Victoria James

Black Friday: A Familiar Face by Victoria James (+Contest)

4 December 2012 Jackie 5

Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with Victoria James’ Jackson Pierce from The Billionaire’s Christmas Baby. Jackson Pierce didn’t make his fortune entertaining every half-cocked idea, especially one involving diaper changes. Not even the cute brunette who links him to the baby in her arms can crack […]

FGilman-Rise of Ransom City

Black Friday: A Letter to May by Felix Gilman

3 December 2012 Jackie 1

Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with Felix Gilman’s Harry Randsom from The Rise of Ransom City. This is the story of Harry Ransom. If you know his name it’s most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world. […]

JA Souders

Black Friday: Evelyn Experiences Black Friday by JA Souders

2 December 2012 Jackie 1

Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with J.A. Souders’ Evelyn Winters from Renegade. “MY LIFE IS JUST ABOUT PERFECT.” Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of […]

CH Admirand

Black Friday: The Mulcahy Sisters by C.H. Admirand (+Contest)

1 December 2012 Jackie 8

Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with C.H. Admirand’s the Mulcahy Sisters from A Wedding in Apple Grove. Welcome to Apple Grove, Ohio (population 597) where everyone has your best interests at heart… Love is in the air and the proof is in the painted proposal on […]

Paul Crilley

Black Friday: A Very Steampunk Christmas by Paul Crilley (+Contest)

29 November 2012 Jackie 12

Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with Paul Crilley’s Tweed and Octavia from The Lazarus Machine. An alternate 1895… . A world where Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace perfected the Difference Engine. Where steam and Tesla-powered computers are everywhere. Where automatons powered by human souls venture out […]

Brenda Cooper

Black Friday: Festival of Leaving by Brenda Cooper

28 November 2012 Jackie 12

Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with Brenda Cooper’s CHARACTER from The Creative Fire. Ruby Martin expects to spend her days repairing robots and avoiding the dangerous peacekeeping forces that roam the corridors of the generation ship The Creative Fire. Her best friend has been raped and […]

Juliana Stone

Black Friday: Nico & Priest by Juliana Stone (+Contest)

26 November 2012 Jackie 7

Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with Juliana Stone’s Nico from King of the Damned. For millennia the struggle between light and dark, between the upper and lower realms, has been policed by a secret group of warriors culled from every fabric of existence. They are both […]