My Favorite Bit

Peter Tieryas is joining us today with his novel United States of Japan. Here’s the publisher’s description: A spiritual sequel to The Man In The High Castle, focusing on the New Japanese Empire, from an acclaimed author and essayist. The Axis won WWII and now, in the late 1980s, the Japanese Empire rules over the western US […]

Mark Tompkins is joining us today to with his novel The Last days of Magic. Here is the publisher’s description: An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth. What became of magic in the world? Who

Jason LaPier is joining us today with his novel Unclear Skies. Here’s the publisher’s description: The second book in Jason LaPier’s thrilling sci-fi trilogy Justice isn’t what it used to be Rogue cop Stanford Runstom blew open a botched murder case and was given a promotion – of sorts. But doing PR work for ModPol, the

S. K. Dunstall is joining us today with their novel Alliance. Here’s the publisher’s description: As the Linesman series continues, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself facing an alien ship he doesn’t understand—and a terrifying political threat he cannot fight…   The lines. The soul of every ship. It was once thought there were only ten, but

Randy Henderson is joining us today with his novel Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free. Here’s the publisher’s description: In Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free, the sequel to Randy Henderson’s acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Finn Gramaraye is settling back into the real world after his twenty-five-year-long imprisonment in the otherworld of the Fey. He’s fallen

Jennifer Brozek is joining us today with her omnibus Never Let Me. Here’s the publisher’s description: An omnibus edition of the first three books in Jennifer Brozek’s Melissa Allen series. What would you do if you discovered that everyone, in your house, on your street and in your town was dead? Then you discovered you weren’t alone–and

Daniel M. Bensen is joining us today with his novel Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen. Here’s the publisher’s description: Former soldier Andrea Herrera isn’t happy with where her life’s taken her. Specifically, Hell Creek, Montana, 65 million years before the present. As far as careers go, making sure the dinosaurs don’t eat her paleontologist clients comes

Dan Koboldt is joining us today to talk about his novel The Rogue Retrieval. Here’s the publisher’s description: Stage magician Quinn Bradley dedicated his life to a single purpose: headlining for a major casino on the Las Vegas strip. But just before his dreams come true, two modern mercenaries show up to make him a puzzling

Marie Brennan is joining us today with her novel Chains and Memory. Here’s the publisher’s description: Manifestation was only the beginning. The Otherworld has returned — bringing with it the sidhe, the source of humanity’s psychic powers. Some mortals welcome these creatures of legend, some fear them . . . and no one is ready for

Megan E. O’Keefe is joining us today with her novel Steal the Sky. Here’s the publisher’s description: Detan Honding, a wanted conman of noble birth and ignoble tongue, has found himself in the oasis city of Aransa. He and his trusted companion Tibs may have pulled off one too many cons against the city’s elite and

Eric James Stone is joining us today with his novel Unforgettable. Here’s the publisher’s description: Out of sight, out of mind. In the near future, a fluke of quantum mechanics renders Nat Morgan utterly forgettable. No one can remember he exists for more than a minute after he’s gone. It’s a useful ability for his career

Marieke Nijkamp is joining us today with her novel This Is Where It Ends. Here’s the publisher’s description: 10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium

Lawrence M. Schoen is joining us today with his novel Barsk: The Elephants’ graveyard. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen’s Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard An historian who speaks with

Holly Messinger is joining us today with her novel The Curse of Jacob Tracy. Here’s the publisher’s description: St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts—mangled soldiers, tortured slaves, the innocent victims of war—and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since Antietam, when he lay delirious among the dead and dying, Trace has been haunted

Michael Livingston is joining us today with his novel The Shards of Heaven.  For those of you who have read Shades of Milk and Honey, Captain Livingston is named after Michael. He is one of my oldest writing friends, and has helped me work out fight sequences on more than one occasion. I read The Shards of Heaven in