Interview with the Devil (the introductory story in Lawyers in Hell)

Lawyers in HellInterview with the Devil
(the introductory story in Lawyers in Hell)

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
– Mark Twain

Satan was fuming, literally, when I was escorted into his office on the top floor of New Hell’s Hall of Injustice by Marilyn Monroe in a tight red knit dress.  Aside from the devil and his desk, the huge place was empty from corbeled, cobwebby rafters to filthy marble floor.  The whole office reeked of smoke.  Wisps of gray smoke curled upward from his big black leathery wings, his wide maw, and leaked between his glittering fangs.  His yellow eyes burned into whatever soul I have left, and hurt.

Authors’ Commentary on “Interview with the Devill”

Lawyers in Hell Authors’ Commentary on
»Interview with the Devil,«
 the introductory story in Lawyers in Hell

zur deutschen Übersetzung We didn’t expect to end up in hell.  But then, no one ever does.  And we’d been in hell before, for many years, conceiving, editing, and writing stories for our legendary Heroes in Hell™ series of shared-world anthologies and novels.

Then Wikipedia created a Heroes in Hell™ (HIH) page and exported it to Facebook.  So now the HIH series has a Facebook page.  We thought, innocently enough, that we’d put a few messages there, since we were writing The Sacred Band of Stepsons series again, to direct fans to the Facebook page for our first novel in twenty years, The Sacred Band.  Little did we know that the Heroes in Hell™ Facebook page is a portal to hell itself.

Zauberspiegel presents: Janet, Tempus and Hell

janet, Tempus and HellZauberspiegel presents:
Janet, Tempus and Hell

In the last few and in the forthcoming weeks we've presented and will present a lot of interviews, articles and stories around Janet and Chris Morris and their works on Tempus Thales and Heroes in Hell (with the latest incarnation of the series "Lawyers in Hell").
 
On this page you will find a collection of all the Links on this great series.
 
You'll find the way to all interviews with Janet and Chris, the one with Tempus by the Zauberspiegel-crew and the two interviews with questions, asked by  Zauberspiegel-readers.

In addition there is (the German version) of a short portrait of Janet. And the forthcoming links of the presentation of the shared world anthology "Lawyers in Hell".
 

Readers ask ... ... Janet und Chris Morris, as well as Tempus Thales and (a bit) Nicodemus (Part 2)

Leser fragen ... Janet und Chris Morris Readers ask ...
... Janet und Chris Morris, as well as Tempus Thales and (a bit) Nicodemus
(Part 2)

Zur deutschen Übersetzung We already have had an q&a on wednesday with Janet and Chris Morris as well as Tempus Thales. But our readers are curious, too.

We have called our readers, to ask question at the writers and Tempus Thales. This has been very successful. Janet, Chris and Tempus responded. Here is the result ...

Into the “international business” - The view over the “rim”

Zauberwort - The editorialInto the “international business”
The view over the “rim”

zur deutschen Version Each Bundesliga (national soccer league in Germany) coach is pleased when his team successfully jumps into the so-called “international business” (the qualification for the Champions league or the Euro-League).  Editors of commercial/non-commercial magzines see and handle this differently (usually) as each one revolves mostly around regional sensitivities.

Looking beyond national borders? Rare.

Everybody is talking about “globalization” although not usually magazines.  We are here to change that.  We have entered the international arena.

... Allan Gilbreath from Kerlak Publishing on speculative fiction and publishing in the US

Allan Gilbreath ... Allan Gilbreath ...
... from Kerlak Publishing
on speculative fiction and publishing in the US

zur deutschen Übersetzung Being a small publisher seems to be a real (ad)venture. If so, Allan Gilbreath is on a longterm-adventure. He is the founder of Kerlak Publishing, a small publisher in the US, actively supporting several cons in his "private identity", writes himself in a group of authors called "Hellions" ...
 
With Kerlak, Allan Gilbreath tries to be slightly different from the rest of the bookmarket. A bold statement that made me curious to find out, if Kerlak can life up to this statement. But see for yourself:
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