Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKaren Lord, "The Blue, Beautiful World" (Del Rey, 2023)
Episode 155
In science fiction, aliens who come to Earth are usually scary and menacing, aspiring to destroy, conquer, or even eat mankind. But the aliens in Kar…
2 years, 11 months ago
Meryl Ain, "Shadows We Carry" (Sparkspress, 2023)
Episode 341
Meryl Ain's Shadows We Carry (Sparkspress, 2023) is a follow-up to the author’s 2020 novel, The Takeaway Men, focuses on fraternal twins Bronka and J…
2 years, 11 months ago
CK Westbrook, "The Shooting" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022)
Episode 340
In The Shooting (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022), the first book in a trilogy, CK Westbrook superbly places real-life characters in a fantasy world fi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Peter Mann, "The Torqued Man" (Harper Perennial, 2022)
Episode 342
Today I talked to Peter Mann about his book The Torqued Man (Harper Perennial, 2022).
Berlin—September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, eac…
2 years, 11 months ago
Victor LaValle, "Lone Women: A Novel" (One World, 2023)
Episode 94
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Ad…
3 years ago
Ginny Kubitz Moyer, "The Seeing Garden" (She Writes Press, 2023)
Episode 164
Nineteen-year-old Catherine Ogden appears to have everything: youth, wealth, birth, breeding, and beauty. No one in New York high society is surprise…
3 years ago
Sarah Conover, "Set Adrift: A Mystery and a Memoir" (55 Fathoms Publishing, 2023)
Episode 339
Today I talked to Sarah Conover about her book Set Adrift: A Mystery and a Memoir (55 Fathoms Publishing, 2023).
When racing yacht “The Revonoc” went …
3 years ago
Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
Episode 93
Ada--a woman from Montreal living reluctantly in Michigan--vanishes from her bed one night while her husband Danny is asleep beside her, her young so…
3 years ago
L. R. Lam, "Dragonfall" (DAW, 2023)
Episode 71
Today I talked to L. R. Lam about Dragonfall (DAW, 2023).
Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world.…
3 years ago
Joan Schweighardt, "Under the Blue Moon" (Five Directions Press, 2023)
Episode 337
Today I talked to Joan Schweighardt about her book Under the Blue Moon (Five Directions Press, 2023).
An automobile accident in front of a homeless sh…
3 years ago