The Big Idea: Kristina W. Kelly
Author Kristina W. Kelly is here today to entice your senses. Specifically your olfactory sense! Follow along in the Big Idea for her newest novel, Tavern Tale, as she introduces you to an aspect of […]
The Big Idea: Caye Marsh
Sometimes, you outgrow the story you’re trying to tell. In author Caye Marsh’s case, this meant a rewrite of a novel she thought she had already completed. Read on to see how she, and Station […]
The Big Idea: Premee Mohamed | Whatever
Heroes and villains: We use these words to describe people, but how do we make the determination of which is which… and when? Premee Mohamed is thinking about this in One Message Remains, and in […]
Big Idea: Cory Doctorow – Picks and Shovels
Author Cory Doctorow is here to tell us a bit of interesting history behind one of the most well-known places in the US: Silicon Valley. Read on to see how the laws of the […]
The Big Idea: Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Food is more than just fuel for our bodies. According to author Lavanya Lakshminarayan, food is well, pretty much everything! Dig in to the Big Idea for her newest novel, Interstellar Megachef and see what she’s been […]
The Big Idea: William C. Tracy
Let’s get physical – about a type of fantasy activity that generally not thought to be physical at all. But as William C. Tracy explains in this Big Idea for Physical Magic, incorporating the […]
The Big Idea: Jennifer Estep
Tension takes many forms, some of them good, some of them bad, and some of them delicious. In this Big Idea for Only Cold Depths, author Jennifer Estep gets into tension, when to make […]
The Big Idea: Eden Robins
As we all know, someday we will die. And when we do, there will be an obituary summing up your into life into a couple paragraphs. Author Eden Robins has used (fictional) obituaries to […]
The Big Idea: Greg van Eekhout
In his Big Idea for Happy Town, author Greg van Eekhout delves into what it takes to tell young readers the truth — even in a story which has, you know, zombies. There’s a lot […]
The Big Idea: Alex Kingsley
Debut author Alex Kingsley is here today to talk to us about crabs, monsters, being an outsider, and how all these things are inexorably connected. Follow along through their Big Idea for their new novel, Empress […]
The Big Idea: Sung-Il Kim
In the world, some things are treated like immutable natural laws — but can change happen? And what would happen then? In Blood of the Old Kings, author Sung-Il Kim (in translation via Anton […]
The Big Idea: Lauren C. Teffeau
When does science become magic? Or is all magic really just science? Author Lauren C. Teffeau explores this in the Big Idea for her newest novella, A Hunger With No Name. Read on to […]
The Big Idea: Sam Wilson
People are people, no matter what planet you put them on. For author Sam Wilson, that means that his book The First Murder on Mars isn’t just about the human action in the title, […]
The Big Idea: Chris Sugden
Today in our Big Idea for High Vaultage, co-author Chris Sugden is here to tell you of a tale of futures past — and what that bygone future means for the present we live […]
The Big Idea: Yaroslav Barsukov
Art imitates life. Or maybe life imitates art? It certainly seems that way in author Yaroslav Barsukov’s Big Idea for his newest novel, Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory. Come along and see for yourself the parallels […]
The Big Idea: Cat Rambo
Today, we welcome back to the blog author Cat Rambo, who has brought with them some snippets from her newest novel, Rumor Has It. Let us stroll through the garden of their mind as they take […]
The Big Idea: Dan Moren
All good things must come to an end. For author Dan Moren, nothing is more important than making sure that ending is a damn good one. Follow along in his Big Idea for the newest […]
The Big Idea: Michael Mammay
How do you wrangle your own characters back into a new story when you already promised them a happy retirement in the last book? This was something author Michael Mammay had to figure out for […]
The Big Idea: Kate Elliot
Sometimes you go long. And as Kate Elliot details in this Big Idea for The History of the World Begins in Ice, sometimes you go long to explain why, this time, you’ve gone short. KATE […]
The Big Idea: Heather Tracy
Editor and brand new author Heather Tracy is here today to bring us ten of the finest lesbian romance stories, one of which is her very own (and first piece of published fiction!). Come along […]
The Big Idea: Nisi Shawl
Famous writers will tell you of their lives and the lives of those in their orbit. That framing, however, suggests those other lives are not on their own journeys through the universe. In this Big […]
The Big Idea: Dorothy A. Winsor
What do you do with a side character in the story who draws everyone’s attention whenever they are on the page? Dorothy A. Winsor had a big idea about that, which is how her […]
The Big Idea: Richard Thomas
The days are getting shorter and the nights longer as we head into the dark season of the year. For author Richard Thomas, that’s all to the good, because for his novel Incarnate, he wants […]
The Big Idea: Dirk Strasser
Writers often feel driven to tell a story, and have a passion for the characters and world… and sometimes, they feel something just a little bit more. Dirk Strasser understands the next level of authorial […]
The Big Idea: Raven Oak
Music can raise spirits… and it can save souls. In this Big Idea for Voices Carry, author Raven Oak goes deep into the music and lyrics that carried them through the highs and lows, and […]
The Big Idea: Abigail Owen
The pantheon of Greek gods is having a moment in popular culture recently, from the new Kaos TV series to the video game Hades, and author Abigail Owen adding her own imagination to that moment with her latest, The Games Gods Play. […]
The Big Idea: Beth Revis
Never discount the power of “Oh, yeah? I’ll show you. Watch this.” Author Beth Revis recounts how just such a thought led to her latest novel, Full Speed to a Crash Landing. BETH REVIS: We’ve […]
The Big Idea: Cameron Johnston
“Plot Armor” is a concept where the main characters of a story manage to make it through the story with few if any scratches, but in the Big Idea for The Last Shield, author Cameron Johnston explains how disposing […]
The Big Idea: A.Z. Rozkills
Space is unfathomably vast — and for some people, that’s a feature, not a bug. A.Z. Rozkills understands this, and that desire for space, in more than one sense of the term, is something that […]
The Big Idea: M V Melcer
What happens when you have a “surprise” sequel — one you didn’t know you were going to write — and you have take a story further without compromising what’s come before? M V Melcer has […]
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