The Once & Future Podcast

Wherein I talk with science fiction and urban fantasy author Charles Stross about The Annihilation Score (the latest in his Laundry Files series), his early days of D&D creations for the Fiend Folio, Lovecraftian horrors, Creative Commons, the publishing industry and 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.

Readers, writers & gamer geeks, rejoice! This episode I look at the history of the best four days of gaming known as Gen Con, its popular and ever growing Writer’s Symposium, plus all the awesomeness that will abound there this year that you won’t want to miss out on! Don’t forget to Subscribe to the podcast over on iTunes, Rate it and please tell your friends about us. It really does help.

Strap in, listeners! This one is a long one, chock full of extra writerly goodness as I talk with urban fantasist M.L. Brennan about her Generation V series, Geek Geek Revolution, scifi/fantasy conventions & panels, vampire fiction, literary fiction,… all of it followed by a deep delve into writing and of course the usual 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.

Listen to our latest episode where I talk writing with my old friend & author/Gen Con Writer’s Symposium coordinator/Aetaltis RPG world creator/ Champions of Aetaltis: A Heroic Fantasy Anthology Kickstarter-er Marc Tassin! This one is sure to go pretty deep geek down the gaming rat hole quickly as we talk Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Gen Con, and Dungeons & Dragons’ Temple of Elemental Evil! PLUS AN EXCLUSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE AETALTIS GAME SETTING! 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 our latest episode where I report LIVE from Book Expo America in New York City! Learn about Ryan Britt’s Luke Skywalker Can’t Read, what’s up with Paizo Publishing & Pathfinder, Ellen Datlow’s talking anthologies at the Horror Writer’s Association Booth, and learn from The Magicians’ own Lev Grossman how the SyFy series of his books is coming along! 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 our latest episode where I talk with author Wesley Chu about his Life of Tao series with Angry Robot, his new Time Salvager book with Tor, 2016’s Rise of Io, adventures in illness at Gen Con, time travel, how writing sequels is tough, world building, his former life in the corporate sector and acting, gaming, and the writing life! 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 our latest episode wherein I talk with urban fantasist Kelley Armstrong about her macabre and quirky writing roots as a child, her road to publication, her Otherworld series (aka SyFy’s Bitten TV show), world building in a long running series, her Norse god series, computer gaming old and new, psychology, the amazingness of Bioware games, and advice for writers! 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 our latest episode wherein I talk with the first lady of steampunk Gail Carriger about steampunk (duh!), steampunk in New Zealand, CHEESE, Douglas Adams, our strikingly similar approach to writing, archeology, chaos theory…oh, and her amazing books! 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 our latest episode where I talk with fantasy author Max Gladstone about his Craft Sequence series, our mutual near-death horse riding experiences, twisting the real world into the fantastical, pantsering vs outlinering, writing interactive fiction for games, gaming itself, learning Chinese, fencing, and great writing advice such as how writers are humpback whales (no, really). 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 author Benedict Jacka about his Alex Verus urban fantasy novels, world building, planning out an ongoing series, all of MY favorite British things, and lots of geeking out over role playing games. 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 author Django Wexler about the latest in his flintlock fantasy series The Shadow Campaigns, his cool concept for book world magic in his Forbidden Library series,and techno fantasy cyberpunk weirdness in his John Golden books! Plus we also delve into war gaming, Dungeons & Dragons, Gen Con & its Writer’s Symposium, the writing life, and his cat picture giveaway to win his latest book The Mad Apprentice! 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 award winning editor/anthologist John Joseph Adams about a deep love of the post-apocalyptic, how we’d be the first ones dead, military fantasy, BREAKING ANTHOLOGY NEWS FROM SAGA PRESS, the neuroses of authors, Viking and folk metal, his Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, and the 743 anthologies he has releasing 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.

Wherein I talk with adult and young adult author Delilah S. Dawson about her latest YA series starting with Hit, her rapid and inspirational road to publication, world building, adventures in sexism within the genre world, and mutual nerding out over our respective fandoms. 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 DC Comics/urban fantasy author Caitlin Kittredge about March as Women In Comics Month, our days with the League of Reluctant Adults, her DC Vertigo comics line Coffin Hill, her life as an urban fantasist, our mutual love of the Berkshires, great advice for writers and much geeking out over rampant nerdery. 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 urban fantasy/Star Wars author and charitable fellow Kevin Hearne about dancing to Thriller, the latest book in his New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, writing Luke Skywalker for the new Star Wars novel Heir to the Jedi, his role as the head of the Holy Taco Church, plus geeking out over comics and 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.