May 9 —

SF author Paul Park, whose novel The Tourmaline is a finalist for this year’s Sidewise Award for works of alternate history, told SCI FI Wire that the book is the second in a series of four, which started with A Princess of Roumania.

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May 8–

Fantasy author Scott Lynch, who is a current finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, told SCI FI Wire that his debut novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, began with the idea of a fantasy-world con artist and evolved from there.

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May 4 —

Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, who is a current finalist for this year’s John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, The Mistborn: The Final Empire, is one part fantasy novel, one part Ocean’s Eleven and one part kung fu epic.

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May 3 —

Hugo Award-winning author Harry Turtledove–whose novel The Disunited States of America is a finalist for this year’s Sidewise Award for works of alternate history–told SCI FI Wire that the book is set in the late 21st century in a world where the Constitution didn’t replace the Articles of Confederation and the United States fell to pieces in the early 19th century.

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May 2 —

Multiple-award-winning author F. Paul Wilson, whose novel Harbingers is a finalist for this year’s Prometheus Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book is the 10th installment in the Repairman Jack series.

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May 1 —

Fantasy author Joshua Palmatier–whose novel The Skewed Throne is a finalist for this year’s Compton Crook Award for best first novel–told SCI FI Wire that the idea for the book came from one of his unsold novels.

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Apr. 30 —

Fantasy author Jane Lindskold–whose novel Wolf’s Blood is the conclusion to her Firekeeper Saga–told SCI FI Wire that the series is about a woman who is the bridge between the animal and human worlds: human in shape, wolf in outlook.

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Apr. 26 —

Fantasy author Sarah Monette, who is a current finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, The Virtu, is in a lot of ways the second half of her first novel, Melusine.

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Apr. 25 —

Multiple-award-winning SF author Michael Flynn, whose novel Eifelheim is a current finalist for the Hugo Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book follows two threads: one in the present and one in 1348.

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Apr. 24 —

Hugo-Award-winning SF author Vernor Vinge, whose novel Rainbows End is a current finalist for both the Hugo and Prometheus awards, told SCI FI Wire that the book explores the interaction of major tech trends with gaming, medicine, tyranny and terrorism.

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