Sarah Sward

Lynn Strong is joining us today to talk about their novel, Chai and Charmcraft. Here’s the publisher’s description: His Imperial Highness Faraj al-Nadhir has never thought himself a charming sort of prince. He’s shy, round, middle-aged, and always dutiful. But he has also secretly spent years dreaming of a man tending jasmine in a star-lit […]

Kirsten Kaschock is joining us today to talk about her novel, An Impossibility of Crows. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this daring and evocative tale, Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father. Just a stone’s throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small

Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Multitude. Here’s the publisher’s description: We float to the surface, and we see that there is more to the world than the ocean. We see stars. Then one day, we hear a song from far away. It could be nothing, a new dance of

Bernie Jean Schiebeling is joining us today to talk about their novel, House, Body, Bird. Here’s the publisher’s description: Birdie Goodbain, last of the House’s daughters, thought only the dolls were watching… Raised in her family’s dollhouse museum, Birdie grew up surrounded by models of perfect daughters that she could never be, haunted by a

Nicole Glover is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Starseekers. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the 1960s, the world was caught up in reaching beyond our planet and into the cosmos. It felt impossible—but there was nothing science, math…and magic couldn’t make possible. The race to space was on, and the Moon

K.L. Schroeder is joining us today to talk about their novel, No One to Hold the Distant Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming ecological disaster. But by the time she arrives, the catastrophic degradation of the planet’s terraformed environment has already

Justin C. Key is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Hospital at the End of the World. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a time not so far from our own, society is run by a global AI system controlled by an all powerful corporation. The Shepherd Organization oversees every medical school in the

Alexander Verbeek-van den Toren is joining us today to talk about his novel, Corruption. Here’s the publisher’s description: Trapped on an island, surrounded by lava…with a secret. When their ability to connect to the magical Flow disappears, Revan and the other students at his college’s island are stranded, surrounded by fiery seas separating habitable regions.

Holly Seddon is joining us today to talk about her novel, 59 Minutes. Here’s the publisher’s description: uclear missile threat to South England. 59 minutes until impact. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a test. Carrie is a young mother desperate to reunite with her daughter. Frankie, newly pregnant, faces a romantic vacation that takes

Stewart Hotston is joining us today to talk about his novel, Project Hanuman. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Arcology, a pan galactic utopia where trillions live online, forever and in bliss, is missing. Praveenthi ‘Prab’ Saal, who tired of heaven and left for the real world and pilot Kercher, printed into a physical body to

Marie Lu is joining us today to talk about her novel, Red City. Here’s the publisher’s description: Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version

Juliet Brooks is joining us today to talk about her novel, A Far in Finance. Here’s the publisher’s description: When investment banker Miri is purposely trapped in Faerie by her client, the Princeling of the Faerie realm, she does what any normal 20-something would do: cries, makes jokes in denial, and worries loudly about her

Lynn is joining us today to talk about her novel, Haroun and the Study of Mischief. Here’s the publisher’s description: Venerable Haroun, the blind saluqi priest of the dog-headed god Yepuet, has come to the wild and collarless Tel-Bastet, the City of Cats, for an education in mischief. And Haroun has never met a crime of fashion