LOTF 73: Tropisode #7 | Portals with Zoraida Córdova

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Show Notes

For our seventh tropisode, we're talking PORTALS with Zoraida Córdova.

Zoraida Córdova is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels and short stories, including the Brooklyn Brujas series, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: A Crash of Fate, and The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina. In addition to writing novels, she serves on the Board of We Need Diverse Books, and is the co-editor of the bestselling anthologyVampires Never Get Old, as well as the cohost of the writing podcast, Deadline City. She writes romance novels as Zoey Castile. Zoraida was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and calls New York City home. When she’s not working, she’s roaming the world in search of magical stories. For more information, visit her at zoraidacordova.com.

When we read Zoraida’s novel Labyrinth Lost—which features an incredible portal—we knew she would be an excellent choice for this topic. We’re so glad we had the opportunity to reconnect with her and talk all things portals in fiction!

Portals Group “Read”

Pan’s Labyrinth film

Portals Book and Film Mentions

Find Zoraida: Website | Twitter | Instagram

LOTF 72: 2021 Summer Scares 1 | Adult Selections | feat. Silvia Moreno Garcia

We are delighted to return as the official podcast for 2021 Summer Scares! This episode is our first installment of a series covering the 2021 Summer Scares library summer reading program. The Horror Writers’ Association has partnered with Book Riot and Library Journal to curate the Summer Scares reading list, which includes three books each in the Adult, YA, and Middle Grade categories.

In 2019, we chatted with the liaisons from each category in LOTF 32, LOTF 34, and LOTF 36. In 2020, we had roundtable-style panel conversations with the authors from each category. You can find these here : LOTF 56, LOTF 57, and LOTF 58.

And this year, we're shaking things up yet again!

This first episode is extra special, because we begin with a conversation with author Silvia Moreno Garcia, this year's Summer Scares author spokesperson. She is the bestselling author of the novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Certain Dark Things, and Untamed Shore, among others. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows(a.k.a. Cthulhu's Daughters). Gods of Jade and Shadowwas the 2020 American Library Association Reading List winner in the Fantasy category, appeared on many year's best lists, and won the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Silvia is also the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, a columnist for The Washington Post, and a book reviewer for NPR. You can follow her on Twitter at @silviamg.

In the first half of the episode, we talk to Silvia about her writing and reading history, her previous experience with libraries, her passion projects with her small press Innsmouth Free Press, and her involvement with Summer Scares 2021.

Find Silvia: Twitter| Website| Innsmouth Free Press

In the second half of the show, Mackenzie and Lisa discuss the three adult books for Summer Scares 2021.

The adult picks for the 2021 Summer Scares program are:

The Hunger by Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018)

The Cipher by Kathe Koja (originally published 1991 by Dell but reissued Meerkat Press, 2020)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, Translator Jonathan Wright (Penguin Books, 2018)

To discover more regarding the Summer Scares program (including excellent resources!), check out the Summer Scares information website. And for an in-depth resource, here is the Summer Scares Programming Guide.

LOTF 71: Deeply Flawed Characters with Gabino Iglesias

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Show Notes

In this episode, we have a great conversation with horror author Gabino Iglesias! We discuss his writing themes and obsessions, his experience with conceptualizing and editing (in real time!) the Halldark Anthology, and what it takes to wear so many different literary hats.

Our selection for literary discussion this month is the novel The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. We've been dying to talk about this book, and now that it has won a Ray Bradbury award (!!!) we knew it was finally time! There are spoilers throughout our conversation so listen with caution if you haven't read the book. (And also if you haven't read it, UNFUCK THAT!—I say this with love.)

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