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Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: Fantasy takes us unexpected places—and never more so than in David Ly’s novel Not All Dragons. First of all, David, that is a stunning cover. But the important thing is what’s inside! Can…

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: In our current environmental crisis, we need stories that imagine different worlds. I invited Lauren C. Teffeau here to tell us about her eco-thriller Accelerated Growth Environment, which gives us adventure, sapphic romance,…

Book Report Corner

by Rachel A. Rosen I won’t shut up about Notes From a Regicide until everyone I know reads it. Griffon, a teenage trans boy living in a post-apocalyptic, flooded New York, is adopted by an older trans couple, Etoine and Zaffre. Both of them are artists and refugees from a city called Stephensport, which is…

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: I’m a big fan of dark fantasy—particularly starring nuanced, dangerous women. L. N. Holmes delivers exactly that in her latest novel, The Floating Castle. L.N., can you describe the story for our readers?…

Wrong Genre Covers

The Book of Job as a memoir of personal triumph was suggested by Dale. Have a funny idea for a Wrong Genre Cover? Email us at nightbeatseu@gmail.com, and if Rachel likes your suggestion, she’ll make it in a future issue. Or @ us on basically any of the socials.

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: Honey Novick is a singer, poet, writer, among her other talents! She’s here to tell us about her work. Honey, can you tell us a bit about what you’ve created and what drives…

Night Beats Goes to TriCon

We’re so excited for the very first TriCon in Halifax over the May 15-17 long weekend! A full schedule has been posted on the website! You can hang out with Rachel A. Rosen at: Saturday, May 16 @ 9:30 am: A Marxist Analysis of The Writing Industry Sunday, May 17 @ 11:30 am: De-Industrialization of…

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Rachel: We’re delighted to have Nina Munteanu, author of Gaia’s Revolution, here to talk with us about eco-fiction, the climate crisis, and slime molds! Nina, please tell us us a little about your creative…

An Aurora Awards Hat Trick

The Aurora Awards shortlist has been announced! Rachel is nominated in three categories: Best Novel: Blight (The Sleep of Reason #2)Best Short Story: “What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?”Best Fan Related Work: Wizards & Spaceships podcast If you are a member of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA), you can…

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview

Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Rachel: With us today is Joy Michael Ellison to talk about a book I’m so excited about. Joy, can you introduce yourself, and tell our readers a little bit about Sylvia and Marsha Start…

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Big News in the Extended Universe

Cascade, the first novel of the Sleep of Reason trilogy, signed with BumblePuppy Press. Which means that the first novel in the Night Beats extended universe is going to be published. Which is rad af.

Details about the Goya print are available via Wikipedia, as is the image. There’s also a fantastic song about it by Billy Bragg. And very soon a Weird fantasy novel.