Three Chords of Chaos: Remastered Edition
Three Chords of Chaos returns in July 2019–dark urban fantasy and rock n roll!
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An Interview with Author and Editor, Danielle Ackley-McPhail / Part 6 of 6
The final part of my conversation with Danielle Ackley-McPhail, casting an eye on the nuts and bolts of creating anthologies, finding an audience, making the most of the convention circuit, and Dani’s most recent projects and ventures. Thanks all for reading! (Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, or Part 5.) You’re known as one […]
An Interview with Author and Editor, Danielle Ackley-McPhail / Part 5 of 6
Talking this week about Danielle’s science fiction stories, her oceanic fantasy tales, and her most recent novel, Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, co-authored with Day Al Mohamed, and the fine art of authorial collaboration. (Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, or Part 4.) You also write science fiction, collected in A Legacy of Stars. How […]
An Interview with Author and Editor, Danielle Ackley-McPhail / Part 4 of 6
This week, Dani and I conclude discussing her Eternal Cycle novels and turn to her other faerie series, the Wild Hunt MC. (Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.) Considering that some readers look to fantasy fiction for escape, do you struggle with balancing the realistic elements of your story—death and other losses, damaged […]
An Interview with Author and Editor, Danielle Ackley-McPhail / Part 3 of 6
Presenting part three of my interview with Danielle Ackley-McPhail, digging deeper into the elements of the Eternal Cycle characters and the series themes of growth and sacrifice. (Read Part 1 and Part 2.) All of the characters in the Eternal Cycle series are changed by the events of the story, but Kara undergoes the most dramatic […]
An Interview with Author and Editor, Danielle Ackley-McPhail / Part 2 of 6
Continuing my in-depth interview with author and editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail, this week we dig into some of my favorite writing topics–the alchemy of breathing life into fictional characters and how much of the real world underlies our fantasy tales. (Read the first part of this interview.) Carman and her three sons, Calma, Dubh, and Oclas, […]
An Interview with Author and Editor, Danielle Ackley-McPhail / Part 1 of 6
I’ve known Danielle Ackley-McPhail since around her second anthology, No Longer Dreams, something more than a decade now. We first met at World Horror Con in New York City, introduced by a mutual friend, the late CJ Henderson. Over the years, we’ve become good friends and colleagues and have weathered many a convention and writing […]
“The Flying Rock” Coming in May in Bad-Ass Faeries: It’s Elemental
Back in the summer of 2011 I wrote a story called “The Flying Rock.” It’s one of my favorite things I’ve written. It’s part pure fantasy, drawing on classic faerie lore and legend, on Ariel, the faerie queen of the winds, and her dark counterpart, the queen of storms. And it’s part portrait of a […]
