The Halfling and the Spaceman

We had a fun time chatting with David Freer.  He has been in several anthologies.  His most recent book, Storm Dragon, was released in 2025, which won the First Special Prometheus Award for Young Adult Fiction in 2026!  He mainly focuses on whimsical fantasy.  

https://www.davefreer.com/

The Halfling was happy to do a “catching up with” episode with fantasy author Alma Alexander.  We had the pleasure of chatting with her first in May of 2025.  She had some personal losses that caused her to pause her writing.  But now she\s got a new novel coming out toward the end of November 2026!  

We were excited to welcome Steven Gonzalez to the show!  Steven is the co-host of the Knuckleheads podcast, and an author.  He’s also into other content creations, such as Morning Star: The First Fall.  

https://www.instagram.com/knuckleheadslab/

We sat down to chat with Alexander Macris. Alexander is a game designer and author.  He’s involved in the video game industry.  And In 2011 he founded Autarch LLC, a game development studio

https://autarch.co/
https://arbiterofworlds.substack.com/

We were joined by Wally Waltner.  Wally is a sci-fi / fantasy author.  His fiction explores the magic of creativity itself — nowhere more vividly than in the Muse-touched kingdom of Breheimen, the setting of his heroic fantasy series Muses' War.

https://wallbangercreative.com/
https://wallbangercreative.substack.com/
https://shop.wallbangercreative.com/
https://museswar.com/

Jesse Wolfe publishes an array of self-written comic books, graphic novels, and short stories.   From people with unexpected superpowers to gritty detectives trying to solve murder cases.  

https://jw-stores.com/about/

We invited Ed Hunt to chat with us.  Ed is the author of the comic series Evil is a Weapon.  He talked to us about his new Kickstarter and about how he turns a concept into a comic. 

References and Links:
https://www.instagram.com/hunt.writing
https://www.edwardhuntwriting.com/
[email protected]

We got to have Tom Loveman join us!  Tom is an award-winning, Ohio-based writer and producer of short films.  He also co-hosted the weekly writers' podcast "Writers Group Therapy", which has back episodes available on all streaming services. 

https://www.lovemanmedia.com/

We were excited to have with us Cheryl S Ntumy!  Cheryl is a Ghanaian writer of short fiction and novels of speculative fiction, young adult fiction and romance.  Her latest novel They Made Us Blood and Fury, was released in August of 2026

https://cherylsntumy.wordpress.com/
https://sauuti.com/

We got to chat with Ken Lizzi (Lit zee)!  Ken is the author of an assortment of novels and short stories ranging in genres from children’s stories all the way through horror.  His latest novel, Dekason Twilight Galaxy Book , was released in March of 2026

https://www.kenlizzi.net/