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What happens when humankind getss exterminated?  Not with a bang, but a sniffle.  Find out in James K. Burk's The Last, a darkly humorous story about the end of days...

James K. Burk was born long, long ago in a place far, far away.  He had as normal a childhood as one can expect from someone who grew up to be a critic and writer.  He has worked with every building material known to man (how many stone-planers do you know?)  Besides reviews in DeLap's F&SF Review and Tangent, his first published work was STRANGE TWISTS OF FATE, a chapbook from Yard Dog Press.  Since then, he's had a novel, HIGH RAGE appear and go out of print (from Silver Dragon Books), another YD chapbook, ILLUSIONS OF SANITY, has had stories in several Yard Dog anthologies, especially the Bubbas of the Apocalypse series and will have another novel published.  HOME IS THE HUNTER,  a science fiction novel, will be half of Double Dog #3, along with Lazette Gifford's FARSTEP STATION.

Our interview is with Gloria Oliver.  Gloria Oliver lives in Texas with her husband, daughter, and three cats.  She is the author of the novels In the Service of Samurai, and Vassal of El, both in the Fantasy genre and both finalists in the EPPIES.  Two other fantasy novels are due for release in 2006 and 2007, Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles and Willing Sacrifice. She also has stories in The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, Small Bites, and Fundamentally Challenged anthologies.

When not busy working with numbers at work, she enjoys reading, writing, watching movies, Japanese Anime, trying to learn Japanese, and making her mind mush by translating Japanese comics.   To find out more, please visit www.gloriaoliver.com.

The book reviews are of Tee Morris and Lisa Lee's Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana and Scott Sigler's Earthcore.  The books are available as podiobooks at www.podiobooks.com and available for purchase through the Sci Fi Traveling Road Show at www.scifitravelingroadshow.com. 

Some generic show notes and author/host updates: 

First, I'll be doing this podcast once every two weeks.  It's more or less for sanity reasons as I have a number of other projects going on, which pay me.  This is a labor of love (or maybe a labor of love/hate because it takes a lot of time to produce this) which I make no money from, but I do this because I like to do this.  Donations wouldn't hurt, so if you feel generous and like the content, surf over to www.scifitravelingroadshow.com and donate to keep me motivated and pay for this site.

Secondly, I just sold two novels, Runestone of Teiwas with Yard Dog Press (www.yarddogpress.com) and Lachlei to Dragon Moon Press (www.dragonmoonpress.com).  w00t!  Seriously, you can also purchase Prophecy of Swords from Yard Dog Press or check out the podiobook at Podiobooks.com. 

Lastly, I'm kind of short on flash material.  If you're a small press author with some flash fiction,  I want to hear from you.  You cna get your work promoted through this podcast.  How fun is that?