What are you working on next?
I am currently revising my mammoth Fantasy novel The Stealer of Names. This is really the main work about the Six Cities that "Dragontongue" and all those short stories float around. New things I am working on include a series of novellas about Torel the Gelt as well as some new Book Collector tales. After that, I'll be editing Jack Mackenzie's next SF novel (out this summer!)
Who are your favorite authors?
That's an awfully long list, but to pick some key writers in different genres: horror - H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Hope Hodgson. In Fantasy - Robert E. Howard, J. R. R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance. In Adventure - Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. R. Haggard. In Western - Louis L'Amour, Chad Oliver. In Hard-boiled Mystery - Fredric Brown, Cornell Woolrich, Dash Hammett, Raymond Chandler. In other forms of Mystery - John Dickson Carr, Leslie Charteris, Rex Stout. In Historical - Michael Curtis Ford, Howard Fast, Harold Lamb. In ..... you get the idea.
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