Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Dongwon
Let’s talk about career planning. It’s a lot more than just launching a career by selling a book, and in this episode we talk about the kinds of things we want to be thinking about and preparing for beyond simply selling our next book or project.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Bert Grimm at WXR 2018, and mastered by Alex Jackson
Identify an author whose career you’d like to emulate. Research their career timeline, including the release dates of their books, and possibly the order in which things were written and sold.
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard
Alternate histories (and historical fantasies) are a staple of genre fiction. In this episode we talk about the worldbuilding process, the tools we use, and the pitfalls we try to avoid when constructing these kinds of stories.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson
Let’s make history! In this episode we talk about doing exactly that—creating real-feeling histories for secondary world settings. We discuss the resources we turn to, the pitfalls we try to avoid, and the places where we think the history has been done really well.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson and mastered by Alex Jackson
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard
How do you decide between digging one really deep, narrow well, and digging one really wide, shallow ocean? In this episode we talk about our desires to build worlds which appear both vanishingly wide and unplumbably deep, when we have time to do neither.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson
