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Mary Robinette teaches classes, once a month, for her $25 Patreon supporters. The topic rotates, depending on what folks want to know about. This month’s class is tonight (Sep. 21) at 8 pm Eastern. Due to travel shenanigans this month, Sandra Tayler will be our Guest Instructor, teaching us about Creativity in All Aspects of […]

R. B. Lemberg is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Unbalancing. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this first full-length novel from the acclaimed Birdverse, new love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save their island home. Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte finalist R. B. Lemberg

Hi everyone! It’s been a busy September between Worldcon and the Writing Excuses Cruise. But I’m checking in to let you know that The Relentless Moon is currently on sale for $2.99. You can find it at Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books and other places that sell ebooks. Sale runs until September 30. https://books2read.com/u/mVAQk2 The Earth

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam is joining us today to talk about her novella, Glorious Fiends. Here’s the publisher’s description: When infamous hot mess vampire Roxanne resurrects her deceased best friends, she’s confronted by a dream-dwelling Guardian of the Underworld, who demands that she replace them in his afterlife with three equally nefarious creatures-or he’ll drag her

Stacey McEwan is joining us today to talk about her novel, Ledge. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a place known as the Ledge, a civilization is trapped by a vast chasm and sheer mountain face. There is no way for anyone to escape the frozen wasteland without befalling a deathly drop. They know nothing of

Kate Heartfield is joining us today to talk about her novel, Assassin’s Creed: The Magus Conspiracy. Here’s the publisher’s description: The war between Assassins and Templars wreaks havoc in the Victorian era, in this breakneck thriller which opens up a whole new chapter of the Assassin’s Creed universe London, 1851 – When Pierrette, a daring acrobat performing

Katherine Cowley is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Lady’s Guide to Death and Deception. Here’s the publisher’s description: What is a spy willing to do when both her heart and her country are at risk? Life changes once again for British spy Miss Mary Bennet when Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from the

Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Gods Awoke. Here’s the publisher’s description: If the Gods were real, could you believe? Hitra, high priestess of Revestre, already has enough on her hands: political upheaval, a distractingly attractive male servant, and an upcoming harvest festival. But when a column of flame

Elayne Audrey Becker is joining us today to talk about her novel, Wildbound. Here’s the publisher’s description: The thrilling follow-up to Elayne Audrey Becker’s debut YA epic fantasy, Forestborn, full of forest magic and a kingdom on the brink of war. With the assassination of Telyan’s king, the time for peace has passed. Determined to

  Mary Robinette teaches classes, once a month, for her $25 Patreon supporters. The topic rotates, depending on what folks want to know about. Tonight’s class is at 8 pm Eastern. Sometimes you get stuck because you know that a plot point is supposed to happen next but don’t know how to actually make it

Dan Koboldt is joining us today to talk about his novel, Silver Queendom. Here’s the publisher’s description: When you owe money to the biggest criminal in town you are going to need to step up your thieving game a notch… Service at the Red Rooster Inn isn’t what you’d call “good,” or even “adequate.” Darin

Worldcon, or the World Science Fiction Convention, is the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, writers, artists, musicians and other creators from across the globe. First held in New York City in 1939, Worldcon moves around the globe, held in a different city and organized by a different volunteer organization each year. This

Elijah Kinch Spector is joining us today to talk about his novel, Kalyna the Soothsayer. Here’s the publisher’s description: Kalyna’s family has had the Gift for generations: the ability to see and predict the future. For decades, they have traveled around the four connected kingdoms of the Tetrarchia—one country with four monarchs—selling their services as

Victor Manibo is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Sleepless. Here’s the publisher’s description: Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn’t buy the too-convenient explanation of suicide, and launches an investigation of