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About Gabrielle Martin

As well as being a fantasy writer, Gabrielle Martin has a Master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She lives in Switzerland where she maintains an acupuncture practice, tries to save her lettuce seedlings from ravenous slugs, and hikes over mountain passes for fun.
You can follow Gabrielle on Twitter to get updates about new podcasts and more @GabrielleAuthor.

NBN Episodes hosted by Gabrielle:

Fantasy March 26, 2023

The Crane Husband

Kelly Barnhill

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Kelly Barnhill about her book The Crane Husband (Tordotcom, 2023). Our unnamed narrator, a fifteen-year-old girl, manages to care for her six-year-old brother and creative but irresponsible mother …
Fantasy February 24, 2023

Half a Soul

Olivia Atwater

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Olivia Atwater about her new book Half a Soul (Orbit, 2022). When a nasty fairy Lord tries to take young Dora’s soul, her doting cousin, Vanessa, fights him …
Fantasy January 10, 2023

The Daughters of Izdihar

Hadeer Elsbai

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
The Daughters of Izdihar (Harper Voyager, 2023), like last year’s A Master of Djinn, is set in a world similar to Egypt, during the time of the suffragette movement. American-Egyptian …
Fantasy November 7, 2022

The Revivalists

Christopher M. Hood

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
A road trip novel, The Revivalists (Harper, 2022) is intimate, funny, and at times, shocking. It has only the dystopian setting in common with Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. While Cormac’s characters are …
Fantasy October 14, 2022

Monsters Born and Made

Tanvi Berwah

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Tanvi Berwah about Monsters Born and Made (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022). In our narrator Koral’s world—an oceanic world full of sea monsters, brutal heat, and only a few islands—choices …
Fantasy September 14, 2022

Comeuppance Served Cold

Marion Deeds

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
A clever magical mystery which needs your full attention, Comeuppance Served Cold (Tordotcom, 2022) challenges this podcaster to write a review without a spoiler. The novella begins with what appears …
Fantasy August 8, 2022

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

Foz Meadows

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (Tor, 2022) is marketed as a historical fantasy novel, but its subtle and humane sweetness set it aside from most examples of the genre. Though it offers …
Fantasy June 27, 2022

The Justice of Kings

Richard Swan

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
The Justice of Kings (Orbit, 2022) opens with our young narrator, Helena, traveling from town to town as clerk to the King’s Justice, a learned and idealistic man called Vonvalt …
Fantasy May 26, 2022

The Beholden

Cassandra Rose Clarke

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Cassandra Rose Clarke about her book The Beholden (Erewhon Books, 2022). Two impoverished sisters, one with magical gifts and one with ladylike manners and pretty dresses, brave the …
Fantasy May 2, 2022

A Lullaby for Witches

Hester Fox

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Augusta is a meek museum curator trapped in a dead-end job and relationship, when an employment offer to become the collections manager at Harlowe House changes her life. With new …
Fantasy April 4, 2022

Bone Orchard

Sara A. Mueller

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Get ready for a cruel dark world of abnegation and revenge, featuring a woman who struggles to achieve psychic integration after a succession of betrayals. Like a Westworld written by …
Fantasy March 15, 2022

The Cartographers

Peng Shepherd

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Nell Young, a dedicated cartographer, once had it all—a dream job in the New York Public Library, a stylish boyfriend, Felix, who understood her obsession with maps, and a good …
Fantasy February 2, 2022

Trailer Park Trickster

David R. Slayton

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Did you ever hear the one about the elf, druid, and warlock that walk into—no, not a bar—but a trailer? Trailer Park Trickster (Blackstone, 2021), David Slayton’s follow up to …
Fantasy January 11, 2022

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Sue Lynn Tan about her new book Daughter of the Moon Goddess (Harper Voyager, 2022). The immortal Xinyin lives a quiet life on the moon with her mother …
Fantasy December 1, 2021

Wicked As You Wish

Rin Chupeco

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Rin Chupeco's Wicked As You Wish (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020) begins with our Filipina narrator, Tala, and her best friend, Alexei, who both attend high school in the small Arizona town …
Fantasy November 1, 2021

The Seventh Queen

A Novel

Greta Kelly

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
The Seventh Queen (HarperCollins, 2021) is the second book in the Warrior Witch Duology, so the following review and questions for author Greta Kelly assume you’ve read the first one. If …
Fantasy October 11, 2021

Capture the Crown

Jennifer Estep

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Jennifer Estep about her new book Capture the Crown (HarperCollins, 2021). Princess Gemma Ripley is famous for her glittering outfits, in which she flounces through countless parties and balls …
Fantasy August 10, 2021

Appleseed

Matt Bell

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
We have a collective memory of a primeval world embodied in myth. It is a world where spirits lived in the trees, water, and mountains, and nature was sacred. Was …
Fantasy July 14, 2021

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel: A Master of Djinn (Tordotcom, 2021). Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is …
Fantasy June 8, 2021

The Wolf and the Woodsman

A Novel

Ava Reid

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Ava Reid about her new book The Wolf and the Woodsman (Harper Voyager, 2021) The wolf, in the title refers to a pagan woman, given to the dreaded …
Fantasy May 10, 2021

The Bone Shard Daughter

The Drowning Empire Book One

Andrea Stewart

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Andrea Stewart about The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One (Hachette UK, 2020). In a world of floating islands, various narrators try to achieve or avoid …
Fantasy April 15, 2021

The Frozen Crown

A Novel

Greta Kelly

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
The horror of the battlefield is fresh for Princess Askia. She’s just been forced to flee her kingdom, the northern country of Seravesh, where her cousin now rules under the …
Fantasy March 29, 2021

Taylenor

Anne Marie Lutz

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Anne Marie Lutz about her book Taylenor (Hydra, 2019).  Taylen is the designation for magical power in the world that Anne Marie Lutz has created: a power so …
Fantasy March 5, 2021

Across the Green Grass Fields

Seanan McGuire

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields (Tor.com, 2021), a stand-alone novel in the Wayward Children series, a portal transports a horse-loving ten-year old, Regan, to Hooflands. Soon she becomes …