BookBanter: Written Interviews Page 2

Written Interviews

	SINA GRACE Sina Grace is the illustrator for the book Among the Ghosts, written by Amber Benson. In this interview he talks about how he became an artist, who his art style is, what it was like working with Amber Benson, and what he's working on next.
	ANDREW GROSS Andrew Gross is the bestselling author of Reckless, Don't Look Twice, The Dark Tide, and The Blue Zone. He has also co-authored a number of bestsellers with thriller-writing machine, James Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard.
	PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patrick Rothfuss is the bestselling author of The Name of the Wind, the first book in the great Kingkiller Chronicles trilogy. Now, in the great follow-up, Wise Man's Fear, he continues to incredible adventures of Kvothe the arcanist. In the interview he talks about how he became a writer, how long it took him to write The Name of the Wind, whether he will be writing more in this world beyond the trilogy, and who he would be if he could live in his world.
	ROBERT J. SAWYER Robert J. Sawyer has won just about every award there is in the genre of science fiction. He is the author of the novel Flashforward, which the TV series was based on, and has just completed his WWW trilogy with Wonder .Robert was first interviewed on BookBanter on July 11, 2009 shortly after the release of Wake. You can listen to the first interview here.
	ROBERT M. DURLING Robert M. Durling is Professor Emeritus at University of California at Santa Cruz. He received his Ph D. from Harvard and taught at Haverford College, Cornell University, and University of California at Santa Cruz. He is most known for his incredibly detailed, accurate and literal translation and editing of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy with Ronald L. Martinez. In the interview, Durling talks about what he likes most about teaching, how he learned Italian, why he decided to translate The Divine Comedy, and more importantly how. He also reveals what he likes to do in his spare time, who he likes to read, and whether he's done with Dante's opus.
	KAT FALLS Kat Falls received her MFA from Northwestern University and now teaches there. She is the author of Dark Life, the first in a great new series set in the near future where climate change has caused the seas to rise, and her characters live in underwater towns, except some of those who were born underwater and know only of this ocean world seem to have developed some unusual abilities. In the interview, Kat Falls talks about how she got started writing, where she got the idea for Dark Life, what sort of research it required, how many books there will be in the series, what she likes to do in her spare time and more.
	JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS John Joseph Adams has been called "the reigning king of the anthology world" by Barnes & Noble.com, and has published such great and bestselling anthologies as Brave New Worlds, Living Dead, Living Dead 2, By Blood We Live, and many more. He has been nominated for the 2011 Best Editor (Short Form) Hugo Award. He is the editor for Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. He is also the co-host for the podcast, The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. In the interview he talks about how he got started as an editor, how the whole process works, some forthcoming projects he's working on, as well as what his "dream anthology" would be.
	MIRA GRANT Mira Grant is the pseudonym of New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire. She is the author of the Newsflesh Trilogy, the first two books of which have been released, with Feed and Deadline. Seanan McGuire was first interviewed on BookBanter on September 1st, 2009; you can listen to it here. Mira Grant was first interviewed on BookBanter in April of 2010; you can read the interview here . In the interview, Grant talks about how she goes about doing research, how she and Seanan McGuire get along, what else McGuire is working on, and some very important final words.
	JAMES ROLLINS James Rollins is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Excavation, Amazonia, and his popular Sigma series, including Black Order, and The Doomsday Key. He has been interviewed on BookBanter previously, which you can listen to here. In this interview, he talks about the story behind The Devil Colony, what research it required, how much traveling he did for the locations mentioned in the book, as well as when we might be getting some answers about who The Guild really are.
	SIMON PEGG Simon Pegg needs little introduction. Known for the TV show Spaced, the hugely successful zombie flick Shaun of the Dead, the hilarious Hot Fuzz, as well as playing the part of Scotty on J. J. Abram's Star Trek, and most recently in Paul.. He is also the author of the very entertaining biography, Nerd do Well. . In this interview, Pegg talks about a wide range of things both interesting and unsual, but ultimately hilarious! It is up to you to decipher which are factual and which are Simon Pegg doing what he does best.