Micro-interviews (#59)

As usual, we followed up the release of TFF issue #59 with micro-interviews with many of the authors and artists, that were posted to social media over the next few weeks. For convenience, we're collecting the links to these posts here.

• Anshritha, author of the poem “You Are Whole”
• Cécile Matthey, illustrator of the poem “he kindly danced for me”
• Devin Miller, author of the poem “Armor”
• Naethen Pais, author and illustrator of “The Abridged Excerpts from the Diary of a Corpse”
• J.D. Harlock, author of the poem “he kindly danced for me”
• Toeken, illustrator of “A Luxury Like Hope”
• Katherine Shats, author of “How to Tell Your Husband You’re a Werewolf”
• Jamie Lackey, author of “The Avlina Flower’s Magic”
• Alexandra Grunberg, author of “Archive of the Inexplicable and Dangerous”
• Clark Lewis, author of “The Devil Hunters of Fawn Street”
• Dr T. Eratopo, illustrator of “You Are Whole”

Keep an eye on FB or Twitter for new micro-interviews as they appear, and other TFF news. We'll also try to keep this post up to date if we add anything further.

Mini-interviews for issue #58

Looks like I forgot to post these here before now! We have a series of micro-interviews (just a couple of questions, and short answers) with most of the authors and artists in TFF #58, posted in full over on FB; we also cross-link to these on Twitter when we remember, so if you follow us in either of those places you'll probably catch most of these.

• Mary Soon Lee, author of the poem “Not for Sale, Used Asteroid, One Owner”
• L.E. Badillo, illustrator of “Desolation Corner”
• Shelly Jones, author of the poem “Of Weeds and Witches”
• Katharine A. Viola, illustrator of “The Mountain's Wife”
• Nicasio Andres Reed, author of “The Derelict”
• Fluffgar, illustrator of “Not for Sale, Used Asteroid, One Owner”
• William Squirrell, author of “Desolation Corner”
• E. Saxey, author of the poem “Until a Hundred Generations of People Have Departed”
• Sarah Salcedo, author and illustrator of “Stitched”
• Jennifer R. Donohue, author of “The Mountain's Wife”
• Cécile Matthey, illustrator of “Until a Hundred Generations of People Have Departed” (and cover artist)

If you want to read the stories and poems before you get potentially spoiled in any of the interviews, you'll find them all in this issue.

Author and artist micro-interviews: TFF 56

So that no one forgets the unconditional struggle for a better world

We have been running short interviews (two questions, one line answers) with many of the authors and artists whose work appeared in TFF #56, to find out a bit more about what went into their stories, poems and illustrations. And just to have a little chat—we don't do enough of that at the moment!

For those of you who won't follow us on FB (or Twitter, where we also cross-post links to these mini-interviews from time to time) here is a collection of the posts that have appeared so far:

• Ashley Bao, author of the poem “How to Dismantle a Defective Sex Droid”
• Gwen C. Katz, illustrator of “Gendered Anatomy”
• Lynne Sargent, author of the poem “The Risk of Embarking”
• Josep Lledó, illustrator of “Rain on St Andrew’s Night”
• Lam Ning, author of “k.a. (birthright)”
• Katharine A. Viola, illustrator of “The Risk of Embarking”
• Ana Gardner, author of the poem “Rain on St Andrew’s Night”
• Cécile Matthey, illustrator of “The Listener”
• Laura Cranehill, author of the poem “Rumours of Women”
  

We'll add more links here as the interviews go up, or you can see them as they go past by liking or following TFF on FB. If you have any follow-up questions for the authors and artists, feel free to ask them (there or here) and we'll pass them on.

Mini-interviews with authors and artists of #55

As usual, we’ve been running tiny interviews with the author and illustrators of the stories and poems in TFF #55. We ask a couple of questions, they give short answers of not much more than a sentence or two, and we post them to FB along with links back to the stories over a couple weeks. In case you’re not a follower of thefuturefire over there, we’ve compiled list of links to the interviews here. (More will be added as they appear the next few days.)

• Davian Aw, author of the poem “Time Traveller’s Memory”
  
• Cécile Matthey, illustrator of “Mijara’s Freedom”
  
• Danielle Jorgenson-Murray, author of “The Good Hawks”
• Valeria Vitale, illustrator of “Neith and Her Women”
• Jennifer R. Donohue, author of “Know They Will Die under the Salt of It”
  
• Rachel Linn, illustrator of “Time Traveller’s Memory”
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew, author of “We Will Become as Monsters”
  
• Toeken, illustrator of “Scaled Soul”
  
• Fiona M. Jones, author and photographer of the poem “Oak Tree”
• Gerri Leen, author of the poem “Neith and Her Women”
• Fluffgar, illustrator of “Know They Will Die under the Salt of It”
• Eleanor Glewwe, author of “Mijara’s Freedom”
• Gwen C. Katz, illustrator of “The Good Hawks”
• Rhianwen Phillips, author of “Scaled Soul”

If you want to see these interviews as they come along, you can “like” or follow thefuturefire’s page on FB, or follow @thefuturefire on Twitter, where we’ll try to post these links from time to time as well.

TFF #53 Microinterviews

As usual we followed the release of TFF #53, the LIIIES issue, with mini-interviews with each of the authors and artists over on Fb. For those of you who don’t book the face, I’ve collected all the links so far in this post, and will add anything else that comes up as it appears. Please feel free to ask any other questions you’d like the authors to answer in the comments, and we’ll do our best to get them to look at them…

• Fabio Fernandes, reviewer of “The Birth of Free Will”
• Michael M. Jones, reviewer of “Ambiguity Sky”
• Djibril Ayad, author of “Wickchester University Library special collections”
• Gwen C. Katz, reviewer of “Surradia: Portrait of Three Women with an Owl” and cover artist
• J. Moufawad-Paul, reviewer of “Velocity of Inertia”
• Djibril Ayad, reviewer of “Lake Wildwood”
• Ari Kaness, author of “The Tildenville Skeleton”
• J. Rama Stephens, author of “Retrospective on Sepulveda Baron”
• Valeria Vitale, reviewer of “Non sorrideva mai”
• Djibril Ayad, author of “Profile of Octavia Flora Fabian”

For more micro-interviews, reviews, and other games please feel free to “like” or follow the TFF Fb page or Twitter accounts, where we'll post things like this as often as we can.

Micro-interviews with TFF #52 contributors

We’re posting a series of mini-interviews (2–4 questions, short answers) with the artists, poets and authors of works in TFF #52 this month. We still have a few to go, but here are the pieces we’ve posted so far, in case you don't follow us on the Fakeboox. I'll add more below as they arrive!

• Aurelia Gonzalez, author of “The Wasteland Review” 
• Rachel Linn, illustrator of “Spare the Fire, Spoil the Brute”
• Shelly Jones, author of “The Lime Monster”
• Valeria Vitale, illustrator of “Eden”
• Julie Reeser, author of “The Third Angel Poured”
• Toeken, illustrator of “Lost”
• Malena Salazar Maciá, author of “La ruta de la sal” (translated as "Salt in Her Kiss")
• Grace P. Fong, illustrator of “Pleiades for a New Generation”
• Gerri Leen, author of the poem “Spare the Fire, Spoil the Brute”
• Cécile Matthey, illustrator of “The Wasteland Review”
• Stephen Whitehead, author of the poem “Eden”
• Katharine A. Viola, illustrator of “The Third Angel Poured
• Stefani Cox, author of the poem “Lucky Fact”
• Adele Gardner, author of the poem “Lost”

Don't forget to check out all the stories and poems of quiet resistance in this issue, and the beautiful illustrations alongside them, at futurefire.net/2020.52.

Mini-interviews with TFF #51 authors and artists

We have conducted our signature very short interviews with some of the artists, authors and poets in TFF issue #51. The questions and answers are posted on FB, but I’ll also list the interviews here as they appear, because I know you don't all follow us over there.

1. Lisa Cai, author of “Earthgazing”
2. Saleha Chowdhury, illustrator of “Riddles of Lunacy” and cover artist
3. Katrina Smith, author of “Hysteria”
4. Toeken, illustrator of “Billie the Dragon Slayer”
5. Misha Penton, author of “Shore Pines and Spider Silk”
6. Jennifer Bushroe, author of the poem “Through the Dark, Persephone Speaks”
7. Tannara Young, author of “First Breath after Drowning”
8. Rachel Linn, illustrator of “Inanition”
9. Eva Papsoulioti, author of the poem “Daughter”
10. Alexandra Grunberg, author of “Billie the Dragon Slayer”
11. Rufina Jinju Kang, author of the poem “Riddles of Lunacy”
12. Kate Kastelein, author of “Inanition” 
13. Cécile Matthey, illustrator of “Daughter” 
    

If you do want to see these as they pop up, and other announcements and chats over on the longer-form social media, you can like or follow the TFF FB page. (As you probably know, we’re more active on Twitter.)

TFF #50 author and artist microinterviews

As you may know, after each issue of TFF we like to post a series of micro-interviews with the authors and artists—just a couple of questions each, and short answers of 2–3 sentences. Because not all of you use or follow FB where these go up in the first instance, I’ll collect here links to a few of the posts as they go past. I'll try to keep it updated. It’s always fun to read what people have to say about their own work, and what else they’re up to in the meantime.

• Rebecca Buchanan, author of the poem “Not a Princess but (Yes) There Was a Pea”
• L.E. Badillo, illustrator of “My Plastic Heart, My Metal Hand”
• M.L. Clark, author of “And You Will Know Us by Our Monsters”
• Rachel Linn, illustrator of “Fairest of All”
• A.Z. Louise, author of the poem “Germination”
• Grace P. Fong, illustrator of “The Furious Chisel”
• Jo M. Thomas, author of “Goodbye, Snow Child”
• Carmen Moran, illustrator of “Not a Princess but (Yes) There Was a Pea”
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew, author of “Where Machines Run with Gold”
• Valeria Vitale, illustrator of “And You Will Know Us by Our Monsters”
• Ada Hoffmann, author of “Fairest of All”
• Martin Hanford, illustrator of “Germination”
• Jeana Jorgensen, author of the poem “Walking on Knives”
• Cécile Matthey, illustrator of “Goodbye, Snow Child”
• D.H. Kelly, author of “The Furious Chisel”

If you have any questions for any of these artists, poets or authors, or would like to say anything nice about their work, please feel free to leave a comment below this post, and we’ll make sure it gets seen.

Micro-interviews with TFF #47 authors

After each issue of TFF comes out, we run a series of very short interviews (about two questions, one line answers) with each of the authors and artists on social media. We’re in the middle of the series at the moment, and in case you don't follow us on Fakebooc, I’ll collect the links here (in no particular order). We try to give a teaser of the stories, poems or illustrations, and give the creators a chance to promote what else they’re working on while we’re there.

• Meghan Cruikshank, author of “Six Kilometers Around”
• Carmen Moran, illustrator of “Uniform of War”
• Isabelle Sanders, author of “The Woman in the Pool”
• Hayley Stone, author of the poem “Results of Your Quiz: Which Survivor of the Trojan War Are You?”
• Saleha Chowhury, illustrator of “Ashen Wings and Lightless Skies” and cover artist
• Rufina Jinju Kang, author of the poem “A 구미호 Invites a Soucouyant to a Picnic”
• Brian Olszewski, author of “Last Address”
• Harry Pauff, author of “Uniform of War”
• Katharine A. Viola, illustrator of “Results of Your Quiz: Which Survivor of the Trojan War Are You?” 
• Amelia Sirina, author of “Ashen Wings and Lightless Skies”

We’ll add the rest as they show up.

Please feel free to like or share the posts, spread the word about the interviews or the stories, comment over on FB or on the issue post if you come across anything you particularly like.

Making Monsters Micro-interviews round-up

The month-long Making Monsters promo carnival ended last week, having seen a dozen or so interviews and guest posts, various games and giveaways on social media, a launch party in London with monster costumes and a monumentally impressive cake sculpted into a facsimile of the book cover!

We also ran a micro-interview (2-3 questions, short answers) with one of the authors or contributors almost every day. Because I know FB isn't always the easiest platform to navigate back several weeks, I've gathered links to all of the micro-interviews below.

• Annegret Märten
• Tom Johnstone
• Mathilde Skoie
• Liz Gloyn
• Hûw Steer
• Misha Penton
• Valentine Wheeler
• Valeria Vitale
• Danie Ware
• L. Chan
• Barbara Davies
• George Lockett
• Catherine Baker
• Rachel Bender
• Neil James Hudson
• Maria Anastasiadou
• Djibril al-Ayad
• Hester J. Rook
• Barbara Hunt
• Robin Kaplan
• Margrét Helgadóttir
• Alexandra Grunberg
• Hannah Silverblank
• Megan Arkenberg
• Emma Bridges

Please share or comment on anything you particularly enjoy, feel free to post follow-up questions (there or here), or respond to any of the stories or essays if you've already read the anthology. (And if you haven't buy it here!)

#FaeVisions Giveaway

To celebrate the release of the Fae Visions of the Mediterranean anthology of horrors and wonders, we’re going to give you a chance to win a copy just by sharing your dreams or fears of the Mediterranean on social media.

The rules:

Post on Twitter or Facebook, before midnight on May 31st, 2016, using the #FaeVisions hashtag in either case, some text or image that evokes your dream or fear about the Mediterranean. The post may be beautiful or terrible, may be personal or universal, may be autobiographical or fictional. A dream or nightmare, a holiday photograph, a news item. There’s lots to say about the Mediterranean—and you can say it in as few words (or images) as you like! (You do not need to reply or tag us in the post, just include "#FaeVisions" in the text; we’ll follow the hashtag and spot it that way.)

The Prizes:

For every ten people who post a Mediterranean vision on the hashtag between now and the end of the month, we'll give away one copy of the e-book of Fae Visions (in the format of your choice) to a randomly selected poster.

If 20 people take part before the deadline, we will also give a copy of the trade paperback of Fae Visions to one randomly selected poster.

If 50 people take part before the deadline, we will give two copies of the paperback to randomly selected posters.

If 100 people take part, we will give three copies of the paperback to randomly selected posters, one of whom will also receive any one other Futurefire.net anthology of their choice.

For example, if 100 people were to enter the giveaway, the prizes would include:

• 1 x Fae Visions paperback + any other anthology
• 2 x Fae Visions paperback
• 10 x Fae Visions e-book

Small print: this is a fun giveaway not a contest or a raffle: entrants will not be judged, no purchase or other expenditure is required to enter, no cash alternative will be offered and no correspondence will be entered into. Authors and editors of the anthology may join the fun, but will not be eligible for prizes.