It’s hard enough to write well in one genre, never mind blending two or more into one seamless whole. But Myke Cole, author of the Shadow Ops trilogy and its prequel series, the Reawakening Trilogy (which includes his latest, Siege Line), mixes zombie horror, military thriller, and urban fantasy, and makes it look easy.

For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s best science fiction & fantasy books.

There’s nothing wrong with a book that slots nicely into an established genre—sometimes readers just want to know what they’re going to get, right?—but there’s something special about a book that does things a little different.

Usually when we do a cover reveal, we spend a paragraph of two talking about the book before we get to the main event. This time around, the author, Myke Cole, is doing that for us. He joins us today to talk about the cover of Siege Line (October 31, Ace Books), the sixth book […]