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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Mini-interview: Jason M. Waltz

Posted by on Mar 29, 2009 | 0 comments What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art, be it words or images? Telling a tale of awe and adventure that can take author and reader alike beyond today’s dark headlines and gray clouds is desirable and admirable. Taking us beyond yesterday’s and...
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Mini-interview: Michael Ehart

Posted by on Mar 22, 2009 | 0 comments What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art, be it words or images? Art? I barely know the guy. The actual driving force behind my writing is the desire to illustrate some truth. Nearly every one of my stories represent something I have learned, and want to share with...
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Mini-interview: E.E. Knight

Posted by on Mar 15, 2009 | 0 comments What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art, be it words or images? There’s tremendous satisfaction in a good story well-told. And sometimes a royalty check. If there was the possibility of becoming any speculative fiction character ever created (except your own),...
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Mini-interview: Nicholas Ian Hawkins

Posted by on Mar 8, 2009 | 3 comments What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art, be it words or images? Unfortunately, I write in sporadic spurts when inspiration hits me. I’m not one of those pound-it-out writers (whom I greatly admire and look at in awe), who sets daily page or word quotas or writes...
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Mini-interview: Johnney Perkins

Posted by on Mar 1, 2009 | 0 comments What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art, be it words or images? First and foremost, I am a fan. And to help bring back the very genre of yester-year the way I remember it, the days of Warren Magazines, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edgar Allan Poe, That’s...
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Mini-interview: Steve Goble

Posted by on Feb 22, 2009 | 0 comments What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art, be it words or images? I have always been better at expressing myself through the written word than through any other medium. I have strong opinions and things to say, and I do it through fiction and poetry and my career,...
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