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Lynn Lamb has just published the second book in her Opus of the Dead series, Dissonance of the Dead . The sequel to Lullaby of the Dead , the latest novel features characters from that universe as they journey beyond the haunted house they’ve been occupying – some of them for centuries. They have much to learn about modern ways of living. Tell us a little about some of the characters in the series. We’re continuing on with a few of the characters from the previous book. Landry Sinclair, the narrator of the series, has grown a lot since the beginning of Lullaby of the Dead . She has emerged as being much more conscious of her personal foibles in her dead state than she was when she was alive. We also have Topanga, her love interest, who is important as the mentor of the group. Now he is trying to grow the gifts of those who have left Nashton House and help them find their true selves. He is very much still the instructor. He knows how the world works outside the milieu o...

Claire Buss  is a science fiction writer whose first book The Gaia Effect won a publication prize. Her sequel,  The Gaia Project , continues the story of Jed, Kira, and the array of characters in a world set two centuries into the future. You have a husband and wife as main characters. Tell us a little about them? Jed was a Force Detective but at the beginning of book 2 he is promoted to Captain of City 42 Guard and gets sent on a diplomatic mission to City 15. Kira is an Archivist. From what I remember, themes include genetic engineering, right?  Do you continue in that vein or is there focus on other stuff in the sequel? No, not really – it’s more about hope in a dystopian setting. Man has screwed up but there’s still a little light at the end of the tunnel. The Gaia Project though is my Empire (Star Wars) in the trilogy – it’s when the bad guys fight back! So do you have a chief villain running through the trilogy? Tell me about the bad guys. In book ...

US writer Kristin Garth has a Medium site where she hosts a number of impressive poems that focus on gender dynamics, misogyny, romance, psychopathy, BDSM and more. A chapbook of some of her poetry, Pink Plastic House, will be published by Maverick Duck Press in 2018. How are things? What are you up to? I'm doing pretty good. I’ve had some work solicited so I have been doing that, and my Medium work. How about you? Good thanks. Is it always poetry? Have you tried writing fiction or memoir? I have written an unfinished BDSM romance and a weird novel about a young teenage (18) year old stripper. Your work strikes me as being a little Lady Gaga, based on what I know of her iconography at her gigs etc, inasmuch as it seems to feature lots of sex and death! Your poetry occasionally deals in both – your talk of the body etc, and you don’t shy away from misogyny and abuse.  I’m doing an Amazon Kindle short fiction collection at the moment. You ought to put a Kindle book of poetry tog...

Suspense author Mark P. Sadler is in the process of writing his series featuring cop Nate Duarte. The first book in the Border Noir trilogy, Kettle of Vultures , is available at Amazon .  Mark was good enough to take a few questions from me over email. Let's talk pen names. Elsewhere, you mention Dennis Lynds (died 2005) - a mystery writer I had never heard of, who took a number of noms-de-plumes including "Mark Sadler" (which is why you write as Mark P. Sadler). Funnily enough, one of my favourite Irish authors is Booker-nominated Michael Collins (born 1964) . He's in the States now too, Mark. But I had never heard of this Dennis Lynds. By golly, he has a lot to answer for with the name-thieving! :-) Have you ever been asked if you ARE him, or have you ever been mistaken for him? Well, now I know you must be pulling my leg as a search of Wikipedia turns up “Michael Collins is the best-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, an American author who primarily wrote mystery f...