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.
"Cover to Cover" Episodes
The archives of the seminal book talk show, and one of the oldest podcasts on the internet.
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.
Cover to Cover #432A: John Joseph Adams
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with John Joseph Adams about his newest collections: The Way of the Wizard from Prime Books, and The Living Dead 2 from Night Shade Books.
John talks about why working on anthologies appeal to him, his love of working on magazines, searching for the stories that fit the theme while still trying to achieve a diverse enough selection for the volume, and more.
Cover to Cover #431A: Larry Correia
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Larry Correia about his newest book, Monster Hunter: Vendetta, and the world and monsters he’s created.
Monster Hunters International introduces us to a corporation of specialty contractors who “take care of” supernatural monsters, collecting the bounties on them, and at the moment, there are two books out in the MHI series, with another 8 under contract.
Cover to Cover #430A: Nancy Kilpatrick
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Nancy Kilpatrick, editor of the recent Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead anthology from EDGE SF.
Nancy talks about her long-running fascination with vampires, how they may evolve in future tales, and how the stories and this anthology came about.
Cover to Cover #429A: David Weber
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with David Weber about his newest novel, Out of the Dark. It follows the consequences of an alien invasion gone wrong after Earth had been targeted for colonization, and is the first in a new military series. This story is an expansion of a novella that appeared in the recent Warriors anthology, edited by George R. R. Martin.
Cover to Cover #428A: Naomi Novik
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Naomi Novik about the Temeraire series, the latest volume of which is Tongues of Serpents. She talks about her research into the Napoleonic Wars and her travel to Australia, some of her work process, those 3am story ideas that get her out of bed to write, and more.
Cover to Cover #426A: Jesse Petersen
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Jesse Petersen, author of the “Living With the Dead” series, the first book of which is Married With Zombies.
Jesse talks about the inspiration for the first book and the series, balancing character voice, humor, marriages and relationships, and of course, methods of killing zombies.
Cover to Cover #425A: Harry Harrison
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Harry Harrison! His iconic character, The Stainless Steel Rat, is back for a new adventure inThe Stainless Steel Rat Returns. Harry talks about the history of The Rat and the popularity of this character around the world, poking fun at the military, and playing with Esperanto.
Harry also goes into how he got into writing and the steps he went through to make himself a better writer, the books, classes and the work he put into it, and more.
