Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Gary is joined by multiple award-winning artist and illustrator Charles Vess, chatting about country living during the lockdown, working with authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Neil Gaiman (including a new collector’s edition of Stardust from Lyra’s Books with new illustrations and handmade paper), and Charles’s own novel, The Queen of Summer’s Twilight, available on his Green Man Press website.

Books mentioned include:

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• Honeycomb (forthcoming 2021) by Joanne Harris (ill. Charles Vess)
• The Queen of Summer’s Twilight by Charles Vess
• Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings
• The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert McFarland
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
• The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan spends a while chatting with Hugo Award winner Sarah Gailey about reading, writing, and getting through these strange times; the attractions of reading immersive texts (whether fiction or non-fiction); rediscovering The Hunger Games, reading the prequel, and her Medium article “Everything is The Hunger Games now“; her fabulous story from The Book of Dragons; writing YA and her upcoming novels, and more!

You can listen to an excerpt from Sarah’s story, “We Don’t Talk About the Dragon”, right now and if you live in the US and are over 18 you can enter our sweepstakes to win one of ten copies by following this link!

Books mentioned include:

• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
• When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
• Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls Hugo and Nebula award winning writer, poet, and critic Amal El-Mohtar, whose novella This Is How You Lose the Time War (co-written with Max Gladstone) has been sweeping all of the awards this year, to chat about reading, working and living during the pandemic, the pleasure of reading graphic novels, and some great new books. Amal’s poem “A Final Knight to Her Love and Foe”, appears in The Book of Dragons.

If you live in the US and are over 18 you can enter our sweepstakes to win one of ten copies by following this link!

Books mentioned include:

• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
• Die by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
• The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Over the past decade Daniel Abraham has become famous as half of James S.A. Corey, creators of The Expanse, but in addition to creating incredible space opera and great television, Daniel has crafted some of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past decade. Today he talks to Jonathan about reading, writing, and working during the pandemic, working for television, the work of Tim Powers and Carmen Maria Machado, and much more.

You can listen to an excerpt from Daniel’s story, “Yuli”, right now and if you live in the US and are over 18 you can enter our sweepstakes to win one of ten copies by following this link!

Books mentioned include:

• Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey
• Last Call by Tim Powers
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Plague by Albert Camus

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls sunny New York to talk to the fabulous Nebula Award-winning author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander, about reading, writing and living during the pandemic, the comfort of somewhat grim nonfiction, and her contribution to The Book of Dragons.

You can listen to an excerpt from Brooke’s story, “Where the River Turns to Concrete“, right now and if you live in the US and are over 18 you can enter our sweepstakes to win one of ten copies by following this link!

Books mentioned include:

• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
• Every Bone a Prayer by Ashley Blooms
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro