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Ferrett Steinmetz is joining us today with his novel Flex. Here’s the publisher’s description. FLEX: Distilled magic in crystal form. The most dangerous drug in the world. Snort it, and you can create incredible coincidences to live the life of your dreams. FLUX: The backlash from snorting Flex. The universe hates magic and tries to rebalance […]

Yves Meynard is joining us today with his book Angels & Exiles. Here’s the publisher’s description. “We dream of angels, black as space, and wish they could return from the future to warn us of the dark years ahead. We who have forgotten our origin, exiles in a land we may have shaped with our own hands;

Abra SW is joining us today with her novel A Circus of Brass and Bone. Here’s the publisher’s description. It’s the end of civilization, but the show must go on. The Loyale Traveling Circus and Menagerie is in turmoil. During their ocean voyage from British India to Boston, someone murdered their ringmaster. The killer must be

Leanna Renee Hieber is joining us today with her novel The Eterna Files. Here’s the publisher’s description. Welcome to The Eterna Files, written by Leanna Renee Hieber, “the brightest new star in literature”(True-Blood.net) London, 1882: Queen Victoria appoints Harold Spire of the Metropolitan Police to Special Branch Division Omega. Omega is to secretly investigate paranormal and

Robert Levy is joining us today with his novel The Glittering World. Here’s the publisher’s description. In the tradition of Neil Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane), Scott Smith (The Ruins), and Jason Mott (The Returned), award-winning playwright Robert Levy spins a dark tale of alienation and belonging, the familiar and the surreal,

Randy Henderson is joining us today with his novel Finn Fancy Necromancy. Here’s the publisher’s description. Writers of the Future grand prize winner Randy Henderson presents a dark and quirky debut in Finn Fancy Necromancy. Finn Gramaraye was framed for the crime of dark necromancy at the age of 15, and exiled to the Other Realm

Genevieve J. Griffin is joining us today with her novel Dance ‘Til Dawn. Here’s the publisher’s description. Beneath the palace, deadly magic waits… Rose is a seamstress for her kingdom’s twelve princesses, who all hold a bewildering secret: how have they been disappearing every night and dancing through each pair of shoes Rose makes? Overworked, overwhelmed,

Harry Connolly is joining us today with his epic fantasy series The Great Way. Here’s the publisher’s description. BOOK ONE OF THE GREAT WAY: The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears,and a monopoly on magic… until, in a single day, it falls, overthrown by a swarm of supernatural creatures of

Kristi Charish is joining us today with her novel Owl and the Japanese Circus. Here’s the publisher’s description. Fans of Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, and Linda Hamilton will flock to the kick-ass world of Owl, a modern-day “Indiana Jane” who reluctantly navigates the hidden supernatural world. Ex-archaeology grad student turned international antiquities thief, Alix—better known now

David B. Coe is joining us today with his novel Spell Blind. Here’s the publisher’s description. Book #1 in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, a new contemporary fantasy series from fantasy all-star David B. Coe. A hardboiled, magic-using private detective hunts a serial killer in Phoenix, Arizona. Justis Fearsson is a private investigator on the trail

Jim C. Hines is joining us today with his novel Unbound. Here’s the publisher’s description. For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old enemies have revealed the Porters’ secrets, and an even greater threat lurks in the shadows. The would-be queen Meridiana, banished for a thousand years,

SL Huang is joining us today with her novel Half Life. Here’s the publisher’s description. Cas Russell is back — and so is her deadly supermath.   Cas may be an antisocial mercenary who uses her instant calculating skills to mow down enemies, but she’s trying hard to build up a handful of morals. So when

Nicholas Kaufmann is joining us today with his novel Die and Stay Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description. In this pulse­pounding sequel to Dying Is My Business, Trent, a man who can’t stay dead or retain his memories, tries to uncover his connection to a deadly doomsday cult bent on destroying NYC. A brutal murder in Greenwich

Beth Bernier Pratt is joining us today with her anthology Storage World. Here’s the publisher’s description. Most storage units hold furniture, books, clothes, and all manner of junk, old and new. The Braxton family’s Storage World provides all that plus storage for … a different kind of goods. Behind the doors of Storage World one can

Jonathan L. Ferrara is joining us today with his novel The Guardians of Sin. Here’s the publisher’s description. Seven deadly sins have been unleashed, and the only one who can defeat them is the boy who set them free. Nicholas Blackwell has no idea he is supposed to fulfill a destiny. All he knows is that