#37 Interview with Sam J. Miller author of The Blade Between

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a “Must Read” in Entertainment Weekly and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop right here in San Diego, Sam has been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, and Locus Awards. He is a community activist, he lives in New York City and more than once couldn't be on a podcast panel I was recording because he had a protest on his schedule.     In this episode, we talk about his new release, the small-town horror novel 'The Blade Between' which balances issues of class warfare, LBGTQ issues with whale ghosts, and the hidden legacy of the small town the lead character escaped. We talk at length about the creation of this novel, small-towns with a secret, and the on-going conversation in genre fiction.    You can find Sam here: samjmiller.com  Twitter: @sentencebender    •You can find my books here: Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff  Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor  Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/