Journal

Laura Lam is joining us today to talk about her novel Shattered Minds. Here’s the publisher’s description: Laura Lam returns to the near-future SF world of False Hearts with the speculative thrillerShattered Minds. Carina used to be one of the best biohackers in Pacifica. But when she worked for Sudice and saw what the company’s experiments on brain […]

Curtis C. Chen is joining us today to talk about his novel Kangaroo Too. Here’s the publisher’s description: Set in the same world as Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis C. Chen’s Kangaroo Too is bursting with adrenaline and intrigue in this unique outer space adventure. On the way home from his latest mission, secret agent Kangaroo’s spacecraft is wrecked by a

Sara Dobie Bauer is joining us today with her novel Bite Somebody Else. Here’s the publisher’s description: Imogene helped her newbie vampire friend Celia hook up with an adorable human, but now Celia has dropped an atomic bomb of surprise: she has a possibly blood-sucking baby on the way. Imogene is not pleased, especially when a

Christopher Husberg is joining us today with his novel Dark Immolation. Here’s the publisher’s description: A new religion is rising, gathering followers drawn by rumors of prophetess Jane Oden. Her sister Cinzia—once a Cantic priestess—is by her side, but fears that Jane will lead them to ruin. For both the Church and the Nazaniin assassins are

Jon Del Arroz is joining us today to talk about his novel For Steam and Country. Here’s the publisher’s description: Her father’s been pronounced dead. Destructive earthquakes ravage the countryside. An invading army looms over the horizon. And Zaira’s day is just getting started… Abandoned at an early age, Zaira von Monocle found life as the

Michael Johnston is joining us today with his novel Soleri. Here’s the publisher’s description: Michael Johnston brings you the first in a new epic fantasy series inspired by ancient Egyptian history and King Lear. The ruling family of the Soleri Empire has been in power longer than even the calendars that stretch back 2,826 years. Those records

A.J. Hartley is joining us today with his novel Firebrand. Here’s the publisher’s description: New York Times bestselling author A. J. Hartley returns to his intriguing, 19th-century South African-inspired fantasy world in Firebrand, another adrenaline-pounding adventure. Once a steeplejack, Anglet Sutonga is used to scaling the heights of Bar-Selehm. Nowadays she assists politician Josiah Willinghouse behind

J Tullos Hennig is joining us today with her novel Summerwode. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Summer King has come to the Wode… Yet to which oath, head or heart, shall he hold? Once known as the Templar assassin Guy de Gisbourne, dispossessed noble Gamelyn Boundys has come to Sherwood Forest with conflicted oaths. One is

Rebecca Roland is joining us today with her novel Shattered Fates. Here’s the publisher’s description: The magic barrier protecting the Taakwa from their enemies, the Maddion, is gone. Malia, who led the Taakwa against the Maddion in the Dragon War, must convince the magical being, the changer, to repair the barrier before the Maddion invade to

Selena Chambers is joining us today with her collection of short stories Calls For Submission. Here’s the publisher’s description: Selena Chambers’ debut collection guides readers out of space and time and through genre and mythos to explore the microcosmic horrors of identity, existence, and will in the face of the world’s adamant calls for submission. Victorian tourists

Alan Smale is joining us today with his novel Eagle and Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description: The award-winning author of Clash of Eagles and Eagle in Exile concludes his masterly alternate-history saga of the Roman invasion of North America in this stunning novel. Roman Praetor Gaius Marcellinus came to North America as a conqueror, but after meeting with defeat

Carrie Patel is joining us today with her novel The Song of the Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: Finally, the lost histories of the Catastrophe will be revealed and with them the ultimate fate of the buried city of Recoletta in the dramatic conclusion to Carrie Patel’s trilogy. With Ruthers dead and the Library Accord signed

Robyn Bennis is joining us today with her novel The Guns Above. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the tradition of Honor Harrington and the high-flying Temeraire series, Bennis’s THE GUNS ABOVE is an adventurous military fantasy debut about a nation’s first female airship captain. They say it’s not the fall that kills you. For Josette Dupre,