SATURN’S FAV0RITE MUSIC by Laura Lee
Broadcast on 30th July 2025 Available here
It is the summer of 1992. Clara Jane is an alternative music-loving graduate from a broadcast school in Detroit. She lands her first job at a small market radio station in northern Michigan in a one-stoplight town called Saturn. The hyper-local programming (featuring lost farm animal reports and radio obits) and the station’s mix of light hits and great oldies are a far cry from the rock star glamour she hoped to achieve with a radio career.
But Clara finds a home with an eccentric cast of characters, especially the recently-divorced morning man Seth Jones. As Clara and Seth bond over their shared sense of humor and a mutual love of different genres of music, the station is sold and staff members start to be replaced by automation. Will Clara find the radio stardom she craves before the station goes completely robotic?
Laura Lee is the author of 21 books including biography, humorous reference, fiction, and children’s literature. The Metro Detroit native brings a unique background to her work. She holds a degree in theater and worked as a professional mime, improvisational comic, and radio announcer before becoming a full time writer. The San Francisco Chronicle has said of her work, “Lee’s dry, humorous tone makes her a charming companion… She has a penchant for wordplay that is irresistible.”
PYG by Pip Landers-Letts
Broadcast on 13th August Available here
Alice French is an emotional wreck. She’s left her toxic lover. She’s probably going to lose her job. She’s even about to ruin her expensive heels when she stumbles upon a barely conscious stranger one night…
All Alice wants to do is go home and lick her wounds, but she’s compelled to help. Who is this strange man? Why is he mumbling about a pig? And why can’t she stop flirting with Ash, the gorgeous A&E doctor? Alice needs to sort her life out, but when it comes to Ash and her disarming smile, things could be about to get a whole lot messier.
As Alice delves into the mystery, she starts to see her life with newfound clarity, and unexpected possibilities bloom.
Pip Landers-Letts lives in the UK with her wife, Shannon and their two ‘kids’ Mouse (the cat) and Roux (the dog). When she’s not hanging out with her imaginary friends, Pip loves travelling, being in the mountains, making delicious food – and eating it, pouring good wine – and drinking it. Yes, Pip is her real name. And no, she’s not Dutch.
You can find Pip online in all of the usual places (including her website pipwritesfiction, where you can get a FREE Sapphic Short Story when you subscribe to her newsletter.
YELLOW BIRDS by Karen Green
Broadcast on 27th August Available here
Set just before the digital revolution, Kait is a young woman searching for identity and community among the cast-outs, cast-offs, and other “misfit toys” who refer to themselves as the Yellow Birds and follow a band called the Open Road from town to town.
Just as Kait believes she has found her place among a group of Birds travelling together in a messy van, a young man with the eye-roll worthy name of Horizon sits beside her one night and alters her fragile plan for the foreseeable future.
Amidst the whirlwind of the Open Road Tour, their growing feelings for one another soar to ecstatic heights, while propelling them toward an impending reckoning with their troubled pasts.
Filled with sex, drugs, music, and even cults, readers won’t be able to get enough of this bohemian love story, the groupie lifestyle, and the party within the party.
Karen Green is a successfully published writer who has had her poetry, essays, and fiction featured in Room Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Globe and Mail, and more. She has also contributed to Juno-winning and platinum-selling albums during her tenure as a senior copywriter. She is the author of two young reader books (Fisher Price).
WHERE THE GRASS DON’T GROW AND VULTURES
SING by Edward R Rosick
Broadcast on 10th September Available here
This is the first collection of speculative fiction stories by long time author and physician, Edward R. Rosick. Fellow authors have described his horror novel DEEP ROOTS as …”A peculiarly 21st Century American-Heartland version of the great British horror-misters of the 20th century…” (Felice Picano, award-winning and best-selling author); Tim Curran, prolific author of multiple horror classics, states “DEEP ROOTS is brutal and unpleasant. It’ll make you squirm, haunt your nightmares and make your skin crawl. But at the same time, there’s humanity here, rising up against implacable odds.”
Now, Dr. Rosick presents twelve stories ranging from the sublime to the surreal. From encounters with psychopathic aliens in the crumbling ruins of Detroit, to facing monstrous, ancient spirits in the desolate forests of Siberia, WHERE THE GRASS DON’T GROW AND VULTURES SING are tales of the macabre and bizarre. Some are old, some are new, all of them off-kilter and phantasmagorical; stories set in a world that is ours yet isn’t, a world where half-seen shadows slip and weave just outside one’s vision, a world where the grass doesn’t grow… and vultures most definitely sing.
THE PERFECT FOOL by Nick Morrish
Broadcast on 24th September Available here
On his way to an interview with a national newspaper, jobless journalist, Dillon Wright is confronted by armoured knights tearing up the motorway with a mechanical digger. Dillon is not impressed by their claim to be on a sacred quest, but the newspaper is seeking a fearless reporter to investigate cults and alternative religions. His near-death experience with the knights is just what they are looking for.
Aided and abetted by his accident-prone housemate, Sparks, and his sceptical girlfriend, Charlotte, he sets out on his own quest, in search of truth and regular employment. On the way, he meets a Gnostic sect who own a brewery, a convent of hostile nuns, and a cult whose non-stop party lifestyle is hard to resist.
Dillon suspects he has been tricked into undertaking an increasingly hazardous mission, but every choice he makes drags him deeper into danger. When his investigations antagonise a volatile religious militia, his home is burnt to the ground and is forced to go on the run.
Can he escape his perilous fate? Will this company of quirky cultists help him prevent a massacre? Or is he just their perfect fool?
A WALK THROUGH THE YEARS byEric Johnson
Broadcast on 8th October Available here
After the death of his wife, Robert finds himself walking the same paths they once shared, lost in the weight of grief. But when a mysterious stranger appears at his door with an unsettling offer—Care for some company?—Robert’s daily routine takes an unexpected turn. Together, they embark on a walk through the streets of his past, where each step peels away the present, drawing him deeper into the moments that defined his life.
From his youth in a small town to the battlefields of Vietnam, from the joys of fatherhood to the heartbreak of loss, Robert relives the milestones that shaped him, guided by a companion whose presence is both enigmatic and familiar. As his past and present blur, Robert is faced with a final question: Is he ready to take his last walk toward the love he thought he had lost forever?
Eric Johnson is the author of the short story collection, There’s Gold In Those Hills. Growing up in a small post-industrial town, and reading the works of authors such as Dennis Lehane, Stephen King, David Adams Richards and more, has influenced his characters and stories. Eric writes about characters who face moral dilemmas, and asks the reader to think about their positions and what they would do in their place, because as we all know, good and bad aren’t black and white.
A CONCOCTION OF LIES by Patsy C Robertson
Broadcast on 22nd October Available here
After Chance Moore, a former FBI cyber-security specialist turned cybercriminal, hacks the bank account of a notorious Guatemalan cartel member, he’s kidnapped and smuggled into Guatemala. After escaping and trying desperately to reach the Belize border, he crosses paths with Vonnie Hollister, a depressed prescription drug addict and alcoholic, who is in Belize to sell her family’s 150-year-old banana plantation. Vonnie is sinking deeper into addiction, and a love affair with an unscrupulous businessman puts her life, her friends, and her plantation in jeopardy.
Chance and Vonnie’s lives become intertwined when Chance is found close to death on Vonnie’s plantation and is moved into her house to recover. While Vonnie struggles to overcome her addiction and solve her problems, Chance is impatient to leave the plantation before the cartel discovers where he is. But covert intelligence has led cartel soldiers illegally across the Belize border – they know exactly where to find him.
Patsy C Robertson: There is a growing market for books featuring characters from different cultures and backgrounds. I believe the written word can allow readers to explore cultural experiences they might not encounter otherwise. There is also a growing diversity within the Indie Author community that extends across genres, and books are being sold. As a member of this community, I aim to continue writing books that weave multicultural aspects into each story and offer a window into diverse experiences.
JIDDY VARDY by Ruth Estevez
Broadcast on 5th November Available here
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On tumultuous waters a girl is born as pirates board the ship . . .
A thrilling tale of one girl’s search for identity and love, set against a backdrop of wild seas, smuggling and violence.
Ruth Estevez was born in Yorkshire. Often the much loved landscape is a third character in her novels. A career in theatre, TV and a subscription library have influenced her work. Script writing for Bob the Builder morphed into novel writing. Very much a Northern writer with Latin touches. Interested in social differences, the outsider and finding our place in the world.
