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This Author Spotlight features Lisa Mason author of The Garden of Abracadabra This week's author spotlight features a returning guest, Lisa Mason .  Lisa is the author of ten novels, including Summer of Love , a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and a San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book, The Gilded Age , a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book, a collection of previously published science fiction and fantasy,  Strange Ladies: 7 Stories , and two dozen stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her Omni story, "Tomorrow's Child," sold outright to Universal Studios and is in development. Lisa also served as a judge for the 2016 Philip K. Dick Award. Lisa is herself a Philip K. Dick Award finalist, which you can read about HERE . She shared her book Summer of Love with us in December 2012. You can read that interview HERE . She visited again to share her book Strang...

This Author Spotlight features Philip K. Dick Award finalist and Science Fiction writer Lisa Mason author of Strange Laides: 7 Stories Lisa and I originally chatted last year. You can read that interview HERE . Now, on with the show! 1. This is a follow-up interview, but for people who are not already familiar with your work, tell us what kind of books you write and what readers should expect from your stories? What is your latest book about? LM: I mostly write character-driven science fiction and contemporary or historical fantasy (as opposed to epic fantasy), but I’ve also written more mainstream works, romantic suspense, and a screenplay or two. My latest release, Strange Ladies: 7 Stories, is a collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories published in top magazines and anthologies worldwide. I’m gratified to see the response so far has been awesome since I cherry-picked them from among my published (and as-yet-unpublished) sho...