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The Big Idea: Hailey Piper

Posted on October 11, 2023 Leave a Comment

Sometimes, in the times with the most trial, a single thing can make the difference between despair and survival. In this Big Idea for A Light Most Hateful, author Hailey Piper shares what that one thing might be. HAILEY PIPER: What if, in the moment your life shattered to pieces and left you tumbling like […]

The Big Idea: Caitlin Starling

Posted on October 10, 2023 2 Comments

Some people prefer the company of “me, myself, and I”. Would that still be true if there were actual copies of yourself you could hang out with? Author Caitlin Starling brings us a new take on doppelgangers in her newest novel, The Last One to Leave the Room. Follow along in her Big Idea as she […]

The Big Idea: Delilah S. Dawson

Posted on October 5, 2023 4 Comments

Author Delilah S. Dawson has returned to the blog for a fifth Big Idea. Today she brings us Bloom, her newest romance-horror novel that mixes sweet with… bloody. Read on to see how this book came to be, with a little help from her daughter. DELILAH S. DAWSON: Did you know that you can substitute (properly […]

The Big Idea: Daniel Hope

Posted on October 4, 2023 9 Comments

If you spend your whole life thinking about death, are you even really living? Author Daniel Hope brings us some excellent existential questions like this in the Big Idea for his newest novel, The Inevitable. Follow along as he guides you through a robot’s, and in a sense a human’s, attempt to survive in a […]

The Big Idea: Alden E. Stoner

Posted on October 3, 2023 4 Comments

Everyone has a story to tell. Thanks to the organization Nature Sacred, people have a chance to write their tales in discoverable journals at Sacred Places all over the country. Alden E. Stoner, CEO of Nature Sacred and contributor to Benchtalk: Wisdoms Inspired in Nature, is here today to tell us a bit about how […]

The Big Idea: Matthew Sangster

Posted on September 14, 2023 4 Comments

Want to dig into the tropes and traditions of the fantasy genre? Matthew Sangster has come over from the University of Glasgow to give us An Introduction to Fantasy, and to retrace the steps that brought him to propose and then write the book. MATTHEW SANGSTER: People who love Fantasy know viscerally in their hearts […]

The Big Idea: Malon Edwards

Posted on September 12, 2023 1 Comment

Death isn’t always the end. In author Malon Edward’s world, death is the precursor to becoming something more than you previously were. Follow along in his Big Idea to see how growing up in Chicago inspired his newest book, If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories. (Trigger warning: suicide) MALON EDWARDS: One of the core […]

The Big Idea: Abby Goldsmith

Posted on September 6, 2023 3 Comments

Standing apart from the crowd is usually seen as a good thing. It makes you cooler than the majority. But what if going against the majority was dangerous? Even life threatening? Enter the dystopian world of Majority, the first novel in author Abby Goldsmith’s newest series. ABBY GOLDSMITH: What if everyone had an audience inside their […]

The Big Idea: Jon Evans

Posted on September 5, 2023 8 Comments

There’s the observation that at any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In Jon Evans’ new novel Exadelic, this may be more right than anyone ever suspected. JON EVANS: Exadelic‘s big idea is why it is, probably, the only book about occult magic categorized by Amazon as ‘Hard Science Fiction.’ That high concept: in […]

The Big Idea: Dwain Worrell

Posted on September 1, 2023 5 Comments

When you read a novel, you might think you know who the villain might be. But in Dwain Worrell’s new novel Androne, whoever and whatever you think that villain is, it’s not that. Probably. DWAIN WORRELL: ANDRONE | ən-drōn | Noun Imagine we were at war, millions of casualties, protesters on the White House lawn, […]

The Big Idea: A.J. Hartley

Posted on August 24, 2023 3 Comments

Shape-shifting creatures… in small-town North Carolina? There’s a reason they’re there, and as A.J. Hartley explains in this Big Idea for Hideki Smith, Demon Queller, there’s no better place for them to be. A.J. HARTLEY: Japanese folkore and mythology is packed with shape-shifting monsters. Seriously. Everywhere you look there’s something pretending to be something else. […]

The Big Idea: Caye Marsh

Posted on August 22, 2023 2 Comments

Author Caye Marsh was treading in unfamiliar territory when she became a mother, and the feelings that came with it ended up being the seed for her newest novel. Follow along in her Big Idea to see how being a mother assisted in forging the path for Peace In The Sky. CAYE MARSH: Sometime in the […]

The Big Idea: Joe R. Lansdale

Posted on August 17, 2023 6 Comments

Today’s Big Idea is short… but is it sweet? Joe R. Lansdale’s collection title promises that Things Get Ugly, and maybe, sometimes, that’s the way it should be. JOE LANSDALE: Things Get Ugly has been years in the making, containing my best crime stories from the eighties on. Not every crime story I’ve written is […]

The Big Idea: M. A. Carrick

Posted on August 16, 2023 2 Comments

Collaboration is key. Whether it’s writing a book together, backing a Kickstarter together, or changing the world together, people need each other to make things the best version they can be. Follow along with authors Alyc and Marie, who joined together as M. A. Carrick to bring you the newest novel in their Rook and […]

The Big Idea: Keith Rosson

Posted on August 15, 2023

Enough is never enough. This statement rings true when it comes to the power hungry bad guys in Keith Rosson’s new novel, Fever House. But what about when that power they crave comes from a severed hand, and they’ll do anything to get it? Read on to see what all the hand, and novel, entails. […]

The Big Idea: Scott James Taylor & Sarah Thérèse Pelletier

Posted on August 8, 2023 1 Comment

Some of the best stories are retellings of old ones. If something has been done before, that doesn’t mean you can’t also do it, you just have to put your own spin on it. This is exactly what authors Sarah Thérèse Pelletier and Scott James Taylor set out to do when writing Ladyhoppers. Explore their Big […]

The Big Idea: Michael A. Burstein

Posted on August 7, 2023 8 Comments

For writer and editor Michael A. Burstein, an encounter with an anthology in his youth changed with way he looked at science fiction and its possibilities. Now, with his own anthology Jewish Futures, Burstein looks to that personal past to inform this collection of stories about what comes next. MICHAEL A. BURSTEIN: For me, it […]

The Big Idea: Howard Andrew Jones

Posted on August 3, 2023 4 Comments

History is often an inspiration for fantasy, but as Howard Andrew Jones explains in this Big Idea for Lord of a Shattered Land, how that inspiration hits can be a surprise, even for the author himself. HOWARD ANDREW JONES: It seemed like such an obvious what-if question I couldn’t believe no one had written about […]

The Big Idea: Jacqueline Carey

Posted on August 1, 2023 13 Comments

Author Jacqueline Carey is no stranger to the sort of fandom that thrives on fringes, but in this Big idea for her latest novel, Cassiel’s Servant, Carey explains how that fame and fandom exists for reasons that many might not expect. JACQUELINE CAREY: Kushiel’s Legacy is a cult fan favorite. It must be true, because […]

The Big Idea: J.D. Blackrose

Posted on July 31, 2023 4 Comments

There are things in the world we wish we had the power to change, but as J.D. Blackrose explains in this Big Idea for Wish Magic, wishing for that power, and having it, are two different things entirely. J.D. BLACKROSE: What’s it like to be powerless when you’re used to being in control? And how […]

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