Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-fi Podcast

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 175 with L.A. McGinnis.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking things off this week with my own author update, I’m deep into a short story I’m writing set in a whole new series. It’s urban fantasy and features a fun twist I haven’t seen anywhere else out there. I don’t want to give too much away, but I’m working on the short story to see how I like the characters and the world in which they live before I commit to writing a full series about it.

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Joining us on the show today we have author L.A. McGinnis. She spends her days writing steamy urban fantasies filled with brooding heroes and smart, bold heroines. A life-long fascination with mythology and storytelling inspired her to weave these contemporary tales of legendary fated mates set in gritty, urban settings like New York, Chicago and London.

She’s also one of the amazing authors in the just released Urban Fantasy short story anthology, Summer Solstice Shenanigans.

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This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 174 with Sudha Kuruganti.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Let’s jump in with my writing update this week. I’m having a lot of fun writing the N’SPACE humorous sci-fi space opera serial. It has been making me chuckle to myself as I run the characters through their antics to solve their various challenges. It will be released exclusively to the Kindle Vella platform that will be launching later this summer. I’ll have more on that soon as well as how you can get access and read these fun stories.

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Joining us today is author Sudha Kuruganti. Sudha writes fantasy inspired by Indian mythology. She loves books, anime, coffee, chocolate, manga, Beatles music, and dogs—not necessarily in that order.

Her work includes a clean paranormal romance series, the Elementals of India, and the Legend Valley Academy trilogy, a diverse fantasy tale of screwups and second chances, and finding your place in the world.

When she’s not writing, Sudha is usually nose deep in a book, experimenting with strange online recipes on her Air Force officer husband, or playing with their young son.

She’s also one of the amazing authors in the just released Urban Fantasy short story anthology, Summer Solstice Shenanigans..

I interviewed her all the way from India and there’s a little background noise in the recording but the interview itself is great so I hope you’ll enjoy my interview with Sudha coming up next.

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 173 with K.A. Last.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking things off this week with my author update, I’m between major book projects right now and I’m using that break to work on two smaller projects at once. I’m writing a short story to see how I like an idea for a new series I came up with. More on that as I get into it.

I’m also working on my Kindle Vella humorous space serial project, N’SPACE. If you like reading serial fiction on WattPad, Radish, or similar sites, you’ll probably want to check out Kindle Vella later this summer when it launches. I’ll keep you up to date on what’s going on with that series as it continues to grow.

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Today on the show, I have K.A. Last joining us. Kim has always been artistic and creative. She has a diploma in Graphic Design and has worked in the publishing industry for more than twenty years. Blessed with a vivid imagination, she began writing to let off creative steam and fell in love with it.

She also has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Charles Sturt University with a major in English, and minors in Children’s Literature, Art History, and Visual Culture. She resides in the Australian countryside with her family and a menagerie of animals.

We talk about her story in the upcoming Urban Fantasy short story anthology, Summer Solstice Shenanigans as well as about her Happily Ever After series of reimagined fairy tales. Check out her interview next.

Kim Last is also one of the amazing authors appearing in the upcoming Urban Fantasy short story anthology, Summer Solstice Shenanigans.

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 172 with R.C. Barnes.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

For my author update, I’m currently between large projects so I’m switching gears and working full blast on a new humorous sci-fi space serial project to be released on the Kindle Vella platform later this summer. I’m collaborating on this with my friend Jen Frontera. All that is happening while my son and co-author, C.J. Davis works on his parts of the Accidental Monk, book 7 in the Accidental Traveler series.

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

This week on the show I interview author R.C. Barnes. She is a former film and television executive, who decided it was time to give life to the delightful characters in her head. Her YA Tattoo Teller series INK FOR THE BELOVED is a love letter to her adolescent years in the East Bay.

The series is set in Berkeley and features her fearless biracial teen detective, Bess Wynters, who possesses a unique psychic talent involving tattoos. The second book in the series, INK FOR THE DAMNED, releases this summer 2021.

On a perfect day, R.C. (also known as Robin Claire) can be found curled up with a book, listening to the rain outside, eating noodles, and sipping tea or wine (depending on the hour). She lives in Berkeley and is the mother of three very nice people.

R.C. is one of the amazing authors appearing in the upcoming Urban Fantasy short story anthology, Summer Solstice Shenanigans.

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 171 with D.M. Fike.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

To start off this week’s show, I’m working on finishing up the final bits of the Accidental Monk, book seven in the Accidental Traveler series. At the same time, I’m collaborating on a new project with Jen Frontera that is a humorous space/sci-fi serial for an upcoming Amazon service called Vella.

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Let’s jump into this week’s guest. D.M. Fike joins the podcast this episode. She’s worked in the video game industry for over a decade, starting out as a project manager and eventually becoming a story writer for characters, plots, and missions.

Born in Idaho’s Magic Valley (you can’t make this stuff up), Deborah lived in Japan teaching English before calling Oregon home. She loves family, fantasy, and food (mostly in that order) and is on the constant look out for new co-op board games to play. She’s the author of the Magic of Nasci series.

She’s also one of the amazing authors (myself included) appearing in the upcoming Urban Fantasy short story anthology, Summer Solstice Shenanigans.

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 170 with J.E. Mueller.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking things off this week with my own author update, I’m still hard at work on the next book in my Accidental Traveler series about a gamer getting stuck inside the video game world. Accidental Monk is coming along nicely and I’m on schedule to wrap of the first draft by the end of June. I’ll have more updates on this book and more over at my reader group on Facebook and via my newsletter at my website.

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Joining us this week on the show is author J.E. Mueller. Jessica is a fantasy author and a midwesterner who was born and raised in IL where she currently resides. While unicorns and magic sparked an interest in the genre, it was childhood friends that convinced her to write, and turn to a life of whimsy.

Mueller has been described as two penguins in a trench coat though nothing has been proven just yet. Currently, Mueller is focused on writing all things magical and adores having characters battle curses, tangle with spirits, and face off against wicked family members for a chance at a better ending

We chat about the upcoming release of the complete series boxed set of her A Tune of Demons books. Check it out.

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 169 with Anthony Tonelli.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking things off this week with my own author update, I’m deep into the first draft of Accidental Monk, Book 7 in my Accidental Traveler series. It’s good to get back into this series with this book and I’m having fun exploring the gaming world of Fantasma again.

While I’m working on that, my editor is hard at work finishing up The Paramedic’s Sorceress, book 9 in my Extreme Medical Services series. After she’s finished with it, it goes right to my narrator, the excellent Roberto Scarlato, to start on the audiobook version. My plan is to release all versions of the book together in June, so stay tuned for more updates on that.

You can check out more information on what I’m up to, including sneak peeks of upcoming covers, special giveaways, and more, by visiting my fan group on Facebook, Jamie’s Fun Fantasy Readers and over at my website and blog, JamieDavisBooks.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Joining us this week on the show is author Anthony Tonelli. Anthony was born in Rio Piedras, PR but grew up in New York City. He now resides in New England with his wife and two young children. He was a student at Arizona State University, where he majored in history with a focus on the American Revolution.

He has loved science fiction and horror since childhood and finally wrote his first feature book titled “Legacy” and released it in April 2021. His idea of ​​what science fiction can be takes the genre in a completely different direction. Some of his favorite sci-fi elements are time travel, the multiverse, historical fiction (in a sci-fi setting), artificial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, planetary exploration, and dystopia.

Anthony explores all of these in his book, Legacy, the first book in The Dominion Series. Here’s my chat with him about it.

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 168 with Tiffani Collins.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Let’s jump in with my writing update this week. I’m deep into writing new chapters in the Accidental Monk, book 7 in my Accidental Traveler series. It’s fun revisiting the video game world of Fantasma with Cari Dix and her new accidental friend, Aiden. I can’t wait to share this new story with you.

In the meantime, I’m also getting things ready to launch my newest book, The Paramedic’s Sorceress, book 9 in the Extreme Medical Services series. I’m trying to get the audiobook done at the same time as the ebook and paperback. Stay tuned here for updates.

Okay, time for this week’s guest author, Tiffani Collins. She says she’s always been terrible at running, so she learned to ride horses. She was even worse at dancing, so she studied martial arts instead. She works at her local library where she gets to talk about books with other bookworms all day long.

She lives in a small rural town in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California. When she’s not braiding hair at Renaissance Fairs, spending time with friends, or helping library patrons find their next favorite read, she’s working on her next writing project. Right now, that project is The Traveler’s Journal.

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 167 with Daniel Potter.

Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books.

This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way.

Kicking things off this week with my author update, I’ve got The Paramedic’s Sorceress, book 9 in the Extreme Medical Services series, with the editor. While it’s there, I’ve started working again on Accidental Monk, book 7 in my Accidental Traveler series.

It’s always a challenge getting back into a book I put on the shelf halfway through. However, I’m loving the stuff I’m reading and think I wrote a pretty compelling start to this book. I’m aiming to finish this draft in the next 30 days or so. I’m looking forward to getting on with this series.

This week on the show, I chat with author Daniel Potter. His most recent book is killing it with readers right now. He writes about creatures that are generally considered highly improbable, from talking cats, flying reptiles made of living metal and people who sprout foot long talons when annoyed. As a biologist he should know better but he’s always ready to leave reality outside if needs too, no matter how much it scratches at the door.

He’s the author of three series, Freelance Familiars, a unique and proper take on urban fantasy from the familiar’s perspective, Rise of the Horned Serpent which is best described as Sky Pirates Versus Dragons, and The Full Moon Medic, where the end of the world is magic.

When he’s not chasing his imagination, his imagination is usually chasing him, whether while he’s cooking lunch for his spouse, playing video game or fending off two cats who always insist its dinner time.

Check out my fun chat with Daniel coming right up!

This is the Books and Authors Fantasy Podcast Episode 166 with Jacob Hess. Good day and welcome to this episode of the Books and Authors Fantasy and Sci-Fi Podcast. I’m your host, podcaster and author of Fun Fantasy Reads, Jamie Davis. This podcast is exactly what the title says it is, a show focused on everything in fantasy books. This show will cover everything to do with fantasy books. From Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, and everything in between, expect to find the best and brightest authors from all the various corners of the fantasy book world. Plus we’ll add in a few other very special guests as well along the way. For my author update, The Paramedic’s Sorceress is off to the editor at last and I’m overjoyed with how the book turned out. I can’t wait Read more...