Journal

Jennifer Estep is joining us today to talk about her novel, Tear Down the Throne. Here’s the publisher’s description: How would you feel if you were falling for your greatest enemy, all while trying to save your kingdom from ruin? In the second book in the Estep’s new Gargoyle Queen series, crown princess and clever […]

Victoria Aveyard is joining us today to talk about her novel, Blade Breaker. Here’s the publisher’s description: The highly anticipated sequel to Realm Breaker is here and full of the twists, turns, magic, and page-turning action that fans of Victoria Aveyard have come to know and love. Get ready for the divided world that must rally to

Karen Heuler is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Splendid City. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears

Elizabeth Bear is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Origin of Storms. Here’s the publisher’s description: Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns with the stunning conclusion to her acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy, the Lotus Kingdoms. The Lotus Kingdoms are at war, with four claimants to the sorcerous throne of the Alchemical Emperor, fielding

Ed McDonald is joining us today to talk about his novel, Daughter of Redwinter. Here’s the publisher’s description: Those who see the dead soon join them. From the author of the critically-acclaimed Blackwing trilogy comes Ed McDonald’s Daughter of Redwinter, the first of a brilliant fantasy series about how one choice can change a universe.

Erica Friedman is joining us today to talk about her book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga. Here’s the publisher’s description: Two decades in the making, By Your Side is a collection of essays, scholarly and approachable, by the Western Hemisphere’s authority on the subject. This landmark work should

B.L. Blanchard is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Peacekeeper. Here’s the publisher’s description: North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don’t exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the village of Baawitigong, a Peacekeeper confronts his devastating past. Twenty years ago to

Francesco Dimitri is joining us today to talk about his novel, Never the Wind. Here’s the publisher’s description: 1996 – Luca Saracino is thirteen and has been completely blind for eight months when his parents move to a Southern Italian farmhouse they dream of turning into a hotel. With his brother dropping out of university and

Mar Romansco-Moore is joining us today to talk about their novel, I Am the Ghost in Your House. Here’s the publisher’s description: From the author of Some Kind of Animal comes a wildly unique story about an invisible girl struggling to see herself in a world obsessed with appearances. Pie is the ghost in your house. She is

William C. Tracy is joining us today to talk about the Kickstarter he’s running, Space Wizard Science Fantasy Year 1. Here’s the description: Space Wizard Science Fantasy is a new queer indie science fiction and fantasy publishing company, started by William C. Tracy. This year, it is putting out 12 new books, and funding them via

Sam J. Miller is joining us today to talk about his short-fiction collection, Boys, Beasts, and Men. Here’s the publisher’s description: In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection, featuring an introduction by Amal El-Mohtar, queer infatuation, inevitable heartbreak, and brutal revenge seamlessly intertwine. Whether innocent, guilty, or not even human, the boys,

Samit Basu is joining us today to talk about his novel, The City Inside. Here’s the publisher’s description: The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential

Veronica G. Henry is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Quarter Storm. Here’s the publisher’s description: A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her

Liz Michalski is joining us today to talk about her novel, Darling Girl. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic, to save her daughter’s life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out