This week’s interview is with Peter Martin, author of “Crossing the River.” Where did you get the idea for your story? The original story idea came from musing about where a paladin’s fear immunity comes from, but along the way, it transformed...
This week’s interview is with Dan Repperger, author of “Surviving Sunset” and host of the Fear the Boot podcast. Where did you get the idea for your story? When people talk about history, we seem to focus on what happened but not always why. As an...
This week’s interview is with Robert Freund, author of “Keepers of the Flame.” Where did you get the idea for your story? I must have watched a documentary at some point about Neanderthals that sparked my interest in human prehistory. I did a little...
Tom McNeil is the author of “Top of the Heap,” and the next victim author in my interview series. Where did you get the idea for your story? I started writing “Top of the Heap” around 2002. At the time, I had read several articles on the...
Some time last year, someone at Fear the Boot had the idea to publish an anthology of short fiction written by members of the Fear the Boot Writer’s Guild and other genre authors (by invitation). I wrote up a pitch, and my story Forgotten Dreams was accepted and...
