Sarah Sward

Aamir Hussain is joining us today to talk about his novel, Under the Full and Crescent Moon. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a battle of words and beliefs, a young woman must defend her city against zealotry during the Islamic Golden Age. After his long-time scribe retires, Khadija’s father, the city’s leading jurist, offers his […]

Lucy Black is joining us today to talk about her novel, A Quilting of Stars. Here’s the publisher’s description: Filled with the pleasure of recognizable yet distinctively original characters and a deftly drawn sense of time and place, A Quilting of Scars brings to life a story of forbidden love, abuse and murder. Pulsing with repressed sexuality

Shona Kinsella is joining us today to talk about her novel, Daughters of Nicnevin. Here’s the publisher’s description: Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers face threats from both the Black Watch and raiders, and

Beth Cato is joining us today to talk about her novel, A House Between Sea and Sky. Here’s the publisher’s description: In 1920s California, two people in need of healing find strange refuge in a house with a mind of its own in an enthralling fantasy by the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge. Grieving

D.M. Beucler is joining us today to talk about her novel, Memory and Magic. Here’s the publisher’s description: Tamsin learned caution the hard way, spending a year in the king’s jail under suspicion of using illegal blood magic. Now she’s scrounging a living as a laundress in the Narrows, the poorest ring of the three

Jes Honard & Marie Parks are joining us today to talk about their novel, Undeniable. Here’s the publisher’s description: A lifeless body awaiting immortality. Magic that erodes a sister’s identity. Enemies bent on retribution. Bridget has saved her sister, Dahlia, from imprisonment. But their reunion has come with enormous costs. Their friend was murdered in

Seamus Sullivan is joining us today to talk about his novel, Daedalus is Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: A delirious and gripping story of fatherhood and masculinity, told through the reimagined Greek myth of Daedalus, Icarus, King Minos, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. Daedalus of Crete is many things: The greatest architect in the world. The

Ann Cavlovic is joining us today to talk about her novel, Count on Me. Here’s the publisher’s description: Count on Me exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface. Tia is raising a baby when her older brother Tristan gradually takes over their ailing parents’ bank account,

Martin Cahill is joining us today to talk about his novel, Audition for the Fox. Here’s the publisher’s description: Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly blood in her, if she cannot earn a divine chaperone, she will never be allowed to

Richard Wolinsky is joining us today to talk about his collection of interviews. Here’s the publisher’s description: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends Richard Wolinsky, editor “Amazing, astounding, fantastic – and ingeniously organized and edited.”–Jonathan Lethem In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about

Gary Jackson is joining us today to talk about his novel, Small Lives. Here’s the publisher’s description: Poetry, yes. Superheroes, yes. This is a graphic novel in verse. Gary Jackson’s work is inspired by Afro-futurism. small lives renders a graphic novel in verse form. Jackson creates his own metropolis, featuring original and remixed superheroes who are

P.S.C. Willis is joining us today to talk about their novel, Crying out for Magic. Here’s the publisher’s description: A meet-cute across worlds! Draven Montrose’s world, Galdorsfarne, is like a soggy firework: so much potential, so little sparkle. Magic is running out, and so are his dating options. Whilst he should be grateful for a

Josh Rountree is joining us today to talk about his novel, Summer in the House of the Departed. Here’s the publisher’s description: This is a sometime place, not an all the time place… Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes-along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Brady

William Alexander is joining us today to talk about his novel, Sunward. Here’s the publisher’s description: A cozy debut science fiction novel by National Book Award–winning writer William Alexander, this story of found family follows a planetary courier training adolescent androids in a solar system grappling with interplanetary conflict after a devastating explosion on Earth’s