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Josh Rountree writes sci fi, fantasy, and horror short stories that excite us for the way he uses America as “a character that fights and claws and screams its way through most of my stories. Sometimes a hero and sometimes a villain. Broken but hopeful. Trying to figure things out.” Josh is a frequent choice for fantasy and horror award noms, and has a great slant on the craft of short story writing, especially in terms of evoking the feelings from music. … Continue...Episode 131 – Interview with Josh Rountree

Gail Carriger has been one of the driving forces in bringing back Steampunk, mixing it with comedy and a hearty dose of supernatural romance, and there you are! Hooked! She talks with us about the heroine’s journey, writing science fiction, how to keep yourself inspired, and more. … Continue...Episode 130 – Interview with Gail Carriger

Lyndsie is an artist and a writer, and a frequent guest at Steampunk conventions for her subject matter and experience on the topic. Dave and Jeannie sit down with Lyndsie today to discuss Steampunk and British Colonialism, science, mad science, fantasy, and more. If you love brass goggles, brown leather boots, and thinking about alternative power sources for machinery, this is for you! … Continue...Episode 129 – Alternative Steampunk with Lyndsie Clark

Critic, writer, and editor Jerry Wheeler discusses small press collections, the joy of good titles, the business of editing, among other things, and answers our questions. He brings a joyous voice and intelligent eye, and has advice worth listening to. … Continue...Episode 128 – Interview with Jerry L. Wheeler

Aliette joins us from Paris, France to talk about her writing, perceptions of science and world building, and the myth and power of storytelling. As a child of French and Vietnamese descent, she grew up with influences from both worlds and uses her strong multicultural awareness in her writing. She talks to us of liminal spaces, the unspoken area between multiple cultures, as well as diasporas and other themes in her writing. … Continue...Episode 127 – Interview with Aliette de Bodard

Today we talk to Karen Hicks, something of a polymath in areas of interest and writing. Karen is a screenwriter and journalist, a newsletter chronicler, a biographer, a romance novelist, a short story and ghost writer, a non-fiction writer, and a columnist. She shares with us her methods on research as well as the passion and discovery that writing can inspire. … Continue...Episode 126 – Interview with Karen Hicks

Becky Chambers, if not the mother of Hopepunk, is certainly its standard bearer. She has new takes on robots beyond the uncanny valley, exploring ideas and concepts like what is kindness, compassion, and even “humanity” through the eyes of the construct rather than those made of meat. Becky started as a self-published author with a Kickstarter idea, and was later picked up by traditional publishing. … Continue...Episode 125 – HopePunk with Becky Chambers

Dr. Joshua Palmatier has tasty brains, and we pick them both on his writing while earning a PhD and on his successful press, and what it has taught him.  You should listen and learn too about ZombiesEatBrains! … Continue...Episode 124 – Zombies Need Brains

Catherine Lundoff is a writer, editor and publisher of Queen of Swords press, and joins us today to talk about all three! How she researches and writes, what she writes about, how she works as an editor, teacher, and publisher, and how to do all three in the middle of a plague. … Continue...Episode 123 – Interview with Catherine Lundoff

20 years ago, two towers fell in America and it shocked the world. Whether people lived in New York or California, or in between, they were wrapped in trauma and grief, and needed the words to articulate their feelings and experience. Andrea Carter Brown captured her own eyewitness views and feelings to help process the negative memories into a new healing through poetry and reflection. From shock and pain to healing and kindness, Brown's verses speak for many who witnessed the events that day. … Continue...Episode 122 – Remembering 9-11 in Verse