Author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal when he started signing books during an unannounced visit to a shop in Australia, according to local media.
Cover to Cover #275A: Amanda Hemingway
Interview: Michael, Brian and Lorrie talk with British author Amanda Hemingway about the final book in her Sangreal Trilogy, The Poisoned Crown, widely acclaimed as the best of the series. She’s also working on a new series based on an occassionally recurring character in some of her earlier works.
Amanda also writes under several different pseudonyms to cover the variety of story styles that she writes in, but not all of them are available in the US, so if her premises intrigue you, you’ll have to do a little digging to find some of the other books.
Cover to Cover #274A: Marianne de Pierres
Interview: Michael, Summer and Michael talk with Australian author Marianne de Pierres about her latest book, Dark Space, the first book in her new series “The Sentients of Orion”. She’s created a new universe, different from the world in her Parrish Plessis series, one where the races are in a technological race to talk with God, who was discovered in deep space after an ship on a mining exploration run suffers a navigational failure and drifts off course.
Cover to Cover #273: Gail Z. Martin / Phil Rossi
Interview: Michael and Michael talk with Gail Z. Martin about The Summoner, the first book in her new series “The Chronicles of The Necromancer”. It’s all about an orphaned prince who must learn how to master a rare magical ability, avenge his murdered family, and reclaim the kingdom that had been stolen from him.
Interview: Michael and Michael next talk with Phil Rossi about his podiobook “Crescent”, currently one of the fasting growing podcast novels out there. It’s based on a space station, and is a little bit ghost story, a little bit romantic action-adventure, and a little bit mystery all rolled into the same story.
Cover to Cover #272: Emma Bull and Will Shetterly
Interview: Michael and Summer talk with Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, husband and wife Tucson transplants as they drop by the studio at the beginning of their joint book tour for their respective new novels Territory and Gospel of the Knife.
Cover to Cover #271: Mike Carey / Lynda Williams
Interview #1: Michael and Brian talk with internationally acclaimed comic book author Mike Carey about his new novel The Devil You Know. It’s a supernatural thriller, and the first book of a planned six-book series about an exorcist who’s far more detective than priest, and the dangers in the line of work he’s chosen.
Interview #2: Next up, Michael and Michael talk with Canadian science fiction author Lynda Williams about Righteous Anger, the follow up to Courtesan Prince and the shared Okal Rel universe these stories and other works of hers and other writers inhabit.
Cover to Cover #270: Anne McCaffrey / David Anthony Durham
Interview #1: Michael, Summer, Brian and Michael talk with Anne McCaffrey about what it’s like to write in a universe that’s so well and widely known, the lengths she goes to to research her stories; and what it’s like to open up her Pern universe to new stories by her son, Todd. She also tells us about working with the Writers of the Future to help bring along the next next generation of writers and storytellers.
Interview #2: Next up, talk with award-winning historical novelist David Anthony Durham about Acacia, his first foray into epic fantasy with a multicultural story rich in mythology and history of a kingdom under siege, and the tale of exiled children determined to undo their father’s legacy of a tyrannical rule, and rebuild their kingdom into one based on freedom and dignity.
Cover to Cover #269: James Patrick Kelly / Seth Harwood
Interview #1: Michael, Summer, Brian and Michael talk with James Patrick Kelly, who tells us about the convoluted journey of BURN from print to podcast, back to print to Nebula Award. The podcast version was nominated, and won the award for the novella category.
Interview #2: Next up, Michael, Summer and Michael talk with Seth Harwood about his upcoming podcast “This is Life”, the sequel to the crime noir podcast, “Jack Wakes Up”.
Cover to Cover #268: JC Hutchins
Interview: Michael, Brian and Michael talk with the force of nature that is JC Hutchins, and the upcoming third volume of his 7th Son Trilogy, debuting on July 7, 2007. The guys talk about how 7th Son became a podcast, and how the promotional monster combination of Hutch and Sigler was borne and grew into the cosmic force that it is today.
Cover to Cover #267: Kelley Armstrong
Interview: Michael, Summer, Michael and Brian chat with Kelley Armstrong about her latest Otherworld novel, “No Humans Involved”, and her interpretation of necromancer as Jaime Vegas takes the forefront in her own story this time around.
Kelley also tells us about her other book coming out later this summer, “Exit Strategy”, a crime thriller featuring a female law enforcement officer turned hitwoman, with not one speck of paranormal to be found anywhere in the story.
Cover to Cover #266: John Klima
Interview: Michael, Summer, and Michael chat with John Klima, editor of the short story collection Logorrhea, a bold play on storycrafting where he sent a list of Scripps Spelling Bee winning words to a select list of authors and asked them to write a story based on and inspired by the word they picked in addition to incorporating the word into the story.
Cover to Cover #264: Charlaine Harris
Interview: Michael, Summer, Brian and Mary welcome Charlaine Harris to the studio, since she’s stopped in Phoenix during the book tour for All Together Dead, the latest in her Southern Vampire series.
Charlaine tells us how she moved from writing conventional mysteries to writing what she calls rural fantasy, the building of the universe that Sookie inhabits, and working with the characters Sookie Stackhouse and Harper Connelly.
Cover to Cover #262: John Scalzi
Interview: Michael and Summer welcome John Scalzi into the studio, since he’s stopped in Phoenix during his whirlwind book tour to promote The Last Colony, following the protagonists, John and his wife Jane, after they’re asked by the Colonial Union to lead the establishment of a brand new colony, and the ulterior motives they uncover along the way.
Cover to Cover #261: K. A. Bedford
Interview: Michael, Summer, Brian, Michael and Tim talk with award-winning Australian author Adrian Bedford about his latest book, “Hydrogen Steel”, which Tim eagerly read through for review.
Adrian tells us all about creating the universe of “Hydrogen Steel”, and creating the characters that live there as the story flows back and forth between a detective mystery and a hard scifi story, and about the award nominations it’s garnered so far.
Cover to Cover #260: Jim Butcher
Interview: Michael, Summer, Brian, and Evo are joined in studio with Jim Butcher, the New York Times best-selling author of the hot Dresden Files series, and the Codex Alera series. The newest Dresden files book is “White Night”, and the newest Codex Alera book is “Cursor’s Fury”.
Jim tells us all about what inspired him to create the Dresden Files series, and we have Laurell K. Hamilton, Cast A Deadly Spell, and the first season of “Buffy” to thank for these. We also talk about the television series adaptation aired on SciFi Channel, and the impressions made by rushing the show into and through production, and Jim talks about his hopes for a season 2
