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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Drew Williams is joining us today with his novel The Stars Now Unclaimed. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her
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Michael J. Martinez is joining us today to talk about his novel MJ-12: Endgame. Here’s the publisher’s description: A Cold War fought by superhuman agents reaches a boiling point in the thrilling finale to the MAJESTIC-12 historical thriller/superhero mash-up series from Michael J. Martinez. Josef Stalin is dead. In the aftermath, the Soviet Union is thrown
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Here’s where to find Mary Robinette in September: September 3 Online Drip Class September 4 American Writers Museum’s #FearlessWomen in Science Fiction – Chicago, Illinois September 6 Deep Dish SFF Reading – Chicago, Illinois September 9 Kerrytown BookFest – Ann Arbor, Michigan September 10 Chicago Nerd Social Club Book Club – Chicago, Illinois September 11
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Andrea Phillips is joining us today to talk about Season 4 of the serial fiction Bookburners, written with Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Brian Francis Slattery, and Mur Lafferty. Here’s a description: Everything in the Bookburners’ lives falls into two categories: Before London and After London. Before London, things were strange, sure, but After London .
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Shannon Eichorn is joining us today with her novel Rights of Use. Here is the description: In the 1960s, Project Blue Book assured America that no aliens visited its amber waves or shining seas. Thirty years later, Project Black Book knows better and has the flying saucers to prove it, but they still can’t stop the
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