This week Z. C. and Garrett’s new series, Realm Keepers, released! It’s available for pre-order at http://therealmkeepers.com. We talked a bit about it, but we didn’t want to dominate the whole episode with the series again like we did last week, so eventually we moved on to: ADAPTATIONS We talked adaptations. Books to film, video games […]

In this episode of blatant self-promotion, we were supposed to talk about something. I’m sure we were. Adaptations, maybe? But instead, Zach and I monopolized the entire conversation and cockteased our new series, Realm Keepers. We talked about how it was coming out, when it was coming out and the release strategy. We didn’t even mention […]

Continuing our “genre-a-week” series, this week we discussed Fantasy: what it is, how to write it, and all the different forms it takes. FANTASTIC We came to a general consensus that fantasy primarily has to explain things that can’t be explained by physical laws; in other words, things that are supernatural or magical. TIMELINE Thing […]

Well, this week we grudgingly covered the Game of Thrones Season 3 Finale. I say “grudgingly” because it was kind of underwhelming. At least when compared to last week’s Red Wedding shitstorm. But we did our best, faithful listeners. Give it a listen, won’t you? Or watch the video here:

In what was hailed as “probably the best episode to come out of this piece of shit show” by our fans, we had an interesting and in-depth discussion about writing Young Adult. Including what that even means these days. From Twilight to Harry Potter to everything else, we covered it all: What you shouldn’t do […]

Well, this episode (in retrospect) was an absolute train wreck, but was a hell of a lot of fun while we were recording it. Bill Dowis, fond listener of the podcast, created a drinking game for us, and we played it ON THE AIR during this week’s recording. The results were nothing short of magical, […]