The release date is Valentine's Day 2019, but you can pre-order it now:
Kindle: https://amzn.to/
Adam Stemple sent me a wonderful and complex Japanese fantasy, "The Ghost of Lady Rei," for "Lace and Blade 3" but because of a change in publisher (and name) I wasn't able to include it. When I began work on this present volume, #5, I wrote to him inquiring whether the story was still available. It was, and I'm thrilled to be able to present it to our readers.
Adam Stemple sent me a wonderful and complex Japanese fantasy, "The Ghost of Lady Rei," for "Lace and Blade 3" but because of a change in publisher (and name) I wasn't able to include it. When I began work on this present volume, #5, I wrote to him inquiring whether the story was still available. It was, and I'm thrilled to be able to present it to our readers.
Deborah J. Ross: Tell
us a little about yourself. How did you come to be a writer?
Adam Stemple: Writing
is the family business. My mother and my siblings are all writers, and most of
my friends, as well.
DJR: What inspired
your story in Lace and Blade 5?
AS: The
characters in The Ghost of Lady Rei were existing characters
from two stories I had written for the now defunct speculative and historical
fiction magazine, Paradox. I had always wanted them to take a
trip to Edo, and was just waiting for a reason for them to go.
DJR: What authors
have most influenced your writing?
AS: I have
co-written eight novels with my mother, Jane Yolen, so I have certainly been
influenced a great deal by her. I also like to steal...er...borrow techniques
from crime writers like Elmore Leonard and Lawrence Block. I try to learn
something from everything I read.
DJR: What’s the
most memorable fan mail you’ve ever received?
AS: My first solo
novel, Singer of Souls, featured a main character who was a
heroin junkie. I received a call from a young man who had read my novel while
on a jobs program for recovering addicts and he said that my novel helped him
beat his heroin addiction.
