Omar Hussain is joining us today to talk about his novel, A Thousand Natural Shocks. Here’s the publisher’s description: Memories define us. But who do we become if they disappear? Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is desperate to outrun his past. During the day, he investigates the reemergence of a long-dormant serial killer. At […]
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Heather Tracy is joining us today to talk about her novel, Only a Chapter. Here’s the publisher’s description: “A call to change a lifetime… Clare O’Donnell is in a dead-end relationship with her girlfriend, until she receives a phone call that changes her life—literally. In one timeline, her biopsy results are positive for cancer. In
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Lara Elena Donnelly is joining us today to talk about her novel, No Such Thing as Duty. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the waning days of World War One, William Somerset Maugham–novelist, playwright, and spy–is sent to Romania to serve allied interests in the fight against Austro-Hungary, while dying of tuberculosis. His handler sets him
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Note: If you’d prefer to receive this monthly update in your email inbox (along with additional content, like my cat’s latest conversations), you can sign up for my newsletter here. I’m back in Denver following the Martian Contingency book tour, which was a delight. I deeply believe that stories are a collaborative process between the
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Randee Dawn is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Only Song Worth Singing. Here’s the publisher’s description: Childhood friends Patrick, Ciaran, and Malachi would’ve been happy to play music for coins on the streets of Dublin, but when their sound – a blend of traditional tunes and rock styling – lands them
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CJ Hosack is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Traveler’s Magic. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Library is dying. Ryn is finally working in the Ancestral Library, a childhood dream and a way to find her birth parentage. But the magic of the Library is being sabotaged, allowing pests, water damage and
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Hache Pueyo is joining us today to talk about her novel, But Not Too Bold. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Shape of Water meets Mexican Gothic in this sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady
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LJ Cohen is joining us today to talk about her novel, A Litany for a Broken World Here’s the publisher’s description: A young girl’s disastrous first foray through the multiverse cleaves her from her family and abandons her in a homeless encampment, adrift in a world and a body not her own. A doctor struggling
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Cory O’Brien is joining us today to talk about his novel, Two Truths and a Lie. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue now lives a simple and small life, trading snippets of what’s become the most valuable currency: information. So when the cops show up
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Note: If you’d prefer to receive this monthly update in your email inbox (along with additional content, like my cat’s latest conversations), you can sign up for my newsletter here. This month I became a Level 56 Human! Every year on my birthday I write a journal entry about the past year. You can take
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Kathleen Jennings is joining us today to talk about the 30th anniversary edition of The Book of Atrix Wolf. Here’s the publisher’s description: When the White Wolf descends upon the battlefield, the results are disastrous. His fateful decision to end a war with powerful magic changes the destiny of four kingdoms: warlike Kardeth, resilient Pelucir,
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Cory Doctorow is joining us today to talk about his novel, Picks and Shovels. Here’s the publisher’s description: New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer. The year is
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Premee Mohamed is joining us today to talk about her collection of short stories, One Message Remains. Here’s the publisher’s description: Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril—”The General’s Turn,” originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself might choose to join the audience… or step onto the
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The last year involved a lot of leveling up. Last year, the word that I chose to aim for during my 55th year was “stability.” It stood me in good stead, even through an unexpected move to Denver (surprise!) and family health stuff, I was able to find pockets of calm and focus on finding
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Caye Marsh is joining us today to talk about her novel, Station in the Sky. Here’s the publisher’s description: Donna, once Peace-in-the-Sky, awakens aboard Station-in-the-Sky and rejoins a society that had been her home for thousands of years before knowing Anissa. But she soon discovers her fellow stationers have lost sight of their original mandate
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