Journal

Jason Sizemore is joining us today to talk about the annual Kickstarter for Apex Magazine. Apex Magazine is an online zine of fantastical fiction. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display. We publish in two forms: an every-other-month eBook issue and

W.P. Wiles is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Last Blade Priest. Here’s the publisher’s description: Inar is Master Builder for the Kingdom of Mishig-Tenh. Life is hard after the Kingdom lost the war against the League of Free Cities. Doubly so since his father betrayed the King and paid the ultimate

Ruthanna Emrys is joining us today to talk about her novel, A Half-Built Garden. Here’s the publisher’s description: On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm—and stumbles upon the first

Ryan Van Loan is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Memory in the Blood. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Memory in the Blood is the pulse-pounding conclusion to Ryan Van Loan’s The Fall of the Gods series, featuring sea battles, hidden libraries, warring deities, old enemies, and one woman’s desire for liberation and

Dan Moren is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Nova Incident. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Galactic Cold War hits close to home, in more ways than one… When a bomb explodes in the bustling Commonwealth capital city of Salaam, responsibility is quickly claimed by an extremist independence movement. But after a

Chris Gerrib is joining us today to talk about his novel, One of Our Spaceships is Missing. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the 23rd century, spaceships just don’t go missing. FBI agent Ray Volk is assigned to a task force to investigate a tragic accident: the disappearance of interplanetary passenger liner ValuTrip Cardinal, carrying 500

A.C. Wise is joining us today to talk about her novel, Hooked. Here’s the publisher’s description: Once invited, always welcome.Once invited, never free. Captain James Hook, the immortal pirate of Neverland, has died a thousand times. Drowned, stabbed by Peter Pan’s sword, eaten by the beast swimming below the depths, yet James was resurrected every

Rachel Swirsky is joining us today to talk about her novella, January Fifteenth. Here’s the publisher’s description: January Fifteenth—the day all Americans receive their annual Universal Basic Income payment. For Hannah, a middle-aged mother, today is the anniversary of the day she took her two children and fled her abusive ex-wife. For Janelle, a young,

Kimberly Unger is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Extractionist. Here’s the publisher’s description: Eliza McKay is an Extractionist: an expert in the virtual reality space where people’s minds are uploaded as digital personas. When rich or important people get stuck in the Swim for reasons that are sleazy, illegal, or merely

J.S. Fields is joining us today to talk about their novella, Awry with Dandelions. Here’s the publisher’s description: Orin sells dandelion latex at a no-name market, barely scraping by. Mette is a princess. Maybe. What Orin does know is that for thirty seconds every night, Mette visits Orin in xir dreams. Orin has long since

Mia V. Moss is joining us today to talk about her novella, Mai Tais for the Lost. Here’s the publisher’s description: Marrow Nightingale is a professional pain in the ass. As Electric Blue Moon’s only licensed private investigator, she’s the one who snoops the closets of the elite who think the laws don’t apply to

Gregory A. Wilson is joining us today to talk about the Kickstarter for the Grayshade dark fantasy trilogy and RPG, ending July 15th. Here’s the description: Welcome to Grayshade! We are creating a whole world of defiance within darkness, of assassins and power and finding who holds it – to read about, play in, and experience,

Jennifer Estep is joining us today to talk about her novel, Tear Down the Throne. Here’s the publisher’s description: How would you feel if you were falling for your greatest enemy, all while trying to save your kingdom from ruin? In the second book in the Estep’s new Gargoyle Queen series, crown princess and clever