My Favorite Bit

Josh Rountree is joining us today to talk about his novel, Summer in the House of the Departed. Here’s the publisher’s description: This is a sometime place, not an all the time place… Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes-along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Brady […]

William Alexander is joining us today to talk about his novel, Sunward. Here’s the publisher’s description: A cozy debut science fiction novel by National Book Award–winning writer William Alexander, this story of found family follows a planetary courier training adolescent androids in a solar system grappling with interplanetary conflict after a devastating explosion on Earth’s

Allee Mead is joining us today to talk about her novel, Isaac. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Eleanor Lane, estranged from her family, makes the drive to her deceased father’s house to arrange his funeral, she discovers Isaac, a care-bot. Isaac had been caring for her father ever since the incident six years ago, when

Deva Fagan is joining us today to talk about her novel, House of Dusk Here’s the publisher’s description: Ten years ago, Sephre left behind her life as a war hero and took holy vows to seek redemption for her crimes, wielding the flames of the Phoenix to purify the dead. But as corpses rise, a

Allister Thompson is joining us today to talk about his novel, Birch and Jay. Here’s the publisher’s description: Decades after the world was levelled by the effects of human-made climate change, the scattered remnants of humanity have begun to pull themselves together. Birch and Jay are a young couple living in a small, idyllic community

Athena Giles is joining us today to talk about their novel, Waves Take Your Bones. Here’s the publisher’s description: The dead rise and the sea is calling. Tallis and Finn, simple farmers, find their quiet village overrun by shriekers, a horde of undead revenants. After a devastating attack and heartbreaking losses, they must flee the

Jason Sanford is joining us today to talk about his novel, We Who Hunt Alexanders. Here’s the publisher’s description: Amelia is a ripper, a monster who feeds on violent people who have so thoroughly forsaken love that they’ve burned away their souls. Unseen and unnoticed by most of society and living as both hunter and

Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Andrei and the Hellcats. Here’s the publisher’s description: Only the Galactic Hellcats can help Andrei, a charming, sex-positive robot, rescue his sister. This book promises: Action! Adventure! Fashion sense! Solo-flyers! Wit! Don’t dare put down this book or all might be lost… as in,

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