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Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien are joining us today to talk about their book The Starlit Wood. Here’s the publisher’s description: An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers co-edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe. Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our

Kait Heacock is joining us today with her short story collection Siblings and Other Disappointments. Here’s the publisher’s description: Kait Heacock delves into the vulnerability of relationships and the various ways families fight, forgive, or fall apart. Her debut collection of twelve short stories follows a long-haul truck driver, a mother waiting for the rapture, newlyweds

Gabriel Squailia is joining us today with their novel Viscera. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Gone-Away gods were real, once, and taller than towers. But they’re long dead now, buried in the catacombs beneath the city of Eth, where their calcified organs radiate an eldritch power that calls out to anyone hardy enough to live in this

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.

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

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

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

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:

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

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,

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

Bishop O’Connell is joining us today to talk about his novel The Returned. Here’s the publisher’s description: Almost a year after their wedding, and two since their daughter Fiona was rescued from a kidnapping by dark faeries, life has finally settled down for Caitlin and Edward. They maintain a façade of normalcy, but a family being

Beth Cato is joining us today with her novel Breath of Earth. Here’s the publisher’s description: In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation—the Unified Pacific—in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of

Erica L. Satifka is joining us today with her novel Stay Crazy. Here’s the publisher’s description: After a breakdown in college landed Emmeline Kalberg in a mental hospital, she’s struggling to get her life on track. She’s back in her hometown and everyone knows she’s crazy, but the twelve pills she takes every day keep

Brooke Johnson is joining us today with her novel The Guild Conspiracy. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the face of impossible odds, can one girl stem the tides of war? It has been six months since clockwork engineer Petra Wade destroyed an automaton designed for battle, narrowly escaping with her life. But her troubles are far