My Favorite Bit

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

Rebecca Schaeffer is joining us today to talk about her novel Only Ashes Remain. Here’s the publisher’s description: Dexter meets Victoria Schwab in this dark and compelling fantasy about a girl who seeks revenge on the boy who betrayed her, a sequel to the critically-acclaimed Not Even Bones. After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where

Alison Wilgus is joining us today to talk about Chronin Vol 2: The Sword At Your Back. Here’s the publisher’s description: Samurai Jack meets Back to the Future in Alison Wilgus’s Chronin Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand, a thrilling conclusion to a time-bending graphic novel duology Japan’s history will never be the same. The timeline has veered off

Sarah Pinsker is joining us today to talk about her debut novel,  A Song for a New Day. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one

Steven S. Drachman is joining us today to talk about his novel Watt O’Hugh and the Innocent Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: On the morning of Wednesday, September 24, 1879, I awoke in a prison in Montana. I did not imagine that evening might find me sprawled beneath a great and ferocious sand crab on a

Tyler Hayes is joining us with his debut novel The Imaginary Corpse. Here’s the publisher’s description: A dinosaur detective in the land of unwanted ideas battles trauma, anxiety, and the first serial killer of imaginary friends. Most ideas fade away when we’re done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the

Alexandra Rowland is joining us today to talk about their novel A Choir of Lies. Here’s the publisher’s description: A young storyteller must embrace his own skills—and the power of stories—to save a nation from economic ruin, in the standalone sequel to A Conspiracy of Truths. Three years ago, Ylfing watched his master-Chant tear a nation apart

Wendy Trimboli and Alicia Zaloga are joining us to talk about their novel The Resurrectionist of Caligo. Here’s the publisher’s description: With a murderer on the loose, it’s up to an enlightened bodysnatcher and a rebellious princess to save the city, in this wonderfully inventive Victorian-tinged fantasy noir. “Man of Science” Roger Weathersby scrapes out

Grant Price is joining us to talk about his novel By the Feet of Men. Here’s the publisher’s description: WANTED: Men and women willing to drive through the valley of the shadow of death. The world’s population has been decimated by the Change, a chain reaction of events triggered by global warming. In Europe, governments have

Marie Brennan is joining us today to talk about her novel Turning Darkness Into Light. Here’s the publishers description: Marie Brennan’s Turning Darkness Into Light is a delightful fantasy of manners, the heir to the award-winning Natural History of Dragons series, a perfect stepping stone into an alternate Victorian-esque fantasy landscape. As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst

Keren Landsman is joining us today to talk about her novel The Heart of the Circle. Here is the publisher’s description: Sorcerers fight for the right to exist and fall in love, in this extraordinary alternate world fantasy thriller by award-winning Israeli author Keren Landsman. Throughout human history there have always been sorcerers, once idolized

Reese Hogan is joining us today to talk about his novel Shrouded Loyalties. Here’s the publisher’s description: A soldier returns home with a dangerous secret from an alternate realm, unaware that she is surrounded by spies and collaborators, in this intense military science fiction novel. Naval officer Mila Blackwood is determined to keep her country’s

Susan Forest is joining us today to talk about her novel Bursts of Fire. Here’s the publisher’s description: Bursts of Fire begins an epic political fantasy of revenge, addictions, and redemption. In an empire where magic has become suspect, love and loyalty–for one’s lover, one’s family, one’s country–are tested. If Heaven desires the very earth be

Spencer Ellsworth is joining us today to talk about his novel The Great Faerie Strike. Here’s the publisher’s description: A revolution in Faerie! Ridley Enterprises has brought industry to the Otherworld, churning out magical goods for profit. But when they fire Charles the gnome, well, they’ve gone too far. And against a gnome’s respectable nature,