Untold Legends: The Podcast

Join us for a discussion about bargains and Black faeries in pop culture with NYT Bestselling author, Dhonielle Clayton. Clayton’s short story is a companion to her entry in Vampires Never Get Old, and she gives us an insight on making mythology feel fresh and new, as well as writing against tired old tropes. 

Find Dhonielle on Instagram & Threads, and on her website Dhonielleclayton.com 

Absinthe. Faeries. What else could we ask for? Holly Black, the literary Queen of Faerie, joins us for a little absinthe tasting and a fantastic discussion of all things faerie, including some faerie folklore stories Holly loves. We pick her brain on how she writes such incredible bargains and stories while keeping them fresh. We also touch on aliens, writing, and have a chaotic and delightful talk about the tasting notes. Zoraida did not set her apartment on fire. Not a sponsored episode, we just like little treats. 

Faeries by Alan Lee and Brian Froud 

Legend (1985)

Spiderwick Chronicles

Absinthe: 

Lucid (France)

Absinthe Verte (Kansas City, USA)

Meadow of Love (Delaware Phoenix Distillery)

Sugar cubes from the book box by Jamison Shea

On this episode we welcome Christine Day, an enrolled citizen of the Upper Skagit tribe, and award-winning middle grade author. She joins us to talk pop culture, dark academia, indigenous histories and liberation, and the power in the possibility of invention. 

Find Christine on Instagram or ByChristineday.com!

Award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore joins the faerie revel. They discuss the queerness and fashion of faerie, and what it’s like writing in the established world of VENOM & VOW, co-authored with their husband, Elliott McLemore. 

Visit Anna-Marie McLemore on their website.

NYT Bestselling author Ryan La Sala steps into our faerie circle to discuss their contribution to FAERIES NEVER LIE, queer culture and safe spaces, Sailor Moon, and belonging. Join the revel! 

Find Ryan on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠RyanLaSala.com⁠!

Deep dive into the monstrous beauty of the faerie world with NYT Bestselling author Tessa Gratton! 

Find Tessa Gratton online.

Welcome back to Untold Legends - season 3. This podcast serves as a companion to our series of anthologies. Season 1: Vampires. Season 2: mermaids. This season it's all about FAERIES.

In episode 1, Natalie and Zoraida reintroduce themselves and discuss their short stories in the collection, when they first discovered faeries, and the process of making the anthology itself!

Stay tuned at the end of the episode for an exclusive pre-order campaign for FAERIES NEVER LIE, available September 24, 2024 wherever books are sold.

*explicit label for the occasional F*bomb*

Welcome back to the UNTOLD LEGENDS podcast hosted by Natalie C. Parker & Zoraida Córdova. We've had a little bit of a rebrand, so if you remember VAMPIRES NEVER GET OLD, we are still the same editors and writers, we've just expanded.

Natalie and Zoraida are welcoming in the new year by chatting with Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Preeti Chhibber! This episode navigates honesty in storytelling, figuring out who the real monsters are, and how different iterations of Peter Pan—specifically the enchanting and sometimes terrifying mermaids from the tale—inspired their stories.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall is the author of Also an Octopus, illustrated by Benji Davies, The Mermaid, The Witch and The Sea, Squad, illustrated by Lisa Sterle, and Love in the Library illustrated by Yas Imamura with more books forthcoming.

She can be found on Twitter @emteehall.

Called “Spider-Man super fan and author” by Publishers Weekly, Preeti Chhibber is a YA author, speaker, and freelance writer. She has written for SYFY, Polygon, BookRiot, BookRiot Comics, The Nerds of Color, and The Mary Sue, among others. She also co-hosts the podcasts Desi Geek Girls and Tar Valon or Bust. She’s appeared on several panels at New York Comic Con and San Diego Comic Con, and on-screen on the SYFY Network. Honestly, you probably recognize her from one of several BuzzFeed “look at these tweets” Twitter lists. She usually spends her time reading a ridiculous amount of Young Adult but is also ready to jump into most fandoms at a moment’s notice.

She can be found on Instagram @runwithskizzers.

Additional media mentioned: The Abyss (1989), Peter Pan (1953), Peter Pan (2023), Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, The Little Mermaid (1989), Jennifer's Body (2009), and Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein.

Follow Zoraida Córdova @zoraidasolo and Natalie C. Parker @ncparker on Instagram.

Welcome back to the UNTOLD LEGENDS podcast hosted by Natalie C. Parker & Zoraida Córdova. We've had a little bit of a rebrand, so if you remember VAMPIRES NEVER GET OLD, we are still the same editors and writers, we've just expanded.

Join our dynamic duo as they're joined this time by the wonderful Darcie Little Badger. Together they discuss some fun (and deadly) marine facts along with what inspired her story in the anthology from the perspective of a horror and fantasy lover.

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a Ph.D. in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.

She can be found on Instagram @dr.littlebadger.

We also found Darcie's magical octopus! The Octopus Squid has bioluminescent arms and can drop one as a distraction as it escapes predators. Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium website for more on this critter.

Additional media mentioned: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), The Lighthouse (2019), Dagon (2001), The Shape of Water (2017), and Love, Death + Robots "Jibaro" (2022).

Follow Zoraida Córdova @zoraidasolo and Natalie C. Parker @ncparker on Instagram.

Welcome back to the UNTOLD LEGENDS podcast hosted by Natalie C. Parker & Zoraida Córdova. We've had a little bit of a rebrand, so if you remember VAMPIRES NEVER GET OLD, we are still the same editors and writers, we've just expanded.

This time around we dive into an empathically poignant conversation about the radical transformation that comes with the exploration of gender and what happens to us when we face storms both physical and emotional.

Katherine Locke lives and writes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with their feline overlords and their addiction to chai lattes. They are the author of the critically acclaimed This Rebel Heart, The Girl with the Red Balloon, a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book and 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, as well as The Spy with the Red Balloon. They are the co-editor and contributor to This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them and Us, which had three starred reviews and made Kirkus Review’s Best Middle Grade of 2021 list, as well as It's A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes and Other Jewish Stories. They also contributed to Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens and Out Now: Queer We Go Again. They are the author of picture books Bedtime for Superheroes, What Are Your Words? A Book About Pronouns, and Being Friends with Dragons.

They can be found online at KatherineLockeBooks.com and @bibliogato on Twitter and Instagram.

Additional books mentioned: The Seafarer's Kiss by Julia Ember

Follow Zoraida Córdova @zoraidasolo and Natalie C. Parker @ncparker on Instagram.