Note sull'episodio
For this episode best-selling author K'wan Foye sits down with TW Creative Director John Vogel to talk about his new book, House of the Rising Sun (Akashic Books, 2026). K’wan Foye gained major publishing attention after the success of his first novel, Gangsta (Triple Crown Publications, 2002), led to the beginning of a run with St. Martin’s Press, releasing over a dozen books. He has since authored over two dozen bestsellers, including the Animal series from Iceberg Slim’s Simon and Schuster imprint, Cash Money Content, and the Black Lotus series from Akashic Books.
While Gangsta was a gritty and somewhat realistic novel, K’wan started out writing stories with more of a supernatural bent. Being adopted by mainstream publishing, he was originally pigeonholed into thriller and crime drama. When he took a detour with Black Lotus, incorporating horror and the supernatural, his publishers weren’t having it.
Luckily, K’wan linked up with Akashic Books, who were excited to give his Black Lotus books a publishing home, leading to a very successful two-book release.
House of the Rising Sun also veers into the domain of horror and a hinted-at backstory that would be at home in old kung-fu movies. It represents the first book of K’wan’s Brotherhood of Blood series. One month after its release, K'wan put out Troubleman with Auwa Books, Questlove’s imprint under Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.