The Once & Future Podcast

This week is a call to action as we join Kingkiller Chronicles’ author Patrick Rothfuss & his Worldbuilders team in the final week of their campaign to raise money for the awesome Heifer International. Find out how the charity has grown into a many headed beast, how YOU can help, and even win awesome books, games and so much more! Be sure to listen now, as it wraps up on December 14th. Don’t delay, and help spread the word! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Join us this week as I spread the nerd gospel talking with Ryan Britt about his new book (and perfect holiday gift for yourself and fellow geeks in your life) Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and Other Geeky Truths. We cover such diverse topics from the book such as: past, present and future Star Wars, Sherlock Holmes, healing yourself through the power of Doctor Who, discovering sexuality through Barbarella, The Matrix, The Real Ghostbusters, Star Trek, and even performing at The Moth storytelling events. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Join us onThe Once & Future Podcast this week as we get deep into writing & the writer’s life with James A. Moore as we discuss his start with Marvel, writing for Live Action Role Playing games, writing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer book based on the Chaos Bleeds video game, horror and the benefits of joining the Horror Writers Association, finding humor in the darkness of horror, fantasy, and his collaborative writing/podcast work with past guests Christopher Golden and Jonathan Maberry. 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 The Once & Future Podcast talks with Howard Andrew Jones (not to be confused with the 80’s pop keyboard icon) about writing novels set within the Pathfinder roleplaying system including his latest Pathfinder Tales: Beyond The Pool of Stars. We also discuss as his own Dabir & Asim novels and editing on the collected historical fiction works of Howard Lamb. And guess where we end up? YEP, talking rampant geekery and gaming. Big surprise, right?! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Join us on our milestone ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE which comes to you from Gen Con 2015 as Daryl Gregory, Kameron Hurley, Scott Lynch, and Anton Strout share their collective writerly wisdom from the Writer’s Symposium panel Early Stages of a Writing Career- What to Expect! Each stage of a writer's career has its own challenges and opportunities. Learn from writers who've been there what to expect early on & how to take advantage of it. Come for the learning, stay for the rampant author geekiness! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

It’s baaaack! It’s our THIRD Haunted Halloween Special where today’s creators hit us with their creeptastic work! Hear your favorite authors read their choice haunting tales of the spooky season, including: John Kovalic of Dork Tower and Munchkin fame, military fantasist Myke Cole on what scares him, Christopher Golden’s opening to his latest Dead Ringers, Marjorie Liu’s excerpt from her short story Sympathy for the Bones, Max Gladstone’s opening for A Kiss With Teeth and in an amazing finale Cherie Priest’s reads the first three chapter of Chapelwood, the gothic horror sequel to Maplecroft. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

As we gear up for our Haunted Halloween Special 3, we hearken back to year one to begin our celebration of the season! I’ve invited some of my most ghoulish and delightful author friends to join in this danse macabre and regale us with stories inspired by their darker nature: Amber Benson, Tim Waggoner, Jennifer Brozek, Christopher Golden, Rachel Caine, Anton Strout, Heather Graham, Jonathan Maberry, and Nalo Hopkinson! 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 the genuinely delightful Emily V. Gordon about her exciting new book Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero, a fun, friendly, and unabashedly geeky guide to becoming the superhero of your own extraordinary life. We also discuss her other amazing work, including Nerdist’s The Indoor Kids Podcast and her role as producer of Comedy Central’s Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. 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 prolific author Kevin J. Anderson about writing 125 books (and counting!), including his latest, his 2nd collaboration with legendary rock group RUSH entitled Clockwork Lives. We also discuss writing for Star Wars, X-Files, his zombie P.I. series and other original work plus his long time collaboration on the later books of the Dune series. We round it all out with some discussion of the good and bad of fandoms, his road to writing, and just how he gets as much amazing work done as he does! 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 I talk with epic fantasist and 2012 return guest Bradley Beaulieu about the first book in his new series Twelve Kings of Sharakhai (Daw Books), Gen Con, how it led to both our early publications, his Kickstarter success, reviving his first fantasy series in a changing publishing industry, writing productivity, and gaming. Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Wherein I talk with legendary fantasy author R.A. Salvatore about writing for TSR and Wizards of the Coast as one of the pioneers creating in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaign setting, creating the iconic dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden, working for a video game studio, and life with over 22 titles on the New York Times list! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Wherein I talk with prolific author Gail Z. Martin about all our striking similarities in writing psychometry, necromancy, the price of magic, urban fantasy, and steampunk. Unlike yours truly, she also does epic fantasy to boot, plus we talks about her very useful marketing and publicity background, and the 843 projects she has coming out this year! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Listen to today’s episode where I geek out talking with modern day legendary game designer Monte Cook as we discuss his years with TSR, his critical role in the birth of Dungeons & Dragons Third edition at Wizards of the Coast, becoming his own gaming company including his phenomenal Numenera RPG Kickstarter success, and a BRAND NEW Kickstarter campaign for expanded content that you, our dear listeners, need to check out NOW! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Let fantastic authors Gwenda Bond, Christopher Rowe, Anton Strout, Kelly Swails, and Chuck Wendig teach you how to get your very own writer’s shed and other such mysteries of life as a writer from the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium Panel: Writer’s Life 101! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Come listen to our first ever Once & Future Podcast LIVE MEGACAST from Gen Con! Hear amazing authors in conversation, such as: Stephen Blackmoore, Kameron Hurley, Aaron Rosenberg, Michael J. Sullivan, Michael Underwood, Wesley Chu and Dragonlance Chronicles’ legendary Margaret Weis! We discuss the early days of TSR, Dragonlance, Gen Con, traditional and self-publishing, castle storming with Hickman & Weis, gaming, writing, and other such rampant geekery! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.