romantic and fantastical — and other things — the central relationships in them are not between lovers, but two sets of siblings. And no, these stories don’t get all Game Of Thrones-y.
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1 week ago |
paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
Given what’s going on with the world, you might think this would be a bad time to offer sanctuary to a stranger, even if they have a child with them. But that’s exactly what Charlie does in Christopher Golden’s new folk horror thriller novel The Night Birds (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). And yeah, it ends up being a bad time. It’s a horror novel; not a warm and fuzzy novel. In the following email interview, Golden discusses what inspired and influenced this horror story.
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1 week ago |
paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
On the surface, Paul Vidich’s novel The Poet’s Game (hardcover, Kindle) sounds like it’s a spy novel, just like his previous books. But in the following email interview, Vidich says this is also, rather fittingly, “a love story that is disguised as a spy novel.”Photo Credit: Bekka PalmerTo start, what is The Poet’s Game about, and when and where does it take place?
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