Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Rachel: Alex Grass is an independent horror author here to give you nightmares forever. Alex, tell us a little about your creative work. Alex: Imagine David Cronenberg and Clive Barker smoking bath salts together…
Wrong Genre Covers
The Divine Comedy as a bathroom joke book was suggested by Dale. Have a funny idea for a Wrong Genre Cover? Email us at nightbeatseu@gmail.com, and if Rachel likes your suggestion, she’ll make it in a future issue. Or @ us on basically any of the socials.
Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: Crystal AJ Smith’s novel has been described as a fable, winding together all-too-real issues of the lack of justice for murders of Indigenous women and the need to find strength in community with…
Book Report Corner
by Zilla Novikov “This hell on earth killed the women and broke the men.” Hillbilly Grit by Marynell Autry opens with violence and transitions to acceptance. Recovery, for those who can recover. Life goes on because that’s what life does. It clenches its teeth, steels its nerve, and milks the cows or sews a new…
Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: For fans of the dark and horrifying, we have Konn Lavery here! A Canadian author, Konn wrote Necroflora, which you can find in Spud Publishing’s Sequel anthology. Konn, tell us about your story!…
Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: A star-crossed love—or in this case, a Star-Crossed Alliance—always gets our attention, and Monica Goertzen Hertlein has just the thing for us! She’s here to talk about her romantic science fiction novel—so Monica,…
Cold Blooded is a Self-Published Science Fiction Competition semi-finalist!
Cold Blooded by Rohan O’Duill has made it into the Semi-finals (last 10) of the Self Publishing Science Fiction Competition for 2026. This year’s event is adjudicated by 5 groups of volunteer judges and the winners will be announced in September. The full list of books still in contention can be found here.
Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: Matt Maxwell’s series defies easy explanation. Haunted houses, memories of Los Angeles, and a girl who wants to feel something real, trapped between life and un-life. This might be an impossible question, but…
Wrong Genre Covers
Song of Achilles as a “cheesy mantitty romance cover” was suggested by Magpie. Have a funny idea for a Wrong Genre Cover? Email us at nightbeatseu@gmail.com, and if Rachel likes your suggestion, she’ll make it in a future issue. Or @ us on basically any of the socials.
Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: It’s time for a new take on old classics. We have Claris Lam back with us, this time to tell us about her fairy tale retellings in her anthology Found. Claris, it’s great…
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Big News in the Extended Universe
Cascade, the first novel of the Sleep of Reason trilogy, signed with BumblePuppy Press. Which means that the first novel in the Night Beats extended universe is going to be published. Which is rad af.
Details about the Goya print are available via Wikipedia, as is the image. There’s also a fantastic song about it by Billy Bragg. And very soon a Weird fantasy novel.
Night Beats Extended Universe 