The Once & Future Podcast

Game designing guru Keith Baker returns! This episode we discuss his epic work on games such as Gloom & its coming digital edition, and the world of Eberron. Plus we learn about his formation of Twogether Studios and its hit release Phoenix: Dawn Command. Be sure to check out the current insanely funded Kickstarter for his collaboration with the band The Decemberists on the RPG card game Illimat! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Author Wesley Chu returns! We discuss his latest book The Rise of Io plus his collaboration on a new series with young adult author Cassandra Clare. We also discuss the Lives of Tao & Time Salvager series, movie & television deals, space travel to Mars, gaming, parenting and much about writing! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

This episode we talk with young adult fiction author Scott Westerfeld about his many books including the Midnighters, Uglies, and Leviathan series. We dig even deeper into steampunk, his science/nerd background, Dungeons & Dragons, Choose Your Own Adventures, plus writing and three-way collaboration on his latest Swarm, the second book in the Zeroes series. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Episode 131 brings us another advice filled panel from this year’s Gen Con Writer’s Symposium with Just Tell Us, Stop Showing! Hear Forgotten Realms’ Erik Scott de Bie, Pathfinder & Shadowrun author Chris A. Jackson, and I Am Not A Serial Killer’s Dan Wells talk about when its best to go against the ole writing axiom Show, Don’t Tell. Plus we give birth to the idea of a murderous Google Car mystery! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Writers and role players alike, rejoice! Journey to the Kickstarter for The World of Aetaltis, a new world of classic heroic fantasy adventure for Fifth Edition! Listen to our latest episode to discover a setting that stands proudly beside legendary setting such as Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms & Pathfinder which all helped shape the genre. Hear creator Marc Tassin talk about its development, how you can get in on the action today, and his roles as author, role player, and head of the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Part Time Writer, Full Time Life Life from Gen Con 2016! Learn how to overcome the challenges writers face when pursuing their dream of writing while their real life continues to make the usual demands of day jobs, family, and more. Hear from panelists at various points in their publishing careers: President of JABberwocky Literary Agency Joshua Bilmes, Toni Weisskopf of Baen Books, and long time Gen Con attendee/first time panelist Karen Bovenmyer. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

This week we’re coming to you LIVE from Gen Con 2016! We spoke with Writer’s Symposium Author Guest of Honor Robin Hobb & urban fantasist/podcaster supreme Mur Lafferty. We discuss their careers, Robin’s Farseer series, Mur’s books and neverending Netflix deal, their first sales, writing tips, techniques and much, much more! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

This week we discuss the future of The Once & Future Podcast and how YOU can help be a part of the excitement! We’ll be bringing you more content that you want to hear: more bestselling author guests, more interviews with people in the industry, more focus on creators, more science, more reviews, and more advice to help YOU be a better writer, fan, and overall geek. Epic-level content that will not only showcase the work of others, but will inspire you to achieve your own greatness, whether you are an established artist or writer, or you’re just starting to explore the world of geek. The Once and Future Podcast aspires to encourage the creator within us all. And we have fun while doing it. Find out how you can help today by listening in or heading to patreon.com/antonstrout! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

This week we talk with military science fiction Tor author W.C. Bauers about his Chronicles of Promise Paen series featuring Unbreakable and Indomitable, his love of military history, my sandwich-stalking of William Gibson, world building, and even some Battletech! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

This week we talk with young adult Gwenda Bond about the latest books in her Lois Lane and Cirque American series, her MFA in writing for children, her geeky roots, Gen Con, and her upcoming supernatural hotel detective series coauthored with fellow author/husband Christopher Rowe! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

This week we talk with Chronicles of Alice author Christina Henry about Alice and her latest Red Queen. We also talk about our panel time at New York Comic Con together, her switch from her Black Wing urban fantasy series to writing steampunk(ish) dark fantasy, our wildly different writing techniques despite both being pantsers, and her next two book projects! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help. Want a chance to win Ares Games’ Age of Conan Strategy Board Game and its expansion, Adventures in Hyboria? Simply enter the giveaway at theonceandfuturepodcast.com for a chance at our fantastic prize!

This week we talk with entertainment journalist turned novelist Sarah Kuhn about her latest book The Heroine Complex. Plus BREAKING NEWS about her book tour and deep discussions concerning mutual friend Amber Benson, geek girls, finding relevance as an Asian woman in geek culture, writing groups, writing, NKOTB, and Barbie, the MacGyver of fashion! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

This week we talk with illustrator, animator, and author Brian Kesinger about his two decades at Walt Disney Animation studio working on films such as Tangled & Big Hero 6, Easter eggs in their films, and how his Atlantis fueled love of steampunk lead to his Victoria & Otto series, including the brand new Kickstarter for How To Dress Your Octopus. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help. Baby Tattoo’s founder, Bob Self, will be giving away a signed set of Brian Kesinger’s three available Otto and Victoria books (Walking Your Octopus, Traveling With Your Octopus, and Coloring With Your Octopus). Simply enter the giveaway below for a chance at our fantastic prize!

This week we talk with Bob Proehl about his Comic book industry and convention love letter A Hundred Thousand Worlds. We discuss its many, many Easter eggs, writing from a child’s perspective, working in bookstores, arts colonies, and the path that led to selling his first novel to Viking. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help. Go to www.fireandbone.com, where Once And Future Podcast listeners can save 20% on any order by using the code DIREWOLF at checkout.

This episode we talk with the Jack of All Publishing Trades Shawn Speakman. We discuss the many hats he wears, including being the author of the Annwn Cycle, doing good within the genre community with his Unfettered and Unbound anthologies, working with Terry Brooks and how the author of the Shannara Chronicles personally inspired his own work, getting the best book out of yourself, his strange road to writing, and being shopkeep of The Signed Page and founder of Grim Oak Press. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.