Sarah Sward

Delilah S. Dawson is joining us today to talk about her novel, Bloom Here’s the publisher’s description: Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers’ market. Ash—precise, polished, and practically perfect—sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, and glossy green plants. Ro wants to be her and have […]

J.H.R. Lawless is joining us today to talk about their novel, This is the Good part. Here’s the publisher’s description: You want a democratic revolution? Because this is how you get a democratic revolution. On the cusp of the 22nd century, the world has long forgotten Liam Argyle, and the former reality show host turned failed

Ariel Kaplan is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Pomegranate Gate. Here’s the publisher’s description: The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition-era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore, with echoes of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden. Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She

Kristy Gardner is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Darkest Stars. Here’s the publisher’s description: The most terrifying monsters are the ones that lurk inside… After discovering everything she’s ever known has been a lie, Calay understands humanity’s brutality firsthand. Now, depleted rations, unexplained aberrations, and an ecosystem in collapse have driven

Trip Galey is joining us today to talk about his novel, A Market of Dreams & Destiny. Here’s the publisher’s description: Below Covent Garden lies the Untermarkt, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, a wisp of fortune. As a child, Deri was sold to one of

Jo Miles is joining us today to talk about their novel, Warped State. Here’s the publisher’s description: One wants to fix the broken corporate system. The other wants to tear it all down. Jasper Wilder has a secret gift: the ability to see the relationships between people like physical bonds. Though his gift has served

Jon Evans is joining us today to talk about his novel, Exadelic. Here’s the publisher’s description: When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls “black magic,” it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity

Dwain Worrell is joining us today to talk about his novel, Androne. Here’s the publisher’s description: Humanity’s new war is an enigma, with an enemy threat beyond all imagination, in this near-future novel of mind-blowing adventure where the fate of the world rests in the choices of one ordinary soldier. In one terrifying event called

Valerie Valdes is joining us today to talk about her novel, Where Peace is Lost. Here’s the publisher’s description: Where peace is lost, may we find it. Five years ago, Kelana Gardavros lost everything in the war against the Pale empire. Now Kel Garda is just another refugee living on the edge of an isolated

Caye Marsh is joining us today to talk about her novel, Peace in the Sky. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Peace-in-the-Sky awakens as a captive with a young girl by her side, she only understands one thing: she must escape the tribe who captured her. A brutal head injury makes the past a swirling fog,