Journal

Melvin Burgess is joining us today to talk about his novel, Loki. Here’s the publisher’s description: Starting with the Norse creation myths, the trickster god Loki takes the reader on a wild ride through Norse mythology, from the era when the gods—the founders of Asgard—defeated a race of monsters, and then hurtles through legendary stories, […]

Amber Morrell is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Alchemy of Letting Go. Here’s the publisher’s description: A young scientist finds a magical way to escape death, but can’t escape her emotions. Twelve-year-old Juniper Edwards can’t stop chasing the endangered butterfly her sister died trying to catch. In her grief, Juniper finds

Dan Eavenson is joining us today to talk about his short story in the anthology, The World of Juno. Here’s the publisher’s description: Explore the birth of a new world! Journey through time and space to the intricate biosphere of Juno, where three species have been birthed by the gods. First the Kuhifadi, inheritors of

Julie Novakova is joining us today to talk about the anthology she edited, Life Beyond Us. Here’s the publisher’s description: What would life be like if it evolved in a cold ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscured any view of the universe beyond? Is there a common

Jason Denzel is joining us today to talk about his novel, Mystic Skies. Here’s the publisher’s description: The world has Changed. After the catastrophic celestial event that merged Fayün and the human world, most human babies are born fused with fay spirits. The Mystics of Kelt Apar, once beloved, are blamed for this worldwide phenomenon.  Under

Ness Brown is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Scourge Between Stars. Here’s the publisher’s description: As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant

Stina Leicht is joining us today to talk about her novel, Loki’s Ring. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making her

Lavanya Lakshminarayan is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Ten Percent Thief. Here’s the publisher’s description: Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, one of the last bastions of civilization in a world ravaged by climate change. Governed by an insidious corporation, everything is decided by the mathematically precise Bell Curve. With optimal productivity,