If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! Local romance author Sandra Antonelli and I have been in touch over Twitter and through the site for a while now, but first properly connected over an interview I did late last year with author Maggie Dana about...

One of the topics that I find endlessly interesting in fiction is the lengths that many authors will go to in order to avoid dealing with modern technology in their work. A functioning mobile phone, for example, can easily put an end to a disaster or adventure story, so it’s little wonder that characters either lose them, forget to charge them, or break...

  Late last year I chatted to Steven Lochran about the release of Vanguard Prime: Gold Rush, the first in a high-octane series that blends the pacing of Percy Jackson with the superhero cred of X-Men. The second in the series has just been released, and it’s a glorious ride of explosions, super-sonic travel and some very grey moral decisions. Having...

  Irish author Ciara Geraghty’s latest novel Lifesaving for Beginners involves a reclusive thriller author who refuses all media appearances and gets about in a clandestine manner worthy of MI5. The contrast between Ciara and her fictional creation couldn’t be more striking: Ciara’s voice lilts warmly down the telephone line as she tells...

If you’ve ever looked back on your life and felt a nagging feeling of regret, you’re not alone. The desire to start over or to be given a second chance is a universal one, and it’s a concept that’s been touched on in innumerable creative works. Author Juliet Madison had the idea for her own do-over novel Fast Forward (Escape Publishing,...

Chris Allen, author of the books Intrepid and Defender, describes his novels as “escapist thrillers for realists.” Given his military background, it’s little wonder that his books draw heavily on real-life situations. But there are a number of challenges about writing within this genre. Not only do thriller authors—particularly those whose work...