Brandie June is joining us today to talk about her novel, Gold Spun. Here’s the publisher’s description: If Nor can’t spin gold, she can always spin lies. When seventeen-year-old Nor rescues a captured faerie in the woods, he gifts her with a magical golden thread she can use to summon him for a favor. Instead, …
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When President Biden was elected, a lot of folks noticed that we share the same middle name — Robinette. Pretty much all Robinettes in the US are related. I’m an outlier, because I’m named after my grandmother, who is named after her father, who is named after the minister who married his parents. Basically any …
C.L. Polk is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Midnight Bargain. Here’s the publisher’s description: Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will cut off her powers to protect her unborn children. She dreams of becoming …
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You may download chapter one to read in .pdf or .epub or read the sample chapter below. I will say that of your options, the pdf is of the actual interior and is very, very pretty. The interior designer is Nicola Ferguson and I am particularly in love with the way she has the first page of each chapter …
Hurrah! I became a Level 50 Human today. I have soooooo been looking forward to hitting level 50. Why? Because as a woman, it’s already hard to be taken seriously. As a young woman… ugh. The sheer number of variations of “don’t worry your pretty little head” are super-annoying. But older women? They have this …
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Dan Koboldt is joining us today with his novel The Island Deception. Here’s the publisher’s description: What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. But what happens after you step through a portal to another world, well… For stage magician Quinn Bradley, he thought his time in Alissia was over. He’d done his job for …
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Mark Tompkins is joining us today to with his novel The Last days of Magic. Here is the publisher’s description: An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth. What became of magic in the world? Who …
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I’ve got some guests in from out of town and will have dinner with them tonight. I’m making an apricot chocolate tart, and I would share it with you, if I could. Since I can’t allow me to offer a party favour. It’s a novelette called “A Fire in the Heavens.” Now… if you are interested …
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This originally appeared in Talebones Magazine in 2009 and is the first appearance of Ginger Stuyvesant as a character. # A liveried manservant waited by the front stairs of Fairbairn Hall as if he expected to take the reins of a horse. Ginger stopped her roadster next to him, shaking her head. These Brits had …
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I am very, very pleased to announce that my short story, “For Want of a Nail” is on the Hugo ballot this year. I got to sit in the crowd at Norwescon and watch the Hugo nominations be announced, live. This was a lot of fun. Especially when my name went up on the screen …
Shades of Milk and Honey will be released on August 3rd, which is just a month away– not that I’m counting… To celebrate that, we’re releasing the first chapter as a sample. You may download it to read in .pdf or .epub or read the sample chapter below. I will say that of your options, the …
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