This is a Dark Matter Zine podcast and I’m your host Nalini Haynes. Today I talk to author Bianca Marais about her book The Witches of Moonshyne Manor. First Dark Matter Zine Acknowledges this recording is taking place on the unceded Country of the Bunurong Peoples’ of the Kulin Nation as Traditional Owners and Custodians […]

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This is a Dark Matter Zine podcast and I’m your host Nalini Haynes. Today I’m talking to author Naseem Jamnia about their book the Bruising of Qilwa. My review for this book is here. Acknowledgement of Country First, Dark Matter Zine acknowledges this recording is taking place on the unceded Country of the Bunurong Peoples’ of […]

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This is a Dark Matter Zine podcast and I’m your host Nalini Haynes. Today I’m talking to author Jessica Johns. Introducing Jessica Johns JESSICA JOHNS is an award winning interdisciplinary artist (that’s code for poet, author and visual artist), a Nehiyaw aunty and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern […]

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Brazilian author Simone Campos is DMZ’s guest in this podcast, which is part of a blog hop. I believe the below image for the blog hop includes all Twitter handles. Acknowledgement of Country I have occasionally Acknowledged Country in podcasts. This year I aim to lift my game in many areas, so now I plan […]

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In this podcast Nalini talks to author Katherine Kovacic. Katherine Kovacic was a veterinarian but preferred training and having fun with dogs to taking their temperatures. She seized the chance to return to study and earned an MA, followed by a PhD in Art History. Katherine spends her spare time writing, dancing and teaching other […]

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Kimberly Kenna studied psychology and trained as a counsellor while working as a breakfast cook whose poached eggs are still a disaster, a detective’s assistant hunting errant husbands and insurance scammers and a martial arts instructor. Then, for something different, she retrained to become a teacher. After teaching she left to study creative writing. And […]

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In this podcast Nalini Haynes talks to Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters. Sunyi Dean is a biracial fantasy author who was born in Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and now resides in the UK. She writes speculative fiction with a weird slant, and has both too many books and too many children. […]

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In this podcast, Nalini Haynes interviews Clare Niederpruem. Clare has a history of acting in sci fi and fantasy. She was in Zombie Hunter, Mythica and My Brother The Time Traveller. Her writing and directing encompasses sci fi, romance, historical fiction and more. For this Christmas she directed two seasonal romantic comedies that are strikingly different. […]

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In this podcast I talk to Noah Segan whose extensive list of acting credits started when he was 7 years old. Now he’s extended into writing and directing. His current genre-busting movie, Blood Relatives, is available on Shudder. And, in case you missed it, Noah was also a rebel pilot in Star Wars! (I totally […]

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Today’s podcast guest is author Catherine Raphael who grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh, United States, and graduated from Syracuse University with a major in metalsmithing. She worked as a jeweler for sixteen years, first in Philadelphia and then back in Pittsburgh. During that time she also worked on Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s ‘city of […]

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