The Once & Future Podcast

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!

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's episode 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 what geekomancers 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.

his 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!

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 BooksPride & Prejudice & Zombies, who you know as the progenitors of - 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 Scient Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, about why I should join them

This episode I talk with paranormal romance author Yasmine Galenorn, about her fascinating road to publication, her sexay, sexay books, skimpy armor for women in Dungeons & Dragons, the fact that I might speak Elvish (well, technically Quenya), I get a little misty eyed, and we get surprisingly deep about living our lives & also… were-spiders!

This week I talk with Ann Aguirre, author of romantic science fiction (in her Sirantha Jax series), urban fantasy (with her Corine Solomon series), dystopian YA (with the Razorland trilogy), 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 the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Farscape, Firefly, Doctor Who, D&D or Star Trek, 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. 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.