Excerpt: “Chosen Ones” by Veronica Roth (audio)
The highly-anticipated Chosen Ones comes out today, April 7th -- a new story in a new world, from YA author Veronica Ross, author of the Divergent series.
Enjoy...
Writers, After Dark #54: Mercedes Yardley On putting together a beautiful, brutal horror short story collection
Mercedes Yardley stops by to talk about Arterial Bloom, a horror short story anthology from Crystal Lake Publishing, which is her first foray into being an editor....
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Award-winning science fiction author Kameron Hurley stops by to talk about her Worldbreaker Saga, and the concluding story, The Broken Heavens....
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Writers, After Dark #49: Luke Arnold Journeying from "Black Sails" to mean magical streets
Luke Arnold, fantasy writer and Black Sails actor, stops by to talk about his debut novel, The Last Smile in Sunder City....
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Writer and game designer Gareth Hanrahan stops by to talk about his Black Iron Legacy series. The second book, "The Shadow Saint", is out now from Orbit Books....
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Writers, After Dark #46: Mike Chen What can you do when people are trying to derail rebuilding after the apocalypse
SF author and columnist Mike Chen talks about how creating the characters of A Beginning at the End was more important than the actual apocalypse and immediate aftermath....
N. K. Jemisin on Diversity and Worldbuilding
This 2-hour talk from WIRED 25 was posted in November 2019, and is available to watch in full: N. K. Jemisin Speaks at WIRED25...
On the Stories and Influence of Robert Silverberg Peter Carlaftes and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro on Silverberg's fiction and more
SF columnist/historian Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and publisher Peter Carlaftes of Three Rooms Press talk about the history and the future of SF Grand Master Robert Silverberg,...
Writers, After Dark #44: S. K. Dunstall Space opera, from two storytellers weaving one tale
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Robin Cook talks “Genesis” and using ancestral DNA as an investigative tool Where scientific and medical breakthroughs are the solution to the mysteries
New York Times best-selling author Robin Cook stops by to talk about his latest medical thriller, Genesis, and some of the implications of using ancestral DNA from...
Writers, After Dark #42: Joe Mynhardt The still, small voice of horror tests the anthology waters
Joe Mynhardt, publisher of Crystal Lake Publishing, stops by to talk about getting started as a small press, focusing on horror and thrillers, and addressing the...
