Author Heather McCorkle

Today I'm excited to welcome up and coming sci-fi author Michael J. Martinez to the blog. His novel, The Daedalus Incident, which released this May from Night Shade Books ! Now available for pre-order on  Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble , and through your local bookseller via  Indie Bound ! For other vendors, including booksellers in Canada and the U.K., click here . Welcome to my blog Michael, it's a pleasure to have you here! So tell us, how did the idea for this novel come about? Michael: This story may be getting a bit old by now, but I guess it illustrates where ideas can come from. There was this Disney cartoon called Treasure Planet that came out about ten years ago. I saw the poster and thought, “Man, what a great idea! Sailing ships in space!” The movie, sadly, wasn’t very good; it was done right at the nadir of Disney’s animation woes, before they bought Pixar. But the idea stuck with me. I simply wanted to create a setting and a story that was more realisti...

Today I'm excited to introduce you to fantasy author Francis Knight . Her debut novel, Fade To Black , released this February from Orbit Books and it's one fantasy fans won't want to miss! It released this February from Orbit Books . Without further delay, please welcome Francis.  Heather: The concept of Fade To Black is fascinating! I love the idea of a city that builds up, instead of out. How did the idea for this novel come about? Francis: Embarrassingly, it was originally a far future dystopia where I envisaged cities growing up due to lack of space. However my writers group (quite rightly!) shot down my future tech. So I changed it to fantasy, though I kept the idea of a lack of space forcing the city to grow upwards. I also have a great love for Bladerunner and that ilk of story, and I wanted to capture something of that atmosphere. How better than a dark and dismal towering city with copious amounts of rain? Heather: How better indeed! The idea of draw...