Interview Transcript: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Brad Beaulieu about his new novel, The Winds of Khalakovo, an epic fantasy series from Night Shade Books in the same vein as George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire”.
Cover to Cover #452: Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
Interview Transcript: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine about their new collaborative novel, Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel, sort of a steampunk flavored adventure in the fashion of “The Avengers” or “The X-Files”.
Cover to Cover #450: William F. Nolan
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with legendary SF author William F. Nolan (Logan’s Run) about his latest collection of novellas, Kincaid: A Paranormal Casebook. The stories are a blend of mystery and paranormal horror that are certain to entertain fans of both genres.
Cover to Cover #449: Alex Bledsoe
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Alex Bledsoe about the new book in his Eddie LaCrosse series, Dark Jenny from Tor Books. While it’s the third book set in this universe featuring many of the same characters, it’s not a “trilogy” by the standard sense of the word.
Cover to Cover #448: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Interview: Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert join us this week in the middle of their book tour to talk about Hellhole, their most recent collaboration and the first in a trilogy set in a new original universe.
They talk about their collaborative process, the future of the Dune series, listening to (or not listening to) critics, and why not to buy Christmas presents before December 21, 2012.
Cover to Cover #447: Justin Gustainis
Interview Transcript: This week, Justin Gustainis joins Mike and Mike to discuss his new projects, including the recently released Those Who Fight Monsters, an occult detectives anthology he edited for EDGE SF. Justin talks about why he put together this anthology, who he had contacted to contribute, what he expected and what he didn’t expect during the creation of this book.
Cover to Cover #446: Patricia Briggs
Interview: This week, Patricia Briggs joins the guys to talk about her newest book, River Marked, the 6th and newest book in her Mercy Thompson series. In this story, she not only explores Mercy’s Native American heritage, but also delves into a true monster tale.
SF Signal Asks: “What forthcoming SF/F/H books are you most looking forward to?”
SF Signal asked a panel of genre aficionados what upcoming science fiction, fantasy and horror books due out in 2011 that they were looking forward to the most.
Respondents include Mike Resnick, Mur Lafferty, Patricia Briggs, David Louis Edelman, and yours truly, Summer Brooks.
Cover to Cover #445: Jon F. Merz
Interview: This week, our guest is Jon F. Merz, and the latest book in his Lawson Vampire series is The Kensei. Lawson is fixer in the vampire world, and his primary mission is to protect the secrecy of their existence.
Cover to Cover #443: Alan Dean Foster
Interview: This week, our guest is Alan Dean Foster, and his latest SF novel is The Human Blend, and his newest book is a memoir, Predators I Have Known (coming out as a first print digital edition).
In The Human Blend, he explores a world where genetic engineering and body modifications are widely in use, including as punishments for criminals. It’s the first book in his new “The Tipping Point” trilogy.
Predators I Have Known chronicles his adventure travels around the world. Open Road Media, the publisher, has also incorporated some of the video that Alan has shot over the years into the ebook
Cover to Cover #442: Angela James, Carina Press
Interview: This week, Angela James, Executive Editor of Carina Press, joins us to talk about the digital book marketplace, and some of the changing trends in reading habits, reading formats, and options for a wider range of authors, and more.
Cover to Cover #441: Mercedes Lackey
Interview: This week’s guest is Mercedes Lackey, whose newest anthology Trio of Sorcery from Tor Books is a collection of two stories featuring her popular urban fantasy heroines, Diana Tregarde and Jennifer Talldeer, plus a new story with a new heroine, technoshaman Ellen McBridge.
Cover to Cover #436A: Pamela Sargent
Interview: This week, Mike, Mike and Summer talk with Pamela Sargent about her latest YA novel, Seed Seeker, the concluding volume of her Seed Trilogy (Earthseed in 1983, Farseed in 2007).
Cover to Cover #434A: A Conversation with Tracy Hickman
Mike and Mike welcome Tracy Hickman as a guest host, and delve into gaming and his latest game, “Santa’s Sleigh Ride”. You can read more about this game at Reindeer Gamers Holiday Games and Xtreme Dungeon Mastery.
Cover to Cover #433A: Sam Sykes
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Sam Sykes, about his debut novel, Tome of the Undergates from Pyr. It’s the first book in the Aeons’ Gate Trilogy, a fantasy adventure about preventing the gates of the underworld from being opened and destroying the world, full of eipc, gritty battles and dark, flawed characters.
