Sam Danis

1 week ago | audible.com | Sam Danis

The author and poet didn’t like the way a classic ballad about rival sisters ended—so she wrote her own. In 2019, Amal El-Mohtar and co-author Max Gladstone made waves with the epistolary sci-fi masterpiece This Is How You Lose the Time War. Six years later, we’re thrilled to finally get a debut novella from Amal. The River Has Rootsflaunts the writer’s gift for lyricism and adds a musical twist.

3 weeks ago | audible.com | Sam Danis |Susanna Clarke |Helen Phillips

After a revealing and compulsive second season of Severance, we’re faced with another wait for the next—though hopefully it won't be quite as long as we had to wait for Season 2. If you’re not ready to sever ties with the show, fear not. These listens all capture some of the qualities that make Severance so compelling—from the eerie liminality of the office space, to the threat of malicious and mysterious corporate overlords, to the absurdity of modern working culture. Piranesi lives in the House.

2 months ago | audible.com | Sam Danis

Note: Text has been lightly edited for clarity and does not match audio exactly. Sam Danis: Hello, Audible listeners. This is Sam, Audible’s sci-fi and fantasy editor, and I'm thrilled to be chatting with Matt Dinniman, author of the LitRPG sensation Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is now seven books in with the release of This Inevitable Ruin. He's also an artist and musician, and we are here today to discuss the whole series.

2 months ago | audible.com | Sam Danis

The actor-turned-writer first found her storytelling home in audio with her podcast All Things Undone. She was a natural choice to adapt award-winning author N.K. Jemisin’s stories into an audiodrama. We talked with her about the genesis of this project and the future of her audio work. Sam Danis: How did this project come to be?

Jul 9, 2024 | audible.com | Sam Danis

The cult-favorite author on queer representation, being an autistic buckaroo, and why horror is like a form of exercise. Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly. Sam Danis: Hi, I'm Sam, Audible's sci-fi and fantasy editor, and I'm beyond thrilled to be talking with the incomparable Hugo-nominated author Chuck Tingle. He is the prolific writer of so, so many delightful erotica stories and novellas, known, of course, as Tinglers.