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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

Greg Byrne is joining us today with his novel Nine Planets. Here’s the publisher’s description. In the world of despair, Father Nick’s Day is the only hope… Peter Blackwell wakes from a coma into a world he doesn’t recognize. Without memory or identity, all he has are nine random images. Nine planets. Eight he can see,

Jessica Leake is joining us today with her novel Arcana. Here’s the publisher’s description. A romantic, suspenseful, genre-bending debut set in Edwardian London. Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in 1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks of debutantes vying for suitors. Unfortunately for Katherine, she cannot imagine anything more loathsome—or dangerous. To help

Shallee McArthur is joining us today with her novel The Unhappening of Genesis Lee. Here’s the publisher’s description. What would it feel like to never forget? Or to have a memory stolen? Seventeen-year-old Genesis Lee has never forgotten anything. As one of the Mementi–a small group of genetically enhanced humans–Gena remembers everything with the help of

Michael R. Underwood is joining us today with his novel The Younger Gods. Here’s the publisher’s description. The first in a new series from the author of Geekomancy (pop culture urban fantasy) and Shield and Crocus (New Weird superhero fantasy). Jacob Greene was a sweet boy raised by a loving, tight-knit family…of cultists. He always obeyed, and

Lesley Smith is joining us today with her novel The Changing of the Sun. Here’s the publisher’s description. The world is shifting and only the blind have eyes to see it. In a seaside village, a woman has come back from the dead, the only survivor of a tsunami which wiped out her clan. When she

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