The Once And Future Podcast

This week I talk with author Alethea Kontis about her latest young adult book Enchanted, Alpha-Oops!, Dragon Con, fangirlism, Mad Scientist Garden Gnomes, fairy tales, how we hate THE MUSE, and just how hard it is out there for Disney’s lost princess!

This week I talk with author Paul S. Kemp about his tie-in work for a few worlds you may know: Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms. We’ll discuss what it takes to work in shared worlds and we’ll also learn all about his own novel set in his very own world entitled The Hammer & the Blade. Plus a chance to win a signed copy of said title!

This week we’ve got a special treat for you as I play roving reporter at BEA (Book Expo America) in NYC, bringing you the scifi and fantasy highlights so you wouldn’t feel left out. And I think I caught some cool stuff for you! For instance: - John Freakin’ Scalzi, lord of the internet, about Tor going DRM-free and Redshirts, his latest book’s birthday - What’s going on at Quirk Books, who you know as the progenitors of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - Graphic novel purveyors Boom! Studios (Planet of the Apes, Hellraiser, Adventure Time) - Dark Horse Comics (Buffy, Angel, Hellboy, The Goon, Mass Effect and much, much more) - And finally, I talk with SFWA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, about why I should join them

Today we’ll be talking with paranormal romance author Yasmine Galenorn, about her fascinating road to getting published, her sexay, sexay books, skimpy armor for women in Dungeons & Dragons, the fact that I might speak Elvish (well, technically Tolkien’s Quenya), and I get a little misty eyed, plus we get surprisingly deep about living our lives and also… were-spiders!

This week I talk with Ann Aguirre, author of romantic science fiction, urban fantasy, dystopian YA, the Dread Queen series, steampunk, and the Beauty trilogy. She also writes as Ellen Connor and Ava Gray. Hell, I’m beginning to suspect that she may even write books under the name Anton Strout, for all I know! We’ll get to the bottom of all of this and talk WAY too much about video games and my previous life as a lady T’wilek dancer in the Star Wars universe!

If you like Buffy; Supernatural, Farscape, Firefly, Doctor Who, D&D, you NEED to listen to this week’s show as I talk with author Keith R.A. DeCandido, who’s written for them all, as well as his own fantasy and scifi books as well. Plus I discuss what a great week it was to be a geek. So come on in… the geekery’s fine!

This week we talk with Justin Gustainis, author of the Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation series: Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways, & Sympathy for the Devil as well as Hard Spell, the first book in his Occult Crime Unit Investigation series, with its second book, Evil Dark, just hitting shelves now.

This week we talk with Kevin Hearne, author of The Iron Druid Chronicles, the latest book, book four, Tricked out this very week. We discuss why everyone hates Thor, how you haven’t really lived until you’ve turned into a wolf, his 19 year over night success, the warm fuzzy spot in his heart for Swedish metal, and an amazing sounding charity book he’s contributing to along with a host of other awesome authors.

This week we talk with Kevin Shinick, Emmy Award winning writer & producer of Cartoon Network’s MAD, who is also known as the Creative Director, writer & voice actor of Adult Swim’s animated sketch show, Robot Chicken. We’ll discuss how he got those gigs, hosting PBS’ Where In Time Is Carmen San Diego?, his Radio City Music Hall production of Spider-man, his work in comic books, & his many visits to Skywalker Ranch. Thanks to my clever audio engineering, I’ve removed most of the jealousy from my voice throughout the interviewing.

This week we talk with paranormal spy thriller author Christopher Farnsworth about his Nathaniel Cade series (Blood Oath, The President’s Vampire and Red, White and Blood) including a hardcover giveaway of your choice of one of them! We also talk about what a sneaky bastard he is, our bad first novels, setting the paranormal mixed with the real world, why I need to watch Justified, comics, and learning to let our geek flag fly (Hint: we both got published when we embraced what we loved!)

This week we talk with epic fantasist Bradley Beaulieu about his Lays of Anuskaya series from Night Shade books, our glory days at Gen Con, some gaming—surprising right?, and more than usual about writing. He’s got a lot of smart advice for writers out there, stuff I’m sure readers will be curious to hear about too!

This week we talk with magical realism author Carolyn Turgeon about being heir apparent to the Gregory MacGuire throne, her badge of honor as a founding member of the Dorks of the Round Table, the movie development progress of her book Mermaid, as well as discuss her new young adult The Next Full Moon. PLUS a chance to win one of her books!

This week we talk with New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs, whose new book Fair Game, the third in her Alpha and Omega series, is out this week. We talk about writing, sort out all of her ongoing series, which ones are intermingled, graphic novels, and how she both saved my life and then tried to take it… twice! PLUS a chance to win one of her books!

This week we talk with urban fantasy author Allison Pang, whose latest book A Sliver of Shadow is just out now. We talk writing, porn-icorns, role playing games, art to nude people ratios on Tumblr, and there’s also a surprise Hello Kitty quiz to be had! Reason enough to listen, no? PLUS a chance to win one of her books!

This week we talk with one of my favorite people in the world actress/director/ author Amber Benson about her new book, How To Be Death. We also discuss one of her FAVE authors (ME!), why some people watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer were Tara Haters, what “bonnet rippers” are, why travelling cross country by train blows, and then a surprising amount of discussion about bathrooms. Plus a chance to win a full set of the Calliope Reaper-Jones series!