Unexpected Questions with Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle is the award-winning author of the American Craftsmen trilogy from Tor Books, a saga of modern-day magician soldiers and psychic spies fighting their way through nightmares from the worlds of Hawthorne and Poe.  […]

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Excerpt: Where Shadows Bloom by Catherine Baskewell

Fans of Allison Saft and Margaret Rogerson will be swept away into this lush and beguiling sapphic romantasy from the bestselling author of Flowerheart, Catherine Bakewell. Ofelia has lived her life dreaming of entering Le Château Enchanté—the mysterious […]

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Unexpected Questions with Caitlin Rozakis

New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Rozakis writes fantasy with a satirical twist and a cozy heart. Her debut novel is DREADFUL, but turned out not to be dreadful at all. Her next book, THE GRIMOIRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL […]

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Excerpt: Mr. Jone’s Smoking Bones

It’s 1867. The East India Company has fallen, and a smoking skeleton is killing ex-company members. A drug-addled Indian detective with a deep-rooted hatred of the British Empire is drawn into the investigation and enters […]

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Unexpected Questions with Rick Wilber

Rick Wilber is an award-winning writer, editor and college professor with a half-dozen novels and short-story collections published or under contract, more than seventy short stories in print or sold, two dozen poems, five edited […]

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AMAZING NEWS: 1/12/25

This Week’s News Is Brought To You By – Captain Future and the Futuremen (which includes women…and androids, robots and brains in jars).  Read Allen Steele’s on-going, blockbuster series!   Of Special Note Over the […]

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Excerpt: NORTH IS THE NIGHT by Emily Rath

Inspired by the medieval Finnish epic saga the Kalevala and sharing themes with the tale of Hades and Persephone, this is an extraordinary story packed full of adventure set in the wintery wilderness of Finland and the mythical underworld Tuonela.     *** Emily Rath Emily Rath […]

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Unexpected Questions with Randee Dawn

Randee Dawn is a best-selling author of funny fantasy, dark speculative fiction and horror. She’s the author of the humorous, fantastical, pop culture novel Tune in Tomorrow, and the co-editor of The Law & Order: […]

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Unexpected with Dennis McKiernan

Dennis Lester McKiernan is an American writer best known for his high fantasy The Iron Tower. His genres include high fantasy (set in various fictitious worlds), science fiction, horror fiction, and crime fiction. His primary setting, Mithgar, was originally meant to host […]

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Unexpected Questions with Brenda Clough

Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. Her latest work is a novelette, ‘Clio’s Scroll’, which appeared in Clarkesworld in July 2023. A historical novel A Door In His Head won […]

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Unexpected Questions with Bill Spangler

Bill Spangler has been writing science fiction oriented comics since the late 198t0s, primarily media tie-in books. He’s probably best known for his original stories set in the Robotech universe, starting with Malcontent Uprisings and including Invid War, Return to […]

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Barry Malzberg 1939-2024

I first met Barry, I don’t remember exactly when.  It was certainly at a convention at least somewhat adjacent to New Jersey, where we both lived.  The fact that we shared a state of origin […]

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