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Alethea Kontis is joining us today to talk about her novel, Thieftess. Here’s the publisher’s description: Thursday’s child has far to go… Pirate Queen Thursday Woodcutter (aka “Captain Cutter”) and her infamous brother Jack left Arilland after their little sister’s magical ocean fiasco to reunite with the crew of the Sea Hag. But what they […]

J.M. Sidorova is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Witch of Prague. Here’s the publisher’s description: In Cold War Czechoslovakia, dyslexic teenager Alica escapes her troubled home by answering a newspaper ad. Instructed in typing, deportment, and political intrigue by a forbidding older woman with a long history of manipulating powerful men,

Christian Bieck is joining us today to talk about his novel, A Basquet of Cats. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gentza is a young black cat living a happy life in the Basque lands of medieval France. He shares an intimate mind-to-mind connection with his human friend and companion, the Archmage Zumar Etxartea. When his human

W.A. Simpson is joining us today to talk about her novel, Steelbound. Here’s the publisher’s description: An “expansive magical adventure” – Publishers Weekly on Tinderbox, Book 1 of ‘Tales from the Riven Isles’ In the epic conclusion of the Tales from the Riven Isles series, Ursa, a once selfish princess turned bitter exile, and Lucea, a determined chronomancer,

Lauren C. Teffeau is joining us today to talk about her novel, Accelerated Growth Environment. Here’s the publisher’s description: Dr. Jorna Benton is proud to be the Principal Scientist for the Climasphere, a massive, sea-going ecological nursery capable of supporting nearly every biome on Earth. On its inaugural mission to restore and re-wild collapsing ecosystems

Johnny Worthen is joining us today to talk about his novel, Fresh Start. Here’s the publisher’s description: On the edges of mankind’s domain there is a penal planet called Fresh Start where a sentence is at best exile to five generations, but more likely death in its harsh unforgiving wastes. It is to this planet

Mary Berman is joining us today to talk about her novel, Until Death. Here’s the publisher’s description: If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it’s that getting married is a bad idea. But if she’s learning anything from her widowed mother’s dementia, it’s that dying alone is worse. So when she meets Luke–the

Brian D. Hinson is joining us today to talk about his novel, Skies of Fire and Smoke. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Germania revolts against the dragons that rule Europe, Lt. Johann Fischer joins the attack on the Citadel in his Fokker. The fierce war begins on that day, but the dragons and their allied

A.Z. Rozkillis is joining us today to talk about her novel, Fractal Terminus. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jax had been alone on her Station for ten years, and that was the way she liked it. But then came Saunders, and her cheery, cute demeanor was just what was needed to bring Jax back to humanity.

Jeremy Szal is joining us today to talk about his novel, Wolfskin. Here’s the publisher’s description: Vakov Fukasawa is a Reaper. An elite soldier injected with a dangerous drug called stormtech: the DNA of a genocidal alien race, the Shenoi. It makes him stronger, faster, more aggressive. At a price. A price that, if the

Rena Rockford is joining us today to talk about her novel, Mothball Magic. Here’s the publisher’s description: She’s going to save the world even if she breaks a hip doing it. Ruth has been there and done that. She’s already saved the world in WWII, when magic was locked away forever. So, when it inconveniently

Lynn Strong is joining us today to talk about their novel, Chai and Charmcraft. Here’s the publisher’s description: His Imperial Highness Faraj al-Nadhir has never thought himself a charming sort of prince. He’s shy, round, middle-aged, and always dutiful. But he has also secretly spent years dreaming of a man tending jasmine in a star-lit

Kirsten Kaschock is joining us today to talk about her novel, An Impossibility of Crows. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this daring and evocative tale, Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father. Just a stone’s throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small

Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Multitude. Here’s the publisher’s description: We float to the surface, and we see that there is more to the world than the ocean. We see stars. Then one day, we hear a song from far away. It could be nothing, a new dance of