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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

Josh Crute is joining us today to talk about his new web series WebCamelot, created in collaboration with David Rice and Matthew Barnette. Here’s the show’s description. In a recent discovery that rocked the historical community, archaeologists uncovered an ancient hard drive filled with video blogs dating from the reign of ARTHUR PENDRAGON, KING OF CAMELOT.

C. Robert Cargill is joining us today with his novel Queen of the Dark Things. Here’s the publisher’s description. Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that

Jodi McIsaac is joining us today with her novel Among the Unseen. Here’s the publisher’s description. Life just keeps getting more complicated for Cedar McLeod. As the recently crowned queen of Tír na nÓg, she’s trying to understand her magical new kingdom, even as she misses her life back on Earth. It doesn’t help that