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Jack Skillingstead is joining us today with his novel The Chaos Function. Here’s the publisher’s description: Olivia Nikitas, a hardened journalist whose specialty is war zones, has been reporting from the front lines of the civil war in Aleppo, Syria. When Brian, an aid worker she reluctantly fell in love with, dies while following her into […]

Michael R. Johnston is joining us today to talk about his novel The Widening Gyre. Here’s the publisher’s description: Eight hundred years ago, the Zhen Empire discovered a broken human colony ship drifting in the fringes of their space. The Zhen gave the humans a place to live and folded them into their Empire as a

Dan Stout is joining us today to talk about his novel Titanshade. Here’s the publisher’s description: Carter’s a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It’s also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster. As its

Amber Royer is joining us today with her novel Pure Chocolate. Here is the publisher’s description: In a galaxy where chocolate is literally addictive, one celebrity chef is fighting back, in the delicious sequel to Free Chocolate To save everyone she loves, Bo Bonitez is touring Zant, home of the murderous, shark-toothed aliens who so recently tried

Dan Moren is joining us today to talk about his upcoming novel The Bayern Agenda. Here’s the publisher’s description: Simon Kovalic, top intelligence operative for the Commonwealth of Independent Systems, is on the frontline of the burgeoning Cold War with the aggressive Illyrican Empire. He barely escapes his latest mission with a broken arm, and vital

Keith R.A. DeCandido is joining us today with his novel A Furnace Sealed. Here’s the publisher’s description: Bram Gold is a Courser, a hunter-for-hire who deals with supernatural creatures, mystical happenings, and things that go booga-booga in the night. Under the supervision of the Wardein—his childhood friend Miriam Zerelli, who is in charge of all

Howard Andrew Jones is joining us today to talk about his novel For the Killing of Kings. Here’s the publisher’s description: Their peace was a fragile thing, but it had endured for seven years, mostly because the people of Darassus and the king of the Naor hordes believed his doom was foretold upon the edge of

Alison Wilgus is joining us today with her graphic novel Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back. Here’s the publisher’s description: 2042, New York City: A day in the life of college student Mirai Yoshida means studying Japanese history, learning swordmanship, flirting with her TA, and preparing to travel to Japan in 1864. Everything

Micah Dean Hicks is joining us today to talk about his novel Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones. Here’s the publisher’s description: Swine Hill was full of the dead. Their ghosts were thickest near the abandoned downtown, where so many of the town’s hopes had died generation by generation. They lingered in the places that mattered to

Charlie N. Holmberg is joining us today to talk about her new book Smoke and Summons. Here’s the publisher’s description: As a human vessel for an ancient spirit, Sandis lives no ordinary life. At the command of her master, she can be transformed against her will into his weapon—a raging monster summoned to do his bidding.

David Niall Wilson is joining us today with his novel A Midnight Dreary. Here’s the publisher’s description: A Midnight Dreary, the long-awaited fifth volume in The DeChance Chronicles, picks up outside Old Mill, NC, when Donovan, reminded that he has promised his lover, Amethyst, and Geoffrey Bullfinch of the O.C.L.T. a story, draws them back in

Django Wexler is joining us today to talk about his novel Ship of Smoke and Steel. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ship of Smoke and Steel is the launch of Django Wexler’s cinematic, action-packed epic fantasy Wells of Sorcery trilogy. In the lower wards of Kahnzoka, the great port city of the Blessed Empire, eighteen-year-old ward boss

David Mack is joining us today to talk about his novel The Iron Codex. Here is the publisher’s description: New York Times bestselling author David Mack’s Dark Arts series continues as the wizards of World War II become the sorcerers of the Cold War in this globe-spanning spy-thriller sequel to The Midnight Front. 1954: Cade Martin, hero of

Ed Crowell is joining us today to talk about his graphic novel The Jekyll Island Chronicles: A Devil’s Reach, written with Steve Nedvidek, illustrated by Moses Nester. Here’s the publisher’s description: The thrills continue in this critically acclaimed diesel-punk graphic novel series set in a sci-fi version of the early 20th century! At the beginning of

Shaun Barger is joining us today to talk about his novel Mage Against the Machine. Here’s the publisher’s description: Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie. The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the