Michelle Lyons McFarland, Monica Valentinelli, and Shanna Germain join Howard and Dan at GenCon, and talk about the craft of world building for role playing games.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Marie Brennan joins us for a discussion of polytheism (and really any belief system) in our fiction.
We answer questions about consistency, alternate histories, and the Great Spoke Plague of ’77
This one’s for all you folks who like to do some world building on-the-fly.
Wes Chu, author and adventurer, recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and has some things to say about all the wilderness trekking that our characters do in the books we write, and how we often forget to say anything about sleeping on inclines, altitude sickness, or packing toilet paper. The salient point: we…
In which Max Gladstone introduces us to the concept of the Magical 1%
Peter Orullian joins us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 for a Q&A. The questions include: As a writer, how do you handle reviewing other people’s books? How do you compartmentalize your writing to prevent that obsession from displacing everything else? (Here are the signs we talked about)…
Q&A in which we cover proofreading, writing time, career stuff, and no, you can’t have any of our DNA.
The third of the SHADOWS BENEATH critique episodes, in which Mary schools us with Milford…
The second of the SHADOWS BENEATH critique episodes, in which we thrash on a new Cosmere story from Brandon Sanderson so that he can fix it. Part 2 of 2.