Interviews
Interview with Joe R. Lansdale
By Maggie Slater How do you summarize the forty–year career of a man who’s done everything? Joe R. Lansdale is not merely a writer; he’s one of the most preeminent storytellers of our time. He has written dozens of novels and a hoard of short stories spanning the horror, mystery, and science fiction genres, among many others, for which he’s garnered eight Bram Stoker Awards, the British Fantasy Award, the Edgar Award, and his novels Mucho Mojo (of the Hap Collins and Leonard Pine mystery series) andThe Bottoms were each selected as the New York TimesNotable Book of the Year. In 2007, he was given the Grand Master Award by the World Horror Convention, and in...
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Conducted by Maggie Slater What do authors M.L.N. Hanover, James S.A. Corey, and Daniel Abraham have in common? Well…actually, they all share–at least in part–the writing chops and creative mind of Daniel Abraham. Over the past ten years, Daniel Abraham has published over a dozen novels, spanning epic fantasy (as himself) to urban fantasy (as M.L.N. Hanover) to far-future science fiction (as James S.A. Corey with Ty Franck). His short fiction has appeared in venues such as Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among many others. His novel Leviathan Wakes with Ty Franck was a finalist...
Read MoreInterview with Tim Pratt
Conducted by Maggie Slater Tim Pratt is a busy guy. Besides producing a dozen novels, two (soon to be three) collections, and over a hundred short stories in the past ten or so years, Mr. Pratt is also a senior editor at Locus Magazine. His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, Clarkesworld Magazine, Interzone, and Weird Tales, among many others, and has been featured in numerous Year’s Best anthologies. In 2006, he won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Impossible Dreams. This month’s issue of Apex Magazine brings you a sneak peek at Mr. Pratt’s upcoming collection, Antiquities and Tangibles & Other Stories, with a...
Read MoreAn Interview with Kate Elliott
by Maggie Slater Kate Elliott (Alias A. Rasmussen) is the acclaimed author of over a dozen fantasy and science fiction novels from Tor and DAW, among others, and her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Though she is a prolific author, she is also a practiced medieval swordswoman and an accomplished paddler of outrigger canoes, a sport she came to when she and her family relocated to Hawaii. Her most recent novel is the second volume of her Spiritwalker Trilogy, Cold Fire, and the third volume, Cold Steel, will be released mid-2013. She describes the series as “an Afro-Celtic post-Roman icepunk Regency fantasy adventure with airships,...
Read MoreAn Interview with Eugie Foster
by Maggie Slater By day, a hard-working legislative editor, and by night a fiction maven, Eugie Foster is the Nebula award-winning author of “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast.” Her fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines, from here with us at Apex Magazine to Realms of Fantasy, Drabblecast, Cicada, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, and many more. This issue of Apex Magazine features her fabulous tale of vengeance, karma, and a little bamboo, “Trixie and the Pandas of Dread.” To learn more about Ms. Foster and her upcoming projects, visit her website at eugiefoster.com. About “Trixie and the Pandas of...
Read MoreAn Interview with Alethea Kontis
by Maggie Slater Alethea Kontis is a certified enchanted Princess (with a capital “P” for Plucky, Pretty, and Perceptive, among other lovely adjectives), a best-selling author, and a fairytale maven. Her short fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Shroud, Shimmer, and Realms of Fantasy, as well as in Apex Magazine and Dark Faith. She is also the beloved picture book author of AlphaOops!:The Day Z Went First, as well as the co-author of The Dark-Hunter Companion with Sherrilyn Kenyon. This May saw the release of her first YA novel, Enchanted, the first in a series which will follow the daughters of the magical Woodcutter...
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