I am not familiar with the rules of romance. I had no idea that there were distinct lines between what defines a “romance” and what defines a “love story”, nor that there were so many rules for the other types of romantic tales.
Cover to Cover #244: Cover to Cover 2.0
“Cover to Cover” is branching out. We’ll still talk to the authors we all want to hear from, but we’ll also be expanding those interviews to include discussion from publishers, agents, and others about the business of writing, and methods to improve your own writing.
So many aspects of storytelling to cover, so little time.
Cover to Cover #243: Paranormal Romance
Paranormal Romance: An Interview with Paula Guran and Elizabeth Bear
This week, we present the last of a series of interviews conducted at World Fantasy 2006.
Summer sat down with Paula Guran, editor of Juno Books, and author Elizabeth Bear to talk about paranormal romance, and the wide variety of story themes and components that make up this undefinable but easily recognizable genre.
Cover to Cover #242: Vampire Powerhouse
This week, we present a World Fantasy Convention 2006 panel on vampire fiction.
Paula Guran, editor of Juno Books, is the moderator, and the panelists are Dean Anderson, P. N. Elrod, Charlaine Harris, Suzy McKee Charnas, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
Cover to Cover #241: K. D. Wentworth and Illustrators of the Future
This week, we present another World Fantasy Convention roundtable where Summer talks to Writers of the Future former winner and current judge K. D. Wentworth (an active SF writer and two-time Nebula Award finalist), Illustrators of the Future winner Laura Jennings, and Writers of the Future winner Diana Rowland.
Cover to Cover #240: Tim Powers and Writers of the Future
This week we have a roundtable discussion from this year’s World Fantasy Convention. It’s a chat that spans everything from Tim’s new book, Three Days to Never, his involvement as a judge of the Writers of the Future contest, a little detail on what finalists go through at their “bootcamp”, and more. Just remember, it’s always about the pneumatic tubes.
Cover to Cover #239: Steve Alten
Interview: Michael and Summer talk with Steve Alten about Resurrection, the second book in his “Domain” trilogy. Steve’s a busy author with so many monsters to juggle, and he tells us all about the mythology behind the “Domain” trilogy, and how he has woven a story around the Mayas and the prophecies surrounding their eerily accurate calendar, which ends without explanation on December 21, 2012, and it’s implication that humanity, or life as we know it, will end in the near future, makes for an irresistible tapestry to wrap around a mystery.
Cover to Cover #238: Scott Lynch
Interview: Michael, Evo and Summer talk with Scott Lynch about his debut novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora. “Lies” is the first in a seven book epic, “The Gentleman Bastards” sequence, and the story of how the book came to be published is just as interesting as the story itself.
Cover to Cover #237: Scott Sigler
Interview: Podcast novelist Scott Sigler joins Michael and Evo to push, er, discuss his latest audio drama addiction.
THE ROOKIE is set amongst a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future. Aliens play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that – literally – want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed and rival players are assasinated.
Cover to Cover #236: Writers of the Future 2006
The 22nd Annual Writers of the Future Awards Ceremony was held on Aug 18, 2006 at the Balboa Park Air & Space Museum in San Diego, and Michael and Summer talk with the quarterly winners and the Grand Prize winner of the 2006 Writers of the Future contest
Cover to Cover #235: Tim Lebbon
Interview: This week, Michael and Summer talk with dark fantasty/horror author Tim Lebbon about his new fantasy duology, Dusk and Dawn, exploring a world that had lost it’s magic through the changes imminent as magic returns and faction struggle to control the new magic.
Cover to Cover #233: Prime Books “SF Best of the Year”
This week, Joe Murphy joins Michael in studio for a bit of book discussion.
Next, Michael and Evo chat with Rich Horton, editor of Prime Books’ Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2006 anthology.
Cover to Cover #224: K. L. Nappier
This week, Michael and Evo talk with K.L. Nappier to talk about her newest stories, Voyagers and her contribution to the Twisted Tails anthology from Double Dragon Press.
Cover to Cover #223: Harry Turtledove
Interview: This week, Michael and Evo talk with Harry Turtledove, the “Master of Alternative History”, about his latest novel, The Grapple, third book in the Settling Accounts series, and about alternate history, young adult fiction, and future projects.
Cover to Cover #222: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Roundtable
This week the guys talk to a roundtable of Edge Publishing authors, K.A. Bedford and his Hydrogen Steel and Eclipse, Rebecca Rowe with Forbidden Cargo, and Lynda Williams with Righteous Anger and Courtesan Prince.
