![]() ![]() Give us a call on the Don't Make It Weird Hotline and leave us a voicemail message! We just might use your message on a future episode of the show! 347-69-WEIRDĬreative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported - CC BY 3. Literally every cent goes back into producing content for the show! who in carly sculpture are THE PREPARED PEAT - FUEL OF IRELAND. Want to support the show? Check out our merch store here!: with the citation to Zeus ( Jove ), according to the story in the figures recumbent. You can find the video presentation of this show on our YouTube channel, and the audio only version on any of your favorite podcast apps! ![]() You can find ZEUS: CONTEMPORARY MYTHOS #6-along with the rest of the series-on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever else you buy your books! ![]() A god-king disguised as a criminal defense lawyer Zeus/Zane, King of the Greek gods, holds the world in his palm in both his mortal and godly form until Hera leaves him, forcing him to uphold Gaea’s clause: There must always be a Queen, or he loses his title and part of his power along with it. Get ready for a classic slap-N-tickle! This week, we are joined in the studio by USA Today bestselling romance author Carly Spade! We play a few rounds of BUZZED! Carly tells us about the time she had to convince a kid she was Superwoman at a convention, in STORYTIME! We talk about her Contemporary Mythos series, and she reads an excerpt from her book ZEUS! And she leaves us with a briny excerpt from The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I accepted a review copy of Zeus, by Carly Spade, through Literary Bound Tours. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She is the Associate Editor of the historic Black arts literary journal, Obsidian: Literature & the Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975 and is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage, 2020). She edited the World Fantasy-winning groundbreaking black speculative fiction anthologies, Dark Matter (20) and is the first to introduce W.E.B. She collaborated with Janelle Monáe on the story, "Timebox Altar(ed)" in the New York Times bestselling collection, THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (HarperVoyager April 2022). She is also the author of two multigenre/hybrid collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press July 2016), longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review and Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct January 2011). ![]() Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 2020) is her first all prose collection and was named a Finalist for the World Fantasy, Locus, and Ignyte Awards. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta conjure. Sheree Renée Thomas, a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist, is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend or Edmund Kean, the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience - the list of stars whose careers burned bright before the Age of Television is extensive and thrillingly varied.Ĭelebrities could be heroes or villains warriors or murderers brilliant talents, or fraudsters with a flair for fibbing trendsetters, wilful provocateurs, or tragic victims marketed as freaks of nature. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. ![]() ![]() ![]() In much later Scottish fairy lore a clear distinction is recognised between the seelie and unseelie courts. These elves, or alfar, are still a significant and vibrant element in Scandinavian folk belief. There are also references to svartalfar (another species of ‘dark elf’ going by the name alone- svart = swarthy) but these appear in fact to be dwarves rather than elves. The latter lived underground and were said to be ‘blacker than pitch.’ Their temperaments reflected their colouring. ![]() These were the liosalfar (the fair or light elves) and the dockalfar (the dark elves). In the Viking Age the Scandinavians spoke of two classes of elf inhabiting Alfheim (literally ‘elfhome’- that is, fairy land). ![]() ![]() This distinction can be traced back to the earliest times. Folk lore evidence also indicate that there is a broad dichotomy within the communal fairies between good and evil. Many of the other, solitary fairies, have a tendency to be antagonistic to humans- if not downright fatal. There are many types of fairy creature, but what are conventionally imagined when we think of fairies are what have been called the communal, mound or sometimes trooping fairies. ![]() ![]() Three great authors, three great stories…it's a must read." - Night Owl Reviews, If you're looking for a great paranormal romantic suspense make sure to pick-up this book. Each one is uniquely different and page turning at it's best." - Single Titles "If you're looking for a great paranormal romantic suspense make sure to pick-up this book. 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So I definitely wanted to join together these disparate fictive universes and see what resulted from that.” The first third of the novel is a marriage plot, and I thought a lot about people like Jane Austen. “I was really interested in having the book be joining together these different modules of genre,” Smith says, “so there’s a fantasy element with the dragons, there’s a near-future dystopia element with some of the reality TV stuff and technology, there’s a gothic romance in what ends up unfolding in Swanny’s story. ![]() The Sky Is Yours recalls the surreal weirdness of Jeff VanderMeer‘s City of Saints and Madmen or China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station, but the oddball intensity of its kaleidoscopic plot gives the novel a distinctive flavor all its own. ![]() ![]() ![]() She writes that the “Cowboy, the Rancher, the Oilman – all wearing ten-gallon hats or Stetson – dominate as the embodiments of Texas. The result is “On Juneteenth,” a nuanced, concise 148-page reflection in six chapters that twines some of her own family story with her home state, “this most American place,” as she puts it. ![]() Norton, had long encouraged her to write about Texas, where she had grown up. The halting story of how the rest of the nation caught up is worth telling.Īnd so, when the coronavirus pandemic sealed many New Yorkers into their apartments, historian Annette Gordon-Reed turned to the task. Grant at Appomattox.Īfrican Americans, particularly in Texas, have honored June 19, 1865, shortened to “Juneteenth,” with picnics, parades and pilgrimages to Galveston since enslaved men on the wharfs whooped at the news (and some were beaten for it). The day marks the moment in Galveston, Tex., when people in bondage learned that slavery was finished, two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after Robert E. Senate voted unanimously this week to make June 19 an official national holiday, leaving the House of Representatives to take an expected yea vote giving federal workers a new paid day off. The holiday of Juneteenth is deepening its mark on American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() If he is to succeed, he will need allies and the Oracle named Keelin Stillwater, the best swordsman in the isles, as his right hand. As the fires of a dying city burn on a distant shore, Drake sees an opportunity to unite the other pirate Captains under his flag and claim a crown for himself. Please see our backlist offerings.Įverybody knows Captain Drake Morrass is only out for himself. IPG proudly carries all of the titles set in Hayes' popular epic fantasy setting. ![]() Hayes, after his successful completion of his award-winning grimdark trilogy, The Ties That Bind, now continues the saga of First Earth with several crossover characters in the pages of Where Loyalties Lie, book #1 of the Best Laid Plans. ![]() ![]() It’s not an angst filled book, or even a relatively serious book. ![]() But when Nick’s investigation is compromised, he and Jordan have no choice but to pretend they’re a couple, and what starts out as a simple assignment begins to feel a lot like something more. This “date” with Jordan Rhodes is merely an assignment-one they’re both determined to pull off even if they can’t be together for five minutes before the sarcasm and sparks begin to fly. In exchange for her brother’s release from prison, Jordan is going to be there-with a date supplied by the Bureau.Īs the top undercover agent in Chicago, Nick McCall has one rule: never get personal. ![]() But there’s only one party the FBI wants to crash: the charity fund-raiser of a famous restaurateur, who also happens to launder money for the mob. An FBI agent and an heiress have to get up close and personal on an undercover assignment in this thrilling romance from the author of The Thing About Love.Īs the daughter of a billionaire and the owner of the city’s top wine store, Jordan Rhodes is invited to the most exclusive parties in Chicago. ![]() |