Leanne Prain Talks Yarn Bombing (Knit Grafitti) and Her Attempted Tag of the FBI Building
November 2nd, 2010
Leanne Prain is the co-author of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
Leanne co-founded a stitch and bitch called Knitting and Beer in order to expand her skills while knitting at the pub. She is a professional graphic designer, Leanne holds degrees in creative writing, art history, and publishing.
Leanne and I talked about the world of yarn bombing and other forms of graffiti, her book, and her own run in with yarn and the law.
The website is Yarnbombing.com.
Yarn Bombing is available at Amazon.
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John Joseph Adams Talks The Living Dead, Zombies and More Zombies, and Fire Bombing Threats
October 24th, 2010
John Joseph Adams is a best selling editor of the anthologies: Wastelands, The Living Dead, By Blood We Live, Federations, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. His latest is the The Living Dead 2 (Amazon Link)
. John is the fiction editor of the science fiction magazine Lightspeed and the co-host of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. John and I talked about his just released anthology, zombies, how book publicity works, and the strange and sometimes threatening responses writers have to rejection.
John’s website is: johnjosephadams.com. And the link to the book site is: johnjosephadams.com/the-living-dead-2/.
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Mary Robinette Kowal talks her new novel: Shades of Milk and Honey, Jane Austen, and Not-Safe-for-Work-Puppets
October 10th, 2010
Mary Robinette Kowal is an author and puppeteer. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey
(Amazon link) was recently published.
If you’ve listened to this podcast for a while, she was on when she was nominated (along with myself and others) for the Campbell Award. Since that time I have gotten to know Mary and have even worked for her. She is a great person and a fantastic writer.
She and I talked about her book, Jane Austen, and a not-to-be-missed story about that not-safe-for-work puppet. And seriously, this podcast contains material that some may find offensive, although it’s nothing vulgar, just a part of the male anatomy.
Photo credit: (C) 2010 Annaliese Moyer
Mary’s website is: http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/
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Paul G. Tremblay has written two novels, more than fifty short stories, and has a new collection of short stories out titled: In the Mean Time
Along with his novels, he is the author of the short speculative fiction collection Compositions for the Young and Old and the novellas City Pier: Above and Below and The Harlequin and the Train. He served as fiction editor of CHIZINE and as co-editor of Fantasy Magazine, and was also the co-editor (with Sean Wallace) of the Fantasy, Bandersnatch, and Phantom anthologies.
Paul and I speak about his novel narcolepsy and The Little Sleep, an operation he had on his nose and some bloody consequences, his rejection of his dad, and his intense dislike of me. (You’ll have to listen to get the stories!)
Visit Paul’s website at: http://www.paultremblay.net.
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I attended ReaderCon for the first time this year and (among many others) attended a panel titled: “The Year In Novels”. I was able to get two of the panelists, Rose Fox and Graham Sleight, to recreate some of what they said for this special edition of the podcast.
Rose Fox is a longtime book reviewer currently editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror book reviews for Publishers Weekly and maintains a blog named Genreville.
Graham Sleight is a British writer, editor and critic, whose work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The New York Review Of Science Fiction and Vector. He currently writes a column for Locus.
Rose and Graham mention the following authors and books (please note the books are all Amazon links): Peter Straub’s A Dark Matter
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I met Paul De Filippo at ReaderCon just a week ago and recorded this conversation. Paul talked about the rise of Fandom, ReaderCon, being on discussion panels, music, and about meeting one of his favorite authors, Samuel (Chip) Delany.
Paul has been working as a freelance writer since the early 80s. He is a novelist (including: Spondulix, Harp, Pipe, And Symphony, Creature from the Black Lagoon: Time’s Black Lagoon, and most recently, Cosmocopia), short story writer, reviewer, and has written for comics.
His website is: pauldifilippo.com
He is part of a group blog called The Inferior 4 + 1.
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The award-winning Elizabeth Hand is that special kind of writer who can seemingly do anything. She’s written novels (including: Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and most recently, Illyria), short stories, comics (Anima), and movie and television spin-off novels (including: Boba Fett: Maze of Deception and12 Monkeys).
We talked about her wonderful new YA novel, Illyria, terrible auditions, and the importance of character’s names among other things. Elizabeth also gives me some writing advice–advice she admits she has and will continue to ignore!
Her website is ElizabethHand.com.
Photo Credit: Liza Croen Trombi
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Amelia Beamer Talks Zombies, Trader Joes, Nightmares, Writing, and Her Novel The Loving Dead
June 15th, 2010
Amelia Beamer works as an editor, reviewer, and photographer for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. She has published fiction and poetry in Interfictions 2, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Red Cedar Review, and other venues, but the big news is that her novel, The Loving Dead, (Night Shade Books, July 2010) is just days away.
Amelia and I talked about zombies, nightmares, Trader Joes, her writing process, and of course her new novel!
If you’re seeing this before July 1st, her novel is available on her website for FREE. Hurry! Or better yet, read the first couple of chapters and then order your very own copy of The Loving Dead
Her website: http://www.ameliabeamer.com
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Technically, Jeffrey Ford has been on before, but that was a reading and QA. This is an interview.
Jeffrey Ford is the author of such novels as: The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Shadow Year, and the Well-Built City Trilogy. He has written numerous short stories, including the collections: The Empire of Ice-Cream, and The Drowned Life
Jeffrey and I talk about his writing, the power of making things up, book covers, teaching, trusting government, and many other things.
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Paul Witcover graciously asked me to read for the May 5th New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series.I brought two short selections from my upcoming novel, Yarn.
What is Yarn? you ask. The following is from my wonderful agent, Ginger Clark:
Set in the future, it’s a kind of SF that has been called “fashionpunk.” It’s the back story of a minor character in Grey (the main character’s tailor, named Tane Cedar). Tane is now a very successful, wealthy tailor who has never married and lives a somewhat solitary life. One day his lost love, Vada, shows up mysteriously at his office and asks him to make her a coat made of a drug similar to heroin. She’s dying, and she wants to pass away in peace. She then disappears, and Tane must journey around the world (which is over populated, polluted, and also abandoned—a little like the futuristic worlds of Stephenson and Philip K Dick) to find her this illegal, rare material. Along the way, we find how Tane went from growing up in the conforming, dictatorial suburbs (called “slubs”) of future Seattle and eventually escaping to the city, where he was involved with some fringe groups involved in taking down massive corporations. Along the way, he encounters three important women in his life—including Vada.
The program was recorded by the executive producer of the series, Jim Freund.
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