Journal

Jennifer is joining us today to talk about her novel, Our Gifted Hearts. Here’s the publisher’s description: When she’s accused of witchcraft, Fortune must flee her village to spare her neck, marrying a man she barely knows. But is the man who promises to be her saviour all he seems?Fortune Blyth suffered the loss of […]

Cécile Cristofari is joining us today to talk about her novella, Cities are Forests Waiting to Happen. Here’s the publisher’s description: Decades after a catastrophic collapse caused by climate disasters and pandemics, Rossana, a professional urban explorer, discovers that a rogue artificial intelligence is threatening the communication system her world now depends on. Along with

Syr Hayati Beker is joining us today to talk about their novella, What a Fish Looks Like. Here’s the publisher’s description: What are the stories we need to survive? In ten days, the last spaceship is leaving for a new planet. Some of us will stay on Earth. How do we decide? #TeamEarth. Once upon a

Cadwell Turnbull is joining us today to talk about his novel, A Ruin, Great and Free. Here’s the publisher’s description: From bestselling and award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes A Ruin, Great and Free, the stunning conclusion to the popular Convergence Saga. It has been nearly two years since the anti-monster riots. The inhabitants of Moon

L.D. Colter is joining us today to talk about her novel, While the Gods Sleep. Here’s the publisher’s description: The first time Ty died he was five, the second time he was seven. He’s always believed his third death will be the final one, and now he may find out. More than twenty years after

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