2021 is mostly garbage, but even bad years have good moments, don’t they? And one of the bright sides of this year is that my lovely friend Jeanne, of Necromancy Never Pays, has come out with a book of poems! We’ve been IRL friends for years, and blogging friends for even longer than that, so I was thrilled to have the chance to interview her about the collection, her writing process, and all the travel she can’t wait to get back to. How did you go about putting the poems together? What organizing principles did you use, and how much…
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Episode 148 – Interview with Brina Starler, Author of Anne of Manhattan
Published 9 Jun 2021
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Gin Jenny
Happy Wednesday, friends! I’m delighted this week to bring you my interview with Brina Starler, author of the brand-new romance novel, Anne of Manhattan. As you may have already surmised, it’s a reimagining of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, and of course, a romance between Anne Shirley and her nemesis slash true love slash one of only two good LM Montgomery love interests ever, Gilbert Blythe. In Anne of Manhattan, Anne and Gilbert are grad students in New York City who are forced to work together on their thesis project, which involves mentoring the youth. Brina joined me…
Leave a CommentEpisode 147 – Interview with Nicole Jarvis, Author of The Lights of Prague
Published 26 May 2021
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Gin Jenny
Happy Wednesday, friends! We’re back with a new author interview! I’m in conversation with the marvelous Nicole Jarvis, whose debut novel The Lights of Prague is out now from Titan Books. It’s about a very good boy named Domek, whose job it is to light the gaslamps of Prague but also fight the monsters of Prague — including vampires. When he kills a vampire that’s carrying a will o’ the wisp, he finds himself entangled in a vast conspiracy, which, if it goes forward, will allow the vampires to walk in daylight. You can listen to the podcast in the…
Leave a CommentEpisode 144 – Interview with CL Clark, Author of The Unbroken
Published 24 Mar 2021
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Gin Jenny
The author interviews continue! This week, I’m talking to CL Clark, author of the new fantasy novel The Unbroken, which follows a soldier called Touraine and a princess called Luca and their complicated relationships with empire and with each other. We chatted about Arabic dialects, how the book changed in the editing process, and whether it’s possible to hold power ethically. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 144 Things We Discussed The Battle of Algiers (movie) Ici on noie les Algeriens (movie) Cherae…
Leave a CommentEpisode 143 – Interview with Rose Lerner, Author of The Wife in the Attic
Published 17 Mar 2021
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Gin Jenny
Jewish lesbians! Sinister country houses! Shell art! These are but a few of the wondrous things you will find in Rose Lerner’s latest book, The Wife in the Attic, an f/f retelling of Jane Eyre that’s out now as an Audible Original. I got to talk to Rose about this book, her research for it, why Mr. Rochester did nothing wrong if he’s telling the truth, and her favorite Holmes/Watson AU, the Bunny and Raffles stories. “Whatever, I don’t need to justify Raffles’s behavior,” said Rose at one point, whereupon she immediately justified Raffles’s behavior. (I was convinced, for what…
Leave a CommentEpisode 142 – Interview with Talia Hibbert, Author of Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Published 10 Mar 2021
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Gin Jenny
Very unexpectedly, it is March! (Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are.) One of the benefits of March is that it means ALL THE BOOKS are coming out, and one of my very most anticipated books of March 2021 was Talia Hibbert’s new romance novel, Act Your Age, Eve Brown. Eve has never been quite sure where she belongs, but when her parents cut her off and she hits a B&B owner with her car, she decides she might as well stay and help out at the B&B. Its owner’s name is Jacob, and he is uptight and tightly…
Leave a CommentPODCAST – Episode 136 – An Interview with Andrea Stewart, Author of The Bone Shard Daughter
Published 9 Sep 2020
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Gin Jenny
It’s a beautiful day for an author interview! I was fortunate enough to have the chance to speak with Andrea Stewart, whose debut novel, The Bone Shard Daughter, came out yesterday. It’s a fantasy novel set in an Asian-inspired world where the Emperor rules over the islands with… honestly a fair bit of inattention. He’s much more interested in creating magical constructs, which are powered by tiny shards of bone, taken from the skull of every child in the Empire when they turn eight years old. His daughter Lin is competing frantically to get back her memory from when she…
Leave a CommentPODCAST, Ep. 128 – Interview with Intisar Khanani, Author of Thorn
Published 25 Mar 2020
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Gin Jenny
We are back, my friends, and we have brought you a terrific recommendation for this time of quarantine: Read Thorn, by Intisar Khanani! It’s a glorious YA retelling of “The Goose Girl,” and we can’t recommend it highly enough. In case you need more convincing, we’ve done an interview with its brilliant, funny, and eloquent author, Intisar Khanani. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 128 You can find Intisar at her website, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. The book…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with Anne Jamison
Published 18 Nov 2019
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Gin Jenny
Anne Jamison is the author of three critical books, including Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World. She teaches literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present at the University of Utah. She lives in Salt Lake City with her dogs, her son, and an avant-garde poet. In Between Days is her first novel. How did you get into reading/writing fic? What were your earliest fandoms, and what’s the newest one you’ve fallen for? I first found online fandom when I was teaching Buffy as a TA for seven discussion sections and I got desperate (that is…
Leave a CommentAuthors in Fandom: An Interview with Tasha Suri
Published 11 Nov 2019
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Gin Jenny
I have been waiting with a reasonably good grace (I say, not at all self-congratulatorily) for the sequel to Tasha Suri’s wonderful Empire of Sand — which is about a woman called Mehr who has inherited an important power from her Amrithi mother and now must marry the servant of the very wicked Ambhan emperor. That sequel, Realm of Ash, is out tomorrow, and I absolutely cannot wait for it, knowing as I do that it’s about the younger sister of the protagonist of Empire of Sand. I love all kinds of sequels, but I particularly love the ones that…
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