Mar Romansco-Moore is joining us today to talk about their novel, I Am the Ghost in Your House. Here’s the publisher’s description: From the author of Some Kind of Animal comes a wildly unique story about an invisible girl struggling to see herself in a world obsessed with appearances. Pie is the ghost in your house. She is …
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William C. Tracy is joining us today to talk about the Kickstarter he’s running, Space Wizard Science Fantasy Year 1. Here’s the description: Space Wizard Science Fantasy is a new queer indie science fiction and fantasy publishing company, started by William C. Tracy. This year, it is putting out 12 new books, and funding them via …
Sam J. Miller is joining us today to talk about his short-fiction collection, Boys, Beasts, and Men. Here’s the publisher’s description: In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection, featuring an introduction by Amal El-Mohtar, queer infatuation, inevitable heartbreak, and brutal revenge seamlessly intertwine. Whether innocent, guilty, or not even human, the boys, …
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Samit Basu is joining us today to talk about his novel, The City Inside. Here’s the publisher’s description: The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential …
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Veronica G. Henry is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Quarter Storm. Here’s the publisher’s description: A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her …
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Liz Michalski is joining us today to talk about her novel, Darling Girl. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic, to save her daughter’s life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out …
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Jennifer Brozek is joining us today to talk about the anthology she edited with Cat Rambo, The Reinvented Heart. Here’s the publisher’s description: What happens when emotions like love and friendship span vast distances — in space, in time, and in the heart? Science fiction often focuses on future technology and science without considering the …
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Jessi Honard and Marie Parks are joining us today to talk about their novel, Unrelenting. Here’s the publisher’s description: A glowing symbol painted on a crumbling wall.Sentient smoke that chokes and burns.An ancient magic, long hidden from the world. Bridget’s most important job has always been protecting her younger sister, Dahlia. But as adults, their …
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Kate Heartfield is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Embroidered Book. Here’s the publisher’s description: Brimming with romance, betrayal, and enchantment, The Embroidered Book reveals and reimagines a dazzling period of history as you have never seen it before. ‘Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you …
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Oliver K. Langmead is joining us today to talk about his novel, Glitterati. Here’s the publisher’s description: A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul’s Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in this fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and feckless billionaires. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides …
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R.W.W. Green is joining us today to talk about his novel, Mercury Rising. Here’s the publisher’s description: Alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven …
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NOTE: This is a post revived from the archives. This material was previously available prior to the page becoming unavailable — but now it’s back! You can read the novelette, A Fire in the Heavens, here. For Writing Excuses, we are demonstrating our process by actually working through some stories from brainstorming, through outlining, to the story …
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Tim Pratt is joining us today to talk about his novel, Prison of Sleep. Here’s the publisher’s description: After escaping the ruthless Lector, Zax Delatree has a new enemy to fight in the sequel to Doors of Sleep. Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into …
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Steven Kotler is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Devil’s Dictionary. Here’s the publisher’s description: Hard to say exactly when the human species fractured. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango in Cyberspace, is the first of his kind—an empathy tracker, an emotional forecaster, with …
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Chris Panatier is joining us today to talk about his novel, Stringers. Here’s the publisher’s description: Knowledge can get you killed. Especially if you have no idea what it means. Ben is not a genius, but he can spout facts about animals and wristwatches with the best of experts. He just can’t explain how he knows any …
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