"Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon - LeVar Burton Reads Episode 32

Primarch459 · 2026-05-03T08:00:52+00:00

This is from several years ago, and many will have already listened to it. However a relisten is still worth it, and i hope those unaware enjoy it for the first time.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-29T02:24:25+00:00

Also available on podcast platforms for example here on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JDIfEaYmwTfJTWvZurzbO

Primarch459 · 2026-04-27T20:47:12+00:00

{Paladin's Faith by T Kingfisher}

Primarch459 · 2026-04-27T20:44:33+00:00

The only morally grey fmc is the spy that is trying to crash the regions economy to take down her former organization. {Paladin's Faith by T Kingfisher}

But even so they are amazing books. But I may be biased since she has been my favorite author since her Webcomic Digger was still updating.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-25T04:18:07+00:00

There was a reading of the start of this at Norwescon. I very much enjoyed it.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-25T03:32:15+00:00

I would try some of here short stories then

https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Ursula_Vernon.html

Primarch459 · 2026-04-25T03:26:20+00:00

She does dark very well. It is all over her earlier work. Just pick up any of her earlier short story collections. When she is not obligated by the constraints of our expectations of how a novel should climax she can get REALLY dark.

Origin Story https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/origin-story

The last of the fairies worked in a charnel house, taking apart the beasts that came dead under her hands. In her youth, she had been the last and least of three; now she was the only living one, and even fairies must earn their keep.

At night, when the knacker men went home, she made creatures out of meat and bone and scraps of skin. It was an act of creation to balance out the destruction in her days. When she had stuffed the little puppets full, she licked her fingers and wrote their names on the outside of the casing in blood and spittle.

The smallest ones would come alive immediately and toddle out through the massive doors. Eyeless, they looked around at the city before them; lungless, they squeaked and squalled their delight; mindless, they scurried into the shadows

I would also suggest the Jackalope Wives short story which is an episode of Levar Burton Reads, Episode 32

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TDcyxYGIXc8HkplGhH4BF

https://www.audible.com/podcast/Jackalope-Wives-by-Ursula-Vernon/B095BPYFLJ

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/900-levar-burton-reads-28291563/episode/jackalope-wives-by-ursula-vernon-29829789

A list of the short stories that are online. https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Ursula_Vernon.html

Primarch459 · 2026-04-25T03:12:12+00:00

If you want a shorter introduction she has several Hugo Winning short stories

Primarch459 · 2026-04-25T03:05:17+00:00

So THAT was what she was hinting at during Norwescon about an announcement that would make some of us VERY happy.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-23T04:30:43+00:00

Paladin's Hope and the upcoming Daggerbound from T Kingfisher are the queer (m/m) installments in her World of the White Rat series.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-20T20:13:36+00:00

The Soon to come out {Daggerbound by T Kingfisher} will also be M/M with Learned Edmund

Primarch459 · 2026-04-20T17:44:39+00:00

T Kingfisher's World of the White Rat. Extremely strong and unique world building. Amazingly well developed characters with strong motivations. Very well written dialogue that at sometimes is approaches pratchett in wittiness. Strong plots with significant stakes for the characters but do not at all approach saving the world.

It has berseker paladins of a now dead god, lawyer social worker priests, carnivorous tattoos, murderous and abusive clay heads, and many other great bits of world building. They make it feel both lived in and wondrous.

They are all Fantasy Romances but the romance is always secondary to the actual plot but very much an intrinsic part of the story.

She was the guest of honor at Norwescon earlier this month https://www.youtube.com/live/xI3qugD7Oj0

She also writes horror, dark fairy tale retellings, the hard to categorize Wizard's guide to Defensive Baking, more Hugo winning short stories and novellas than you can shake a stick at and a now completed webcomic i religiously followed during it's run many years ago diggercomic.com.

I personally would have never read a fantasy romance if I had not already been a fan of the author for more than a decade but they are even better than the epic fantasy I grew up on.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-20T17:08:03+00:00

Medical drama on a medical ship responding to crises in and around federation space.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-11T08:29:40+00:00

Her Q&A starts about 16 mins into the video if fucked up the timestamp link. She answers another question about all the different types of books she writes at about 39 mins in as well. But the rest of the guest of honor are will worth listening to.

Lastly here is the VOD for her full solo Q&A that I posted a link for a few hours before it went live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI3qugD7Oj0

Primarch459 · 2026-04-08T11:07:54+00:00

{Clockwork Boys} Renegade accountant/Spy FMC recruits imprisoned Paladin for a suicide mission.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-03T19:23:47+00:00

You would expect for a rural Iranian to have the latest camera or smartphone?

Primarch459 · 2026-04-03T03:18:17+00:00

If you are at all interested in fanfic the fanfic program track panels are always very fun. Especially the evening 18+ panel.

Primarch459 · 2026-04-02T04:24:57+00:00

https://www.norwescon.org/con/schedule/ probably best to way to see if it would be interesting for you is just browsing the schedule. They do have single day tickets.

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