In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Candace Kade discusses her new novel, Enhanced, book one in The Hybrid series. Enhanced is a young adult novel that blends cyberpunk with science fiction and is set in a part of our world known as the Asian Federation in the year 2123. This is a time when everyone has genetic enhancements, if they can afford them. The main character, a young woman named Lee Urban, unfortunately was born a Natural, someone lacking such enhancements. Lee’s genetic make-up places her in danger, and she plays a deadly game of trying to fit into the world of the Enhanced. In creating this novel, Candace asked the question: What would society look like if CRISPR and DNA modification really took off? The answer might just resemble the world she has created in this new series. In this episode, I’ll chat with Candace about her writing journey, how her experiences as an American child growing up in China provided insight for her main character, and how her dream since high school was to write at least one book set in Asia.

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Amanda Lees discusses her latest book, The Midwife’s Child. It is the third book in a loosely connected series set during World War II, featuring female agents fighting in the Resistance. Her main characters in the books are all based on real women who were decorated for their leadership and heroism during WWII. Amanda loves history and credits one of her teachers in a convent boarding school for sparking her interest in the subject at an early age. She admits that The Midwife’s Child is the hardest book she has ever written. While the book is based on a real-life love story that Amanda came across during her research, the novel is partly set in Auschwitz. Amanda worked hard on this book as a way to honor those who were sent there, those who died and those who survived, and to be true to what happened. But Amanda is quick to point out that The Midwife’s Child, like all the other books in the series, is a story filled with courage and hope. In this episode, I’ll chat with Amanda about her writing journey, how coming back to the publishing industry after a long hiatus was a very different experience than when she first got started, and what she means when she says she writes “dangerously.”

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