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Interview with Robert Beatty, by CrystalWizard

SF Reader – Q&A with Robert Beatty, author of Willa of the Wood and the Serafina Book Series

1. What inspires your writing the most?

I’m the father of three girls, so I enjoy writing stories for them and with them about brave and unusual girls with heroic hearts. In the Serafina Book Series and in my new book, Willa of the Wood, my heroines are strong, highly capable girls who are striving to…

Interview with Bruce Hale, by CrystalWizard

What inspired you to create the Monstertown Mystery series? As kids, my best friend Billy and I were serious monster lovers.  I had the hand-painted models of Frankenstein’s Monster, Wolfman, and the Mummy, and we knew every Universal monster movie by heart.  In fact, the first book I ever wrote (in second grade) was The Two Brothers At Monstertown. Once I grew up and became an author, I tried…

Interview with Arwen Elys Dayton

When did you start writing? Around age seven or eight, I had a teacher who asked me to write a one-page story. I thought this was impossible, so she dialed it back to half a page. I wrote with really big cursive, so my story was probably three sentences long–but I finished it. A few days later she asked for three quarters of a page. Then a full page. At some point, after I’d written several…

An Interview with Stella Gemmell, by Kelly

Which author has inspired you most in your career? JRR Tolkien, of course. Writers from the Golden Age of science-fiction – Asimov, Zelazny, Bradbury, Blish – who inspired my love of the different and wonder-ful worlds. And Charles Palliser, who wrote a brilliant book called The Quincunx, to which The City owes a good deal. Why did you start writing? My husband, fantasy writer David Gemmell,…