Category: Entertainment
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Elizabeth Bear Interview
Elizabeth Bear — The Hugo Award winning author of Ancestral Night and other books — sat down for a wide ranging interview about Rockapella, DOOM mods, RPGs, and death or glory stands to defend this run. Elizabeth won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “Tideline“,…
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Murder Face — Cold Brewed 005
The header photo from today’s episode is the one that made Mark 9 a finalist in the oldest photo competition in the world, Photo Spiva. It was judged that year by a curator from the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography. It’s the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, so Mark 9 and I are re-releasing…
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Milker — Cold Brewed 004
We — Mark 9 and I — wanted to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, so we’re re-releasing the digital version (outside of scrolling, it doesn’t format well for e-readers). Feel free to support the team as the episodes release. One way to support is to order a print copy directly from your preferred…
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Cold Brewed 002 — Dosing
Mark 9 and I thought the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print was to re-release the digital version online, since it doesn’t format well for e-readers outside of scrolling. You can support it as the episodes release in two ways. One is to order a print copy directly from…
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Cold Brewed 001 — Hard Water
As Mark 9 and I thought through the best way to share the tenth(+) anniversary release of Cold Brewed into print, we realized the tiniest fraction of this audience saw it live online when we released it in our early twenties. We decided to re-release it serially online, since it doesn’t format well for e-readers outside of…
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Daddy Issues are Overrated
When my dad hooked back up with the babysitter he’d originally cheated on mom with, my siblings and I didn’t hear from him for a month. I was eating at a Texas barbecue joint a block from Times Square when that carpenter and millwright finally returned all of my ignored calls. I paced in the…
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Schaubert’s Laws of Fantasy Religions
Author’s Note: this post on fantasy religions was originally drafted for a handful of local writing friends with a more thorough catalogue. That piece was lost and due to some life circumstances, I rushed out this much less thorough piece for those friends assuming (wrongly) it would not circulate widely. I realize there’s a lot…
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LIVE NOW with John Wiswell, Nebula Award Winner
John Wiswell is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose short fiction has won the Locus and Nebula Awards and been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. His debut fantasy novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, was released in April 2024 by DAW Books and Quercus. Wiswell’s…
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Grady Hendrix Interview
Grady Hendrix writes fiction, also called “lies,” and he writes non-fiction, which people sometimes accidentally pay him for. He is the author of Horrorstör, the only novel about a haunted Scandinavian furniture store you’ll ever need. It has been translated into 14 languages and is being turned into a movie. His novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism, is…
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Worldbuilding Ideas: stone sling slurs, Swiss arrows, Athletels
We have a segment of our writers critique circle Discord that’s exclusively reserved for worldbuilding ideas and this morning we ended up delving into stone slings, the slurs upon them, Swiss arrows, Dutch arrows, and Athletels. I sort of kicked it off with showing this image of a bullet for a stone sling: which is…
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Name of the Wind analysis — Chapter 20
Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of hours to read! Note about me:…
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Name of the Wind analysis — Chapter 19
Hey friends, long time no write about the Name of the Wind, Kingkiller, etc. I’ve intended to do a Name of the Wind analysis reread (not to mention the other books) for some time now. — You should assume spoilers henceforth! Forthwith! This post shall take a fortnight of hours to read! Note about me:…