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Back to Search12.1: Variations on First Person
Season 12 Episode 1
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard We're beginning a new season, and during 2017 we will be focusing our topics on structure. We are also goi…
9 years, 3 months ago
11.52: Elemental Ensemble Q&A, With Claudia Gray
Season 11 Episode 52
Claudia Gray joined us aboard Oasis of the Seas to answer our attendees questions about the Elemental Ensemble. Here are the questions: Can you fit a…
9 years, 3 months ago
11.51: Ensemble as a Sub-Genre, with Lynne M. Thomas
Season 11 Episode 51
Lynne M. Thomas joins us to continue our discussion of the Elemental Ensemble, which is one of our favorite elemental tools. It's not just for heists…
9 years, 3 months ago
11.50: Hand-Selling Your Book to Potential Readers, with Michael R. Underwood
Season 11 Episode 50
Michael R. Underwood has talked to us about hand-selling books before, but that was about pitching to agents and editors. This time around he's talki…
9 years, 3 months ago
11.49: Elemental Ensemble, with Michael Damien Thomas
Season 11 Episode 49
Michael Damien Thomas, co-publisher and co-editor-in-chief of Uncanny Magazine, joined us for a discussion of the elemental genre that contains most …
9 years, 3 months ago
11.Bonus-04: Fantasy Food, with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Season 11
Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch joined Howard and Dan at GenCon Indy to talk about fantasy food, and how we engage our readers' appetites with our fic…
9 years, 4 months ago
11.48: Elemental Issue Q&A, with DongWon Song
Season 11 Episode 48
DongWon Song, literary agent with HMLA, joins us for a Q&A on the elemental genre of "Issue." Here are the questions, which were submitted by the att…
9 years, 4 months ago
11.47: Issue as a Subgenre, with Steven Barnes
Season 11 Episode 47
Steven Barnes joins us to tackle Elemental Issue, round two, in which we look at how to address it as a sub-element. He describes the thesis/antithes…
9 years, 4 months ago
11.46: Colonialism, with Steven Barnes, Tempest Bradford, DongWon Song, and Shveta Thakrar
Season 11 Episode 46
Our listeners have been asking for an in-depth, "crunchy" episode on colonialism, and related issues like cultural appropriation, for a couple of yea…
9 years, 4 months ago
11.45: Elemental Issue, with Desiree Burch
Season 11 Episode 45
For November, our elemental genre is "Issue," and we were joined by actor, writer, and comedian Desiree Burch. The Elemental Issue is similar to the …
9 years, 4 months ago