Bookspotcentral interview with Carlos J Cortes

The interviewer opened with:

Carlos J. Cortes’s debut novel, Perfect Circle, is one that is so polished and exciting you might expect it to have been written by someone with many more novels under his belt. It’s a novel that, as the back of the book states, “asks if man and nature are fated to clash - or if the right man can break the cycle.”

I was impressed with the book’s tightly wrought narrative, the suspenseful fast pace of the plot, and the realistically motivated characters enough to ask Carlos if he would grant me the privilege of doing an interview with him, and I and the staff at BSC are pleased that he kindly agreed to my request. And now, on to the questions . . .

You can read the complete interview at:

http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2009/01/on-the-spot-at-bookspot-central-carlos-j-cortes-interview/

Future review of Perfect Circle

I've just heard from Dell Magazines that PERFECT CIRCLE will be reviewed in June 2009 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction.

Sounds good, but I'm apprehensive. I thought Asimov's Science Fiction favored hard SF, and my cross-genre work doesn't fit into such a category. My writing is far closer to Lincoln & Child's. Still, we shall see.

I planned to advertise in the same issue, but after checking my depleted piggybank I shelved the idea until one of my novels hits The Times bestseller's list.

What do you mean by "Asimov Science Fiction will go broke if they have to wait that long"? Ye of little fath...