The first time I met my brother-in-law was the day of the rehearsal for our wedding. I remember being on the front porch of the house and seeing them pull in. As they got out of the car, I immediately knew that this was Kevin because I could see lines of Rob in him, but […]
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Stina Leicht is joining us today to talk about her novel, Loki’s Ring. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making her
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Lavanya Lakshminarayan is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Ten Percent Thief. Here’s the publisher’s description: Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, one of the last bastions of civilization in a world ravaged by climate change. Governed by an insidious corporation, everything is decided by the mathematically precise Bell Curve. With optimal productivity,
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To settle on Mars, one of the big needs for effective space colonization will for HVAC. In this episode of interviewing experts, I talk to Kipp Bradford about how to creating and break HVAC on Mars. Over the past decade, Kipp has distinguished himself as a prolific high-tech innovator. With a penchant for creating new
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Jane Hennigan is joining us today to talk about her novel, Moths. Here’s the publisher’s description: A thrilling dystopia, in turns heart-breaking and heart-pounding Where were you at the beginning?Or at the end?And where are we all now?Forty years ago, the world changed. Toxic threads left behind by mutated moths infected men and boys around
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I talked to Dr. Thomas Wagner, who works for NASA, as part of my research for a new science fiction novel set on Mars. The fourth Lady Astronaut novel, The Martian Contingency, takes place on Mars about ten seconds after the end of Fated Sky. Of course something goes wrong, because it’s a novel, and
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Leopoldo Gout is joining us today to talk about his novel, Pinata. Here’s the publisher’s description: Mexican American architect and single mother Carmen Sánchez hopes a business trip to Mexico to oversee the transformation of an old cathedral into a posh hotel will be an opportunity for her daughters, Izel and Luna, to learn about
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Mia Tsai is joining us today to talk about her novel, Bitter Medicine. Here’s the publisher’s description: As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a magical calligrapher at the fairy temp agency. Meanwhile dreamy half-elf Luc, the agency’s top security expert,
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Rae Mariz is joining us today to talk about her novel, Weird Fishes. Here’s the publisher’s description: AN UNDERWATER TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AGAINST MONSTROUS ODDS When Ceph, a squid-like scientist, discovers proof of the ocean’s slowing currents, she makes the dangerous ascent from her deep-sea civilization to the uncharted surface above. Out of her depths and
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Jen Comfort is joining us today to talk about her novel, Midnight Duet Here’s the publisher’s description: From The Astronaut and the Star author Jen Comfort comes a wildly electric romance about two musicians who collide on the stage of a Nevada opera house. Self-professed diva Erika Greene has it all: a starring role on
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So often in life we’re presented with both-and situations. For me, February was both a difficult and a nourishing month. On the horribly difficult side, I unfortunately had to say goodbye to my sweet cat, Helix, after months of trying to bring him back to health. It was and remains incredibly hard, even though it was the
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Take a deep dive into various writing topics, hand-picked by my Patrons. Whether you want to overcome writing barriers or learn how to end your story, these 2-hour classes will cover a single topic in depth. All classes are taught via Zoom and cost $65 to attend*. They will be a two hour deep dive
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Michael Berry is joining us today to talk about his translation of the novel, HOSPITAL, by Han Song. Here’s the publisher’s description: A twisted, wildly imaginative tale of one man’s mysterious illness and his journey through a dystopian hospital system. When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he expects nothing more than a
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Kay Kenyon is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Girl Who Fell Into Myth. Here’s the publisher’s description: Yevliesza has been caring for her ailing father when she is summoned home to a world she has never seen. Using a hidden portal, she enters the realm of Numinat, a myth world arisen
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Mary Baader Kaley is joining us today to talk about her novel, Burrowed. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the distant future, a genetic plague has separated humanity in two – Subterraneans who live in underground burrows to protect their health, and strong surface-dwelling Omniterraneans. Zuzan Cayan, a brilliant Subter girl with “light blindness,” is about
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