My Favorite Bit

Kameron Hurley is joining us today to talk about The Broken Heavens. Here’s the publisher’s description: The bloodsoaked conclusion to Kameron Hurley’s epic fantasy masterpiece – the Worldbreaker Saga – is unleashed. The Dhai nation has broken apart under the onslaught of the Tai Mora, invaders from a parallel world. With the Dhai in retreat, […]

  Rod Duncan is joining us with his novel The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man, the concluding chapter in the “Map of the Unknown Things” series. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ladies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man. Elizabeth Barnabus is a

Parker Peevyhouse is joining us today to talk about her novel Strange Exit. Here’s the publisher’s description: Seventeen-year-old Lake spends her days searching a strange, post-apocalyptic landscape for people who have forgotten one very important thing: this isn’t reality. Everyone she meets is a passenger aboard a ship that’s been orbiting Earth since a nuclear event.

Niki Smith is joining us to talk about her graphic novel The Deep & Dark Blue. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Witch Boy meets The Legend of Korra in this breathtaking, epic graphic novel. After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation

Derek Künsken is joining us to talk about his novel The Quantum Garden. Here’s the publisher’s description: THE ULTIMATE CHASE Days ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He’s rich, he’s back with the love of his life, and he has the Time Gates, the most valuable things in existence. Nothing could

Cynthia Hand is joining us today to talk about The How and the Why. Here’s the publisher’s description: Today Melly had us writing letters to our babies. I can’t imagine you as an actual baby, let alone an eighteen-year-old person reading this letter. I’m not even eighteen yet, myself. -S Cassandra McMurtrey has a family. One

Andi C. Buchanan is joining us to talk about their novel From a Shadow Grave. Here’s the publisher’s description: This is no ordinary ghost story Wellington, 1931. Seventeen-year-old Phyllis Symons’ body is discovered in the Mt Victoria tunnel construction site. Eighty years later, Aroha Brooke is determined to save her life. Urban legend meets urban

Wendy Nikel is joining us today to talk about the final novella in this series, The Causality Loop. Here’s the publisher’s description: Dodge Greenley is tired of being the go-between for his time-traveling family. All he wants is for them all to be able to live together peacefully in one era—is that too much to ask?

Dawn Vogel is joining us today to talk about The Boiling Sea, the final book in the Brass and Glass series. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the turbulent skies of the Republic, it’s not always easy to outrace the storm … With their destination determined, Captain Svetlana Tereshchenko and the crew of The Silent Monsoon are in

Lisa Goldstein is joining us today to talk about her novel Ivory Apples. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ivy and her sisters have a secret: their reclusive Great-Aunt is actually Adela Martin, inspired author of the fantasy classic, Ivory Apples. Generations of obsessive fans have searched for Adela, poring over her letters, sharing their theories online, and gathering at

E. L. Chen is joining us today to talk about her novel Summerwood/Winterwood. Here’s the publisher’s description: Pray you never find your Summerwood, Grandfather had said. I’d found something worse. I’d found his. In Summerwood, twelve-year old Rosalind Hero Cheung can’t wait to spend the summer in Toronto with her teenaged sister Julie and their famous

Luanne G. Smith is joining us today with her novel The Vine Witch. Here’s the publisher’s description: A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy set in turn-of-the-century France. For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help

Ginn Hale is joining us today to talk about her novel Master of Restless Shadows. Here’s the publisher’s description: Freshly graduated Master Physician Narsi Lif-Tahm has left his home in Anacleto and journeyed to the imposing royal capitol of Cieloalta intent upon keeping the youthful oath he made to a troubled writer. But in the

R J Theodore is joining us today with her novel Salvage, sequel to Flotsam. Here’s the publisher’s description: Peridot is headed for its second cataclysm. War has broken ancient alliances, sealed borders, and locked down the skies. The Five, Peridot’s alchemist gods, have seen one of their number die and another fall in their efforts