Cassandra Khaw is joining us today to talk about their novel, The All-Consuming World. Here’s the publisher’s description: Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies through the years of a long, dangerous career with the infamous Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy, at least before their untimely …
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As you may or may not know, I host an online community called The Lady Astronaut Club. From the start, my goal has been to create a kind, welcoming, and supportive corner of the Internet. Historically, there have been two ways to join the LAC: joining my Patreon, or sending in a self addressed stamped …
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David Liss is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Peculiarities. Here’s the publisher’s description: All of his life, Thomas Thresher has been free of obligation and responsibility. But that is all over now. He is a twenty-three-year-old man whose best days are behind him. Thomas’s older brother Walter has trapped him in …
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Welcome to September! August has flown by, and yet another month has begun. In very exciting news, our bathroom – which has been in the midst of renovations for some time – has acquired a fresh new layer of tile. While the water may not yet be running, we’re in the home stretch. Additionally, I’ve …
Elayne Audrey Becker is joining us today to talk about her novel, Forestborn. Here’s the publisher’s description: A young, orphaned shapeshifter in a world that fears magic must risk everything if she hopes to save her only friend in Elayne Audrey Becker’s Forestborn, first in a new fantasy series with a timeless feel.TO BE BORN OF …
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R.W.W. Greene is joining us today to talk about his novel, Twenty-Five To Life. Here’s the publisher’s description: Life goes on for the billions left behind after the humanity-saving colony mission to Proxima Centauri leaves Earth orbit…but what’s the point? Julie Riley is two years too young to get out from under her mother’s thumb, …
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Cassie Hart is joining us today to talk about her novel, Butcherbird. Here’s the publisher’s description: Something is drawing Jena Benedict’s family to darkness. Her mother, father, brother and baby sister are killed in a barn fire, and Grandmother Rose banishes Jena from the farm. Now, twenty years on, Rose is dying, and Jena returns …
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E.J. Wenstrom is joining us today to talk about her novel, Departures. Here’s the publisher’s description: Tonight, seventeen-year-old Evalee is scheduled to die. She’s planned her celebration for weeks, and other than leaving her sister Gracelyn behind, she’s ready. The Directorate says this is how it should be, and she trusts them, as all its …
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My newest Patreon series, Interviewing Experts, continues tomorrow, August 17th, at 7PM CST (8PM Eastern) with Mars expert, Dr. Tanya Harrison. I’ll be conducting an interview with her as if I’m preparing to feature her job in a novel. You get to ask questions, too! Live captioning is provided for accessibility, and recordings are available …
Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law are joining us today to talk about Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories, an anthology they edited. Here’s the publisher’s description: What is a life well-lived? How should life be lived? What kind of hopeful stories will you leave behind? Travel with twenty-three speculative fiction authors through …
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Josh Rountree is joining us today to talk about his short story collection, Fantastic Americana: Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description: Yesterday . . . a giant lost himself in America, forever running from the supernatural killers who pursued him, and a witch formed one last spell in hopes of resurrecting her murdered son. Today . …
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Robin C.M. Duncan is joining us today to talk about his story in the anthology Distant Gardens, edited by J.S. Fields and Heather Tracy. Here’s the publisher’s description: Rules were made to be broken. From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed terraforming have created irresistible opportunities …
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Jeffery Kluger is joining us today to talk about his novel, Holdout. Here’s the publisher’s description: When evil forces are going unchecked on Earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try to seek justice in the only place she knows how—the International Space Station. Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. She graduated at …
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Hello all, and welcome to August! Events this month are a bit sparse, but I will still be around for my typical Patreon schedule. You’ll find me at my Writing Date tomorrow evening, and at Interviewing Experts and my Writing Class later on this month. Outside of that, August is fairly quiet on the event …
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Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner are joining us today to talk about Apex Magazine, which is running a Kickstarter until Aug 18, 2021. Here’s a description: Apex Magazine is an online and digital zine of fantastical fiction. For over ten years, we’ve published works filled with marrow and passion, stories that are strange, shocking, beautiful, …
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