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Today I talked to Cassandra Rose Clarke about her book The Beholden (Erewhon Books, 2022). Two impoverished sisters, one with magical gifts and one with ladylike manners and pretty dresses, brave the wilds of the jungle to find the River Goddess and compel her to grant them a boon. They're accompanied by a former pirate, Ico, who is hired to protect them. But wishes are never granted for free. Years later, Celestia's wish has come true. She's happily married to a renowned former adventurer, Lindon, who had the money to save her family's planation, and the know-how to make it thrive. Celestia is content with the resumption of her privileged life, and her long-desired pregnancy. Her sister Izara is studying magic at the secret Academy, now that her duty to her sister and the plantation is done. As for Ico, he's cavorting with a beautiful and lusty Goddess in her ice palace. Life just can't stay so good. The River Goddess has not forgotten, and now she has a perilous quest she demands of the three. A dark Mage, long presumed gone from this world, is making his presence known. There are disturbing rumors from the far north of corpses that cannot rest but continue to walk as if alive. The alarming news causes the Emperor to command Celestia's husband, the former adventurer, to join a party to hunt down the Mage and destroy him. The River Goddess has other plans. She wants the Mage brought to her safely. Celestia and her husband Lindon now find themselves on opposite sides, each a pawn of a greater force. Can their marriage survive the struggle? Can Celestia and Izara, two very different people, work together as a team with the unwilling former pirate, Ico? Only the end of the journey will reveal those answers. Cassandra Rose Clarke's novels have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, and YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her poetry has placed second in the Rhysling Awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Fun fact: Cassandra Rose does ballet to unwind. You can follow Gabrielle on Twitter to get updates about new podcasts and more @GabrielleAuthor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/fantasy

Today I talked to Cassandra Rose Clarke about her book The Beholden (Erewhon Books, 2022). Two impoverished sisters, one with magical gifts and one with ladylike manners and pretty dresses, brave the wilds of the jungle to find the River Goddess and compel her to grant them a boon. They're accompanied by a former pirate, Ico, who is hired to protect them. But wishes are never granted for free. Years later, Celestia's wish has come true. She's happily married to a renowned former adventurer, Lindon, who had the money to save her family's planation, and the know-how to make it thrive. Celestia is content with the resumption of her privileged life, and her long-desired pregnancy. Her sister Izara is studying magic at the secret Academy, now that her duty to her sister and the plantation is done. As for Ico, he's cavorting with a beautiful and lusty Goddess in her ice palace. Life just can't stay so good. The River Goddess has not forgotten, and now she has a perilous quest she demands of the three. A dark Mage, long presumed gone from this world, is making his presence known. There are disturbing rumors from the far north of corpses that cannot rest but continue to walk as if alive. The alarming news causes the Emperor to command Celestia's husband, the former adventurer, to join a party to hunt down the Mage and destroy him. The River Goddess has other plans. She wants the Mage brought to her safely. Celestia and her husband Lindon now find themselves on opposite sides, each a pawn of a greater force. Can their marriage survive the struggle? Can Celestia and Izara, two very different people, work together as a team with the unwilling former pirate, Ico? Only the end of the journey will reveal those answers. Cassandra Rose Clarke's novels have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, and YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her poetry has placed second in the Rhysling Awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Fun fact: Cassandra Rose does ballet to unwind. You can follow Gabrielle on Twitter to get updates about new podcasts and more @GabrielleAuthor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I talked to Cassandra Rose Clarke about her book The Beholden (Erewhon Books, 2022). Two impoverished sisters, one with magical gifts and one with ladylike manners and pretty dresses, brave the wilds of the jungle to find the River Goddess and compel her to grant them a boon. They're accompanied by a former pirate, Ico, who is hired to protect them. But wishes are never granted for free. Years later, Celestia's wish has come true. She's happily married to a renowned former adventurer, Lindon, who had the money to save her family's planation, and the know-how to make it thrive. Celestia is content with the resumption of her privileged life, and her long-desired pregnancy. Her sister Izara is studying magic at the secret Academy, now that her duty to her sister and the plantation is done. As for Ico, he's cavorting with a beautiful and lusty Goddess in her ice palace. Life just can't stay so good. The River Goddess has not forgotten, and now she has a perilous quest she demands of the three. A dark Mage, long presumed gone from this world, is making his presence known. There are disturbing rumors from the far north of corpses that cannot rest but continue to walk as if alive. The alarming news causes the Emperor to command Celestia's husband, the former adventurer, to join a party to hunt down the Mage and destroy him. The River Goddess has other plans. She wants the Mage brought to her safely. Celestia and her husband Lindon now find themselves on opposite sides, each a pawn of a greater force. Can their marriage survive the struggle? Can Celestia and Izara, two very different people, work together as a team with the unwilling former pirate, Ico? Only the end of the journey will reveal those answers. Cassandra Rose Clarke's novels have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, and YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her poetry has placed second in the Rhysling Awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Fun fact: Cassandra Rose does ballet to unwind. You can follow Gabrielle on Twitter to get updates about new podcasts and more @GabrielleAuthor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

And there you have it, just a taste of the Dirty Poetry yet to come.Stay with me for all the rest of this episode of Dirty Poetry, usingthe word poetry very loosely. Our first story is about a group of oldfriends who have known each other for years and years. They'vetraveled together and had adventures and have been a part of eachothers lives for a long time. They know each other well. They havefor a long time, had a monthly card game. Everything was alwaysfriendly and normal... until tonight... when things got strange.Let's take a listen. That was Heads-Up Poker. Written bySusan Di Placido. Ms Di Placido is a prolific author. She has, todate, published ten novels and one collection of short stories. Herstories almost always involve gambling and card playing and many ofthem are set in Las Vegas. But regardless of the setting, Ms DiPlacido always manages to work in a lot of steamy spicy sex scenes.Her work has been recognized and awarded in the literary world. Hershort story, “I, Candy” won the Spirit Award at the 2005 MoonDance International Film Festival. Her short story collection,American Cool won the bronze medal in the 2008 IPPY Awards and it wasa finalist for the 2008 Indie Book Awards. Her novel Shuffle Up andDeal was nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award forBest Erotic Fiction in 2010. Susan Di Placido's work has beenpublished in many places. Among them, Maxim Jakubowski's MammothBook Of Best New Erotica in both volume six and volume seven, Zane'sCaramel Flava, Run Devil Run, Slow Trains Literary Review, Rebellion:New Voices Of Fiction, Clean Sheets and Susie Bright's BestAmerican Erotica 2007, which is where we found our story, Heads-UpPoker. Let's take a moment and address theelephant in the room. Okay, one of the elephants in the room. Youmight notice that both of our stories in this episode of Dirty Poetryare written by women, one of them decidedly lesbian, but both storiesare told from the perspective of heterosexual men. This kind ofgender bending perspective shift is, and always has been, commonamong the authors of erotic literature. As readers and listeners,these stories allow us to walk a mile in someone else's panties.And our authors also take an equally joyful turn at that switch. Infact, part of the beauty of both erotic literature and our own eroticimagination is, that in the privacy of our own minds, we can allallow our imaginations, our desires and hungers, to roam freely, toventure into places that we would never allow to happen in our reallives. With all of our real life expressions of sexuality that are sotender, loving, comforting, well... okay, even with the ass slapping,hair pulling excitement that we want in our real life sexuality,still there are places, many places that our imagination goes that wewould never allow to see the light of day. Good writers take us tothese forbidden places and bring us safely back again from theadventures of foreign travel in exotic lands. With our own eroticfantasies encouraged to take wing, our sexual imaginations are nowallowed to travel to places that are unlikely, improbable. Placesthat stretch the boundaries of what sexuality is, and occasionallyeven jump the fence into the impossible. Stories that can arousepossibilities that we would have never imagined. But somehow theybecome real for us for just a few brilliant moments in the privacy ofour own minds. It is there, in the privacy of our imagination that wecan begin to discover our own most primal sexual arousals. It isgreat writers with their wild tales, with their exotic erotic...

Patricia Simpson has won numerous awards for her fiction, including Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, Career Achievement Award, was nominated for Best Indie Paranormal of the Year, and has been a finalist in the RITA awards. Her Scottish husband encourages her to accompany him on his business trips around the world, and Patricia loves to go with him to scope out intriguing places for the settings of her books. Patricia has a degree in graphic design and loves to paint almost as much as she loves to write. She is also a shameless karaoke addict. Find Patricia on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Patricia-Simpson/e/B000APMSW8/

She was born in Oklahoma, raised in Santa Barbara, California, and graduated from Stanford Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles, taught writing at the University of California Santa Barbara, and is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion. To date, she’s authored fourteen thrillers, including a 5 book series featuring Evan Delaney and the 4-book, Jo Beckett series. Her latest novel, Into the Black Nowhere, has been called, “a terrifying, brilliant read” It’s book #2 in the UnSub series featuring rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix. The first book in the series, titled UNSUB, won the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller and is in development as a TV series by CBS. She’s won a long list of awards, including The Edgar from Mystery Writers of America, the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Procedural, and her book, Phantom Instinct, was listed in O Magazine as one of Oprah’s “Best Books of the Summer” in 2014. If you’re looking for something to keep you up at night, today’s guest has got plenty of great reads to choose from. Please welcome Meg Gardiner…

She was born in Oklahoma, raised in Santa Barbara, California, and graduated from Stanford Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles, taught writing at the University of California Santa Barbara, and is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.To date, she’s authored fourteen thrillers, including a 5 book series featuring Evan Delaney and the 4-book, Jo Beckett series. Her latest novel, Into the Black Nowhere, has been called, “a terrifying, brilliant read” It’s book #2 in the UnSub series featuring rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix. The first book in the series, titled UNSUB, won the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller and is in development as a TV series by CBS.She’s won a long list of awards, including The Edgar from Mystery Writers of America, the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Procedural, and her book, Phantom Instinct, was listed in O Magazine as one of Oprah’s “Best Books of the Summer” in 2014.If you’re looking for something to keep you up at night, today’s guest has got plenty of great reads to choose from. Please welcome Meg Gardiner…

She was born in Oklahoma, raised in Santa Barbara, California, and graduated from Stanford Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles, taught writing at the University of California Santa Barbara, and is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.To date, she’s authored fourteen thrillers, including a 5 book series featuring Evan Delaney and the 4-book, Jo Beckett series. Her latest novel, Into the Black Nowhere, has been called, “a terrifying, brilliant read” It’s book #2 in the UnSub series featuring rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix. The first book in the series, titled UNSUB, won the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller and is in development as a TV series by CBS.She’s won a long list of awards, including The Edgar from Mystery Writers of America, the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Procedural, and her book, Phantom Instinct, was listed in O Magazine as one of Oprah’s “Best Books of the Summer” in 2014.If you’re looking for something to keep you up at night, today’s guest has got plenty of great reads to choose from. Please welcome Meg Gardiner…

A USA Today bestselling author of more than 50 novels, Nancy Warren is known for her funny, sexy and suspenseful tales. Nancy is a three-time RITA Awards finalist, a winner of the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award, and was featured in an A1 New York Times story on her Harlequin Nascar romance series. Her latest releases include The Daisy Games, Book 7 of her Take a Chance series, and If the Dress Fits, Book 5 of The Almost Wives Club. Host Patricia McLinn talks with Nancy about taking others' advice, starting a book in the middle, and collaborating with other writers. In Nancy's words: "I take people's advice too easily, without sometimes thinking, maybe this was right for you but is this right for me?" (12:46). You can find Nancy on:   *Her website *Facebook *Twitter Thank you so much for listening. We hope you enjoyed the podcast enough to want to support us for future episodes. You can do that with as little as $1 a month -- that's only 25 cents per episode! What a deal! -- by pledging at Patreon. It's vital to Authors Love Readers to have your support. Thank you! Please also consider rating/reviewing the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks to DialogMusik for the instrumentals that accompany this podcast.

This is the first episode of Season 2. I hope you enjoy it. We will begin releasing episodes to the public bi-weekly on July 10th. The Story: Jeffy has turned himself in for the murder of his friend Timmy over a rare card in a game. The murder is an accident, by black hole, and Jeffy, according to his mother, is the child of extra-terrestrial beings. But what happens to the lives of ordinary people while a child remains missing? The Author: N. K. Jemisin’s work has been multiply nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award; shortlisted for the Crawford, the Gemmell Morningstar, and the Tiptree. She has won a Locus Award for Best First Novel and Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. In 2016, she became the first black person to win the Best Novel Hugo for The Fifth Season. Her short fiction has been published in pro-markets Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets (mostly Escape Artists) and print anthologies. Nora is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. Nora has been a counseling psychologist and educator, hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger. She currently writes the New York Times book review column Otherworldly, in which she covers the latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Find her at http://nkjemisin.com/ and on Twitter @nkjemisin The Actress: Tatiana Grey is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth. She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn’t won a single damned thing. She does, however have a feature film hitting the festival circuit called Serious Laundry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. See more about Tatiana at www.tatianagrey.com tatianagomberg@gmail.com