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Arthur Barillas is the author of the Sisterhood of Light Series, an ongoing series featuring teenage vampire hunters growing up in a world of vampires, ghosts and demons. There are currently 3 books in the series: Legend of Apocalypse, Legacy of Darkness, and Lament of Badblood.

Reading from Legend of Apocalypse at 58:30

Buy the books here: https://www.amazon.ca/stores/author/B09VKZKQWH/allbooksArthur's Instagram: https://www.instagr...

A.J. Calvin is a science fiction/fantasy novelist from Loveland, Colorado known best for The Caein Legacy series and The Relics of War series. A former microbiologist, A.J. lives with her husband, along with a turtle, a bearded dragon, and a salt water aquarium.

When she is not writing, she enjoys scuba diving, hiking, and playing video games.

AJ's links:

Website - https://ajcalvin.net/

Newsletter - https://ajcalvin.net/new...

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Melissa Yi is an emergency physician and award-winning writer, best known for writing the Hope Sze medical thrillers featuring the titles Code Blues, Terminally Ill, Graveyard Shift, and White Lightning, among others. Today we are talking about her newest book, Pride and Provocateur, a modern, queer, sex-positive and slightly tongue-in-cheek retelli...

After 13 years of development and writing, Emma Couette’s epic trilogy The Fidalian Chronicles is now finished. Book 3, Season of Ruin, just released on May 1st, and the entire trilogy is being released in special edition hardcovers on Kickstarter right now. The Fidalian Chronicles are around 1400 pages worth of epic high fantasy, sword and sorcercy, young adult fiction. From now until May 21st, you can catch up on the series and g...

JA Merkel is the author of the Fall Gauntlet novella series, as well as The Fourth Portal, a dystopian science fiction novel kicking off the Song of Saudade series. Here we mostly discuss the Fourth Portal, set in a distant future on another planet, where love itself has been criminalized. We talk about him, his process, editing, and how the Fourth Portal can be read as a commentary on individualistic vs communal societies. JA, as ...

VKThiran is a Tamil-Canadian author of 3 books: When LighteningStrikes, The Accursed Venge Seeker, and Us or Them: a Venge Seeker’sTale. He has been obsessed with books of various genres ever since hewas a child. His vivid imagination spurred him to weave worlds andintricate storylines filled with morally grey anti-heroes with tragicbackstories. VK reads anything he can gethis hands on, from gothic to historical fiction, but he is ...

Eye-Spied is the third installment in Crystal Quast's Serenity Acres series, newly released April 15th, 2026. This episode goes back to post-war Europe, illuminating some of the threads that lead to the modern-day Serenity Acres drama. In this episode, we host a release party to celebrate Crystal's third volume in the series. I am joined by Crystal, as well as fellow authors Matthew Gabrielson (author, Small Town Chaos), an...

Rod Carley is the award-winning Author of 4 books: A Master of Will, Kinmount, Grin Reaping, and his newest book, Ruff, which was long-listed for the Leacock Medal of Humour and the silver medal winner for best European fiction from and Independent Publisher. Today’s discussion focusses on Ruff, which is a retelling of a period in William Shakespeare’s life, and some of the events going on around him. Rod is also on the organizing ...

Hannah Manders is a lover of fantasy, a writer of books, and (in her words) a mighty fine cook. She also identifies as a slow reader and tea lover. In her free time she enjoys playing video games, reading, gardening, drawing, doing yoga and NPCing at a LARP in southern Ontario. She aspires to be at least one person’s favourite author and become local folklore in her city. She is excited to publish more of her series, and watch how ...

Matthew Gabrielson is author of the book Small Town Chaos and Host of the Matt’s Indie Book Club Youtube channel.

Small Town Chaos: https://books2read.com/u/b60l0A

YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MattsIndieBookClub

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mattsrandomramblings

Vicki Ann Bush: https://www.vickiannbush.com

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Today I'm talking with Isaac Fernandes. Isaac is a brand new author who just published his first novel in February of this year. It's called Beneath Nevada, and is a western thriller about a man following an ancient map to potential treasure out in the Nevada desert. We talk about Isaac's book, the process of writing it, and how he's finding life as an author. Isaac also gives us a little preview of his next book, which, with luck,...

Michael Parkes is the author of Cheryl and Gnomes and Knights, as well as some short stories, which wediscuss in the second half of the episode. Michael is also on the board of the organizing committee for the St Lawrence Writers’ Festival, an annual convention in Brockville, Ontario every September, and we spend the first part of the episode discussing the festival, how its organized, and why you should attend.

Michael's websit...

Allen Steele is a three-time Hugo Award-winning who has been publishing since the 80s. He’s well-known for his Near Space Series, the revival of Edmond Hamilton’s Captain Future series, numerous standalones (including one of my favourites, Chronospace, now named Time Loves a Hero), and, what we’re talking about today, his Coyote series. An intergenerational series following rebels who hijack an interstellar ship and colonize the ha...

Matthew Gabrielson, host of the Youtube channel Matt's Indie Book Club, had me on his channel for an interview, which aired March 1st. We discuss Tiger Blues, my writing journey, and my cats.

Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yF62ucl4RI&t=2s

Jason Shannon is an indie Canadian author of science fiction and more. His seventh novel, Tiger Blues, is available now: “A plucky crew of mercenaries must keep a d...

RW Duder and Damian Richard have teamed up for the Guns and Gatesseries, an alt-history urban fantasy/western. Trapped Souls in theintroductory novella, a sort of Book 0.5, acting as an origin storyfor the antagonist. We discuss the book, co-authoring, making thejump to fantasy, and more.

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Episode 69--yes, I'm juvenile enough to say "noice". Of course, I cannot miss the opportunity to capitalize on this moment. There will never be another 69th episode of this podcast.

And so today, you, my valued listener, are getting an all new story, one salacious enough to be worthy of this episode. 

I first had this idea about 5 weeks ago, and thought how I could best honour this episode. Olive already has their own s...

Brian Klingborg is the author of the Lu Fei mystery series. Today we are mostly speaking about Book 2 in that series, Wild Prey, wherein detective Lu Fei investigates wildlife trafficking, eventually landing him in Myanmar. There, he meets a half-Chinese warlady who, in my reading, bears a startling resemblance to the 1950s Golden Triangle opium kingpin Olive Yang.

Brian’s website: https://www.brianklingborg.com/

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Ryan David Gerard is the author of 8 novels, includingthe Baptist trilogy and the Born Again trilogy, as well as thestandalones Wildmen and The Things that are Not. We talk about his writing, his journey as an author, questions of staying in your lane with regards to genre, and the struggles of trying to marketing in an online space—Ryan produces these hilarious Instagram reels satirizing the AI-generated marketing messages he gets...