My Favorite Bit

Alma Alexander is joining us today to talk about her novel Random. Here’s the publisher’s description. My name is Jazz Marsh. I am a Random Were, which means I am a Were of no fixed form – like all Random Were, my family can become any warm-blooded creature which is the last thing they see before […]

Katharine Eliska Kimbriel is joining us today with her novel Spiral Path. Here’s the publisher’s description. “The world is woven of secrets.” Ritual magic mixes dangerously with wild magic. Yet Alfreda Sorensson’s talent has grown until she becomes a target for worldly and unworldly powers. Now, to save her soul, she must leave her pioneer home

Dru Pagliassotti is joining us today with her novel Clockwork Secrets: Heavy Fire. Here’s the publisher’s description. The final book in the Clockwork Heart trilogy. Framed for regicide and trapped on a ship crippled by enemy fire, Taya and Ondinium’s diplomatic contingent seem helpless to prevent the well-engineered war their enemies have put into motion. While

Beth Cato is joining us today with her novel The Clockwork Dagger. Here’s the publisher’s description. Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first

Kater Cheek is joining us today with her novel Mulberry Wands. Here’s the publisher’s description. Susan never expected to find a corpse in her backyard, especially not one no larger than a doll. Her well-intentioned burial and investigation attracts the notice of the victim’s kin, who blame her for the murder and want vengeance. Griff just wants

Karina Sumner-Smith is joining us today with her novel Radiant. Here’s the publisher’s description. Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcast—no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability

Arianne ‘Tex’ Thompson is joining us today with her novel One Night in Sixes. Here’s the publisher’s description. The border town called Sixes is quiet in the heat of the day. Still, Appaloosa Elim has heard the stories about what wakes at sunset: gunslingers and shapeshifters and ancient animal gods whose human faces never outlast the daylight.

Kameron Hurley is joining us today with her novel The Mirror Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description. On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself. In the frozen kingdom

E. Catherine Tobler is joining us today with her novel The Rings of Anubis. Here’s the publisher’s description. As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt’s ancient mysteries and her mother’s inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory,

Julia Rios is joining us today with her new anthology, Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Sicence Fiction and Fantasy Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description. What do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater, and a transgender animal shifter have in common? They’re all stars of Kaleidoscope stories! Kaleidoscope collects fun, edgy, meditative, and hopeful YA science

Anna Kashina is joining us today with her novel The Guild of Assassins. Here’s the publisher’s description. Kara has achieved something that no Majat has ever managed – freedom from the Guild! But the Black Diamond assassin Mai has been called back to face his punishment for sparing her life. Determined to join his fight

Max Gladstone is joining us today with his novel Full Fathom Five. Here’s the publisher’s description. On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren’t conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods—perfect

D.B. Jackson is joining us today with his novel A Plunder of Souls. Here’s the publisher’s description. Boston, 1769: Ethan Kaille, a Boston thieftaker who uses his conjuring to catch criminals, has snared villains and defeated magic that would have daunted a lesser man. What starts out as a mysterious phenomenon that has local ministers

Matthew Johnson is joining us today with his book Irregular Verbs and Other Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description. keluarga: to move to a new village lunak: to search for something without finding it mencintai: to love for the last time Meet a guilt-ridden nurse who atones for her sins by joining her zombified patients in

Michael R. Underwood is joining us today with his novel Shield and Crocus. Here’s the publisher’s description. In a city built among the bones of a fallen giant, a small group of heroes looks to reclaim their home from the five criminal tyrants who control it. The city of Audec-Hal sits among the bones of