Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson & Greta Kelly as they chat with award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa about his new novel Season of the Serpent, completing The Nameless Republic trilogy, the challenges of writing a series, the African middle ages, expanding a cast of characters across a trilogy, collective amnesia and the effects of conflict, forgotten magic and forces of nature, teaching creative writing, writing for IPs like Black Panther, Stranger Things and Minecraft, moving to the west, culture shock and more.
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Cover Reveal: Fall Red Empire (Burn Red Skies #3) by Kerstin Espinosa Rosero
Blurb It starts with a rift that burns a thousand scars into the sky. It makes the winds stop. It makes the stars go dark. It awakens an ancient beast. And with it, a new reign of blood. It is the Summoning. And at the heart of it is fire. Temperamental dragons. Enchanted forests. Blood […]
Cover Reveal: The Anguished Earth: an Empire of the Wolf Novella by Richard Swan
Blurb It is winter in the Empire of the Wolf, and the town of Eisbrück burns with plague. Whilst physicians struggle to contain the pox, the atmosphere thickens with recrimination and rumour: talk of inauspicious constellations, and a demonic witch filling the streets with bodies and black magick. Amongst the chaos, Sir Konrad Vonvalt must […]
Cover Reveal & Kickstarter: Children of Ash & Stone (Age of Fire #2) by S.A. Klopfenstein
Kickstarter Children of Ash & Stone: A Dragon Fantasy Epic by S.A. Klopfenstein — Kickstarter Campaign will include Ebooks | Audiobooks | Paperbacks | Special Edition Hardcovers Books 1+2 will be available! Special Edition Features Just like with Book One’s campaign, the hardcover for Children of Ash & Stone will be the ultimate experience of this book, including […]
The One Thing I Always Prioritize
Isabelle Spotts, author of Saint Delilah, talks about building a character’s “inner world.”
SFF Addicts Ep. 215: Parenting in Speculative Fiction with Laura E. Weymouth (Writing Masterclass)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson & Greta Kelly as they delve into a writing masterclass on Parenting in Speculative Fiction with author Laura E. Weymouth. During the episode, Laura lays down the law of the (fictional) house, discussing being a parent AND a professional writer, the stereotypes of SFF parents, good and bad parental role models, writing believable parent characters, how parenthood can be intertwined with plot, teaching children empathy/morality through SFF stories, portraying community and partnership on the page, toxic vs. healthy relationships, the challenges of portraying motherhood in fiction, using spec fic to envision new ways of parenting, parental nostalgia and more.
Dark Conspiracy is Coming – A Horror RPG set in the Modern Age
Dark Conspiracy is Coming – A Horror RPG set in the Modern Age – BackerKit Dark Conspiracy is a science fiction roleplaying game based on the Traveller rules engine. Set in our own modern world – or just a few years hence – a terrible threat lurks in the shadows, utterly unknown by most of humanity. […]
Cover Reveal: The Shadow Queen (Bonds of Kin #3) by L. R. Schulz
First, let’s look at the covers for Books 1 & 2 (you can order at the link below) https://amzn.to/4wLgH5p Blurb The skae have emerged. Once thought to be little more than myth, the creatures of shadow now spread across Zapour, conquering kingdoms and driving humanity to the brink of extinction. Raiz Glaive has spent his […]
Cover Reveal: Fool by K.R. Lockhaven
Blurb Kyrien’s ascendancy from a prisoner of war to the trusted “Fool and Advisor to the God-King” has been the stuff of storybooks. He owes his dramatic reversal of fortune to Vaerain, the God-King himself. Kyrien’s life in the capital city is blessed with fame, riches, and a beautiful young family. But when a group […]
Elvenbane (The Halfblood Chronicles Book One) by Mercedes Lackey & Andre Norton
For more than thirty years the Halfblood Chronicles stood unfinished — three books and a promised conclusion that never came after Andre Norton’s death. Now it is whole. Mercedes Lackey completes the story with Ben Ohlander, in memory of Norton: four books, revised and newly illustrated, beginning to end. Start book one knowing the ending […]
Cover Reveal: BLIGHT WARDENS (Titan Hoppers #5) by Rob J. Hayes
Blurb War has come to Leviathan. As Iro and Emil face off over a city chamber turned to ruin, greater powers threaten to tear both fleets asunder. The war between the Home Fleet and the raiders reaches a crescendo as the Emperor’s mysterious orders are carried out and nothing will ever be the same. With […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 214: Laura E. Weymouth talks The Castle & the Cloister, Religion, War, Lyrical Prose & More
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson & Greta Kelly as they chat with author Laura E. Weymouth about her new novel The Castle & the Cloister, cultural identity and rootedness, the intersection of politics/religion/war, incorporating themes of religion and competing faiths into fantasy, kinghood and tyranny, shifting trends and surviving in publishing, writing YA vs. adult fantasy, lyrical prose that isn’t overindulgent, unreliable narrators and more.