Jason Shannon

TatianaObey is a Locus award-nominated author who writes badass charactersslaying dragons. She enjoys combining action with character-drivenstories that feature diverse heroes and heroines. She is the authorof  Bonesto the Wind ,a 2022 BBA Award Winner, and  SistahSamurai: A Champloo Novell a,a 2023 Indie Ink Award Winner. She has published short stories invarious anthologies, including  FIYAHLite...

Daryl J Ball is an indie fantasyauthor. He has written The Name of the Bear, the Tannis Project, andthe now complete, seven book series The Barrier of Mibekel. TheBarrier of Mibekel follows half-human, half-elf Karantu, known asKar, as he journeys to find his human father. Daryl and I talk abouthis process, themes, and what it’s like now that he’s finishedthis epic series. Daryl and I do a reading...

StephanieR Lowell is an author of numerous paranormal themed books, includingher Moonstone Trilogy, Caught by a Lycan series, and Lovers of Loreseries, which vary from steamy paranormal romance to new adult softromance apocalyptic stuff. Today we are mostly discussing The Druid'sDescendant, which is book 1 of her Moonstone Trilogy. In the Druid'sDescendant, her narrator, Selene Stone, is able to s...

WhenDavid Blackmore was just a child, he took an inflatable raft out ontoLake Ontario. The wind and the current took him away from shore, andhe soon found himself unable to get back, and the sun was setting. Many years later, he recounted this experience, and his rescue by aship captain, in the true account The Captain and the Kid. David andI discuss his story, how harrowing it was, and how he res...

Regan W. H. Macaulay is a multi-award-winning author of novels, short stories, children’s literature, and scripts. Writing is her passion, but she’s also a producer and director of theatre, film, and television (Triple Take Productions). She is an animal enthusiast as well, which led her to become a Certified Canine and Feline Massage Therapist (Kurī K9 Massage). As an author, Regan spins fun-fill...

Alex Tilley writes fiction that wanders the borderlands between folk horror, magical realism, dark fantasy, and the psychological. His books include Meshkwadoon Books 1 and 2, the novella Mr. Strong, and the forthcoming Sefira’s Gloom. Before self-publishing, he spent years devouring everything from The Lord of the Rings to Shakespeare, Anne Rice, poetry, and Jane Austen. He was in the Canadian Ar...

Coming 2025 – Tiger Blues: a novel 2 transmen try to keep a Buddhist amulet out of Mao’s hands in 1940s Tibet. Those transmen (or genderqueer/nonbinary – not my place to say) are real life badasses Olive Yang (Burmese drug kingpin, 1927-2017) and Kawashima Yoshiko (Japanese war criminal, 1907-1948). Subscribe to my mailing list to stay updated, www.jasonmshannon.com/contact This week I'm talking t...

Arthur Barillas is the author of the Sisterhood of Light Series, an ongoing series featuring teenage vampire hunters growing up in a world of vampires, ghosts and demons. There are currently 3 books in the series: Legend of Apocalypse, Legacy of Darkness, and Lament of Badblood. Reading from Legend of Apocalypse at 58:30 Buy the books here: https://www.amazon.ca/stores/author/B09VKZKQWH/allbooks A...

A.J. Calvin is a science fiction/fantasy novelist from Loveland, Colorado known best for The Caein Legacy series and The Relics of War series. A former microbiologist, A.J. lives with her husband, along with a turtle, a bearded dragon, and a salt water aquarium. When she is not writing, she enjoys scuba diving, hiking, and playing video games. AJ's links: Website - https://ajcalvin.net/ Newsle...

May 14 virtual party  ⁠https://www.facebook.com/events/1670005701128555/⁠ Melissa Yi is an emergency physician and award-winning writer, best known for writing the Hope Sze medical thrillers featuring the titles Code Blues, Terminally Ill, Graveyard Shift, and White Lightning, among others. Today we are talking about her newest book, Pride and Provocateur, a modern, queer, sex-positive and slightl...

After 13 years of development and writing, Emma Couette’s epic trilogy The Fidalian Chronicles is now finished. Book 3, Season of Ruin, just released on May 1st, and the entire trilogy is being released in special edition hardcovers on Kickstarter right now. The Fidalian Chronicles are around 1400 pages worth of epic high fantasy, sword and sorcercy, young adult fiction. From now until May 21st, y...

JA Merkel is the author of the Fall Gauntlet novella series, as well as The Fourth Portal, a dystopian science fiction novel kicking off the Song of Saudade series. Here we mostly discuss the Fourth Portal, set in a distant future on another planet, where love itself has been criminalized. We talk about him, his process, editing, and how the Fourth Portal can be read as a commentary on individuali...

VKThiran is a Tamil-Canadian author of 3 books: When LighteningStrikes, The Accursed Venge Seeker, and Us or Them: a Venge Seeker’sTale. He has been obsessed with books of various genres ever since hewas a child. His vivid imagination spurred him to weave worlds andintricate storylines filled with morally grey anti-heroes with tragicbackstories. VK reads anything he can gethis hands on, from gothi...

Eye-Spied is the third installment in Crystal Quast's Serenity Acres series, newly released April 15th, 2026. This episode goes back to post-war Europe, illuminating some of the threads that lead to the modern-day Serenity Acres drama. In this episode, we host a release party to celebrate Crystal's third volume in the series. I am joined by Crystal, as well as fellow authors Matthew Gabrie...

Rod Carley is the award-winning Author of 4 books: A Master of Will, Kinmount, Grin Reaping, and his newest book, Ruff, which was long-listed for the Leacock Medal of Humour and the silver medal winner for best European fiction from and Independent Publisher. Today’s discussion focusses on Ruff, which is a retelling of a period in William Shakespeare’s life, and some of the events going on around...

Hannah Manders is a lover of fantasy, a writer of books, and (in her words) a mighty fine cook. She also identifies as a slow reader and tea lover. In her free time she enjoys playing video games, reading, gardening, drawing, doing yoga and NPCing at a LARP in southern Ontario. She aspires to be at least one person’s favourite author and become local folklore in her city. She is excited to publish...

Matthew Gabrielson is author of the book Small Town Chaos and Host of the Matt’s Indie Book Club Youtube channel. Small Town Chaos: https://books2read.com/u/b60l0A YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MattsIndieBookClub Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mattsrandomramblings Vicki Ann Bush: https://www.vickiannbush.com FARM FREAKS DAY 5 on Kickstarter:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/accidentalcreati...

Today I'm talking with Isaac Fernandes. Isaac is a brand new author who just published his first novel in February of this year. It's called Beneath Nevada, and is a western thriller about a man following an ancient map to potential treasure out in the Nevada desert. We talk about Isaac's book, the process of writing it, and how he's finding life as an author. Isaac also gives us a little preview...

Michael Parkes is the author of Cheryl and Gnomes and Knights, as well as some short stories, which wediscuss in the second half of the episode. Michael is also on the board of the organizing committee for the St Lawrence Writers’ Festival, an annual convention in Brockville, Ontario every September, and we spend the first part of the episode discussing the festival, how its organized, and why you...

Allen Steele is a three-time Hugo Award-winning who has been publishing since the 80s. He’s well-known for his Near Space Series, the revival of Edmond Hamilton’s Captain Future series, numerous standalones (including one of my favourites, Chronospace, now named Time Loves a Hero), and, what we’re talking about today, his Coyote series. An intergenerational series following rebels who hijack an in...

Matthew Gabrielson, host of the Youtube channel Matt's Indie Book Club, had me on his channel for an interview, which aired March 1st. We discuss Tiger Blues, my writing journey, and my cats. Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yF62ucl4RI&t=2s Jason Shannon is an indie Canadian author of science fiction and more. His seventh novel, Tiger Blues, is available now: “A plucky...

RW Duder and Damian Richard have teamed up for the Guns and Gatesseries, an alt-history urban fantasy/western. Trapped Souls in theintroductory novella, a sort of Book 0.5, acting as an origin storyfor the antagonist. We discuss the book, co-authoring, making thejump to fantasy, and more. Reading occurs at 37:15 Join their newsletter to get a free digital copy https://storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/...

Episode 69--yes, I'm juvenile enough to say "noice". Of course, I cannot miss the opportunity to capitalize on this moment. There will never be another 69th episode of this podcast. And so today, you, my valued listener, are getting an all new story, one salacious enough to be worthy of this episode.  I first had this idea about 5 weeks ago, and thought how I could best honour this e...

Brian Klingborg is the author of the Lu Fei mystery series. Today we are mostly speaking about Book 2 in that series, Wild Prey, wherein detective Lu Fei investigates wildlife trafficking, eventually landing him in Myanmar. There, he meets a half-Chinese warlady who, in my reading, bears a startling resemblance to the 1950s Golden Triangle opium kingpin Olive Yang. Brian’s website: https://www.bri...

Ryan David Gerard is the author of 8 novels, includingthe Baptist trilogy and the Born Again trilogy, as well as thestandalones Wildmen and The Things that are Not. We talk about his writing, his journey as an author, questions of staying in your lane with regards to genre, and the struggles of trying to marketing in an online space—Ryan produces these hilarious Instagram reels satirizing the AI-g...