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David McDonald chats with Alan Baxter about writing and community in the COVID world, how some places take on life as a character in their own right, and the very Aussie horror of The Gulp. Alan also shares what he read in lockdown, tips for writing fights right, and talks about presidential life.

Author Website: https://www.alanbaxteronline.com/

Credits

Interviewer: David McDonald Interviewer Twitter: @sircamaris Guest: Alan Baxter Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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Helen Stubbs chats with Deborah Sheldon about her novels Body Farm Z and The Long Shot, her research and writing of Australian small towns and landscape and the value of Australian work overseas. Sheldon talks about her research and writing process, body farms, a different approach to zombie characters, as well as her experience writing for Neighbours and Australian Most Wanted. 

Author Website: https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com

Credits

Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Deborah Sheldon Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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Helen Stubbs chats with Cat Sparks about her new collection, Dark Harvest, and her most hated award-winning story, No Fat Chicks. They also discuss the current state of the world including the climate crisis and Covid19, found art-photography and much more.

Author Website: https://catsparks.net

Twitter: @catsparx

Credits

Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Cat Sparks Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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Helen Stubbs chats with Leife Shallcross about her novel The Beast’s Heart, including the dynamics of the writing and publishing process. Their conversation also touches on Leife’s current work in progress, connecting with friends and readers using various platforms, the Canberra Science Fiction Guild, and exercise.

Author Website: https://leifeshallcross.com

Twitter: @leioss

Credits

Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Leife Shallcross Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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Helen Stubbs chats with Lisa Cassidy about her fantasy series, The Mage Chronicles, and the first book, Darkskull Hall, as well as being listed as a finalist in the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off competition. Lisa also talks about independent publishing and her press Tate House.

Author Website: https://tatehousebooks.com

Twitter: @LCASS_writes

Instagram: @lcasswrites

Credits

Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Lisa Cassidy Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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Helen Stubbs chats with Aiki Flinthart about her historical fiction novel, Blackbirds Sing, her upcoming science fiction/fantasy shared world novel authored with Pamela Jeffs, The Zookeeper’s Tales of Interstellar Oddities, and her Fight Like A Girl non-fiction book and workshops--and The Witcher.

Author Website: https://www.aikiflinthart.com

Twitter: @aikiflinthart

Credits

Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Aiki Flinthart Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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Galactic Chat returns! To mark the start of a series of exciting new interviews, Helen Stubbs chats with Claire McKenna about the upcoming launch of her book MONSTROUS HEART with Harper Voyager.

Author Website: http://www.clairemckenna.net

Twitter: @mckenna_claire

Credits

Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Claire McKenna Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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David chats to New York Times Bestselling author, Kevin J. Anderson, about the wide range of projects he is currently working on, how he manages to be so prolific, and his daring new adventure—allowing his fans to watch the writing of his novel from first draft to completion, everything exposed!

Kevin also talks about his tie-in work (while David tries to restrain himself from fanboying out) and collaborations, as well his publishing imprint, WordFire Press.

And, he also tells us about the massive shared world anthology, Jeff Sturgeon's Last Cities of Earth, currently raising funds via a Kickstarter campaign (Full disclosure: David may have a vested interested in this one!).

Author Website: http://www.wordfire.com Jeff Sturgeon's Last Cities of Earth - The Illustrated Books Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2tQqjAy Twitter: @TheKJA

Credits

Interviewer: David McDonald Interviewer Twitter: @sircamaris Guest: Kevin J. Anderson Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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Helen chats to the fab Thoraiya Dyer about Crossroads of Canopy, upcoming Worldcon 2017 in Helsinki, forests, and other great stuff.

Author Website: www.thoraiyadyer.com Twitter: @ThoraiyaDyer

Credits

Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Thoraiya Dyer Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald

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In this interview, they talk about Rivqa's background as an editor, her own writing, and how the two shape each other. We also get to here about the unique perspective that having degrees in both writing and science brings to Rivqa's work. 

Rivqa also shares her experiences attending Wiscon, leading into a discussion of feminism and intersectionality—including discussing her perspective as a Jewish writer.

And, we hear how we can support an amazing new project from The Future Fire: Problem Daughters.

Problem Daughters will amplify the voices of women who are sometimes excluded from mainstream feminism. It will be an anthology of beautiful, thoughtful, unconventional speculative fiction and poetry around the theme of intersectional feminism, focusing on the lives and experiences of marginalized women, such as those who are of color, QUILTBAG, disabled, sex workers, and all intersections of these.

Problem Daughters Crowdfunding Campaign

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In this interview, they talk about John's influences and inspirations, and pay tribute to some of the great artists of spec fic. They also discuss the responsibilities that come with having a platform, and how we can work to bring cultural change.

John talks about his creator owned art, including the amazing Loteria series, and they discuss cultural appropriation.

John also provides a number of recommendations of artists for listeners to check out. This list includes, but is not limited to, some of the names below:

Richard M. Powers

John Berkey

Brad Holland

Marshall Arisman

Joseph Cornell

Bill Sienkiewicz

Dave McKean

Kent Williams

Gerald Brom

John Picacio Website

Lone Boy

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They talk about David's new film novelisation and  volunteering in the speculative fiction community.  Of particular interest will be some of the expectations on writers when writing for tie-in properties.

David also talks about the wonderful and enlightening responses he's got to his Paying For Our Passion guest post series.

The Salon article David mentions can be found here.  If you are interested in his guest post series the initial post is here. 

You can find more on David McDonald here.

Of particular interest to writers would be Chan's discussion around digital self publishing - she's currently conducting her second masters on the topic.

It is a live recording in an auditorium and while the recording is good there is some background noise. At some points members of the audience ask questions and where the mic has picked them up the production team has left them in the recording.

You can find more on Kylie Chan here.

There's news on upcoming releases both short stories and novels as well as the sad tale of how his 1990's Thriller/Regency Romance never came to be.

You can find out more about Garth at his website.

You can find the various links for Defying Doomsday below:

Links:

Pozible Campaign: http://pozi.be/defyingdoomsday

Website: http://defyingdoomsday.twelfthplanetpress.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DefyingDoomsday

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefyingDoomsday

Tumblr: http://defyingdoomsday.tumblr.com/

You can source Amanda's novel from links at the Momentum website here.

Pat also talks openly about her response to cancer and gives us an update on how she is coping.

Finally there is some discussion about projects that have been launched in response to the Requires Hate situation to promote and support POC in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community.