Vanessa Armstrong Horror Film It Follows to Get a Sequel, Reasonably Titled They Follow 5 hours ago One of the most impressive novels I've read in a long time— clever, imaginative, and extremely well written."—Arthur Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Memoirs of a Geisha Can you tell us a little something about your current work(s) in progress? Without any spoilers, what can readers expect in your sequel? Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants.

Not that I was afraid to die, but maybe who you die with is important. It’s important who’s with you when you’re born, after all. If everybody’s wearing clean linen and silk and looking down at you squirming in your bassinet, you’ll have a very different life than if the first thing you see when you open your eyes is a billy goat. I looked over at Pagran and decided he looked uncomfortably like a billy goat, what with his long head, long beard, and unlovely habit of chewing even when he had no food. Pagran used to be a farmer. Frella, just next to him in rusty ring mail, used to be his wife. Galva was smiling. This angered me at first until I remembered that she was really a believer–she believed life was a kind of virginity, to be defended until the wedding day, then joyfully given over.” Readers of epic fantasy novelists, like Tolkien or Brandon Sanderson, will enjoy this journey, which is by turns fun, magical, or terrifying for the travelers. . . . this title is transporting.”— Library Journal (starred review)

One thing a town this size will have is a proper Hanger’s House, as the Takers Guild Hall is called, and I would need to head there to discuss my debt to them. My adventures with Pagran and his cutty, stabby, punchy crew had gone well enough that summer, until we got our arses pulped and handed to us by the Spanth and her murder-bird. Now Nervous and Snowcheeks, the sibling archers who’d scampered when the bird joined the fray, had all but cleaned me out. I needed money—fast—and playing a few hands of Towers would be a good way to start. What (or who) are your most significant fantasy/horror influences? Are there any creators whom you dream of working with someday?

Along with those creatures, there is also a lot of violence—more than a couple of folks meet horrific ends as Kinch shares his story, and even his tongue-in-cheek retelling can’t wash away the savageness that pervades this world. One of my favourite aspects was your use of humour. The main protagonist Kinch has such a distinctive, often cynical narrative voice, which I found really entertaining. Was the humour and tone something you had planned from the onset or did this just emerge as you began writing? So there I was, crouched in ambush, watching a figure walking alone down the White Road toward us. I had a bad feeling about our potential victim, and not just because she walked like nobody was going to hurt her, and not just because ravens were shouting in the trees. I had studied magic, you see, just a little, and this traveler had some. I wasn’t sure what kind, but I felt it like a chill or that charge in the air before a storm that raises gooseflesh. Besides, what could one woman have on her that would be worth much split seven ways? And let’s not forget our leader’s double share, which would end up looking more like half.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat ... We always appreciate a beautiful book cover and yours is extremely eye-catching. How involved in the process were you? Was there a particular aesthetic you hoped they’d portray?

The Author Resource Round Table on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/116489?group_id=26989 Look for wilder fauna and stranger cultures beyond the Thrall mountains. Beware the Book of the Full Shadow. Also, we’ll hear a good bit more about Galva’s experiences in the Daughters’ War. We also go further afield in Tyranny, exploring both the Imperial capital, Sova, and the southern frontiers where battered castles cast their shadows on flowered plains while this world’s Templars attempt to colonize the locals. This group is for everyone who loves vampires, werewolves, creatures and spooks. Horror, gothic, classic, fantasy, paranormal, whatever! All genres welcome. Oh, that’s going to be dull! I should probably lie here and say I only write with sepia and goose quill on parchment, in an unheated, leaning wood cabin while a hired musician plays the violin.

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Dark, gritty, lightning-fast, intelligent, irreverent . . . I loved it.”—Anna Smith Spark, author of The Court of Broken Knives Only the strong, the rich, and the dying think truth is a necessity; the rest of us know it for a luxury.

This a dysfunctional world presented through the lens of a cheerfully flawed young man. Kinch, our protagonist and narrator, is a thief indebted to his guild and commanded by them to follow a fearsome knight on her quest to find a lost queen. Along the way, encountering krakens, goblins, and witches in downward towers, he fills us in on the tragic history of the war-torn, horseless human kingdoms; though with such relentless gallows humor I would hesitate to call the book grimdark. Perhaps grindark. We have featured authors throughout the year where we will read about vampires, werewolves and other horror creatures that stalk the earth. We also do book challenges, buddy reads, and we have other fun stuff to do on here. But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.” Simply put, Buelman’s latest novel is a raucous laugh followed by a punch in the gut—it’s brilliantly wild and full of heart. If you’re looking for an entertaining fantasy tale that slyly delves into deeper topics, try this one.Can you tell us a bit more about your other characters? Galva, Norrigal, Deadlegs and even our adorable cat, Bully-Boy, were such an eclectic group! Which ones did you have the most fun writing? And do you have a favourite type of character you enjoy writing? And, given time, these characters will definitely grow on you—thought you might not want to get too attached to some of them. . .