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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: Claris Lam is a prolific Chinese Canadian indie author & poet. We’re never certain what she’ll have crafted next time we talk to her, but we’re always excited to find out! This time…

Book Report Corner

by Rachel A. Rosen Shamefully, I had never heard of Charles R. Saunders or the genre of Soul & Sorcery before he was inducted into the CSFFA Hall of Fame last year. This speaks to not just my own ignorance but the fickleness of the publishing industry and the SFFH community. A legend in his…

Wrong Genre Covers

Speculative Whiteness as a Golden Age pulp sci-fi cover 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: Darkness blends with crime and murder mysteries in Lucy A McLaren’s latest novel, Echoes of the EtherStone. Lucy, can you tell us about your gothic book? Lucy: Absolutely! Echoes of the EtherStone 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: Not only is Joseph Picard a very cool person, he also writes awesome cyberpunk that challenges what we think it means to be human. Today he’s telling us about his novel Daughter 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. 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.

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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.