Journal

Jane Yolen is joining us today to talk about her short story collection, The Midnight Circus. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the newest volume of her World Fantasy Award-winning short story collections, beloved author Jane Yolen’s dark side has fully emerged. Her vivid, startling, and thrilling tales and poems of the supernatural―from icy-hearted witches to

J.R.H. Lawless is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Rude Eye of Rebellion. Here’s the publisher’s description: If only fools think they can change the world,then a fool is the only one who can. Life doesn’t pick winners and losers. That’s for the corporations to decide. And they picked Liam Argyle for

R.B. Lemberg is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Four Profound Weaves. Here’s the publisher’s description: Two transgender elders must learn to weave from Death in order to defeat an evil ruler–in the debut full-length work set in R. B. Lemberg’s award-winning queer fantasy Birdverse universe The Surun’ nomads do not speak

Dan Hanks is joining us today to talk about his novel, Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description: An ex-Spitfire pilot is dragged into a race against a shadowy government agency to unlock the secrets of the lost empire of Atlantis… In post-war 1952, the good guys are supposed to

Chris Panatier is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Phlebotomist. Here’s the publisher’s description: War brought the Harvest. Willa Mae Wallace is a reaper.  To support herself and her grandson Isaiah, Willa works for the blood contractor Patriot. Instituted to support the war effort, the mandatory draw–The Harvest–has led to a society

Caitlin Starling is joining us today to talk about her novel, Yellow Jessamine. Here’s the publisher’s description: In Yellow Jessamine, shipping magnate Evelyn Perdanu controls the dying city of Delphinium with trade deals and secrets. But when mysterious sickness sparks death and obsession, all leading back to her, Evelyn’s brittle existence is strained to breaking. She

Alma Alexander is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Second Star. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Parada had been lost for almost two hundred years before they recovered the ship, drifting in stygian interstellar darkness, and brought her home again. But that was not the miracle. The miracle was that the crew

Madeline Ashby is joining us today to talk about The Machine Dynasty Omnibus. Here’s the publisher’s description: An omnibus edition consisting of all three volumes of Madeline Ashby’s epic sci-fi masterwork, The Machine Dynasty. Collects vN, iD and ReV. vNAmy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown

David Mack is joining us today to talk about his novel, THE SHADOW COMMISSION. Here’s the publisher’s description: The wizards of the Cold War must uncover a secret cabal responsible for the Kennedy assassination in The Shadow Commission, New York Times bestselling author David Mack’s globe-spanning historical fantasy sequel to The Iron Codex. November 1963. Cade and Anja have