Beth Cato is joining us to talk about her novel Roar of Sky. Here is the publisher’s description: In this stunning conclusion to the acclaimed Blood of Earth trilogy—a thrilling alternate history laced with earth magic, fantastic creatures, and steampunk elements—geomancer Ingrid must find a way to use her extraordinary abilities to save her world from
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Gene Doucette is joining us today to talk about his novel The Spaceship Next Door. Here’s the publisher’s description: When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only hope for survival Three years ago, a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow
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Mark A. Altman is joining us today to talk about So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica, written with Edward Gross. Here’s the publisher’s description: Four decades after its groundbreaking debut, Battlestar Galactica―both the 1978 original and its 2004 reimagining have captured the hearts of two generations of fans. What began
Peter Tieryas is joining us today to talk about his novel Mecha Samurai Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Man in the High Castle meets Pacific Rim in this action-packed alternate history novel from the award-winning author of United States of Japan. Germany and Japan won WWII and control the U.S., and a young man has one dream: to become
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Mary Robinette will be at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference from Oct 18-21, 2018, in Surrey, BC, Canada. Tickets here. Here’s where to find her there! Thursday, October 18 Master Class – Emotional Realities: Using Specificity to Make Your Work Vivid (requires additional ticket) 9:30am – 12:45 pm Emotion is one of the trickiest tools on
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Cheryl Low is joining us today to talk about her new book Detox In Letters, the second book in the Crowns & Ash series. Here’s the publisher’s description: Welcome to the Realm, where magic is your drug, your poison, and your only hope. An illness is spreading through the city, marking the sick in mysterious letters
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Shawn Sheehy is joining us today with his post-apocolyptic pop up book, Beyond the Sixth Extinction. Here’s the publisher’s description: Elaborate pop-ups feature some wonderfully creepy creatures that just might dominate the ecosystem — and be essential to our planet’s survival — in an eerily realistic future world. Whether or not we know it, the sixth
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October is here! I’ve had to cancel most of my travel because shingles, but here is where you can find me this month. October 9 Online Supporters Writing Date October 19-24 Surrey International Writers Conference – Surrey, BC, Canada October 27 Volumes’ Noir Murder Mystery Party – Chicago, Illinois October 29 Online Supporter Class
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Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law are joining us today to talk about their anthology Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders. Here’s the publisher’s description: Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose–or are forced–to leave home
Ashley and Leslie Saunders are joining us with their novel The Rule of One. Here’s the publisher’s description: In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all. In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head
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Peter James is joining us today with his novel Absolute Proof. Here’s the publisher’s description: Investigative reporter Ross Hunter nearly didn’t answer the phone call that would change his life – and possibly the world – for ever. ‘I’d just like to assure you I’m not a nutcase, Mr Hunter. My name is Dr Harry F.
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We have a saying in puppetry, that “if it doesn’t hurt, you’re not doing it right. Conversely, just because it hurts doesn’t mean that you are doing it right.” When I did Little Shop of Horrors, there’s a point in the show where I had to lift a 125 lb puppet, at a time in
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Sherylyn and Karen Dunstall, writing together as S. K. Dunstall, are joining us today to talk about their book Stars Uncharted. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this rip-roaring space opera, a ragtag band of explorers are out to make the biggest score in the galaxy. On this space jump, no one is who they seem . .
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Lawrence M. Schoen is joining us today to talk about his novel The Moons of Barsk. Here’s the publisher’s description: Pizlo, the lonely young outcast and physically-challenged Fant, is now a teenager. He still believes he hears voices from the planet’s moons, imparting secret knowledge to him alone. And so embarks on a dangerous voyage to
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Lauren C. Teffeau is joining us today to talks about her novel Implanted. Here’s the publisher’s description: The data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink… or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she’s cut off
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