The Once And Future Podcast

Wherein author Faith Hunter and I discuss her first comic con, her bone collection, life before the fantasy genre, Superman, and the Rogue Mage and Jane Yellowrock urban fantasy series. Oh, and some writing advice too! Plus you can win a copy of one of her Jane Yellowrock series by listening!

Wherein we discuss the work of fantasy author Christopher Golden, including his original fiction, the Buffy The Vampire Slayer books and video games, Hellboy, Joe Golem, the Baltimore comic series, how Lynyrd Skynyrd is like collaborating, his road to publication, and some great advice for writers! Plus a chance to win a signed copy of his novella Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism!

WE’RE BACK! For our 2nd Haunted Halloween Special, we’ve got all new spooktacular tales read by their authors: Alethea Kontis, Amber Benson, Anton Strout, Faith Hunter, Daniel Marks, Jaye Wells, and Yasmine Galenorn.

Wherein I talk with game designer/author/comic book writer Matt Forbeck about roleplaying and video games, late night meeting with J. J. Abrams, comic books, where business meets art, and his insane (yet successful) 12 for ’12 Kickstarter campaign.

Wherein I talk with urban fantasy/comic book writer Thomas E. Sniegoski about writing both, collaboration, the deep neurosis all writers have, his obsession with dogs in his books, lack of religious outrage at his series with angels, and I gush over his Buffy The Vampire Slayer video game writing.

On the 1-year anniversary of the O&F Podcast, guest host Amber Benson interviews author Anton Strout about his latest urban fantasy, Alchemystic, being besties, changing sex at will, Worldbuilders, how The Hodgman affects all authors, New York Comic Con, and much, much more!

This episode game designer and author Keith Baker and I talk about one of my favorite card games Gloom, Cthluhu Gloom, how he came up with and world built the contest–winning Dungeons & Dragons world of Eberron, how fun killing a family can be, and…. THE HELLCOW!

This episode I talk with author K. A. Stewart about her Jesse James Dawson series, the cosmic mystery that is the Amazon Sales Ranking, being a world building whoor, balancing writing with World of Warcraft, the crazy things we do to research our books, life as outliners, and how ALL authors are neurotic. Plus a chance to win a copy of your choice of one of the books in the Jesse James Dawson Series!

This episode I talk writing with Hidden Things debut author Doyce Testerman about our lush gaming histories in MMO’s and pen & paper games, how people keep comparing him to Neil Gaiman (poor him!), the power of NANOWRIMO!, nerdlove thanks to City of Heroes, tackling The Silmarillion again, and our dice addiction problem. Plus a chance to win a copy of Hidden Things!

This episode I talk with author Chloe Neill about her Dark Elite young adult series, and her urban fantasy Chicagoland Vampires series, which, surprisingly does indeed have vampires from Chicago in it! We also discuss our author bucket lists and BINGO cards, trauma=writing!, why we really NEED our day jobs, and discover that this particular episode is very therapeutic for the both of us! Plus a chance to win one of her books!

This episode I talk with author Kat Richardson about her Greywalker urban fantasy series, but we discuss more than just silly old book writing. We discuss house boats, her lack of television, how often we can say DUUUDE, quantum theory, what’s a magazine is, which of us can be lazier, the fine things we smelled at Comic Con, death by watermelon, and most importantly, CUPCAKES! Plus a chance to win some of her books!

This week in our FORTIETH EPISODE(!) we discuss the 18-year history of the Writer’s Symposium at Gen Con, where yours truly sold his first short story. Also: what you can learn about writing, gaming, and how its coordinator Marc Tassin brings it all together!

This week comes to you straight from this year’s San Diego Comic Con where I talk about all the nifty toys and comics I got, what I did and what I saw, asking the same of some of my fellow authors—Rachel Caine, Myke Cole, J.F. Lewis, Kat Richardson and Doyce Testerman.

This week I talk with author Michael R. Underwood about whatgeekomancers are, how Patrick Rothfuss and I should fight Pokemon ARENA STYLE!, the digital frontier, how deep a geek he is, the Argentine Tango and the Renaissance Martial Arts. Oh, and books and writing stuff.

This week I talk with author Devon Monk about the latest in her Allie Beckstrom urban fantasy series plus her Age of Steam series—Dead Iron, and the just releasing Tin Swift. We also discuss our very similar writing lives, how one of our series both come from short stories we wrote, how I R a MASTER STORYTELLER, and she announces her new series with us in BREAKING NEWS that you will hear first right here! Plus the chance to win one book from both series!