On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Hugo and Nebula Award nominee John Wiswell, author of SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN and the forthcoming WEARING THE LION, about Authors Against Book Bans, Penn & Teller’s Fool Us, Needless competition between genres, and kaijus!

Find John here: https://johnwiswell.blogspot.com/

Find Someone to Build a Nest In here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in-john-wiswell/20241154

Pre-order Wearing the Lion here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wearing-the-lion-john-wiswell/21819546?ean=9780756419547&next=t

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Mentioned on the show: 

• Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-reformatory/18860170

• Caitlin Starling’s The Starving Saints

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-starving-saints-caitlin-starling/22044748

• Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide

https://bookshop.org/p/books/notes-from-a-regicide-isaac-fellman/21421551