My Favorite Bit

Jane Mondrup is joining us today to talk about her novel, Zoi. Here’s the publisher’s description: At the age of five, Amira watched footage of the first zoi specimen arriving in our solar system, and she became instantly fascinated with the huge, cell-like creature floating among the stars. Decades later, she and three other astronauts […]

Aimee Ogden is joining us today to talk about her novel, Starstruck. Here’s the publisher’s description: Prish has always been a radish who knows what she’s about; chiefly, her wife, Alsing, a literal and figurative fox. They’ve woven together a cozy life around welcoming other starstruck beings into the world-plants and animals ensouled by a

Vanessa Ricci-Thode is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Dragon Next Door. Here’s the publisher’s description: Tollar’s got a stolen dragon egg, and that’s the least of her problems. Tollar is a hero for hire who just wants to deliver a stolen dragon egg to its kin and get on with her

Christy Climenhage is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Midnight Project. Here’s the publisher’s description: When enigmatic billionaire Burton Sykes walks into Re-Gene-eration, a bespoke reproduction assistance clinic run by Raina and Cedric, two disgraced genetic engineers struggling to get by, they know they have a very unusual client. When Sykes asks

Natalia Theodoridou is joining us today to talk about his novel, Sour Cherry. Here’s the publisher’s description: The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord’s baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin

David Anaxagoras is joining us today to talk about his audiobook, The Tower. Here’s the publisher’s description: When 12-year-old Kolby finds himself captive in the penthouse of a 75-story skyscraper with no memory of who he is or how he got there, he must work together with other young captives to unravel the mysteries of

Jim C. Hines is joining us today to talk about his novel, Kitemaster Here’s the publisher’s description: Nial Sarnin is twenty-one—far too young to have lost her beloved husband, Jika. One year after his death, Nial prepares to fly a kite sewn from his wedding shirt, believing it will carry Jika’s spirit to the stars.

Anson Joaquin is joining us today to talk about his novel, Infernal Age: Demon Gate. Here’s the publisher’s description: The end of technology and maybe of humanity itself. Demons (and magic) unleashed upon the Earth. The Mist meets a gritty prequel to The Elfstones of Shannara, The Infernal Age is a nail-biting take on the

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

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

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

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

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