Sometimes, someone you’re fond of turns out to be an asshole. Holding them accountable is part of being a friend. It helps them be better. I have a colleague/student/friend who has been awful to other people. Not to me, and that isn’t a defense. Ever. Their behavior is inexcusable. Defending my asshole friend’s behavior would make me complicit in it,
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Amy S. Foster is joining us today with her novel The Rift Uprising. Here’s the publisher’s description: Normal seventeen-year-old girls go to high school, binge watch TV shows all weekend, and flirt with everyone on the face of the Earth. But Ryn Whitaker is trying to save it. Ryn is a Citadel. A soldier. A liar.
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Becky Allen is joining us today to talk about her novel Bound by Blood and Sand. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jae is a slave in a dying desert world. Once verdant with water from a magical Well, the land is drying up, and no one remembers the magic needed to keep the water flowing. If a
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Kate had an infectious laugh. She would be sitting, quietly knitting on something, and you might be fooled into thinking that she wasn’t paying attention, but then she would come out with a zinger. Her sense of play expressed itself in words. The cruelest thing about the cancer she fought was that it stole her
Megan E. O’Keefe is joining us today with her novel Break the Chains. Here’s the publisher’s description: As the city that produces the most selium – that precious gas that elevates airships and powers strange magic – Hond Steading is a jewel worth stealing. To shore up the city’s defenses, Detan promises his aunt that he’ll
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Kent Davis is joining us today to talk about his novel A Riddle in Ruby: The Changer’s Key. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Riddle in Ruby trilogy takes readers on a rip-roaring adventure through an alternate version of colonial America, where magic and science meet, and where one young thief carries a secret everyone wants. In
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Fran Wilde is joining us today with her novel Cloudbound. Here’s the publisher’s description: After the dust settles, the City of living bones begins to die, and more trouble brews beneath the clouds in this stirring companion to Fran Wilde’s Updraft. When Kirit Densira left her home tower for the skies, she gave up many things:
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Marie Brennan is joining us today with her novella Cold-Forged Flame. Here’s the publisher’s description: The sound of the horn pierces the apeiron, shattering the stillness of that realm. Its clarion call creates ripples, substance, something more. It is a summons, a command. There is will. There is need. And so, in reply, there is a
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For Of Noble Family, I made the dress on the cover of the novel from a sari. I’m extremely proud of my work on that, because it’s historically accurate and also that entire thing is handsewn. It also is an excellent metaphor for cultural appropriation. I took a perfectly good, and beautiful Indian garment, cut it
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Happy book release day to Seanan McGuire and Once Broken Faith. I’m the narrator for the audiobooks for her October Daye series and these are some of my favorite books to narrate. Compelling characters? Oh yes. But I think that Seanan doesn’t get nearly enough credit for the quality of her prose. It’s really easy to
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Michael J. Martinez joins us today to talk about his novel MJ-12: Inception. Here’s the publisher’s description: It is a new world, stunned by the horrors that linger in the aftermath of total war. The United States and Soviet Union are squaring off in a different kind of conflict, one that’s fought in the shadows,
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Elsa Sjunneson-Henry is joining us today to talk about her Writing The Other Master Class: Writing Deaf and Blind Characters. ELSA SJUNNESON-HENRY I’m teaching a class in September about deaf and blind characters, and how to write them. I’m doing this, because I’m deafblind (by the medical classification, we’ll get into that in a second) and I believe
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William C. Tracy is joining us today to talk about his book Merchants and Maji: Two Tales of the Dissolutionverse. Here’s the publisher’s description: An old war machine and a revolutionary space capsule will change relations among the ten species forever Last Delivery Prot, Amra, and crew sell goods across the ten homeworlds in a refitted war
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I’m teaching a short story workshop that’s specifically for people who are having trouble control length and structure. WHEN: Sunday, October 2, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM (CDT) – Add to Calendar When people are struggling to write short fiction, the problem usually begins with the idea. It often leads to a story that
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