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Dan Koboldt is joining us today with his novel The Island Deception. Here’s the publisher’s description: What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. But what happens after you step through a portal to another world, well… For stage magician Quinn Bradley, he thought his time in Alissia was over. He’d done his job for […]

Renee Patrick is joining us today with their novel Dangerous to Know. Here’s the publisher’s description: Los Angeles, 1938. Former aspiring actress Lillian Frost is adjusting to a new life of boldfaced names as social secretary to a movie-mad millionaire. Costume designer Edith Head is running Paramount Pictures’ wardrobe department, but only until a suitable replacement

Ruthanna Emrys is joining us today with her novel Winter Tide. Here’s the publisher’s description: “Winter Tide is a weird, lyrical mystery — truly strange and compellingly grim. It’s an innovative gem that turns Lovecraft on his head with cleverness and heart” —Cherie Priest After attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the

K. Bird Lincoln is joining us today with her novel Dream Eater. Here’s the publisher’s description: Koi Pierce dreams other peoples’ dreams. Her whole life she’s avoided other people. Any skin-to-skin contact—a hug from her sister, the hand of a barista at Stumptown coffee—transfers flashes of that person’s most intense dreams. It’s enough to make anyone

Aliette de Bodard is joining us today with her novel The House of Binding Thorns. Here’s the publisher’s description: The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen saga as Paris endures the aftermath of a devastating arcane war…. As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it,

Rosalyn Eves is joining us today to talk about her novel Blood Rose Rebellion. Here’s the publisher’s description: The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell

Stacey Berg is joining us today with her novel Regeneration. Here’s the publisher’s description: The world is ready to be reborn… Protected by the Church for four hundred years, the people of the City are the last of humanity—or so they thought. Echo Hunter 367, made to be faithful to the Church and its Saint at

Sherri Smith is joining us today to talk about her novel Follow Me Down. Here’s the publisher’s description: Mia Haas has built her life far from the North Dakota town where she grew up, but when she receives word that her twin brother is missing, she is forced to return home. Back to the people she

Randy Henderson is joining us today with his novel Smells Like Finn Spirit. Here’s the publisher’s description: Finn Gramaraye is back in the final installment of Randy Henderson’s Familia Arcana series, which began in Finn Fancy Necromancy, and Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free. Finn’s re-adaptation to the human world is not going so well. He’s got a

Gena Showalter is joining us today with her novel Lifeblood. Here’s the publisher’s description: “My Firstlife is over, but my Everlife is only now beginning.”  With her last living breath, Tenley “Ten” Lockwood made her choice and picked her realm in the Everlife. Now, as the war between Troika and Myriad rages, she must face the

Mishell Baker is joining us today with her novel Phantom Pains. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the second book to the “exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted” (Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author) Borderline, Millie unwillingly returns to the Arcadia Project when an impossible and deadly situation pulls her back in. Four months ago, Millie left

Erika Lewis is joining us today with her novel Game of Shadows. Here’s the publisher’s description: A young man plagued by the ability to see ghosts races to save the mythological land of Tara from a terrible fate in Erika Lewis’s stunning debut, Game of Shadows. Thousands of years ago in Ireland, an ancient race fought

Maurice Broaddus is joining us today with his collection The Voices of Martyrs. Here’s the publisher’s description: We are a collection of voices, the assembled history of the many voices that have spoken into our lives and shaped us. Voices of the past, voices of the present, and voices of the future. There is an African

Meg Elison is joining us today with her novel The Book of Etta. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague

Patricia Burroughs is joining us today with her short story anthology Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok. Here’s the publisher’s description: “Debris and Detritus, the lesser-known Greek gods…* These words launched over a dozen alternate realities and histories, invaded existing universes, and even inspired a book or two with Debris and Detritus running