Pirates, Squirrels, and a Half-Sidhe Anti-Hero: An Interview with Lilith Saintcrow
Full disclosure: I’ve known Lili Saintcrow for a decade now; she edited an early version of my second novel The…
Urban Fantasy
A Long Crazy Trip: Talking Magic with Ilona Andrews
Ilona Andrews, the pseudonym for Andrew and Ilona Gordon, husband-and-wife team behind the hugely popular Kate Daniels series, are an…
Don’t Call it a Reboot: Killing Pretty and Sandman Slim
In any long-lived book series, authors face the challenge of living up to their readers’ expectations (and their own past…
4 Reasons to Read Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence
If I were to say, “I have a great urban fantasy series you should read,” you might smile and reply,…
Trailer Park Fae Is a Dark, Heartbreaking Faerie Story
Trailer Park Fae is the first installment in Gallow and Ragged, a new urban fantasy series from prolific author Lilith Saintcrow that…
The Unnoticeables Is a Genre-Smashing Urban Secret History
A city gathers stories and legends like a snowball rolling down a hill, stories of secret places, and disused train stations, and old theaters…
Writing for an Audience of One: A Chat with Charlaine Harris
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Charlaine Harris is as charming and warm in person as her writing is.…
4 Simple Reasons to Read Laurell K. Hamilton’s Dead Ice
If our revealing interview with Laurell K. Hamilton a few weeks ago wasn’t enough to convince you to read Dead Ice—the…
The Gospel According to Anita Blake: A Conversation with Laurell K. Hamilton
It’s hard to believe that the soon-to-be-released Dead Ice (June 9) is the 24th installment of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake…
Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Day Shift by Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris ended her bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series in 2013, leaving fans wanting more, even after 13 (and a half)…
Obsession is Magic in Flex
When we think of magic users in fiction, we tend to think of magicians like Dumbledore or Gandalf: wise, old…
5 Paranormal Romances Perfect for Television
While there have been a number of page-to-screen adaptions of urban fantasy —True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Dresden Files—TV producers seem to…
Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Killing Pretty: A Sandman Slim Novel by Richard Kadrey
This July sees the release of Killing Pretty, the seventh installment in Richard Kadrey’s fiendishly inventive noir-tinged urban fantasy series Sandman Slim.…
Heists, Ancient Dragons, and L.A. Noir: Greg Van Eekhout on His New Book, Pacific Fire
Greg Van Eekhout’s California Bones was one of the sleeper surprises of 2014, an urban fantasy with an irresistible magical…
Genre Primer: Fantastic Urban Fantasy
When it comes to the fantasy genre, the epic reads tend to get the most attention, with their clinking swords, garrulous monarchs,…