My Favorite Bit

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,

Marie Brennan is joining us today with her novel Within the Sanctuary of Wings. Here’s the publisher’s description: Within the Sanctuary of Wings is the conclusion to Marie Brennan’s thrilling Lady Trent Memoirs After nearly five decades (and, indeed, the same number of volumes), one might think they were well-acquainted with the Lady Isabella Trent–dragon naturalist,

Dan Koboldt is joining us today with his novel The Island Deception. Here’s the publisher’s description: What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. But what happens after you step through a portal to another world, well… For stage magician Quinn Bradley, he thought his time in Alissia was over. He’d done his job for

Renee Patrick is joining us today with their novel Dangerous to Know. Here’s the publisher’s description: Los Angeles, 1938. Former aspiring actress Lillian Frost is adjusting to a new life of boldfaced names as social secretary to a movie-mad millionaire. Costume designer Edith Head is running Paramount Pictures’ wardrobe department, but only until a suitable replacement

Ruthanna Emrys is joining us today with her novel Winter Tide. Here’s the publisher’s description: “Winter Tide is a weird, lyrical mystery — truly strange and compellingly grim. It’s an innovative gem that turns Lovecraft on his head with cleverness and heart” —Cherie Priest After attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the

K. Bird Lincoln is joining us today with her novel Dream Eater. Here’s the publisher’s description: Koi Pierce dreams other peoples’ dreams. Her whole life she’s avoided other people. Any skin-to-skin contact—a hug from her sister, the hand of a barista at Stumptown coffee—transfers flashes of that person’s most intense dreams. It’s enough to make anyone

Aliette de Bodard is joining us today with her novel The House of Binding Thorns. Here’s the publisher’s description: The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen saga as Paris endures the aftermath of a devastating arcane war…. As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it,

Rosalyn Eves is joining us today to talk about her novel Blood Rose Rebellion. Here’s the publisher’s description: The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell