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10 Questions with Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com
December 6th, 2013
If the 15th century was the Age of Discovery and the 19th century was the Age of Empire, future generations will likely look back on the 2000s and dub this period the Age of Big Faceless Corporations. Google, Microsoft, Apple and Twitter: our lives are shaped and directed by these amorphous and impersonal entities, and possibly the most notoriously amorphous and impersonal of them all is Amazon.
Read Interview →10 Questions With 'Blade of Dishonor' Author Thomas Pluck
December 2nd, 2013
Thomas Pluck is the kind of guy you think maybe you should cross the street to avoid. He looks like he could pick a person up with one hand and snap them in half. Then you meet him, and find that he's warm and soft-spoken and funny. He's also a hell of writer.
Read Interview →10 Questions with James Sallis
November 5th, 2013
Photo via flickeringmyth.com James Sallis, first and foremost, is a man of many talents. We all know that Sallis is one of crime fiction's premier stylists, a storyteller who has constantly challenged the often constrictive devices of the genre and turned them on their heads with his sparsely poetic, innovative prose.
Read Interview →10 Questions With 'Love is the Law' Author Nick Mamatas
November 4th, 2013
Like Dawn Seigler, the first-person protagonist of Love is the Law, Nick Mamatas is a fucking genius. He’s also had just about every gig you can imagine in the writing/publishing world. When he’s not writing novels, short stories, how-to books on writing or insulting people, he edits the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for VIZ Media. Once upon a time he might’ve written your term paper if you were too lazy or not bright enough to write it yourself.
Read Interview →10 Questions With Johnny Shaw
October 2nd, 2013
Last year we brought on Johnny Shaw to teach a class covering the hardest part of the writing process: Rewriting.
Read Interview →10 Questions with Lee Child
September 18th, 2013
Photo by Sigrid Estrada Lee Child is, like his style, nothing if not minimalist, reflected in his spare Lower Manhattan office (filled with maps and research books) and his appetite (like a bird’s). He seems to survive on a diet of strong black coffee, cigarettes, and pot, which he recently confessed to smoking nightly. His laconic, deliberate way of speaking is belied by a wide-ranging and fierce intelligence—never more acute than when he’s discussing the craft of writing, the nature of stories, and the perilous publishing business.
Read Interview →10 Questions with John Rector
August 20th, 2013
I first became aware of John Rector in 2009 when Brian Lindenmuth of Spinetingler Magazine ran a series of interviews titled, Conversations with the Bookless, on the now defunct website, BSCReview.
Read Interview →10 Questions With 'Countdown City' Author Ben H. Winters
August 6th, 2013
If there was an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, what would you do? If you're Detective Hank Palace, the protagonist of Ben H. Winters' novels The Last Policeman and Countdown City, you don't stop doing your job just because the apocalypse is nigh. Winters has a pretty deep bibliography—he wrote Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Android Karenina, as well as two books in the young adult Ms. Finkleman series, and Bedbugs, a horror novel.
Read Interview →10 Questions with NEEDLE Editor and LitReactor Instructor Steve Weddle
July 25th, 2013
A while back, I got an idea for a LitReactor workshop: Bring in the editor of a literary magazine and have them walk students through the submission process. It got backburnered, as things do. I was reminded of the idea when I saw the announcement for Steve Weddle's debut novel, Country Hardball.
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