As part of Five Rivers’ continuing series of Google+ Hangouts, Lorina Stephens interviewed Immunity to Strange Tales author, Susan Forest.

Seven lucky people will have an opportunity to chat with Susan Forest in a Google+ Hangout that will stream to Five Rivers’ YouTube channel, on Friday, July 6, 2012, 1:30 PM ET. How to participate? If you don’t already have a Google+ account, sign up. Add Lorina Stephens to your circle of friends and then send me message. The first seven people will be added to the Hangout with Susan Forest Circle and be invited…

Susan Forest, author of Immunity to Strange Tales, will be doing a Twitterview with publisher Lorina Stephens, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 2:00 P.M. ET. A Twitterview is an interview that takes place on Twitter, in 140 character bursts, usually under a hashtag to make it easier for Twitts to follow. In this case the Twitterview will broadcast under the hashtag #5RTwitterview. The first segment of the Twitterview is a question and answer session between…

Another of the books Five Rivers releases August 1, 2012, and launching at When Words Collide, is Susan Forest’s polished and fascinating collection of short, speculative fiction, Immunity to Strange Tales. We asked Susan to spend some time with us, and what follows is the result of that conversation. Susan Forest Lorina: You come at speculative fiction from a literary sensibility. Is that a conscious choice, or does it have more to do with your…