Sounds from the Year Between

As part of an bi-monthly interview series, President and Editor-in-Chief of Tales From the Year Between Chris Vandyke sits down with A.A. Rubin to talk about his many and varied projects, inspirations, and works in progress.

A.A. Rubin's story "I Am I" appears in "Under New Suns," the second volume in Skullgate Media's Tales From the Year Between series.

Ari's stories, poems, and comics have appeared in a variety of anthologies and publications. You can find our more about him and his writing online in the following places:
Website: https://aarubin.wordpress.com/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSurrealAri 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesurrealari/ 
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/A.A.-Rubin/e/B07S9FR3HP?ref_=dbs_p_ebk_w0m_abau_000000 

If you want to read "I Am I," you can order it and all of Skullgate's books directly from our website, http://www.skullgatemedia.com, as well as Amazon or wherever books are sold. If you're interested in being part of the next volume of Tales From the Year Between, check out the details at http://www.yearbetween.com. Make sure to subscribe to our channel and follow us on [email protected]

 E. R. Hoffer really went the extra mile in not only recording herself reading her story 'Harmonies of the Dead' but in putting together a full-on visual experience for everyone to enjoy! This is the audio-only version, but you should really head over to Skullgate Media on YouTube to get the full experience as the author intended.

Erin Rae Hoffer writes about post-fossil fuel futures in the hope that positive imaginings might slap humanity hard enough to change things. She's also just extremely cool, take our word for that.

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

'Harmonies of the Dead' can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more. You can also discover more of E.R. Hoffer, author of 'The Errand', at lxnishimoto.wixsite.com/mysite or on Twitter as @erhoffer.

We're trying another new thing!

Coffee at the Skullgate is a new series in which each episode Chris Vandyke, Skullgate's president and lord of all, sits down with an author who's contributed to something Skullgate or is otherwise part of our extended family and... well, just has a chat about them, their work, and whatever other interesting things happen to come up.

In this inaugural episode, Chris speaks to Allison N. Moore.

Allison has been a key contributor to both volumes of Tales From the Year Between, and in this conversation she and Chris talk about her writing history, her interest in creating complex characters, and her goals as a writer.

Allison is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Minnesota. She may look sweet and innocent, but her characters know better.  She is querying her first adult fantasy novel, Legends of Annun: The Godstones - Book 1 of the Sylex Meadowbrooke Chronicles. She has stories in both Achten Tan: Land of Dust & Bone and Under New Suns.

Find Allison on her website https://authorallisonmoore.com​, on Twitter as @MooreWriting89, and on Goodreads as Allison N. Moore.

As for Skullgate, find out more about us by visiting skullgatemedia.com or yearbetween.com. You can also find Skullgate Media on YouTube, and you should do that because then you'll get to see a video version of this interview.

Remember Opu Haku, guys? Remember how he was the Bone Chief and all that? Whatever happened to that guy? Well, find out in this story: Sarah Remy's 'The Errand'!

Sarah Remy/Alex Hall is a nonbinary, animal-loving, proud gamer geek. Their work can be found in a variety of cool places, including HarperVoyager, EDGE and NineStar Press.

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

'The Errand' can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more. You can also discover more of Sarah Remy, author of 'The Errand', at sarahremy.com or on Twitter as @sarahremywrites.

Oh, you want creepy? You got it.

In this episode, Gabrielle Awe reads her delightfully dark story 'The Bone Whisperer' in her trademark tantalising tones.

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

'The Bone Whisperer' can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more. You can also discover more of Gabrielle Awe, author of 'The Bone Whisperer', at gabrielleawe.com or on Twitter as @evilkittygrr.

It's another storytelling episode, and this time it's Allison Moore reading the beautiful 'Soar', a tale of hope and whimsy in an unforgiving desert.

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

'Soar' can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more. You can also discover more of Allison Moore, author of 'Soar', at authorallisonmoore.com or on Twitter as @MooreWriting89.

Welcome, one and all, to the Great Library of Achten Tan, where the tales are tall and the ants are taller.

It's a slightly new format for Sounds from the Year Between! We'll still be doing the usual stuff, but we're also gonna be doing some episodes that are just full story readings, because... it seemed like a cool thing to do.

In this first episode of the 'Telling Tales from the Year Between' format, Roger Kristian Jones reads us his fantastic story 'Jon Andra's Daughter'.

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

'Jon Andra's Daughter' can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more.

It's sort of a bonus episode, but it's also by far the longest episode. Whoops.

In this journey into the strange and wonderful world of Achten Tan, D and Terry talk... well, Terry. All of Terry's many contributions to the volume are in this episode, but it's OK - now that they're all out of the way, we never have to talk about them again and everyone else can take centre stage as they deserve! Hurray!

(Featuring a newspaper clipping, an essay on a hymn, a play, and much more.)

Thanks to John Mina, Roman Mina, and Chris Vandyke for lending their voices to this episode.

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

All the pieces from this episode can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more.

D and Terry enlist the help of some of the wonderful people who made the world of Achten Tan and wrote the stories that brought it to life: hear a few excerpts from the book, as well as a bit of chat about the upcoming second volume. (Which you can support at bit.ly/kickstart-TFYB-2.)

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

All the pieces from this episode can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more.

Ben Blattberg talks to us about the Godtree, a near-mythical giant plant in the collaboratively created world of Achten Tan. Why did he decide to write a story about it? What changed as he was writing? And what's up with the wooden monkeys?

Sounds from the Year Between is the podcast companion to Tales from the Year Between, an anthology of strange and wonderful fiction where each volume is set in a brand-new original world. This podcast is an opportunity for us to talk about those worlds - as well as the unique process of creating them - and to shine a light on the people who made it all possible.

Ben's story A Genealogy of Trees can be found in Achten Tan, volume one of TFYB. Visit yearbetween.com or skullgatemedia.com to learn more.