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Renee Patrick is joining us today with their novel Design for Dying. Here’s the publisher’s description: Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl . . . until she discovers she’s a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing […]

Deborah Biancotti is joining us today to talk about her novella Waking in Winter. Here’s the publisher’s description: On a far, frozen desert world, Muir the pilot discovers an ancient artefact in the ice. She sees a mermaid at first, but later comes to wonder if it is Ningyo, a fish god from her homeland in

William C. Tracy is joining us today with his novella Tuning the Symphony. Here’s the publisher’s description: Change one note and the universe changes with the Symphony. One apprentice will become a full majus today. The other will wait months for another suitable challenger. Rilan Ayama is skilled in using her song to change the Grand

Josh Vogt is joining us today with his novel The Maids of Wrath. Here’s the publisher’s description: After surviving employee orientation without destroying the city with her new powers, Dani is finally a bonafide Cleaner. Raring to get to work and save the world from Corruption, she’s given the critical assignment of…full-time tools training. After all,

Stephanie Buris is joining us today to talk about her novel Masks and Shadows. Here’s the publisher’s description: The year is 1779, and Carlo Morelli, the most renowned castrato singer in Europe, has been invited as an honored guest to Eszterháza Palace. With Carlo in Prince Nikolaus Esterházy’s carriage, ride a Prussian spy and one of

Patrick S. Tomlinson is joining us today to talk about his novel Trident’s Forge. Here’s the publisher’s description: They’ve made it this far. If only that increased humanity’s chances on this new planet… Against all odds, the Ark and her thirty-thousand survivors have reached Tau Ceti G to begin the long, arduous task of rebuilding human

Martha Wells is joining us today with her novel The Edge of Worlds. Here’s the publisher’s description: An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed

Ainy Rainwater is joining us today with her novel If Wishes Were Spaceships. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Jazlyn is forced to make an emergency landing on a quarantine planet, the worst she expects to find are a bunch of irate scientists complaining because she messed up the pristine conditions of some experiment. But the buildings

Rachel Swirsky is joining us today with her short story “Love Is Never Still” in Uncanny Magazine Issue Nine. Featuring all–new short fiction by Rachel Swirsky, Shveta Thakrar, Max Gladstone, Kelly Sandoval, and Simon Guerrier, classic fiction by Daryl Gregory, nonfiction by Jim C. Hines, Kyell Gold, Javier Grillo–Marxuach, and Mark Oshiro, poems by C. S. E. Cooney,

Stacey Berg is joining us today with her novel Dissension. Here’s the publisher’s description: For four hundred years, the Church has led the remnants of humanity as they struggle for survival in the last inhabited city. Echo Hunter 367 is exactly what the Church created her to be: loyal, obedient, lethal. A clone who shouldn’t care

Alan Smale is joining us today with his novel Eagle in Exile. Here’s the publisher’s description: Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale’s gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the

Gillian Murray Kendall is joining us today with her novel The Book of Forbidden Wisdom. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a world of blood and betrayal, love is the only redemption… But that knowledge can only be reached by means of magic and a journey, by way of a confrontation with feelings that are hard to

Elizabeth Bonesteel is joining us today with her novel The Cold Between. Here’s the publisher’s description: Deep in the stars, a young officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold. When her crewmate,

Peter Tieryas is joining us today with his novel United States of Japan. Here’s the publisher’s description: A spiritual sequel to The Man In The High Castle, focusing on the New Japanese Empire, from an acclaimed author and essayist. The Axis won WWII and now, in the late 1980s, the Japanese Empire rules over the western US

Mark Tompkins is joining us today to with his novel The Last days of Magic. Here is the publisher’s description: An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth. What became of magic in the world? Who