Journal

Greta Kelly is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Queen of Days. Here’s the publisher’s description: From Greta Kelly, the author of the Warrior Witch duology, comes The Queen of Days, an epic adventure that weaves together a flawed-but-lovable family of thieves, a battle between fallen gods, and stakes high enough to […]

Tobias Buckell is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Stranger in the Citadel. Here’s the publisher’s description: The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia, a mystical source

Dan Moren is joining us today to talk about his novel, All Souls Lost. Here’s the publisher’s description: After two years trying to run away from his past, Mike Lucifer’s back in his office less than ten minutes when a persistent young woman shows up asking for help: her boyfriend’s been possessed by a demon.

N.L. Bates is joining us today to talk about her short story in the anthology Lofty Mountains. Here’s the publisher’s description: Look to the skies! Brave adventurers face new relationships and adversity in all sizes, from steampunk dirigibles to harpies, giant bees to garden gnomes, and winged dinosaurs to sky pirates. Isolated mountain peaks, clifftop

Hailey Piper is joining us today to talk about her novel, A Light Most Hateful. Here’s the publisher’s description: Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower.  Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if

Delilah S. Dawson is joining us today to talk about her novel, Bloom Here’s the publisher’s description: Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers’ market. Ash—precise, polished, and practically perfect—sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, and glossy green plants. Ro wants to be her and have

J.H.R. Lawless is joining us today to talk about their novel, This is the Good part. Here’s the publisher’s description: You want a democratic revolution? Because this is how you get a democratic revolution. On the cusp of the 22nd century, the world has long forgotten Liam Argyle, and the former reality show host turned failed

Ariel Kaplan is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Pomegranate Gate. Here’s the publisher’s description: The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition-era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore, with echoes of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden. Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She

Kristy Gardner is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Darkest Stars. Here’s the publisher’s description: The most terrifying monsters are the ones that lurk inside… After discovering everything she’s ever known has been a lie, Calay understands humanity’s brutality firsthand. Now, depleted rations, unexplained aberrations, and an ecosystem in collapse have driven

Trip Galey is joining us today to talk about his novel, A Market of Dreams & Destiny. Here’s the publisher’s description: Below Covent Garden lies the Untermarkt, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, a wisp of fortune. As a child, Deri was sold to one of

Jo Miles is joining us today to talk about their novel, Warped State. Here’s the publisher’s description: One wants to fix the broken corporate system. The other wants to tear it all down. Jasper Wilder has a secret gift: the ability to see the relationships between people like physical bonds. Though his gift has served

Jon Evans is joining us today to talk about his novel, Exadelic. Here’s the publisher’s description: When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls “black magic,” it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity

Dwain Worrell is joining us today to talk about his novel, Androne. Here’s the publisher’s description: Humanity’s new war is an enigma, with an enemy threat beyond all imagination, in this near-future novel of mind-blowing adventure where the fate of the world rests in the choices of one ordinary soldier. In one terrifying event called

Valerie Valdes is joining us today to talk about her novel, Where Peace is Lost. Here’s the publisher’s description: Where peace is lost, may we find it. Five years ago, Kelana Gardavros lost everything in the war against the Pale empire. Now Kel Garda is just another refugee living on the edge of an isolated