Tea & Jeopardy
Summary: Tea, conversation and mild peril! Join Emma Newman in her secret tea lair as she chats with authors, illustrators and all manner of interesting people. Served by the butler Latimer and serenaded by magical singing chickens, Emma explores the world of geek passions and creativity alongside the serious business of tea and cake.
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Podcasts:
Professor Elemental has us over at his manor for tea and reconciliation, chatting about the creative process, village fetes and taming primates. This time it’s Emma in mild peril…
Author and podcaster Mur Lafferty is invited into the secret lair for cake and tea. We discuss potential superhero sidekicks, surviving award nominations and speculate about the danger of selective breeding in chickens…
Screenwriter James Moran is invited into the tea lair to talk about hell, waiting and other aspects of the writerly life. He also demonstrates a hidden talent.
Tea and Jeopardy is one year old and so we celebrate that – and the Hugo nomination – with cake and bloopers. And tea. Obviously.
Comics illustrator Emma Viecelli is invited into the tea lair. Over tea and cake we discuss amateur dramatics, the creative life and the power of doilies.
Author and comics writer Adam Christopher is invited into the secret lair for cake and tea. We discuss Rubarb and Custard, adulthood, writing and New York before trying to avert a zombie apocalypse. Features chickens and mild peril.
Author and filker Seanan McGuire is invited into the tea lair. We talk about venomous reptiles, Disneyland, filking and she meets the magical chickens. Warning: mild peril.
Author and US Coast Guard Myke Cole is invited into the tea lair for tea, cake and conversation. We discuss transferable skills between the military life and the author life, romance novels and seek to improve bilateral relations between our countries.
Emma Newman welcomes author and screenwriter Melinda Snodgrass into her secret tea lair for tea, cake and polite conversation. There’s an in-depth discussion of Measure of a Man, the STTNG episode penned by Melinda and of course, some mild peril.
In this episode, the quietly brilliant author Adrian Tchaikovsky is invited into the secret lair for cake and tea. We discuss sword fighting, the transferable skills from a law career into writing (or lack thereof) and we discuss possible gaming system benefits that Adrian’s beard could offer.
The amazingly talented author Mary Robinette Kowal is invited into the secret lair for cake and tea. We discuss the appeal of vintage typewriters, the parallels between writing novels and puppetry and the dangers of giant puppet stunts.
Author Joe Abercrombie is invited into the secret lair for cake and tea. We discuss why he reads outside of his genre, fairytales and raising children. Not entirely serious. No animals or authors were harmed in the making of this podcast.
Author Lauren Beukes is invited into the secret lair for cake and tea. I discover her secret plans for world domination and what we should call her when her plan is executed.
Author Mike Underwood joins Emma Newman in the secret tea lair to talk about Star Trek, swords and geekery.
In this episode, the frighteningly talented author Frances Hardinge is invited into the tea lair. We talk about childhood heroes, the perfect hat and meeting Bagpuss…
