Roundup of "Ten Interview Questions for the Next Big Thing"
A number of people in my vicinity are doing a meme that asks authors to answer interview questions about their WIPs. I am loving reading everybody's responses, so here is a handy list of links .(I have no idea how many people answered this after Lucas Magnum got the ball rolling on his blog; I am limiting the list to people I know and/or whose work I enjoyed). I will be adding to this list as new responses appear. The quotations are answers to "What is a one-line synopsis of your book?"
Mike Allen (time_shark) is talking about his novel The Black Fire Concerto upcoming from Black Gate Books: "Magic-wielding musicians battle the undead in a post-apocalyptic world."
Athena Andreadis (helivoy) is talking about The Stone Lyre, The Wind Harp, and Shard Songs, all set in the same universe. "The Stone Lyre is a reversed-gender Orpheus story fused with the distortions caused by interstellar colonization. Shard Songs tells of the decipherment of Linear A (the Minoan script, later used to write Mycaenean Greek), of past and future women rulers and their consorts (polyandry is fairly common), of lost homelands, and of rifts and time loops created by stable wormholes."
C.S.E. Cooney (csecooney) is talking about her book The Bastard Duchess: "Ellene and her tutor Dagassar must discover who's been killing the Heirs of Lunette and stop them -- before it's Ellene's turn to die."
Carrie Cuinn is talking about her novel Bloom: " Post-apocalyptic urban fantasy retelling of The Odyssey."
Francesca Forrest is talking about her novel Pen Pal: "A message in a bottle leads to correspondence between a 12-year-old in a floating community off the Gulf Coast and a political prisoner in a fictional southeast Asian island nation."
Gwynne Garfinkle (gwynnega) is talking about her novel Can't Find My Way Home: "In mid-1970s New York, soap opera actress Joanna Bergman is haunted by the ghost of Cynthia Foster, her best friend who blew herself up protesting the Vietnam War."
Nicole Kornher-Stace (wirewalking) is talking about her novel Archivist Wasp: " An unwilling ghosthunter/priestess of a rather unpleasant post-apocalyptic cult travels through the underworld with the ghost of a supersoldier to solve a mystery and attempt to win her freedom."
Ann Leckie (ann_leckie) is talking about her novels Ancilliary Sword and Ancilliary Justice, forthcoming from Orbit next year (wo-hoo!): "A far-future space opera in which a ship's ancillary A.I. or "corpse soldier" uncovers a dangerous secret at the heart of a galaxy-spanning civilization."
For the sake of completeness, here is me, in the ever-popular 3rd person :)
Rose Lemberg (rose_lemberg) is talking about her novel Bridgers: “A foreign linguist attempts to do fieldwork, gets embroiled in a revolution; sociolinguistics ensue."
A. C. Wise is talking about her novel The Thief of Precious Things: " It has shape shifting fox women, and men whose shadows are crows, and humans who are mostly caught in-between."
Mike Allen (time_shark) is talking about his novel The Black Fire Concerto upcoming from Black Gate Books: "Magic-wielding musicians battle the undead in a post-apocalyptic world."
Athena Andreadis (helivoy) is talking about The Stone Lyre, The Wind Harp, and Shard Songs, all set in the same universe. "The Stone Lyre is a reversed-gender Orpheus story fused with the distortions caused by interstellar colonization. Shard Songs tells of the decipherment of Linear A (the Minoan script, later used to write Mycaenean Greek), of past and future women rulers and their consorts (polyandry is fairly common), of lost homelands, and of rifts and time loops created by stable wormholes."
C.S.E. Cooney (csecooney) is talking about her book The Bastard Duchess: "Ellene and her tutor Dagassar must discover who's been killing the Heirs of Lunette and stop them -- before it's Ellene's turn to die."
Carrie Cuinn is talking about her novel Bloom: " Post-apocalyptic urban fantasy retelling of The Odyssey."
Francesca Forrest is talking about her novel Pen Pal: "A message in a bottle leads to correspondence between a 12-year-old in a floating community off the Gulf Coast and a political prisoner in a fictional southeast Asian island nation."
Gwynne Garfinkle (gwynnega) is talking about her novel Can't Find My Way Home: "In mid-1970s New York, soap opera actress Joanna Bergman is haunted by the ghost of Cynthia Foster, her best friend who blew herself up protesting the Vietnam War."
Nicole Kornher-Stace (wirewalking) is talking about her novel Archivist Wasp: " An unwilling ghosthunter/priestess of a rather unpleasant post-apocalyptic cult travels through the underworld with the ghost of a supersoldier to solve a mystery and attempt to win her freedom."
Ann Leckie (ann_leckie) is talking about her novels Ancilliary Sword and Ancilliary Justice, forthcoming from Orbit next year (wo-hoo!): "A far-future space opera in which a ship's ancillary A.I. or "corpse soldier" uncovers a dangerous secret at the heart of a galaxy-spanning civilization."
For the sake of completeness, here is me, in the ever-popular 3rd person :)
Rose Lemberg (rose_lemberg) is talking about her novel Bridgers: “A foreign linguist attempts to do fieldwork, gets embroiled in a revolution; sociolinguistics ensue."
A. C. Wise is talking about her novel The Thief of Precious Things: " It has shape shifting fox women, and men whose shadows are crows, and humans who are mostly caught in-between."