Mini-Interview: Carl Walmsley

Posted by on Apr 27, 2009 | 0 comments Why write? For as long as I can remember there have been stories bustling around inside my head. I shared them with my siblings growing up and, as a teenager, with my friends over a game of Dungeons & Dragons. If I tried to stop now, I don’t think I could! Fantasy, in particular, has always appealed. I guess it represents an escape from the rigmarole of modern life, but also allows us to...
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Mini-interview: Kevin Lumley

Posted by on Apr 20, 2009 | 5 comments Why write? Because I have to. If you didn’t write, what would you do? I’d spend even more time pursuing my first great passion, which is riding motorcycles; quite often to places most other people generally don’t go. If you could hunt any speculative fiction creature ever imagined (except one of your own), would you? Which? Why? Yes – the Aliens from the movies, because...
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Mini-interview: Lois Tilton

Posted by on Apr 13, 2009 | 1 comment Why write? Unless someone specifically solicits a story from me, as in the case of this anthology, I don’t write fiction any more. Retired. If you didn’t write, what would you do? I review short fiction for The Internet Review of Science Fiction and do some nonfiction articles. If you could hunt any speculative fiction creature ever imagined (except one of your own), would you? I...
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Mini-interview: C.L. Werner

Posted by on Apr 6, 2009 | 0 comments Why write? For me, at least, I think it is some deep-down need to tell stories. There is an immeasurable thrill sharing a good yarn with people, which I am sure is why our ancestors have been doing it since they built the first campfire. There is also a tremendous escapism in reading that no other media will ever be able to match. There is just something very intimate about the way a book crawls...
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