Journal

Mary Berman is joining us today to talk about her novel, Until Death. Here’s the publisher’s description: If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it’s that getting married is a bad idea. But if she’s learning anything from her widowed mother’s dementia, it’s that dying alone is worse. So when she meets Luke–the […]

Brian D. Hinson is joining us today to talk about his novel, Skies of Fire and Smoke. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Germania revolts against the dragons that rule Europe, Lt. Johann Fischer joins the attack on the Citadel in his Fokker. The fierce war begins on that day, but the dragons and their allied

A.Z. Rozkillis is joining us today to talk about her novel, Fractal Terminus. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jax had been alone on her Station for ten years, and that was the way she liked it. But then came Saunders, and her cheery, cute demeanor was just what was needed to bring Jax back to humanity.

Jeremy Szal is joining us today to talk about his novel, Wolfskin. Here’s the publisher’s description: Vakov Fukasawa is a Reaper. An elite soldier injected with a dangerous drug called stormtech: the DNA of a genocidal alien race, the Shenoi. It makes him stronger, faster, more aggressive. At a price. A price that, if the

Rena Rockford is joining us today to talk about her novel, Mothball Magic. Here’s the publisher’s description: She’s going to save the world even if she breaks a hip doing it. Ruth has been there and done that. She’s already saved the world in WWII, when magic was locked away forever. So, when it inconveniently

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