My Favorite Bit

Athena Giles is joining us today to talk about their novel, Waves Take Your Bones. Here’s the publisher’s description: The dead rise and the sea is calling. Tallis and Finn, simple farmers, find their quiet village overrun by shriekers, a horde of undead revenants. After a devastating attack and heartbreaking losses, they must flee the […]

Jason Sanford is joining us today to talk about his novel, We Who Hunt Alexanders. Here’s the publisher’s description: Amelia is a ripper, a monster who feeds on violent people who have so thoroughly forsaken love that they’ve burned away their souls. Unseen and unnoticed by most of society and living as both hunter and

Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Andrei and the Hellcats. Here’s the publisher’s description: Only the Galactic Hellcats can help Andrei, a charming, sex-positive robot, rescue his sister. This book promises: Action! Adventure! Fashion sense! Solo-flyers! Wit! Don’t dare put down this book or all might be lost… as in,

Jane Mondrup is joining us today to talk about her novel, Zoi. Here’s the publisher’s description: At the age of five, Amira watched footage of the first zoi specimen arriving in our solar system, and she became instantly fascinated with the huge, cell-like creature floating among the stars. Decades later, she and three other astronauts

Aimee Ogden is joining us today to talk about her novel, Starstruck. Here’s the publisher’s description: Prish has always been a radish who knows what she’s about; chiefly, her wife, Alsing, a literal and figurative fox. They’ve woven together a cozy life around welcoming other starstruck beings into the world-plants and animals ensouled by a

Vanessa Ricci-Thode is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Dragon Next Door. Here’s the publisher’s description: Tollar’s got a stolen dragon egg, and that’s the least of her problems. Tollar is a hero for hire who just wants to deliver a stolen dragon egg to its kin and get on with her

Christy Climenhage is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Midnight Project. Here’s the publisher’s description: When enigmatic billionaire Burton Sykes walks into Re-Gene-eration, a bespoke reproduction assistance clinic run by Raina and Cedric, two disgraced genetic engineers struggling to get by, they know they have a very unusual client. When Sykes asks

Natalia Theodoridou is joining us today to talk about his novel, Sour Cherry. Here’s the publisher’s description: The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord’s baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin

David Anaxagoras is joining us today to talk about his audiobook, The Tower. Here’s the publisher’s description: When 12-year-old Kolby finds himself captive in the penthouse of a 75-story skyscraper with no memory of who he is or how he got there, he must work together with other young captives to unravel the mysteries of

Jim C. Hines is joining us today to talk about his novel, Kitemaster Here’s the publisher’s description: Nial Sarnin is twenty-one—far too young to have lost her beloved husband, Jika. One year after his death, Nial prepares to fly a kite sewn from his wedding shirt, believing it will carry Jika’s spirit to the stars.

Anson Joaquin is joining us today to talk about his novel, Infernal Age: Demon Gate. Here’s the publisher’s description: The end of technology and maybe of humanity itself. Demons (and magic) unleashed upon the Earth. The Mist meets a gritty prequel to The Elfstones of Shannara, The Infernal Age is a nail-biting take on the

Omar Hussain is joining us today to talk about his novel, A Thousand Natural Shocks. Here’s the publisher’s description: Memories define us. But who do we become if they disappear? Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is desperate to outrun his past. During the day, he investigates the reemergence of a long-dormant serial killer. At

Heather Tracy is joining us today to talk about her novel, Only a Chapter. Here’s the publisher’s description: “A call to change a lifetime… Clare O’Donnell is in a dead-end relationship with her girlfriend, until she receives a phone call that changes her life—literally. In one timeline, her biopsy results are positive for cancer. In