The latest release from DMR Books is The Road to Infinity, a picaresque fantasy novel in the style of Jack Vance. I thought the public would want to know more about the man who wrote it, so here’s my Q&A session with Gael DeRoane.

What is it about Edgar Allan Poe? A writer of morbid poems and tales of terror who died 170 years ago, Poe stands today virtually without equal in the canon of American literature. Only Mark Twain and perhaps Ernest Hemingway can lay claim to anything like a similar stature in both critical opinion and popularity. Why should he be so central to our imagination now, in the 21st century?

We have a new feature here on the DMR Blog to give some exposure to independent fantasy authors. Kicking things off is Jason J. Nugent, whose first book in the Curse of the Drakku series comes out today. Read the interview, then go check it out!

“I have followed Caesar’s Commentaries as closely as possible in writing this story, but as Caesar, by his own showing, was a liar, a brute, a treacherous humbug and conceited ass, I have not been to much trouble to make him out a hero.”

Today marks what would have been the 89th birthday of Lin Carter, author, editor, and historian, and an altogether polarizing figure in fantasy fiction. Carter is perhaps best known today for his role as series editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.