Editors Eric Flint and Walt Boyes and story authors on Grantville Gazette VIII; and Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Alliance of Equals Part 56.

Editors Eric Flint and Walt Boyes and story authors Virginia DeMarce, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff, Griffin Barber, Robert Waters, Bjorn Hasseler, and Caroline Palmer discuss their contributions to Grantville Gazette VIII, an anthology of stories set in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire alternate history universe—a series featuring a twentieth century West Virginia town that is thrown back in time to 1632 in the nascent Germany of continental Europe—in Part One of a two-part interview; and part fifty-six of the complete audiobook serialization of Liaden Universe® novel Alliance of Equals by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.