Journal

Janice L. Newman is joining us today to talk about her series of novella, At First Contact. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Fantastical Romances You’ve Been Craving Hugo Finalist Janice L. Newman presents a touching trio of romances in a speculative vein. From the edge of space, to the shadows of the paranormal, to the […]

L.L. Stephens is joining us today to talk about the novel Sordaneon. Here’s the publisher’s description: Secrets sheathe swords. A fallen world is littered with the corpses of broken god-machines, and a sheltered, angry youth is destined to re-awaken their power. But to embody a god, Dorilian Sordaneon must first learn to be human… Dorilian

Juliet Kemp is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Rising Flood. Here’s the publisher’s description: Hope alone cannot withstand a rising flood A darkness writhes in the heart of Teren. The Academy is unleashing demons on dissenters, and refugees rush to leave the capital with nothing but their lives and a hope.

J.S. Fields is joining us today to talk about their novel, Ardulum: The Battle for Pruitcu. Here’s the publisher’s description: Fifteen years ago, Guard Four stood by and watched her friend, Atalant, be jettisoned into space for questioning their planet’s religion. Atalant should have died. Instead, she disappeared. Consumed by guilt, Guard Four trawls space,

Michael Bishop is joining us today to talk about his collection, A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals. Here’s the publisher’s description: This retrospective Michael Bishop collection of fifty short pieces (thirty-four stories, fifteen poems or prose-poems, and one amusing Moon-based play about writing SF, “The Grape Jelly and Mustard Method”) spans the author’s

M. A. Carrick is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Liar’s Knot. Here’s the publisher’s description: TRUST IS THE THREAD THAT BINDS. AND THE ROPE THAT HANGS. In Nadežra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy

Patrick Swenson is joining us today to talk about his novel, Rain Music. Here’s the publisher’s description: There’s magic in the forest and it sings . . . Truman Starkey heard it once, there in the ancient rain forest. A song that could raise the dead, a song that could bend time to its will.

Erika L. Satifka is joining us today to talk about her novel, How To Get To Apocalypse and Other Disasters. Here’s the publisher’s description: The apocalypse can take many forms. Possibly our end will come by way of an addictive cell phone game that manipulates its users into a crowd-sourced mass murder. Or perhaps our

Tobias Buckell is joining us today to talk about his short story collection, Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description: Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award-winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-seven stories you’ll find inhabitants of

Jamie Lackey is joining us today to talk about her novelette, A Rose by Any Other Name. Here’s the publisher’s description: Juliet is the perfect daughter to her cold parents. She’s devoted to her magic studies, studious and serious, and she even spends her weekends at home. If she’s a little lonely, well, that hardly

Dan Hanks is joining us today to talk about his novel, Swashbucklers. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Cisco Collins returns to his home town thirty years after saving it from being swallowed by a hell mouth opened by an ancient pirate ghost, he realises that being a childhood hero isn’t like it was in the

Miyuki Jane Pinckard is joining us today to talk about the Kickstarter for Mermaids Monthly. Here’s the description: Mermaids Monthly is a digital magazine all about mermaids. What kind of mermaids? Every kind. Happy mermaids, murderous mermaids; mermaids, merdudes, mermxs – maybe even a few highly confused manatees! Any cool aquatic chimeras that you could

Cat Rambo is joining us today to talk about her novel, You Sexy Thing. Here’s the publisher’s description: Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former SFWA President, Cat Rambo. Just when they thought they were out… TwiceFar station is at the edge of the known universe, and that’s just how

Caitlin Sangster is joining us today to talk about her novel, She Who Rides the Storm. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this atmospheric YA fantasy that is Wicked Saints meets There Will Come a Darkness, four teens are drawn into a high-stakes heist in the perilous tomb of an ancient shapeshifter king. Long ago, shapeshifting monsters ruled the