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Nikky Lee

5 days ago
4 min

10 Questions with Aaron Hodges

10 Questions with world traveler and fantasy and science fiction author Aaron Hodges.

Nikky Lee

Jan 5
7 min

10 Questions with Cage Dunn

Dedicated to a life as Fibber, Fabricator, and Teller-of-Tall-Tales, Cage Dunn writes Australian stories, urban, rural and outback on the...

Nikky Lee

Dec 11, 2020
5 min

10 Questions with Yvette Carol

Yvette Carol’s enduring love of mythology and fantasy fiction for children inspired her to write her novels, The Or’in of Tane, and The S...

Nikky Lee

Nov 29, 2020
6 min

10 Questions with Nick Marone

I caught up with sci-fi author Nick Marone to talk about the -punk genres and the many faces of science fiction.

Free Excerpt: Blood of the Sun by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray

Nikky Lee

Nov 24, 2020
8 min

Free Excerpt: Blood of the Sun by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray

Get a sneak peek at Rabarts and Murry's upcoming release, Blood of the Sun, the latest book in The Path of Ra series.

10 Questions with Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts (Part 2)

Nikky Lee

Nov 21, 2020
7 min

10 Questions with Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts (Part 2)

Part two of my interview with Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts, authors of The Path of Ra series.

10 Questions with Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts (Part 1)

Nikky Lee

Nov 20, 2020
7 min

10 Questions with Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts (Part 1)

I caught up with Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts, award-winning authors of the dark supernatural crime series The Path of Ra.

Nikky Lee

Nov 13, 2020
8 min

10 Questions with Aiki Flinthart

A chat with with author, black belt and weapons extrodinare, Aiki Flinthart on kick-ass women, portal fantasy and planets without iron.

Nikky Lee

Nov 6, 2020
4 min

10 Questions with Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon is African Australian, a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She’s author of Claiming T-Mo (Meer...

Nikky Lee

Oct 30, 2020
4 min

10 Questions with Jamie Sands

Jamie is a non-binary Kiwi who has always wondered ‘what if?’ They write stories about ghosts, monsters, love and how the world could be.

Nikky Lee

Oct 23, 2020
3 min

10 Questions with Chris Timms

When not practicing as a GP, Chris writes fantasy as a way to de-stress. His latest book is a genre-bending LitRPG Western.

Nikky Lee

Oct 6, 2020
3 min

10 Questions with Daniel Stride

Daniel writes both short stories and poetry; his first novel, steampunk-flavoured dark fantasy Wise Phuul, was published in November 2016.

Nikky Lee

Sep 22, 2020
5 min

10 Questions with Barbara Howe

Barbara grew up in a small city in the United States, where she was the first girl in her high school’s history to take machine shop—to t...

Nikky Lee

Sep 8, 2020
8 min

10 Questions with J J Mathews

James Jacob (J J) Mathews grew up with his nose stuck in books. Discover the story behind his sci-fi series the Taylor Neeran Chronicles.

Nikky Lee

Aug 2, 2020
9 min

10 Questions with Alf Fry

Writing sci-fi provides Kiwi author Alf Fry an outlet from work as a psychologist—and a way to challenge cultural assumptions in our time.

Nikky Lee

Aug 1, 2020
3 min

10 Questions with Nathan Rogers

By day Nathan Rogers is a software developer. By night he is . . . tired, mostly. But he writes as much as he can because he enjoys it.

Nikky Lee

Aug 1, 2020
4 min

10 Questions with Gareth Ward

Gareth Ward, AKA The Great Wardini, is a magician, hypnotist, storyteller, bookseller and multi award-winning YA steampunk author.

Nikky Lee

Jul 31, 2020
4 min

10 Questions with Robinne Weiss

Robinne Weiss is an educator and entomologist who has never been able to control her writing habit. She's published 10 books and counting!

Nikky Lee

Jul 30, 2020
4 min

10 Questions with Matt Norman

Matt P. Norman is a speculative fiction writer, whose debut novel is the wonderful, apocalyptic, zombie-filled Road Trip Z. Strap on in.

Nikky Lee

Jul 29, 2020
5 min

10 Questions with Nix Whittaker

New Zealander writer Nix Whittaker hails from the heart of the North Island where she lives and writes in the shadow of an active volcano.

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