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 […]
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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 […]
The Big Idea: K.X. Song
For The Night Ends With Fire, author K.X. Song turns her eye to a strong human emotion and follows where having it leads, and what having it does to those who experience it. Which emotion […]
The Big Idea: Madeline Ashby
In today’s Big Idea for Glass Houses, author Madeline Ashby poses a question, and then poses a separate question, and then makes you question whether one or both of those questions has the answer you think might be the […]
The Big Idea: Raven Belasco
There’s a very important thing that Raven Belasco wants you to remember about the undead, and in this Big Idea for her novella collection Blood Triad, she gets into it, finding the pulse of storytelling behind some of our […]
The Big Idea: Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan
There’s so much to speculative fiction that you could write a book about it. And that’s exactly what authors Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan did! In fact, they did it twice. Today they’re here to […]
The Big Idea: Owen B Greenwald
The universe is filled with many wondrous things, but perhaps the most wondrous is when two authors can meld their visions together to create a single, unified work. Owen B Greenwald explains how, for Weapons […]
The Big Idea: Rob Cameron
So many of us dream of dragons. In this big idea for Daydreamer, author Rob Cameron delves into why we do… and what the dragons might be thinking, too. ROB CAMERON: I wrote Daydreamer, my […]
The Big Idea: Lindsay Ellis | Whatever
Science Fiction is famously a genre in conversation with itself, and in her latest novel Apostles of Mercy, author Lindsay Ellis finds herself in direct conversation with one of the most famous science fiction writers […]
The Big Idea: Caitlin Rozakis
What does it take to be a villainous, evil mastermind? More than you might think! For, as Caitlin Rozakis points out in this Big Idea for Dreadful, there’s a reason for the look and presentation […]
The Big Idea: Will Ludwigsen
Author Will Ludwigsen earns his “Explain Your Latest Work” badge with this Big Idea about A Scout is Brave. Come find out how scouting and chthonic horror join forces to… well, you’ll find out. WILL […]
The Big Idea: Cherie Priest
Burnout is a term those in the creative world tend to feel all too often. Author Cherie Priest was no exception to this common trend, but she’s here today to tell you of the […]
The Big Idea: R. B. Lemberg
Don’t let today’s Big Idea fly by you. Dive into author R. B. Lemberg’s Big Idea as they walk you through the construction of their newest novel, Yoke of Stars. R. B. LEMBERG: Two years ago, […]
The Big Idea: Dave Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell
I’ve known Tobias S. Buckell and Dave Klecha, as friends and writers, for coming up on twenty years now, so it gives me a special kick to be able to have them both as co-presenters […]
The Big Idea: P.H. Low
There is the myth of being forever young — but what about the forever that comes after that? P.H. Low has given this some thought in These Deathless Shores, and in this Big Idea, is […]
The Big Idea: Chaz Brenchley
There once was a saying that “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire” — and in Mary Ellen, Craterean!, author Chaz Brenchley expands on that idea, with a whole new planet for the sun, […]
The Big Idea: Rob Costello
Editor Rob Costello has a theory about monsters, and what they have in common with a segment of us who constantly find themselves under attack. It’s one compelling reason for the existence of We Mostly […]
The Big Idea: Dan Rice
Inner demons: we have them! We (mostly) don’t love them! And in this Big Idea for The Wrath of Monsters, author Dan Rice looks at how these inner demons affect (and maybe even prey on) […]
The Big Idea: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam | Whatever
Lights, camera, haunted house! Step into author Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s newest novel, Grim Root, and see how she played matchmaker for two genres that are truly meant to be together: horror and romance. BONNIE JO STUFFLEBEAM: […]
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