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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. Shame the Station underwent a horrifying transformation at the same time. But hold on,…

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 House of Suns cult and the dangerous Shenoi alien race behind it, isn’t…

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 comes back in the middle of cooking dinner, seventy years later, Ruth must assemble…

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 window — prophetic visions that led him at last to one…

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 town of Letort, Pennsylvania is where the Krahn family has…

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 energies made by stars muttering to themselves… but it could be everything. We pull tight to your direction in…

Bernie Jean Schiebeling is joining us today to talk about their novel, House, Body, Bird. Here’s the publisher’s description: Birdie Goodbain, last of the House’s daughters, thought only the dolls were watching… Raised in her family’s dollhouse museum, Birdie grew up surrounded by models of perfect daughters that she could never be, haunted by a father who refused to accept her and a mother who…

Nicole Glover is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Starseekers. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the 1960s, the world was caught up in reaching beyond our planet and into the cosmos. It felt impossible—but there was nothing science, math…and magic couldn’t make possible. The race to space was on, and the Moon was what everyone had their eyes on. Including Cynthia Rhodes, a…

Meridel Newton is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Present Day by Day. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a world struggling with the aftermath of catastrophe, the small community of Osto is a beacon of hope uniting ragged survivors with a creed of cooperation and equality. As the newly elected leader of the town, Amaya Bly has her hands full after a harder-than-expected winter…

Neve Maslakovic is joining us today to talk about her novel, That Murder Feeling. Here’s the publisher’s description: Rod Gray has a gift that’s both a blessing and a curse: he can see emotions. And hear them, touch them-even inhale them. He’s given a name to the inside-out worlds he encounters, with their strange botanical growths, weather, and creatures: soul gardens. It’s a noisy way to walk…

K.L. Schroeder is joining us today to talk about their novel, No One to Hold the Distant Dead. Here’s the publisher’s description: Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming ecological disaster. But by the time she arrives, the catastrophic degradation of the planet’s terraformed environment has already passed the point of no return, and she finds its…

Marie Parks is joining us today to talk about her novel, Flightless. Here’s the publisher’s description: Riff is a disgraced, low-class thief. All of his hopes hinge on Ascension, so he can rejoin the elite, upper-class thieves guild he belonged to as a youth. When he’s offered a rare, lucrative job to steal an artifact and prove himself to the guild, there’s no question he’ll take it. But his…

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