Posts Tagged "interviews"
An 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 Mary Robinette Kowal
by Maggie Slater APEX MAGAZINE: To start off, I just finished reading “Weaving Dreams,” and had to ask: what was the genesis of this story? How did the idea of combining Native American legend and European Fae mythology come to you, and what in particular sparked the passion to write this specific story? MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL: I was at a writing retreat and Tempest Bradford challenged us all to a word race. I was in the middle of edits for Glamour in Glass so I didn’t have an active story to work on. Tempest offered the word “basketry” as a trigger for a new story. When we’d finished the race, I had the start of a story that I was interested...
Read MoreInterview with T.J. Weyler, author of “The Neighborly Thing to Do”
Interview by Stephanie Jacob Read “The Neighborly Thing to Do” by T.J.Weyler. Congratulations on having your first story, “The Neighborly Thing to Do”, published with Apex. Were you familiar with Apex before submitting work? Thank you! I’m really very honored to be a part of the issue. I’d heard about Apex before, even checked out a few of the poems since I’m fascinated with the whole concept of speculative and fantastical poetry and have met some amazing people who are very passionate about it. “The Neighborly Thing to Do” has a Southern Gothic feel. Were you influenced by southern/regional culture? What was your inspiration for the story? I’m...
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