Bridge of Storms Interview

Here's an interview I did with writer Robin CM Duncan recently for the website Gingernuts of Horror, marking the launch of new Mortal Engines adventure Bridge of Storms.

I'm always a bit surprised to think of myself as a horror writer, or even a horror-adjacent one: it's a genre I've always avoided, mainly because I don't like being scared.* But I guess there's a grey area between sci-fi/fantasy and horror, and into that grey area a lot of my stuff falls – Utterly Dark was very gothic, Shrike and his fellow Stalkers and Revenants in the Mortal Engines books are pretty gruesome, and the climax of the new book gets very grand guignol, as Tamzin comes up against the logical end-point of the idea of Stalkers (a notion I toyed with back in the original quartet, but never found a place for until now).

Anyway, Robin does a good interview, so please have a listen. And here's a link to Robin's website, with details about his own books. Thanks for having me, Horrifying Gingernuts!

Bridge of Storms is out on 12th Feb, and if you're thinking of picking up a copy, please do so this week - those first-week sales are very important! It looks like THIS:

(Cover art by Ian McQue, published by Scholastic)

*I can't watch horror movies, which is a bore, because that's what most movies seem to be these days. And I certainly couldn't make a horror movie, which is even more of a bore, because that's the only field in which no-budget films can sometimes break out and find an audience.

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