Journal

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

R.A. Salvatore is joining us today to talk about his novel, Glacier’s Edge. Here’s the publisher’s description: There’s a lot that Jarlaxle doesn’t know: is he the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, can he even find a way to get out, and beyond his immediate predicament, could he possibly escape the

Kowal’s comedy-of-manners SF mystery is a rollicking case of knowing when to throw decorum out the window in order to get results. Library Journal on The Spare Man Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and

Naseem Jamnia is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Bruising of Qilwa. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of blood magic discovers a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland. Persian-American author Naseem Jamnia has crafted a

Jim C. Hines is joining us today to talk about his novel, Terminal Peace. Here’s the publisher’s description: The third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague. Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships.

Alex White is joining us today to talk about their novel, August Kitko and the Mechas From Space. Here’s the publisher’s description: When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes humanity’s last hope in this bold, lightning-paced, technicolor new space opera series from the author of A Big Ship