Tales from the Trunk https://talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com Reading the stories that didn't make it Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0600 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2019 All rights reserved. Arts:Books 1440 episodic Tales from the Trunk features interviews with and abandoned stories from science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors. Tales from the Trunk Tales from the Trunk No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4441191/TrunkCastLogo3000.jpg Tales from the Trunk https://talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com 144 144 Book Tour 43: Sarah Pinsker – Haunt Sweet Home Book Tour 43: Sarah Pinsker – Haunt Sweet Home https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-43-sarah-pinsker-%e2%80%93-haunt-sweet-home/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-43-sarah-pinsker-%e2%80%93-haunt-sweet-home/#comments Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/e44bf402-6a5e-3ba6-8dc6-3995a862aed3 Show notes coming soon.

If you have a few extra dollars, both Sarah and I would appreciate any donations you can make towards relief efforts in the areas of Appalachia affected by hurricane Helene. We highlighted the following organizations:

BeLoved Asheville

World Central Kitchen

American Red Cross

]]> Show notes coming soon.

If you have a few extra dollars, both Sarah and I would appreciate any donations you can make towards relief efforts in the areas of Appalachia affected by hurricane Helene. We highlighted the following organizations:

BeLoved Asheville

World Central Kitchen

American Red Cross

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 1979 6 11 full Book Tour 42: T. Kingfisher – A Sorceress Comes To Call Book Tour 42: T. Kingfisher – A Sorceress Comes To Call https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-42-t-kingfisher-%e2%80%93-a-sorceress-comes-to-call/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-42-t-kingfisher-%e2%80%93-a-sorceress-comes-to-call/#comments Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/22d3625d-6d96-348e-9bac-3d7d1063a263 We’re back, folks! And as promised, I’m joined this time around by none other than T. Kingfisher herself, who joins me to talk about her newest novel, A Sorceress Comes to Call, available right this very moment from fine booksellers everywhere.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

DeviantArt

“The Goose Girl”

The Hamster Princess series, by Ursula Vernon

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

“Bluebeard”

The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, by Florence Hartley

Swordheart, by T. Kingfisher

Magic: the Gathering

Commander format

M:tG Arena

Behold: Humanity!, by Ralts Bloodthorne

Warhammer

Humans are space orcs (this may not be the original, but it’s what I could surface)

Ursula’s bluesky, tumblr, and website

 

Join us again in October, when I’ll be talking to Sarah Pinsker!

]]> We’re back, folks! And as promised, I’m joined this time around by none other than T. Kingfisher herself, who joins me to talk about her newest novel, A Sorceress Comes to Call, available right this very moment from fine booksellers everywhere.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

DeviantArt

“The Goose Girl”

The Hamster Princess series, by Ursula Vernon

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

“Bluebeard”

The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, by Florence Hartley

Swordheart, by T. Kingfisher

Magic: the Gathering

Commander format

M:tG Arena

Behold: Humanity!, by Ralts Bloodthorne

Warhammer

Humans are space orcs (this may not be the original, but it’s what I could surface)

Ursula’s bluesky, tumblr, and website

 

Join us again in October, when I’ll be talking to Sarah Pinsker!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1857 6 10 full An Announcement An Announcement https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/an-announcement/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/an-announcement/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:25:17 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/2b37a76a-9197-32ac-905a-0a46a3a948c8 Hello, dear listeners!

 

I wanted to give you all an update about the show. To whit: I’m taking a bit of a break. The last five seasons have been incredible, and season six has been and will continue to be.

 

Tales from the Trunk is in no way ending. We will be back on September 20th, when I’ll be talking to T. Kingfisher.

 

In the mean time, here are some of the things that I have been enjoying from the wider media landscape:

 

    • A podcast: Friends at the Table – their eighth season, Palisade, is coming to a close right now, and it has been a Ride.
  • A book: Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle – you already know how much I loved Camp Damascus, and it should come as no surprise that the good doctor’s follow-up is every bit as incredible.
  • A TV show: Hunter × Hunter (2011) – Just a fantastic shōnen anime.
  • And a musical twofer: 
    • Chappel Roan – come on. I’m queer. She writes good pop hooks. Suggested tracks: “Pink Pony Club” and “My Kink is Karma”
    • Porter Robinson – if you like bouncy but also emotional EDM, give him a go. Suggested tracks: “Knock Yourself Out XD” and “Shelter”

 

Thanks again for your support over the years, and I look forward to returning in two months with even more amazing interviews with incredible guests.

]]> Hello, dear listeners!

 

I wanted to give you all an update about the show. To whit: I’m taking a bit of a break. The last five seasons have been incredible, and season six has been and will continue to be.

 

Tales from the Trunk is in no way ending. We will be back on September 20th, when I’ll be talking to T. Kingfisher.

 

In the mean time, here are some of the things that I have been enjoying from the wider media landscape:

 

    • A podcast: Friends at the Table – their eighth season, Palisade, is coming to a close right now, and it has been a Ride.
  • A book: Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle – you already know how much I loved Camp Damascus, and it should come as no surprise that the good doctor’s follow-up is every bit as incredible.
  • A TV show: Hunter × Hunter (2011) – Just a fantastic shōnen anime.
  • And a musical twofer: 
    • Chappel Roan – come on. I’m queer. She writes good pop hooks. Suggested tracks: “Pink Pony Club” and “My Kink is Karma”
    • Porter Robinson – if you like bouncy but also emotional EDM, give him a go. Suggested tracks: “Knock Yourself Out XD” and “Shelter”

 

Thanks again for your support over the years, and I look forward to returning in two months with even more amazing interviews with incredible guests.

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 98 6 102 full Book Tour 41: Aliette de Bodard – Navigational Entanglements Book Tour 41: Aliette de Bodard – Navigational Entanglements https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-41-aliette-de-bodard-%e2%80%93-navigational-entanglements/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-41-aliette-de-bodard-%e2%80%93-navigational-entanglements/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/5e40dde2-be66-3e96-8e04-89c3a8189933 This time around, it’s my delight to welcome to the show Aliette de Bodard! Aliette joins me to talk about her new novella, Navigational Entanglements, available July 30th, 2024, from TorDotCom Books!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

C dramas

Heaven’s Official Blessing, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Xianxia

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

“The Tutelary, the Assassin, and the Healer,” by Aliette de Bodard in I Want That Twink Obliterated

Worldcon

Sarahs Gailey and Hollowell

Dead Boy Detectives and The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera

Chronicles of Elantra, by Michelle Sagara

Aliette’s bluesky, insta, website, and patreon

]]> This time around, it’s my delight to welcome to the show Aliette de Bodard! Aliette joins me to talk about her new novella, Navigational Entanglements, available July 30th, 2024, from TorDotCom Books!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

C dramas

Heaven’s Official Blessing, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Xianxia

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

“The Tutelary, the Assassin, and the Healer,” by Aliette de Bodard in I Want That Twink Obliterated

Worldcon

Sarahs Gailey and Hollowell

Dead Boy Detectives and The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera

Chronicles of Elantra, by Michelle Sagara

Aliette’s bluesky, insta, website, and patreon

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1747 6 9 full Episode 62: "Visibility" and Pride in Place 2020 Episode 62: "Visibility" and Pride in Place 2020 https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-62-visibility-and-pride-in-place-2020/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-62-visibility-and-pride-in-place-2020/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/15506143-a4de-384d-97a4-578a71b5f8a4 Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk.

 

Listeners, it’s June, and ya boi is tired. I was going to try to scramble to get an interview scheduled, but then I remembered the name of a Shavuot workshop that a dear friend of the show attended last year: “What if we Rested?”

 

Life has been nonstop for me for more than half a year now, so what if I rested? What if we all rested? Goodness knows that if you’re not a white cishet allo abled person, you need it.

 

But also, I wanted to do something. So I’m bringing you something old and something—well, another old thing, actually, but one that hasn’t appeared here before. First, here is an essay that I wrote for Trans Day of Visibility a few years ago, and after that, a short collection of essays that first aired here in June of 2020. I hope you enjoy them.

 

Visibility

 

honestly i’ve been sitting on this for a grip and just not quite knowing how to fit the words together, but i’m tired, y’all. so, visibility. of trans people, specifically.

 

it’s me. i’m trans people.

 

it took me a long time to understand that about myself, and i didn’t come to it on my own. i needed help. i needed to see that “trans” was a word that could describe me.

 

when i was little, i knew that i was weird. that i didn’t fit. that i didn’t act like the other little boys. that there were parts of me that i had to learn to hide to keep myself safe. that i couldn’t talk about with anyone because i didn’t have the language to capture it.

 

when i was in ninth grade, one of our history teachers came out as trans. we had an assembly where an administrator told us all that our teacher was a man now, that his pronouns were he/him, probably that misgendering him wouldn’t be tolerated. but he didn’t look like me.

 

i had a distant friend in high school who came out as trans. he didn’t look like me, either.

 

years before she came out as trans, my closest friend at school told me that she was bisexual. she was the first bi person i knew i knew. we would go to goth clubs and she would make out with people while i danced or stood against the wall and nodded my head along. even before we were really friends, i was drawn to her, wanted to be her friend more than anything. we went through a lot of hard times together, but she didn’t look like me.

 

she pierced my ears after high school. four holes i carry to this day, a little part of her with me all the time even though we haven’t seen each other in a decade.

 

in college, my friend asked that we use neopronouns for them, then they/them. the neopronouns were hard. we were young. i knew so many queer people in college, so many trans people. none of them looked like me.

 

that same friend came out to me and my spouse as genderqueer sometime before our wedding. i think that was the first time i’d heard the word. but i didn’t know it was something that could belong to me. not yet.

 

i “came out” to a friend one summer night while i was in college. we were driving to get snacks after a day of endless quaker committee meetings. i said that i’d only ever fallen for women before, but that i was open to the possibility that wouldn’t always be the case. i was in my first actual relationship then. years later, my ex came out as nonbinary. i didn’t think about that coming-out conversation again for a long time.

 

i came out as bi to my cat while i was driving her to the vet for dental surgery. she was upset because she was in the car, but i knew that she was someone i could trust with my “secret.” it wasn’t for another few weeks that i came out to my spouse and a few of my friends. i used to think of outness as a binary, even though it’s always been a spectrum. i’m out to some of my coworkers, mostly other queers, but not others. it’s not worth the discomfort. or it’s choosing the lesser of two levels of discomfort.

 

one time, my boss at the time said “everyone here is straight” in a meeting. he wore a rainbow strap on his apple watch in june. he’d like you to know that he’s an ally. i felt deeply uncomfortable about not saying anything, but also deeply uncomfortable about the idea of saying something. after i left that job, a former coworker confided in me that this boss pulled some classic cishet white dude stuff with them. i felt grateful that i hadn’t outed myself in that meeting long ago.

 

i found a copy of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer at a bookstore the same summer that i left that job and bought it on the spot. i just thought it was neat. i knew that i needed it.

 

i read that book in a single sitting. i’ve re-read it more times than i can count since then.

 

Maia didn’t look like me, but i still saw myself in eir experiences in a way that i hadn’t experienced before. e was queer. queer as in weird. queer as in didn’t get social expectations for eir assigned gender. queer as in, well, queer.

 

a month or two later, i got a tattoo of a jackalope on my arm, but if you look closely, you’ll see that it’s a bunny wearing a pair of antlers that are tied on under their chin. when i designed the tattoo, i explained that that was about live-action roleplaying. maybe i believed it? but that’s not what it was really about, was it?

 

i had a gender crisis in 2020 at the start of the lockdown. if i’m being honest, i’d been having a gender crisis for years, quietly, tucked in the pages of journals hidden away where i didn’t have to look at them. but suddenly, it was just two adult humans and two cats all alone in a house, doing their grocery shopping at first light, uncomfortable with the idea of other people in a new way.

 

there was a lot of gender going around then.

 

i came out as genderqueer to my cat while i was driving her to another appointment. maybe you’re sensing a theme. she knows my secrets, but she’ll never talk.

 

i came out to my partner. it was easier, in some ways, and harder in others. “i’m attracted to more than one gender” is much more straightforward than “i’m genderqueer, but my pronouns are he/him, but my experience of gender is ????” i talked to my few close nonbinary friends about it. that really helped, because we had a shared vocabulary of “gender? what the fuck?”

 

i came out to my therapist.

 

he just didn’t get it. he was an older cishet white man. in one of our last sessions, he said that we should talk more about my gender. with my spouse’s help, i broke up with him and found a new therapist before i had to go through that ordeal. my new therapist is queer. she asked me what pronouns to use for me in our first session and told me to tell her if that changed. i started using he/they, then they/he, then just they/them pronouns within a couple months. not everywhere at first, but most places.

 

bigots started challenging Gender Queer earlier this year, or maybe at the end of last year. who knows when? time is fake. they call it pornographic. they call it smut.

 

i call it lifechanging.

 

it wasn’t until i was in my 30s that i started to see queer people who looked like me. it wasn’t until i read a memoir by a person whose early life experiences mirrored my own that i really learned language to talk about myself.

 

i like where i am in my life. yes, i’m anxious, and we’re all still out here with this pandemic and a global rise in fascism, but i know a lot more about myself, understand a lot more about myself at 35 than i did at 30, at 25, at 20. but that doesn’t stop me from wondering what my life might have looked like if i’d seen people like me when i was growing up.

 

i can’t change my past, but i can be visible for today’s kids. maybe some weird little boy will see me in the grocery store and gain some understanding that he didn’t have before. maybe a nonbinary teen will feel safer just existing knowing that they’re not alone. that’s what we mean when we talk about “trans visibility.” that’s why it’s important. because trans visibility produces trans adults, but trans invisibility produces miserable people, miserable kids. or dead ones.

 

trans visibility, queer visibility, is lifesaving.

]]> Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk.

 

Listeners, it’s June, and ya boi is tired. I was going to try to scramble to get an interview scheduled, but then I remembered the name of a Shavuot workshop that a dear friend of the show attended last year: “What if we Rested?”

 

Life has been nonstop for me for more than half a year now, so what if I rested? What if we all rested? Goodness knows that if you’re not a white cishet allo abled person, you need it.

 

But also, I wanted to do something. So I’m bringing you something old and something—well, another old thing, actually, but one that hasn’t appeared here before. First, here is an essay that I wrote for Trans Day of Visibility a few years ago, and after that, a short collection of essays that first aired here in June of 2020. I hope you enjoy them.

 

Visibility

 

honestly i’ve been sitting on this for a grip and just not quite knowing how to fit the words together, but i’m tired, y’all. so, visibility. of trans people, specifically.

 

it’s me. i’m trans people.

 

it took me a long time to understand that about myself, and i didn’t come to it on my own. i needed help. i needed to see that “trans” was a word that could describe me.

 

when i was little, i knew that i was weird. that i didn’t fit. that i didn’t act like the other little boys. that there were parts of me that i had to learn to hide to keep myself safe. that i couldn’t talk about with anyone because i didn’t have the language to capture it.

 

when i was in ninth grade, one of our history teachers came out as trans. we had an assembly where an administrator told us all that our teacher was a man now, that his pronouns were he/him, probably that misgendering him wouldn’t be tolerated. but he didn’t look like me.

 

i had a distant friend in high school who came out as trans. he didn’t look like me, either.

 

years before she came out as trans, my closest friend at school told me that she was bisexual. she was the first bi person i knew i knew. we would go to goth clubs and she would make out with people while i danced or stood against the wall and nodded my head along. even before we were really friends, i was drawn to her, wanted to be her friend more than anything. we went through a lot of hard times together, but she didn’t look like me.

 

she pierced my ears after high school. four holes i carry to this day, a little part of her with me all the time even though we haven’t seen each other in a decade.

 

in college, my friend asked that we use neopronouns for them, then they/them. the neopronouns were hard. we were young. i knew so many queer people in college, so many trans people. none of them looked like me.

 

that same friend came out to me and my spouse as genderqueer sometime before our wedding. i think that was the first time i’d heard the word. but i didn’t know it was something that could belong to me. not yet.

 

i “came out” to a friend one summer night while i was in college. we were driving to get snacks after a day of endless quaker committee meetings. i said that i’d only ever fallen for women before, but that i was open to the possibility that wouldn’t always be the case. i was in my first actual relationship then. years later, my ex came out as nonbinary. i didn’t think about that coming-out conversation again for a long time.

 

i came out as bi to my cat while i was driving her to the vet for dental surgery. she was upset because she was in the car, but i knew that she was someone i could trust with my “secret.” it wasn’t for another few weeks that i came out to my spouse and a few of my friends. i used to think of outness as a binary, even though it’s always been a spectrum. i’m out to some of my coworkers, mostly other queers, but not others. it’s not worth the discomfort. or it’s choosing the lesser of two levels of discomfort.

 

one time, my boss at the time said “everyone here is straight” in a meeting. he wore a rainbow strap on his apple watch in june. he’d like you to know that he’s an ally. i felt deeply uncomfortable about not saying anything, but also deeply uncomfortable about the idea of saying something. after i left that job, a former coworker confided in me that this boss pulled some classic cishet white dude stuff with them. i felt grateful that i hadn’t outed myself in that meeting long ago.

 

i found a copy of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer at a bookstore the same summer that i left that job and bought it on the spot. i just thought it was neat. i knew that i needed it.

 

i read that book in a single sitting. i’ve re-read it more times than i can count since then.

 

Maia didn’t look like me, but i still saw myself in eir experiences in a way that i hadn’t experienced before. e was queer. queer as in weird. queer as in didn’t get social expectations for eir assigned gender. queer as in, well, queer.

 

a month or two later, i got a tattoo of a jackalope on my arm, but if you look closely, you’ll see that it’s a bunny wearing a pair of antlers that are tied on under their chin. when i designed the tattoo, i explained that that was about live-action roleplaying. maybe i believed it? but that’s not what it was really about, was it?

 

i had a gender crisis in 2020 at the start of the lockdown. if i’m being honest, i’d been having a gender crisis for years, quietly, tucked in the pages of journals hidden away where i didn’t have to look at them. but suddenly, it was just two adult humans and two cats all alone in a house, doing their grocery shopping at first light, uncomfortable with the idea of other people in a new way.

 

there was a lot of gender going around then.

 

i came out as genderqueer to my cat while i was driving her to another appointment. maybe you’re sensing a theme. she knows my secrets, but she’ll never talk.

 

i came out to my partner. it was easier, in some ways, and harder in others. “i’m attracted to more than one gender” is much more straightforward than “i’m genderqueer, but my pronouns are he/him, but my experience of gender is ????” i talked to my few close nonbinary friends about it. that really helped, because we had a shared vocabulary of “gender? what the fuck?”

 

i came out to my therapist.

 

he just didn’t get it. he was an older cishet white man. in one of our last sessions, he said that we should talk more about my gender. with my spouse’s help, i broke up with him and found a new therapist before i had to go through that ordeal. my new therapist is queer. she asked me what pronouns to use for me in our first session and told me to tell her if that changed. i started using he/they, then they/he, then just they/them pronouns within a couple months. not everywhere at first, but most places.

 

bigots started challenging Gender Queer earlier this year, or maybe at the end of last year. who knows when? time is fake. they call it pornographic. they call it smut.

 

i call it lifechanging.

 

it wasn’t until i was in my 30s that i started to see queer people who looked like me. it wasn’t until i read a memoir by a person whose early life experiences mirrored my own that i really learned language to talk about myself.

 

i like where i am in my life. yes, i’m anxious, and we’re all still out here with this pandemic and a global rise in fascism, but i know a lot more about myself, understand a lot more about myself at 35 than i did at 30, at 25, at 20. but that doesn’t stop me from wondering what my life might have looked like if i’d seen people like me when i was growing up.

 

i can’t change my past, but i can be visible for today’s kids. maybe some weird little boy will see me in the grocery store and gain some understanding that he didn’t have before. maybe a nonbinary teen will feel safer just existing knowing that they’re not alone. that’s what we mean when we talk about “trans visibility.” that’s why it’s important. because trans visibility produces trans adults, but trans invisibility produces miserable people, miserable kids. or dead ones.

 

trans visibility, queer visibility, is lifesaving.

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 1616 6 8 full Book Tour 40: Jay Wolf – The Shepard in Shadow Book Tour 40: Jay Wolf – The Shepard in Shadow https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-40-jay-wolf-%e2%80%93-the-shepard-in-shadow/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-40-jay-wolf-%e2%80%93-the-shepard-in-shadow/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/5e97b2a4-a5bb-3e48-9aed-002a644b78d9 We’re kicking off Pride this year with none other than my good friend Jay Wolf! Jay reads a snippet about their best worst boys, Egan and Petrel before we get to talking about their newest book as M. Daniel McDowell, The Shepherd in Shadow, which releases June 28th!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Valerie Valdes

The Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake

Inkfort Press Self-Publishing Derby

Bringer of the Scourge, by M. Daniel McDowell

Glen Cook

Fritz Leiber

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

The Colour of Magic and Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

Beating Hearts & Battle Axes

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine

Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo

M.E. Morgan

X-Men ‘97

Forged in Fire

Jay’s socials and M. Daniel McDowell’s socials

]]> We’re kicking off Pride this year with none other than my good friend Jay Wolf! Jay reads a snippet about their best worst boys, Egan and Petrel before we get to talking about their newest book as M. Daniel McDowell, The Shepherd in Shadow, which releases June 28th!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Valerie Valdes

The Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake

Inkfort Press Self-Publishing Derby

Bringer of the Scourge, by M. Daniel McDowell

Glen Cook

Fritz Leiber

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

The Colour of Magic and Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

Beating Hearts & Battle Axes

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine

Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo

M.E. Morgan

X-Men ‘97

Forged in Fire

Jay’s socials and M. Daniel McDowell’s socials

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3198 6 7 full Episode 61: Meg Elison – Hemet Episode 61: Meg Elison – Hemet https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-61-meg-elison-%e2%80%93-hemet/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-61-meg-elison-%e2%80%93-hemet/#comments Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/3d45f2c8-837c-3a61-a13a-24da61de0fa5 This time around, I’m thrilled to welcome to the show Meg Elison! Meg reads to us from the start of their trunked novel, Hemet, which leads us into a wonderful conversation about a whole host of topics, including her own artist’s statement on spooky stuff.

]]> This time around, I’m thrilled to welcome to the show Meg Elison! Meg reads to us from the start of their trunked novel, Hemet, which leads us into a wonderful conversation about a whole host of topics, including her own artist’s statement on spooky stuff.

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3142 6 6 full Book Tour 39: Victor Manibo – Escape Velocity Book Tour 39: Victor Manibo – Escape Velocity https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-39-victor-manibo-%e2%80%93-escape-velocity/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-39-victor-manibo-%e2%80%93-escape-velocity/#comments Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/b7c573d7-1fbf-373b-9356-1cc6f6d7e21c This time around, it’s my delight to welcome back to the show Victor Manibo! After a bit of catching up, we get into Victor’s new book, Escape Velocity, which releases later this month from Erewhon Books!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

The Sleepless, by Victor Manibo

Victor’s first episode

“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (show)

Gravity (2013)

Funeral and Neon Bible, by Arcade Fire

COWBOY CARTER and RENAISSANCE, by Beyoncé

Shōgun (TV series) based on the novel by James Clavell

Game of Thrones

Our Share of Nights, by Mariana Enriquez

ICFA

Victor’s website, twitter, insta, tiktok, fb, and substack

 

Stick around next time when my guest will be Meg Elison!

]]> This time around, it’s my delight to welcome back to the show Victor Manibo! After a bit of catching up, we get into Victor’s new book, Escape Velocity, which releases later this month from Erewhon Books!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

The Sleepless, by Victor Manibo

Victor’s first episode

“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (show)

Gravity (2013)

Funeral and Neon Bible, by Arcade Fire

COWBOY CARTER and RENAISSANCE, by Beyoncé

Shōgun (TV series) based on the novel by James Clavell

Game of Thrones

Our Share of Nights, by Mariana Enriquez

ICFA

Victor’s website, twitter, insta, tiktok, fb, and substack

 

Stick around next time when my guest will be Meg Elison!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2475 6 5 full Episode 60: Ivy Fox – Strapped Episode 60: Ivy Fox – Strapped https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-60-ivy-fox-%e2%80%93-strapped/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-60-ivy-fox-%e2%80%93-strapped/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/dc1fd2ec-2d06-3c48-b57c-be54e8d517ad In addition to the regular strong language, this episode carries content warnings for: reclaimed gay slurs; a non-graphic depiction and discussion of non-consensual sex; depictions of consensual violence; and discussions of attempted suicide, medical trauma, experiences of psyche wards, descriptions of psychosis, forcible medication, restraint, experiences of homelessness, alcoholism, and body horror. The non-consensual sex and the consensual violence are both depicted in the reading, which is 24 minutes long, and there is some further discussion of the events from the reading following it. Perhaps even more so than usual, listener discretion is advised.

 

This time around, it is my complete gremlin pleasure to welcome to the show Ivy Fox! Together, we perform the entirety of her play, Strapped, which leads us into a wide-ranging conversation that touches on collaborative art, anime girls, furry music, mental health, and so much more. Seriously, this episode is over two hours long. We just kept talking!

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Sarah Gailey

Friends at the Table

Toronto Fringe

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

JRPG

Magic: the Gathering

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, by Samine Nosrat

Chuck Tingle

“Trust the Process,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Stone Soup

Machine Girl

The Mad Bird

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land

US Trans Survey

Rev (blue liquor)

Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault

Death of the author

The Legend of Zelda

AO3

Warrior Cats series, by Erin Hunter

This tumblr post

The Matrix

Splatoon 3

MahjongSoul

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

“Chain Bastard”

Metallic Rouge

Blade Runner

Dungeon Meshi

Hunter x Hunter

Hisoka

Slay the Princess

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Together We’ll Shine 

Conflict is Not Abuse, by Sarah Schulman

Voidreckon, by Mittsies

Techdog 1-7, by Patricia Taxxon

I WANT TO LOVE AGAIN, by doefriends

Watership Down, by Richard Adams

Ivyfoxart [at] gmail [dot] com, Ivy’s cohost and ko-fi

Soul Mates! on cohost

Doctor Fanfiction’s Monster

Tableturf Battle

Media Club Plus

]]> In addition to the regular strong language, this episode carries content warnings for: reclaimed gay slurs; a non-graphic depiction and discussion of non-consensual sex; depictions of consensual violence; and discussions of attempted suicide, medical trauma, experiences of psyche wards, descriptions of psychosis, forcible medication, restraint, experiences of homelessness, alcoholism, and body horror. The non-consensual sex and the consensual violence are both depicted in the reading, which is 24 minutes long, and there is some further discussion of the events from the reading following it. Perhaps even more so than usual, listener discretion is advised.

 

This time around, it is my complete gremlin pleasure to welcome to the show Ivy Fox! Together, we perform the entirety of her play, Strapped, which leads us into a wide-ranging conversation that touches on collaborative art, anime girls, furry music, mental health, and so much more. Seriously, this episode is over two hours long. We just kept talking!

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Sarah Gailey

Friends at the Table

Toronto Fringe

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

JRPG

Magic: the Gathering

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, by Samine Nosrat

Chuck Tingle

“Trust the Process,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Stone Soup

Machine Girl

The Mad Bird

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land

US Trans Survey

Rev (blue liquor)

Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault

Death of the author

The Legend of Zelda

AO3

Warrior Cats series, by Erin Hunter

This tumblr post

The Matrix

Splatoon 3

MahjongSoul

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

“Chain Bastard”

Metallic Rouge

Blade Runner

Dungeon Meshi

Hunter x Hunter

Hisoka

Slay the Princess

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Together We’ll Shine 

Conflict is Not Abuse, by Sarah Schulman

Voidreckon, by Mittsies

Techdog 1-7, by Patricia Taxxon

I WANT TO LOVE AGAIN, by doefriends

Watership Down, by Richard Adams

Ivyfoxart [at] gmail [dot] com, Ivy’s cohost and ko-fi

Soul Mates! on cohost

Doctor Fanfiction’s Monster

Tableturf Battle

Media Club Plus



]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 7985 6 4 full Book Tour 38: John Wiswell – Someone You Can Build a Nest In Book Tour 38: John Wiswell – Someone You Can Build a Nest In https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-38-john-wiswell-%e2%80%93-someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-38-john-wiswell-%e2%80%93-someone-you-can-build-a-nest-in/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/2b20cdaf-dbc4-309e-8f94-132dd5501261 This time around it is my absolute delight to welcome John Wiswell back to the show to talk about his debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, which just released this very week! We talk about John’s favorite bits both in and no longer in the book, along with conversation about language, games, and a surprise musical performance!

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Premee Mohamed

Sarah Gailey

Caitlin Starling

“D.I.Y.” by John Wiswell

“Open House on Haunted Hill” and its Japanese cover

Katakana and Hiragana

Hunter x Hunter (2011)

Media Club Plus

Starred review in The Library Journal

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

“This is Not a Wardrobe Door,” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Sickos yes

4th Street Fantasy

Worldcon

John Scalzi

Ted Chiang

Martha Wells

Chuck Tingle

The Simpsons

The Arcadia Project trilogy, by Mishell Baker

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Miri Baker

Tom Bombadil

Howard Tayler

Writing Excuses

Schlock Mercenary

Brandon Sanderson

Mary Robinette Kowal

Maurice Broaddus

Dongwon Song

Reservation Dogs

Holly, by Stephen King

Vacíos Cuerpos

Balatro

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Baldur’s Gate 3

Roguelike

Deck-builder

Calvinball

Hades

Friends at the Table Balatro stream

Austin Walker

Twilight Mirage and Spring in Hieron soundtracks

Bandcamp

Deep-fried jpegs

Is It Bandcamp Friday?

Web 1.0

John’s twitter, bluesky, insta, patreon, and substack

Escape Velocity, by Victor Manibo

]]> This time around it is my absolute delight to welcome John Wiswell back to the show to talk about his debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, which just released this very week! We talk about John’s favorite bits both in and no longer in the book, along with conversation about language, games, and a surprise musical performance!

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Premee Mohamed

Sarah Gailey

Caitlin Starling

“D.I.Y.” by John Wiswell

“Open House on Haunted Hill” and its Japanese cover

Katakana and Hiragana

Hunter x Hunter (2011)

Media Club Plus

Starred review in The Library Journal

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

“This is Not a Wardrobe Door,” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Sickos yes

4th Street Fantasy

Worldcon

John Scalzi

Ted Chiang

Martha Wells

Chuck Tingle

The Simpsons

The Arcadia Project trilogy, by Mishell Baker

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Miri Baker

Tom Bombadil

Howard Tayler

Writing Excuses

Schlock Mercenary

Brandon Sanderson

Mary Robinette Kowal

Maurice Broaddus

Dongwon Song

Reservation Dogs

Holly, by Stephen King

Vacíos Cuerpos

Balatro

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Baldur’s Gate 3

Roguelike

Deck-builder

Calvinball

Hades

Friends at the Table Balatro stream

Austin Walker

Twilight Mirage and Spring in Hieron soundtracks

Bandcamp

Deep-fried jpegs

Is It Bandcamp Friday?

Web 1.0

John’s twitter, bluesky, insta, patreon, and substack

Escape Velocity, by Victor Manibo

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4040 6 3 full Episode 59: Laura Blackwell – "Poor Prisoners" Episode 59: Laura Blackwell – "Poor Prisoners" https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-59-laura-blackwell-%e2%80%93-poor-prisoners/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-59-laura-blackwell-%e2%80%93-poor-prisoners/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/75d82461-d944-36ee-9e0a-adaeb5a0c87a This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome longtime friend of the show Laura Blackwell! Laura reads to us from her very very trunked story, “Poor Prisoners,” which leads us into a wide-ranging discussion of things we wish we’d learned sooner, writers whose work we admire, and kindness to our past selves.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Story Hour

LiveJournal

Dreamwidth

Macey’s Murderboard episode

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Quaker Spec Fic issue

AO3

Omegaverse

The Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles Homers

The Aeneid, by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

Translation State and the Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan

Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

The Mütter Museum

Ivy’s episode

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

The Death of Jane Lawrence, Last to Leave the Room, Yellow Jessamine, and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

Megan E. O’Keefe

Megan’s first episode

Steve Toase

Amanda Cook

Jo Miles

SFWA

HWA

Premee Mohamed

She Walks in Shadows, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles

Beneath the Rising, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, The Annual Migration of Clouds, and The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed

System Collapse, by Martha Wells

Yuletide (fic exchange)

The Red River of the north

Lake Agassiz

Marie Brennan

Martha Wells

Ursula Vernon

Chuck Tingle

Sarah Gailey

Hugo Awards thing

Stoker Awards

Edenville, by Sam Rebelein

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Hellraiser

Death Note manga, netflix, and anime

Potato chip eating scene

Death Note: The Musical

Laura’s website, bluesky, twitter, insta, mastodon

 

Join me next month when I’ll be talking to John Wiswell and Ivy Fox

]]> This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome longtime friend of the show Laura Blackwell! Laura reads to us from her very very trunked story, “Poor Prisoners,” which leads us into a wide-ranging discussion of things we wish we’d learned sooner, writers whose work we admire, and kindness to our past selves.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Story Hour

LiveJournal

Dreamwidth

Macey’s Murderboard episode

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Quaker Spec Fic issue

AO3

Omegaverse

The Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles Homers

The Aeneid, by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

Translation State and the Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan

Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

The Mütter Museum

Ivy’s episode

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

The Death of Jane Lawrence, Last to Leave the Room, Yellow Jessamine, and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

Megan E. O’Keefe

Megan’s first episode

Steve Toase

Amanda Cook

Jo Miles

SFWA

HWA

Premee Mohamed

She Walks in Shadows, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles

Beneath the Rising, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, The Annual Migration of Clouds, and The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed

System Collapse, by Martha Wells

Yuletide (fic exchange)

The Red River of the north

Lake Agassiz

Marie Brennan

Martha Wells

Ursula Vernon

Chuck Tingle

Sarah Gailey

Hugo Awards thing

Stoker Awards

Edenville, by Sam Rebelein

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Hellraiser

Death Note manga, netflix, and anime

Potato chip eating scene

Death Note: The Musical

Laura’s website, bluesky, twitter, insta, mastodon

 

Join me next month when I’ll be talking to John Wiswell and Ivy Fox

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4912 6 2 full Book Tour 37: A.D. Sui – The Dragonfly Gambit Book Tour 37: A.D. Sui – The Dragonfly Gambit https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-37-ad-sui-%e2%80%93-the-dragonfly-gambit/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-37-ad-sui-%e2%80%93-the-dragonfly-gambit/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/352f5871-f0a7-3111-9161-60612892e413 To open this show’s sixth season, it is my total delight to welcome A.D. Sui to talk about her forthcoming novella, The Dragonfly Gambit, available later this year!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Neon Hemlock Press

dave ring

:unhinged_vibrating:

:shaking_eyes:

Fix-it fic

Fanfiction dot net

Even Though I Knew the End book tour episode

Supernatural

Carl Engle-Laird

100th episode

Jared can’t read vine

Blue Eye Samurai

Family Guy

Rick and Morty

Anna’s twitter, insta, bluesky, and website

John Wiswell

Ursula T. Kingfisher Vernon

 

]]> To open this show’s sixth season, it is my total delight to welcome A.D. Sui to talk about her forthcoming novella, The Dragonfly Gambit, available later this year!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Neon Hemlock Press

dave ring

:unhinged_vibrating:

:shaking_eyes:

Fix-it fic

Fanfiction dot net

Even Though I Knew the End book tour episode

Supernatural

Carl Engle-Laird

100th episode

Jared can’t read vine

Blue Eye Samurai

Family Guy

Rick and Morty

Anna’s twitter, insta, bluesky, and website

John Wiswell

Ursula T. Kingfisher Vernon

 

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1729 6 1 full Book Tour 36: Jo Miles – Ravenous State Book Tour 36: Jo Miles – Ravenous State https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-36-jo-miles-%e2%80%93-ravenous-state/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-36-jo-miles-%e2%80%93-ravenous-state/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/1cf3de21-2a9d-338f-8e44-e49d86fe315d This time around, to close out season 5 of Tales from the Trunk, I’m thrilled to welcome Jo Miles to talk about the excellent conclusion to their Gifted of Brennex trilogy, Ravenous State! 

 

Things we mention this episode: Worldcon 76

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee

Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin

Brandon Sanderson

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

ART and Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

Starling House, by Alix E. Harrow

System Collapse, by Martha Wells

Warped State and Dissonant State, by Jo Miles

Jo’s mailing list, bluesky, insta, and mastodon

]]> This time around, to close out season 5 of Tales from the Trunk, I’m thrilled to welcome Jo Miles to talk about the excellent conclusion to their Gifted of Brennex trilogy, Ravenous State! 

 

Things we mention this episode:

Worldcon 76

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee

Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin

Brandon Sanderson

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

ART and Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

Starling House, by Alix E. Harrow

System Collapse, by Martha Wells

Warped State and Dissonant State, by Jo Miles

Jo’s mailing list, bluesky, insta, and mastodon

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 1853 5 23 full Book Tour 35: Premee Mohamed – The Butcher of the Forest Book Tour 35: Premee Mohamed – The Butcher of the Forest https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-35-premee-mohamed-%e2%80%93-the-butcher-of-the-forest/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-35-premee-mohamed-%e2%80%93-the-butcher-of-the-forest/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/30a7253c-f4ab-3413-b2da-8d2bf06feabe Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome back to the show Premee Mohamed! We talk about her new novella, The Butcher of the Forest, out February 27th from Tor.com books, and then feed something new to the trunk.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin

Hansel & Gretel

Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer

Escape from LA

The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser

Snake Plissken

LSBM

Van Helsing post

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Red Deer Polytechnic

Thursday Next books, by Jasper Fforde

The Siege of Burning Grass, The Annual Migration of Clouds, and We Speak Through the Mountain, by Premee Mohamed

The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man’s Wife, by Premee Mohamed

One Message Remains

“The General’s Turn,” by Premee Mohamed in The Deadlands

Sean Markey’s episode

Mysterious Galaxy event with John Wiswell, on February 28th 2024

Someone you Can Build a Nest In, by John Wiswell

The Two Doctors Górski, by Isaac Fellman

The Vanished Birds and The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez

Premee’s bluesky, insta, patreon, and website

 

Stick around next week, when I’ll be talking to Jo Miles!

 

]]> Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome back to the show Premee Mohamed! We talk about her new novella, The Butcher of the Forest, out February 27th from Tor.com books, and then feed something new to the trunk.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin

Hansel & Gretel

Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer

Escape from LA

The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser

Snake Plissken

LSBM

Van Helsing post

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Red Deer Polytechnic

Thursday Next books, by Jasper Fforde

The Siege of Burning Grass, The Annual Migration of Clouds, and We Speak Through the Mountain, by Premee Mohamed

The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man’s Wife, by Premee Mohamed

One Message Remains

“The General’s Turn,” by Premee Mohamed in The Deadlands

Sean Markey’s episode

Mysterious Galaxy event with John Wiswell, on February 28th 2024

Someone you Can Build a Nest In, by John Wiswell

The Two Doctors Górski, by Isaac Fellman

The Vanished Birds and The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez

Premee’s bluesky, insta, patreon, and website

 

Stick around next week, when I’ll be talking to Jo Miles!

 

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 2071 5 22 full 2023 Awards Eligibility Roundup 2023 Awards Eligibility Roundup https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/2023-awards-eligibility-roundup/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/2023-awards-eligibility-roundup/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/48b1ca0a-7a46-350c-9450-347d9e4509cd Once again, it’s time for an awards eligibility roundup! This episode’s transcript appears in full below:

 

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: Nominating the works that did make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

 

Listeners, it’s somehow that time of the year again, where awards nominations are upon us, and so I have once again reached out to all the wonderful guests who make this show what it is to round up works they’d like to receive your attention for nominations.

 

To begin, Tales from the Trunk is eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Fancast.

 

Sarah Gailey, who most recently joined me for our 100th episode retrospective, is eligible for Best Graphic Story for Know Your Station, and for Best Fanzine for their excellent Stone Soup.

 

Leigh Harlen, who joined us in August of 2021, is eligible for Best Novella with A Feast for Flies.

 

Dee Holloway, who joined us last May, is eligible in various categories. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Juliet Kemp, who just joined us most recently a few weeks ago, is eligible for Best Novel with The City Revealed; Best Novella with Song, Stone, Scale, Bone; Best Short Story with “Just As You Are;” and Best Series for The Marek Series. Their eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Maya MacGregor, who appeared on the show in April of 2022, is eligible in Best Novel and Best Young Adult Novel categories for The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will.

 

Freya Marske, who appeared here in October of 2021, is eligible for Best Short Story with a version of the very story that she brought to this fine podcast, “One Version of Yourself, At the Speed of Light.” She is also eligible for Best Novel with A Power Unbound and Best Series for The Last Binding.

 

Sam J. Miller, who joined us in January of 2022, is eligible for Best Short Story with "If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak."

 

Premee Mohamed, who last joined us in the summer of 2021, is eligible for No One Will Come Back For Us in various short story collection categories and for “Imagine Yourself Happy” for Best Short Story. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Annalee Newitz, who joined us for a book tour last January is eligible for Best Novel for The Terraformers.

 

Aimee Ogden, who joined us twice last year, most recently in August, is eligible for Best Novella for Emergent Properties. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Malka Older, who joined us at the start of this season in March of last year, is eligible for Best Novella with The Mimicking of Known Successes and for Best Short Story with both “The Plant and the Purist” and “The Dangers We Choose.”

 

C.L. Polk, who last joined us in February of last year, is eligible for Best Novelette with Ivy, Angelica, Bay, which you can read right now on Tor.com.

 

Caitlin Starling, who last joined us in October of last year, is eligible for Best Novel with Last to Leave the Room and Best Short Story for “Caver, Continue.” Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes: Twitter | Bluesky

 

Steve Toase, who joined us back in April of 2021, is eligible for Best Short Story with “Crumpled.” His eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Rem Wigmore, who last joined us in August of 2022, has an eligible novelette, Lightrunner’s Gambit, and a novel, Wolfpack.

 

Fran Wilde, who joined us in January of 2021, is eligible for Best Novella for The Book of Gems, Best Short Story for “The Rain Remembers What The Sky Forgets,” and Best Short Story for “No Contingency.” In addition, she would like to recommend From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, in which “No Contingency” appears, to be considered for anthology and related media categories. Fran, along with Julian Yap, are eligible for Best Editor, Short, for their work at Sunday Morning Transport, which is itself eligible for Best Semiprozine.

 

If you’ve made it this far, I’d like to sincerely thank you for listening and nominating over the years. Your support means so much to me and all of my guests.

 

Next month, we’re closing season five of this show out with a book tour appearance by Canadian author and definitely not a lorge beetle Premee Mohamed and a trunk reading from Jo Miles. Please note that due to some scheduling conflicts, Premee’s episode will be releasing on February 8th rather than the 1st.

 

Also, season 6 is almost upon us! I’m still hammering out guests, so stay tuned to see what amazing authors join me!

 

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

 

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Lillian Boyd.

 

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

 

You can find the show on Bluesky at trunkcast dot bsky dot social, and I post at hbbisenieks dot bsky dot social.

 

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

 

And remember: don't self-reject.

]]> Once again, it’s time for an awards eligibility roundup! This episode’s transcript appears in full below:

 

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: Nominating the works that did make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

 

Listeners, it’s somehow that time of the year again, where awards nominations are upon us, and so I have once again reached out to all the wonderful guests who make this show what it is to round up works they’d like to receive your attention for nominations.

 

To begin, Tales from the Trunk is eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Fancast.

 

Sarah Gailey, who most recently joined me for our 100th episode retrospective, is eligible for Best Graphic Story for Know Your Station, and for Best Fanzine for their excellent Stone Soup.

 

Leigh Harlen, who joined us in August of 2021, is eligible for Best Novella with A Feast for Flies.

 

Dee Holloway, who joined us last May, is eligible in various categories. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Juliet Kemp, who just joined us most recently a few weeks ago, is eligible for Best Novel with The City Revealed; Best Novella with Song, Stone, Scale, Bone; Best Short Story with “Just As You Are;” and Best Series for The Marek Series. Their eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Maya MacGregor, who appeared on the show in April of 2022, is eligible in Best Novel and Best Young Adult Novel categories for The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will.

 

Freya Marske, who appeared here in October of 2021, is eligible for Best Short Story with a version of the very story that she brought to this fine podcast, “One Version of Yourself, At the Speed of Light.” She is also eligible for Best Novel with A Power Unbound and Best Series for The Last Binding.

 

Sam J. Miller, who joined us in January of 2022, is eligible for Best Short Story with "If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak."

 

Premee Mohamed, who last joined us in the summer of 2021, is eligible for No One Will Come Back For Us in various short story collection categories and for “Imagine Yourself Happy” for Best Short Story. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Annalee Newitz, who joined us for a book tour last January is eligible for Best Novel for The Terraformers.

 

Aimee Ogden, who joined us twice last year, most recently in August, is eligible for Best Novella for Emergent Properties. Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Malka Older, who joined us at the start of this season in March of last year, is eligible for Best Novella with The Mimicking of Known Successes and for Best Short Story with both “The Plant and the Purist” and “The Dangers We Choose.”

 

C.L. Polk, who last joined us in February of last year, is eligible for Best Novelette with Ivy, Angelica, Bay, which you can read right now on Tor.com.

 

Caitlin Starling, who last joined us in October of last year, is eligible for Best Novel with Last to Leave the Room and Best Short Story for “Caver, Continue.” Her eligibility post is linked in the show notes: Twitter | Bluesky

 

Steve Toase, who joined us back in April of 2021, is eligible for Best Short Story with “Crumpled.” His eligibility post is linked in the show notes.

 

Rem Wigmore, who last joined us in August of 2022, has an eligible novelette, Lightrunner’s Gambit, and a novel, Wolfpack.

 

Fran Wilde, who joined us in January of 2021, is eligible for Best Novella for The Book of Gems, Best Short Story for “The Rain Remembers What The Sky Forgets,” and Best Short Story for “No Contingency.” In addition, she would like to recommend From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, in which “No Contingency” appears, to be considered for anthology and related media categories. Fran, along with Julian Yap, are eligible for Best Editor, Short, for their work at Sunday Morning Transport, which is itself eligible for Best Semiprozine.

 

If you’ve made it this far, I’d like to sincerely thank you for listening and nominating over the years. Your support means so much to me and all of my guests.

 

Next month, we’re closing season five of this show out with a book tour appearance by Canadian author and definitely not a lorge beetle Premee Mohamed and a trunk reading from Jo Miles. Please note that due to some scheduling conflicts, Premee’s episode will be releasing on February 8th rather than the 1st.

 

Also, season 6 is almost upon us! I’m still hammering out guests, so stay tuned to see what amazing authors join me!

 

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

 

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Lillian Boyd.

 

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

 

You can find the show on Bluesky at trunkcast dot bsky dot social, and I post at hbbisenieks dot bsky dot social.

 

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

 

And remember: don't self-reject.

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 459 5 21 full Book Tour 34: Juliet Kemp – Song, Stone, Scale, Bone Book Tour 34: Juliet Kemp – Song, Stone, Scale, Bone https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-34-juliet-kemp-%e2%80%93-song-stone-scale-bone/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-34-juliet-kemp-%e2%80%93-song-stone-scale-bone/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/d59a1f76-16e9-30ba-b3b9-5723aae55a73 This time around, I’m joined again by the delightful Juliet Kemp, who joins us to talk about their new novella, Song, Stone, Scale, Bone! After a great little reading, we talk about some of the things that are hard to get on page.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Josh’s episode

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, by Patricia C. Wrede

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Marek series, concluding with The City Revealed, by Juliet Kemp

Deadlock

Madeleine Sami

Our Flag Means Death

The Last Binding trilogy, by Freya Marske

Freya’s episode

Juliet’s website, twitter, bluesky, and mastodon

]]> This time around, I’m joined again by the delightful Juliet Kemp, who joins us to talk about their new novella, Song, Stone, Scale, Bone! After a great little reading, we talk about some of the things that are hard to get on page.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Josh’s episode

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, by Patricia C. Wrede

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Marek series, concluding with The City Revealed, by Juliet Kemp

Deadlock

Madeleine Sami

Our Flag Means Death

The Last Binding trilogy, by Freya Marske

Freya’s episode

Juliet’s website, twitter, bluesky, and mastodon

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1592 5 20 full Episode 58: Josh Storey – The Wolf That Waits at the End of All Things Episode 58: Josh Storey – The Wolf That Waits at the End of All Things https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-58-josh-storey-%e2%80%93-the-wolf-that-waits-at-the-end-of-all-things/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-58-josh-storey-%e2%80%93-the-wolf-that-waits-at-the-end-of-all-things/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/d40d2f54-2085-3d21-96e6-21ec11785d05 Today it is my sincere pleasure to welcome to the show weird little guy and all around splendid human being Josh Storey! Josh reads to us from his trunked novel, The Wolf That Waits at the End of All Things, which leads us into a lively discussion of the novels we wrote a few pages of when we were young, the ways we reuse ideas until they find the right home, and semiotic bullshit.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Trunkcast’s 100th episode

Terry Pratchett’s troll counting

Macey’s murderboard episode on We Make Books

River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah Hollowell

World’s largest frying pan in Iowa

Jessica Mary Best’s episode

Machineries of Empire series, by Yoon Ha Lee

Jasper Fforde

Zip disk

Final Fantasy

Homestuck

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

Miri’s episode

Mary Robinette Kowal

Rock Lee

System Collapse book tour

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Baffling Magazine

AO3

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Death (Neil Gaiman)

Friends at the Table

Anamnesis

Brandon Sanderson

Writing Excuses

Mary Robinette Kowal’s patreon

“The Air Gap,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Lamplight

C.C. Finlay

F&SF

Mary Robinette Kowal’s MICE

HTML

Be The Serpent

R.J. Theodore

Peridot Shift series, by R.J. Theodore

NaNoWriMo

Gnome Stew

Misdirected Mark network

Personal Canons Cookbook

My macaroni and cheese recipe (and essay)

Héctor González

Amal El Mohtar

Bigolas Dickolas

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Trigun Stampede

Trigun (98)

SunCoast Video

L-space

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi)

Apocalypse Keys

Hellboy

Pathfinder 2.5

WotC

Josh’s insta, bluesky, and website

Urban Phantasy blog

Premee Mohamed

Jo Miles

]]> Today it is my sincere pleasure to welcome to the show weird little guy and all around splendid human being Josh Storey! Josh reads to us from his trunked novel, The Wolf That Waits at the End of All Things, which leads us into a lively discussion of the novels we wrote a few pages of when we were young, the ways we reuse ideas until they find the right home, and semiotic bullshit.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Trunkcast’s 100th episode

Terry Pratchett’s troll counting

Macey’s murderboard episode on We Make Books

River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah Hollowell

World’s largest frying pan in Iowa

Jessica Mary Best’s episode

Machineries of Empire series, by Yoon Ha Lee

Jasper Fforde

Zip disk

Final Fantasy

Homestuck

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

Miri’s episode

Mary Robinette Kowal

Rock Lee

System Collapse book tour

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Baffling Magazine

AO3

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Death (Neil Gaiman)

Friends at the Table

Anamnesis

Brandon Sanderson

Writing Excuses

Mary Robinette Kowal’s patreon

“The Air Gap,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Lamplight

C.C. Finlay

F&SF

Mary Robinette Kowal’s MICE

HTML

Be The Serpent

R.J. Theodore

Peridot Shift series, by R.J. Theodore

NaNoWriMo

Gnome Stew

Misdirected Mark network

Personal Canons Cookbook

My macaroni and cheese recipe (and essay)

Héctor González

Amal El Mohtar

Bigolas Dickolas

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Trigun Stampede

Trigun (98)

SunCoast Video

L-space

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi)

Apocalypse Keys

Hellboy

Pathfinder 2.5

WotC

Josh’s insta, bluesky, and website

Urban Phantasy blog

Premee Mohamed

Jo Miles

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4444 5 19 full Episode 57: Sean Markey – The Deadlands Episode 57: Sean Markey – The Deadlands https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-57-sean-markey-%e2%80%93-the-deadlands/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-57-sean-markey-%e2%80%93-the-deadlands/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/159d4e68-6ec7-321d-9453-16e7035811ec Today it’s my great pleasure to welcome publisher of The Deadlands, Sean Markey, to the show! Sean talks us through the inception of the magazine, what it’s like being a publisher, and where both the magazine and his press, Psychopomp, is going next!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Elise Catherine Tobler

Laura Blackwell

Story Hour

Psychopomp

Shimmer

Beth Wodzinski

Quaker Spec Fic issue

“Refuse All Their Colors,” by Annalee Flower Horne

A Voice Calling, by Christopher Barzak

Martha Wells episode

Meg Elison

Maria Haskins

Vanessa Maki

Avra Margariti

A.R. Arthur

Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie

“The Dead Boy Inside Me,” by Angel Leal

Clarkesworld

C.C. Finlay

F&SF

Strange Horizons

Chuck Tingle

Sarah Gailey

Fireside

The Deadlands Patreon

Psychopomp store

Diablo 4

“Ultraviolet,” by Spiritbox (and on Bandcamp)

“Peristalsis,” by Vajra Chandrasekera

Rakesfall, by Vajra Chandrasekera 

“The Long Way Up,” by Alix E. Harrow

“Death is a Diner at 3:00 a.m.” by A.C. Wise

Psychopomp twitter and bluesky

The Deadlands twitter and bluesky

Shimmer’s twitter

]]> Today it’s my great pleasure to welcome publisher of The Deadlands, Sean Markey, to the show! Sean talks us through the inception of the magazine, what it’s like being a publisher, and where both the magazine and his press, Psychopomp, is going next!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Elise Catherine Tobler

Laura Blackwell

Story Hour

Psychopomp

Shimmer

Beth Wodzinski

Quaker Spec Fic issue

“Refuse All Their Colors,” by Annalee Flower Horne

A Voice Calling, by Christopher Barzak

Martha Wells episode

Meg Elison

Maria Haskins

Vanessa Maki

Avra Margariti

A.R. Arthur

Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie

“The Dead Boy Inside Me,” by Angel Leal

Clarkesworld

C.C. Finlay

F&SF

Strange Horizons

Chuck Tingle

Sarah Gailey

Fireside

The Deadlands Patreon

Psychopomp store

Diablo 4

“Ultraviolet,” by Spiritbox (and on Bandcamp)

“Peristalsis,” by Vajra Chandrasekera

Rakesfall, by Vajra Chandrasekera 

“The Long Way Up,” by Alix E. Harrow

“Death is a Diner at 3:00 a.m.” by A.C. Wise

Psychopomp twitter and bluesky

The Deadlands twitter and bluesky

Shimmer’s twitter

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3524 5 16 full Book Tour 33: Martha Wells – System Collapse Book Tour 33: Martha Wells – System Collapse https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-33-martha-wells-%e2%80%93-system-collapse/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-33-martha-wells-%e2%80%93-system-collapse/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/d9f64baa-484d-3db1-b528-c6ee4927b3af Today it is my absolute pleasure to welcome to the show none other than Martha Wells! Martha joins us to read from and talk about the newest entry in her Murderbot Diaries series, System Collapse, out November 14th from TorDotCom publishing!

 

A transcription of this episode by Kiri from the Murderbot discord is available here

 

Things we mention on this episode:

 

Hugo Awards

Nebula Awards

Locus Awards

Dragon Awards

Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, and Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells

Witch King, by Martha Wells

City of Bones, by Martha Wells

Jamie Jones

The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer, by Martha Wells

Mammoths at the Gates, by Nghi Vo

Furious Heaven, by Kate Elliott

Andrea Hairston

The Water Outlaws, by S.L. Huang

Aliette de Bodard

Martha’s website, bluesky, mastodon, and insta

The Deadlands

 

Join us on November 17th, when my guest will be Sean Markey!

]]> Today it is my absolute pleasure to welcome to the show none other than Martha Wells! Martha joins us to read from and talk about the newest entry in her Murderbot Diaries series, System Collapse, out November 14th from TorDotCom publishing!

 

A transcription of this episode by Kiri from the Murderbot discord is available here

 

Things we mention on this episode:

 

Hugo Awards

Nebula Awards

Locus Awards

Dragon Awards

Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, and Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells

Witch King, by Martha Wells

City of Bones, by Martha Wells

Jamie Jones

The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer, by Martha Wells

Mammoths at the Gates, by Nghi Vo

Furious Heaven, by Kate Elliott

Andrea Hairston

The Water Outlaws, by S.L. Huang

Aliette de Bodard

Martha’s website, bluesky, mastodon, and insta

The Deadlands

 

Join us on November 17th, when my guest will be Sean Markey!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2108 5 17 full Episode 56: Best of the Trunk – Episode 37 with Lillian Boyd Episode 56: Best of the Trunk – Episode 37 with Lillian Boyd https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-56-best-of-the-trunk-%e2%80%93-episode-37-with-lillian-boyd/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-56-best-of-the-trunk-%e2%80%93-episode-37-with-lillian-boyd/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/03846022-ae26-3136-806d-f2cb55f90d2c Hey everyone, Hilary here. Due to a combination of life things and poor planning on my part, there’s no new interview this time around, but I’d like to take this spooky month to highlight a great episode from the backlog with our composer and true horror ghoul, Lillian Boyd.

A few other things before we get to the episode:

This show is now on Bluesky at trunkcast.bsky.social, and I’m on there at hbbisenieks.bsky.social. Of the twitter-replacements, Bluesky seems to be the one where most of my writing friends have ended up, so it made sense that the show should find a home there, too.

Also, a heads up that due to scheduling needs, next month’s book tour with Murderbot author Martha Wells will be coming out on Monday, November 6th, rather than Friday the 3rd.

Finally, thank you all so much for listening. I always appreciate hearing from fans of the show. Your support and enthusiasm helps continue making this show what it is!

And now, on with the show!

 

It's my absolute delight, this time around, to welcome our very own composer, Lillian Boyd (@herelieslill), onto the show. Lillian reads her short-story-that-should-be-a-novella, "Inside Job" (cw: gore, skip forward 10:15 to avoid) before we just go off on an extended tangent about horror movies, noir, pulp, and being as thoroughly on our bullshit as is possible.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Rank and Vile

Tetsuo the Iron Man

28 Days Later

My appearance on Rank and Vile

The Reinvented Detective, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo (2023)

Raymond Chandler

Guy Noir: Private Eye

A Prairie Home Companion

Nick Danger

The Firesign Theater

Clive Barker

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

Nick and Nora

Humphrey Bogart

Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler

  1. P. Lovecraft (notable racist)

Scrip

Neuromancer, by William Gibson

Blade Runner

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

"Panama," by Van Halen

Terry Pratchett

Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Discworld

The Bromeliad

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

Chandler's cat letters

Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett

Neil Gaiman

Ichabod Crane

Michael Kane

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

"The Book Job," The Simpsons season 23, episode 6

"Falafelosophy," Arthur season 14, episode 4a

"Neil Gaiman! What are you doing in my falafel?"

Alanis Morisette

Amanda Palmer

Tori Amos

Fiona Apple

"Silent All These Years," by Tori Amos

Where's Neil When You Need Him?

The Crüxshadows

Mirrormask

"Mr. Sandman," by The Chordettes

"Enter Sandman," by Metallica

Hot Topic

"Cry Little Sister," by Gerard McMann

The Lost Boys

Voltaire

Ego Likeness

The Velocipastor

"Toasty"

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Daybreakers

Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Kate Bush

Velvet Goldmine

"20th Century Boy," by Placebo

"20th Century Boy," by T. Rex

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Queen of the Damned

Twilight

Failure to Adapt

The baseball scene from Twilight

Underworld

Blade 3: Trinity

Triple-H

House of Wax

Friends at the Table: Sangfielle

The VVitch

Sarah Gailey's appearance on Episode 1 of this very show

Hailey Piper

Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, by Hailey Piper

Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott

The Mountain Goats

Alien Vs. Predator

Fireside Quarterly, June-July 2021

The Rank and Vile list

Bride of Frankenstein

And Now the Screaming Starts!

Candyman II: Farewell to the Flesh

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Brainscan

Videodrome

Audition

Lillian's Twitch

Hair Metal

"Dream Warriors," by Dokken

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Books of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Charles Vess

The Farthest Shore, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Keebio's Iris keyboard

Bán Dénes, mrzealot

Ergogen

Ghost in the Shell

Data

Hako Royal True switches

Hellraiser

Lillian's website, soundcloud, and reedsy

]]> Hey everyone, Hilary here. Due to a combination of life things and poor planning on my part, there’s no new interview this time around, but I’d like to take this spooky month to highlight a great episode from the backlog with our composer and true horror ghoul, Lillian Boyd.

A few other things before we get to the episode:

This show is now on Bluesky at trunkcast.bsky.social, and I’m on there at hbbisenieks.bsky.social. Of the twitter-replacements, Bluesky seems to be the one where most of my writing friends have ended up, so it made sense that the show should find a home there, too.

Also, a heads up that due to scheduling needs, next month’s book tour with Murderbot author Martha Wells will be coming out on Monday, November 6th, rather than Friday the 3rd.

Finally, thank you all so much for listening. I always appreciate hearing from fans of the show. Your support and enthusiasm helps continue making this show what it is!

And now, on with the show!

 

It's my absolute delight, this time around, to welcome our very own composer, Lillian Boyd (@herelieslill), onto the show. Lillian reads her short-story-that-should-be-a-novella, "Inside Job" (cw: gore, skip forward 10:15 to avoid) before we just go off on an extended tangent about horror movies, noir, pulp, and being as thoroughly on our bullshit as is possible.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Rank and Vile

Tetsuo the Iron Man

28 Days Later

My appearance on Rank and Vile

The Reinvented Detective, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo (2023)

Raymond Chandler

Guy Noir: Private Eye

A Prairie Home Companion

Nick Danger

The Firesign Theater

Clive Barker

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

Nick and Nora

Humphrey Bogart

Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler

  1. P. Lovecraft (notable racist)

Scrip

Neuromancer, by William Gibson

Blade Runner

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

"Panama," by Van Halen

Terry Pratchett

Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Discworld

The Bromeliad

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

Chandler's cat letters

Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett

Neil Gaiman

Ichabod Crane

Michael Kane

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

"The Book Job," The Simpsons season 23, episode 6

"Falafelosophy," Arthur season 14, episode 4a

"Neil Gaiman! What are you doing in my falafel?"

Alanis Morisette

Amanda Palmer

Tori Amos

Fiona Apple

"Silent All These Years," by Tori Amos

Where's Neil When You Need Him?

The Crüxshadows

Mirrormask

"Mr. Sandman," by The Chordettes

"Enter Sandman," by Metallica

Hot Topic

"Cry Little Sister," by Gerard McMann

The Lost Boys

Voltaire

Ego Likeness

The Velocipastor

"Toasty"

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Daybreakers

Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Kate Bush

Velvet Goldmine

"20th Century Boy," by Placebo

"20th Century Boy," by T. Rex

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Queen of the Damned

Twilight

Failure to Adapt

The baseball scene from Twilight

Underworld

Blade 3: Trinity

Triple-H

House of Wax

Friends at the Table: Sangfielle

The VVitch

Sarah Gailey's appearance on Episode 1 of this very show

Hailey Piper

Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, by Hailey Piper

Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott

The Mountain Goats

Alien Vs. Predator

Fireside Quarterly, June-July 2021

The Rank and Vile list

Bride of Frankenstein

And Now the Screaming Starts!

Candyman II: Farewell to the Flesh

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Brainscan

Videodrome

Audition

Lillian's Twitch

Hair Metal

"Dream Warriors," by Dokken

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Books of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Charles Vess

The Farthest Shore, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Keebio's Iris keyboard

Bán Dénes, mrzealot

Ergogen

Ghost in the Shell

Data

Hako Royal True switches

Hellraiser

Lillian's website, soundcloud, and reedsy

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4467 5 16 full Book Tour 32: Caitlin Starling – Last to Leave the Room Book Tour 32: Caitlin Starling – Last to Leave the Room https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-32-caitlin-starling-%e2%80%93-last-to-leave-the-room/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-32-caitlin-starling-%e2%80%93-last-to-leave-the-room/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/e3a271f4-38c8-3989-9c84-86e71a1adb4a In this, the spookiest month, I’m delighted to welcome back to the podcast, Caitlin Starling! Caitlin reads us an excerpt from her terrific forthcoming novel, Last to Leave the Room, coming out October 10th from St. Martin’s Press, which leads us into a great conversation about the potential gaps left in for fanfic authors, among other things.

 

Things we mention this episode

 

The Death of Jane Lawrence, The Luminous Dead, Yellow Jessamine, and The Oblivion Bride, by Caitlin Starling

Neon Hemlock

And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee

The Crawling Moon, edited by dave ring

Dracula Daily

Luminescent Machinations, edited by Rhihannon Rasmussen and dave ring

Turks (Final Fantasy VII)

Isaac Fellman

A Dark Song

Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

The White Road, by Sarah Lotz

Rotten dot com

Third man syndrome

Ernest Shackleton

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey

Spiderman pointing

“Caver Continue,” by Caitlin Starling

The Queen’s Thief series, by Megan Whalen Turner

Severance

Shirley Jackson

Caitlin’s website, insta, and bluesky

]]> In this, the spookiest month, I’m delighted to welcome back to the podcast, Caitlin Starling! Caitlin reads us an excerpt from her terrific forthcoming novel, Last to Leave the Room, coming out October 10th from St. Martin’s Press, which leads us into a great conversation about the potential gaps left in for fanfic authors, among other things.

 

Things we mention this episode

 

The Death of Jane Lawrence, The Luminous Dead, Yellow Jessamine, and The Oblivion Bride, by Caitlin Starling

Neon Hemlock

And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee

The Crawling Moon, edited by dave ring

Dracula Daily

Luminescent Machinations, edited by Rhihannon Rasmussen and dave ring

Turks (Final Fantasy VII)

Isaac Fellman

A Dark Song

Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

The White Road, by Sarah Lotz

Rotten dot com

Third man syndrome

Ernest Shackleton

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey

Spiderman pointing

“Caver Continue,” by Caitlin Starling

The Queen’s Thief series, by Megan Whalen Turner

Severance

Shirley Jackson

Caitlin’s website, insta, and bluesky

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2401 5 15 full Episode 55: Celebrating One Hundred Trunkcasts with Sarah Gailey Episode 55: Celebrating One Hundred Trunkcasts with Sarah Gailey https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-55-celebrating-one-hundred-trunkcasts-with-sarah-gailey/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-55-celebrating-one-hundred-trunkcasts-with-sarah-gailey/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/455946ed-af93-3bb9-9a77-28e77b4bc05e We made it to the Biggest Number™ and Sarah Gailey is here today to help us celebrate with a retrospective on the last four and a half years of Tales from the Trunk!

Show notes coming soon!

]]> We made it to the Biggest Number™ and Sarah Gailey is here today to help us celebrate with a retrospective on the last four and a half years of Tales from the Trunk!

Show notes coming soon!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 6486 5 14 full Book Tour 31: Sarah Hollowell – What Stalks Among Us Book Tour 31: Sarah Hollowell – What Stalks Among Us https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-31-sarah-hollowell-%e2%80%93-what-stalks-among-us/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-31-sarah-hollowell-%e2%80%93-what-stalks-among-us/#comments Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/293c3f05-c2d9-36bb-a083-111c4ca422df This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Sarah Hollowell back to the show! Sarah reads us an excerpt of her new book, What Stalks Among Us, which releases September 12th, and then we fall down a hole of absolute gremlinry.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Sarah’s first episode

A Dark and Starless Forest, by Sarah Hollowell

Fast and Furious series

AEW All In

Adam Cole and MJF

Triple-H

Roman Reigns

RPF (Real Person Fic)

“The Unreality of Pro Wrestling”

The Shield (wrestling)

Dean Ambrose/John Moxley

Luchasaurus

Mantaur

Darkness Falls

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

The Conjuring series

The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal

P-38 Lightning

Apex

The Poppy War trilogy, Babel, and Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang

The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night, by Samantha Shannon

His Majesty’s Dragon, Spinning Silver, and Uprooted, by Naomi Novik

Terry Pratchett

Regular Show, “California King” and “Eggscellent”

Labyrinth

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild

Oxenfree and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

Return of the Obra Din

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hades II

Hades

Animal Crossing

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Sarah’s bluesky, tiktok, insta

The Nursery Nurse tiktok

 

Join us again in two weeks for the 100th episode of Tales from the Trunk!

]]> This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Sarah Hollowell back to the show! Sarah reads us an excerpt of her new book, What Stalks Among Us, which releases September 12th, and then we fall down a hole of absolute gremlinry.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Sarah’s first episode

A Dark and Starless Forest, by Sarah Hollowell

Fast and Furious series

AEW All In

Adam Cole and MJF

Triple-H

Roman Reigns

RPF (Real Person Fic)

“The Unreality of Pro Wrestling”

The Shield (wrestling)

Dean Ambrose/John Moxley

Luchasaurus

Mantaur

Darkness Falls

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

The Conjuring series

The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal

P-38 Lightning

Apex

The Poppy War trilogy, Babel, and Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang

The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night, by Samantha Shannon

His Majesty’s Dragon, Spinning Silver, and Uprooted, by Naomi Novik

Terry Pratchett

Regular Show, “California King” and “Eggscellent”

Labyrinth

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild

Oxenfree and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

Return of the Obra Din

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hades II

Hades

Animal Crossing

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Sarah’s bluesky, tiktok, insta

The Nursery Nurse tiktok

 

Join us again in two weeks for the 100th episode of Tales from the Trunk!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3725 5 13 full Episode 54: Jessica Mary Best – Third Wheel Episode 54: Jessica Mary Best – Third Wheel https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-54-jessica-mary-best-third-wheel/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-54-jessica-mary-best-third-wheel/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/9575b034-11d8-3c04-b6ad-5316e3034865 This time around, I’m delighted to introduce you to Jessica Mary Best! Jess and I do something a little different and perform for your listening pleasure part of the pilot episode of her trunked audio drama, Third Wheel! That reading leads us into a great conversation about the different approaches between written prose and writing for audio.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Stars, Hide Your Fires, by Jessica Mary Best

Chuck Tingle’s episode

Oliver!

Chekhov’s Gun

Brandon, Iowa

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Sufjan Stevens

Fall Out Boy

Panic! At the Disco

Illinois, by Sufjan Stevens

“They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!” by Sufjan Stevens

“I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” by Panic! At The Disco

“Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off,” by Panic! At The Disco

“Of All The Gin Joints In All The World,” by Fall Out Boy

“Stars, hide your fires”

Tor dot com writeup

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Tom Swifties

Munch Squad

Friends at the Table

Sarah Gailey

Lillian Boyd

Welcome to Night Vale

Audacity

Keep it Steady 

Unwell 

The Bear

Phoebe Bridgers

Criminal

Radiotopia

99% Invisible

The Allusionist

Articles of Interest

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

Jess’s website and insta

]]> This time around, I’m delighted to introduce you to Jessica Mary Best! Jess and I do something a little different and perform for your listening pleasure part of the pilot episode of her trunked audio drama, Third Wheel! That reading leads us into a great conversation about the different approaches between written prose and writing for audio.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Stars, Hide Your Fires, by Jessica Mary Best

Chuck Tingle’s episode

Oliver!

Chekhov’s Gun

Brandon, Iowa

All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Sufjan Stevens

Fall Out Boy

Panic! At the Disco

Illinois, by Sufjan Stevens

“They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!” by Sufjan Stevens

“I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” by Panic! At The Disco

“Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off,” by Panic! At The Disco

“Of All The Gin Joints In All The World,” by Fall Out Boy

“Stars, hide your fires”

Tor dot com writeup

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Tom Swifties

Munch Squad

Friends at the Table

Sarah Gailey

Lillian Boyd

Welcome to Night Vale

Audacity

Keep it Steady 

Unwell 

The Bear

Phoebe Bridgers

Criminal

Radiotopia

99% Invisible

The Allusionist

Articles of Interest

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

Jess’s website and insta

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3984 5 12 full Book Tour 30: Aimee Ogden – Emergent Properties Book Tour 30: Aimee Ogden – Emergent Properties https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-30-aimee-ogden-%e2%80%93-emergent-properties/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-30-aimee-ogden-%e2%80%93-emergent-properties/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/8963ca27-022b-32c2-990c-c8200b3d5f53 This time around, it’s my delight to welcome back to the show Aimee Ogden (@Aimee_Ogden)! Aimee reads a delightful excerpt of her brand new book, Emergent Properties, available now wherever you buy books, which leads us into some great conversation about the things that made this book, whether or not those things ended up in the final draft.

 

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

“The Cold Calculations,” by Aimee Ogden

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

Aimee’s Clarkesworld interview

Wallace and Gromit

Marie Kondo

“A Half-Remembered World,” by Aimee Ogden

Translunar Traveler’s Lounge

Dropout

CollegeHumor

Sam Reich

Game Changer

Entertainment Community Fund

Jeopardy!

Wheel of Fortune

Dungeons and Drag Queens

Escape from the Bloodkeep

Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Matt Mercer

Erika Ishii

Robert Reich

Breaking News (Dropout)

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Name That Bird

Aimee’s website

Spiders Georg

 

Stick around next time when my guest will be Jessica Mary Best

]]> This time around, it’s my delight to welcome back to the show Aimee Ogden (@Aimee_Ogden)! Aimee reads a delightful excerpt of her brand new book, Emergent Properties, available now wherever you buy books, which leads us into some great conversation about the things that made this book, whether or not those things ended up in the final draft.

 

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

“The Cold Calculations,” by Aimee Ogden

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

Aimee’s Clarkesworld interview

Wallace and Gromit

Marie Kondo

“A Half-Remembered World,” by Aimee Ogden

Translunar Traveler’s Lounge

Dropout

CollegeHumor

Sam Reich

Game Changer

Entertainment Community Fund

Jeopardy!

Wheel of Fortune

Dungeons and Drag Queens

Escape from the Bloodkeep

Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Matt Mercer

Erika Ishii

Robert Reich

Breaking News (Dropout)

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Name That Bird

Aimee’s website

Spiders Georg

 

Stick around next time when my guest will be Jessica Mary Best

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2288 5 11 full Episode 53: Lor Gislason – ”My Body, My Body, and Me” Episode 53: Lor Gislason – ”My Body, My Body, and Me” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-53-lor-gislason-%e2%80%93-my-body-my-body-and-me/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-53-lor-gislason-%e2%80%93-my-body-my-body-and-me/#comments Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/c88e0aec-a05f-3891-8a3e-78a534652a4b This episode’s reading carries content warnings for discussion of COVID, self harm, horror movie gore, and suicide and suicidal ideation. If you want to opt out of that, please skip forward 14 minutes from the start of the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my delight to continue our summer of screams with Lor Gislason (@lorelli_)! They read us a moving personal essay about how they got so dang goopy, which leads us into a great conversation about horror media, finding your people, and of course all things goopy.

 

Things we mention in this episode: 

 

Chuck’s episode

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Heel (wrestling)

Lillian Boyd

Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror Volume II, edited by Cathering Benstead

American Psycho 2

Serial Killing 101

Hellraiser

Clive Barker

Neil Gaiman

Turkey Shoot (film)

Mandy (film)

Dune (2021)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

House of 1000 Corpses

The Devil’s Rejects

Foz’s episode

Zombie

Lucio Fulci

The Lion King

Sisyphus

Bound in Flesh, edited by Lor Gislason

Dragon Ball

Animorphs (series) by K.A. Applegate

Artemis’ turning Acteon into a stag

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire

The Mummy

Mummies Alive!

Street Sharks

Biker Mice from Mars

Mars Attacks!

Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

Return to Oz

Wicked

Sarah Gailey

Sickos

Sarah Hollowell

“Look,” by Sarah Gailey

Star Wars tweets

River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey

Inside Out, by Lor Gislason

Resident Evil 4 remake

Control (game)

SCP Foundation

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Piccolo

Akira

Lor’s insta and blog

Joe Koch

 

]]> This episode’s reading carries content warnings for discussion of COVID, self harm, horror movie gore, and suicide and suicidal ideation. If you want to opt out of that, please skip forward 14 minutes from the start of the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my delight to continue our summer of screams with Lor Gislason (@lorelli_)! They read us a moving personal essay about how they got so dang goopy, which leads us into a great conversation about horror media, finding your people, and of course all things goopy.

 

Things we mention in this episode: 

 

Chuck’s episode

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Heel (wrestling)

Lillian Boyd

Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror Volume II, edited by Cathering Benstead

American Psycho 2

Serial Killing 101

Hellraiser

Clive Barker

Neil Gaiman

Turkey Shoot (film)

Mandy (film)

Dune (2021)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

House of 1000 Corpses

The Devil’s Rejects

Foz’s episode

Zombie

Lucio Fulci

The Lion King

Sisyphus

Bound in Flesh, edited by Lor Gislason

Dragon Ball

Animorphs (series) by K.A. Applegate

Artemis’ turning Acteon into a stag

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire

The Mummy

Mummies Alive!

Street Sharks

Biker Mice from Mars

Mars Attacks!

Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

Return to Oz

Wicked

Sarah Gailey

Sickos

Sarah Hollowell

“Look,” by Sarah Gailey

Star Wars tweets

River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey

Inside Out, by Lor Gislason

Resident Evil 4 remake

Control (game)

SCP Foundation

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Piccolo

Akira

Lor’s insta and blog

Joe Koch

 

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3598 5 10 full Book Tour 29: Chuck Tingle – Camp Damascus Book Tour 29: Chuck Tingle – Camp Damascus https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-29-chuck-tingle-%e2%80%93-camp-damascus/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-29-chuck-tingle-%e2%80%93-camp-damascus/#comments Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/78460ef7-87ad-3de4-8826-9c60132925b4 It’s my absolute delight to welcome an absolute dream of a guest this time around: Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle)! We read from the first chapter of Chuck’s new horror novel, Camp Damascus, out July 11th from Tor Nightfire, which leads us into a great discussion on Chuck’s writing process, the things that changed between first draft and published book, and of course some of his and my favorite bits.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Game theory

Straight and Bury Your Gays (2024), by Chuck Tingle

A More Civilized Age

Kelly Lonesome

Get Out

Multi-level marketing

Grindcore

Discord

Friends at the Table

In the Lives of Puppets, by Tj Klune

Barry

Ratboys

Chuck’s BlueSky, Insta, Facebook, TikTok, Tumblr

 

]]> It’s my absolute delight to welcome an absolute dream of a guest this time around: Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle)! We read from the first chapter of Chuck’s new horror novel, Camp Damascus, out July 11th from Tor Nightfire, which leads us into a great discussion on Chuck’s writing process, the things that changed between first draft and published book, and of course some of his and my favorite bits.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Game theory

Straight and Bury Your Gays (2024), by Chuck Tingle

A More Civilized Age

Kelly Lonesome

Get Out

Multi-level marketing

Grindcore

Discord

Friends at the Table

In the Lives of Puppets, by Tj Klune

Barry

Ratboys

Chuck’s BlueSky, Insta, Facebook, TikTok, Tumblr

 

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3317 5 9 full Episode 52: Foz Meadows – ”Blood Penance” Episode 52: Foz Meadows – ”Blood Penance” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-52-foz-meadows-%e2%80%93-blood-penance/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-52-foz-meadows-%e2%80%93-blood-penance/#comments Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/2535627d-f850-37ec-a6c6-5ebdd35b30b9 This episode’s reading carries content warnings for children in perilous situations and description of injuries. The reading is 10:30 long.

 

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Foz Meadows (@fozmeadows)! Foz reads an excerpt from his trunked novella, “Blood Penance,” which leads us into a great conversation about idea magpies, internet purity culture, horror, and kink.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

A Strange And Stubborn Endurance, by Foz Meadows

Captive Prince, by C.S. Pacat

Halloween

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Scream series

Allegory of the Cave, by Plato

“Hotel California,” by The Eagles

Lillian Boyd

Rank & Vile

Death of the author

Watership Down, by Richard Adams

Watership Down (movie)

All the Hidden Paths, by Foz Meadows

Finding Echoes, by Foz Meadows

Luminescent Machinations, edited by Rhiannon Rasmussen and dave ring

The Untamed

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Heaven Official’s Blessing

Beyond Evil

KinnPorsche

Stray Kids

“Red Lights,” by Stray Kids

“Venom,” by Stray Kids

OnlyOneOf

Foz’s tumblr and tiktok

]]> This episode’s reading carries content warnings for children in perilous situations and description of injuries. The reading is 10:30 long.

 

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Foz Meadows (@fozmeadows)! Foz reads an excerpt from his trunked novella, “Blood Penance,” which leads us into a great conversation about idea magpies, internet purity culture, horror, and kink.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

A Strange And Stubborn Endurance, by Foz Meadows

Captive Prince, by C.S. Pacat

Halloween

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Scream series

Allegory of the Cave, by Plato

“Hotel California,” by The Eagles

Lillian Boyd

Rank & Vile

Death of the author

Watership Down, by Richard Adams

Watership Down (movie)

All the Hidden Paths, by Foz Meadows

Finding Echoes, by Foz Meadows

Luminescent Machinations, edited by Rhiannon Rasmussen and dave ring

The Untamed

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Heaven Official’s Blessing

Beyond Evil

KinnPorsche

Stray Kids

“Red Lights,” by Stray Kids

“Venom,” by Stray Kids

OnlyOneOf

Foz’s tumblr and tiktok

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4449 5 8 full Book Tour 28: Emma Mieko Candon – The Archive Undying Book Tour 28: Emma Mieko Candon – The Archive Undying https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-28-emma-mieko-candon-%e2%80%93-the-archive-undying/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-28-emma-mieko-candon-%e2%80%93-the-archive-undying/#comments Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/cf144349-028b-3b8a-b8cd-c825dc355139 It’s my distinct pleasure, this time around, to welcome Emma Mieko Candon (@EmmaCandon) to the show to talk about their incredible new book, The Archive Undying, out June 27th, 2023, from Tor Dot Com! After a reading from the book’s opening, we descent almost immediately into gremlin mode about the inspirations for the book (our favorite podcast (you know the one)), Star Wars, and the intersection of cultures.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Friends at the Table

Mike’s episode

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Pacific Rim

NieR:Automata

Carl Engle-Laird

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

The Genesis of Misery, by Neon Yang

Lindsey Hall

The Tensorate Series, by Neon Yang

Docile, by K.M. Szpara

The Kingston Cycle and Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

Margate Lock (Palisade character) (spoilers for Palisode 03)

Star Wars

COUNTER/Weight

Castlevania

Hellboy

Cowboy Bebop

Gundam Newtype

Studio Ghibli

Partizan

Waypoint

A More Civilized Age

Lancer

Bluff City

Marielda

Sangfielle

Donna Haraway cyborg

Jack’s music

COUNTER/Weight and Partizan soundtracks

“The Long Way Around,” by Jack de Quidt

“TANAGER. PERFECT. TOUCHPAPER.,” by Jack de Quidt

Trigun Stampede

Bigolas Dickolas

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Utena

Trigun (1998)

Trigun (manga)

Amal El-Mohtar new Tor deal

“Seasons of Glass and Iron,” by Amal El-Mohtar

Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone

This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Ronin, by Emma Mieko Candon

Star Wars: Visions

Star Wars: The High Republic

Andor

The Mandalorian

The Poppy War, by R.F. Kuang

Wookieepedia

Emma’s insta and tumblr

Seasons of Hieron

]]> It’s my distinct pleasure, this time around, to welcome Emma Mieko Candon (@EmmaCandon) to the show to talk about their incredible new book, The Archive Undying, out June 27th, 2023, from Tor Dot Com! After a reading from the book’s opening, we descent almost immediately into gremlin mode about the inspirations for the book (our favorite podcast (you know the one)), Star Wars, and the intersection of cultures.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Friends at the Table

Mike’s episode

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Pacific Rim

NieR:Automata

Carl Engle-Laird

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

The Genesis of Misery, by Neon Yang

Lindsey Hall

The Tensorate Series, by Neon Yang

Docile, by K.M. Szpara

The Kingston Cycle and Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

Margate Lock (Palisade character) (spoilers for Palisode 03)

Star Wars

COUNTER/Weight

Castlevania

Hellboy

Cowboy Bebop

Gundam Newtype

Studio Ghibli

Partizan

Waypoint

A More Civilized Age

Lancer

Bluff City

Marielda

Sangfielle

Donna Haraway cyborg

Jack’s music

COUNTER/Weight and Partizan soundtracks

“The Long Way Around,” by Jack de Quidt

“TANAGER. PERFECT. TOUCHPAPER.,” by Jack de Quidt

Trigun Stampede

Bigolas Dickolas

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Utena

Trigun (1998)

Trigun (manga)

Amal El-Mohtar new Tor deal

“Seasons of Glass and Iron,” by Amal El-Mohtar

Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone

This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Ronin, by Emma Mieko Candon

Star Wars: Visions

Star Wars: The High Republic

Andor

The Mandalorian

The Poppy War, by R.F. Kuang

Wookieepedia

Emma’s insta and tumblr

Seasons of Hieron

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4901 5 7 full Episode 51: Dee Holloway – River’s End Episode 51: Dee Holloway – River’s End https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-51-dee-holloway-%e2%80%93-river-s-end/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-51-dee-holloway-%e2%80%93-river-s-end/#comments Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/c00dd93d-217e-37aa-b939-5e3d56d4dfaa This episode's reading carries a content warning for brief, non-graphic vomiting. You can skip forward 8:10 from the start of the reading to 0:13:00 to avoid this.

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Dee Holloway (@_deeholloway) to the show! Dee reads from her trunked YA novel, River’s End, which leads us into a great discussion of writing about place, what we did during the height of the pandemic, and Dee’s forthcoming novella, Little Nothing.

 

Things we mentioned this episode:

 

Stuart Dybek

The Complete History of New Mexico, by Kevin McIlvoy

Sabrina & Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Lady Bird

Joan Didion

California State Railroad Museum

Sacramento History Museum

QueryTracker

Little Nothing, by Dee Holloway

“The Highwayman,” by Alfred Noyes

Devil’s Cup, by Dee Holloway

The Craft

Blue Crush

Equus, edited by Rhonda Parrish

Luna Station Quarterly

“MONTERO (Call My By Your Name),” by Lil Nas X

Tim Curry

John Milton

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

The Iliad, by Homer

The Aeneid, by Virgil

Pitchfork

John Grisham

Bigolas Dickolas

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Kotaku and Polygon writeups

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Lamplit Underground

Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, by Claire Dederer

Burn You the Fuck Alive, by B.R. Yeager

Dee’s insta and itch

]]> This episode's reading carries a content warning for brief, non-graphic vomiting. You can skip forward 8:10 from the start of the reading to 0:13:00 to avoid this.

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Dee Holloway (@_deeholloway) to the show! Dee reads from her trunked YA novel, River’s End, which leads us into a great discussion of writing about place, what we did during the height of the pandemic, and Dee’s forthcoming novella, Little Nothing.

 

Things we mentioned this episode:

 

Stuart Dybek

The Complete History of New Mexico, by Kevin McIlvoy

Sabrina & Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Lady Bird

Joan Didion

California State Railroad Museum

Sacramento History Museum

QueryTracker

Little Nothing, by Dee Holloway

“The Highwayman,” by Alfred Noyes

Devil’s Cup, by Dee Holloway

The Craft

Blue Crush

Equus, edited by Rhonda Parrish

Luna Station Quarterly

“MONTERO (Call My By Your Name),” by Lil Nas X

Tim Curry

John Milton

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

The Iliad, by Homer

The Aeneid, by Virgil

Pitchfork

John Grisham

Bigolas Dickolas

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Kotaku and Polygon writeups

Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Lamplit Underground

Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, by Claire Dederer

Burn You the Fuck Alive, by B.R. Yeager

Dee’s insta and itch

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4118 5 6 full Book Tour 27: Megan E. O’Keefe – The Blighted Stars Book Tour 27: Megan E. O’Keefe – The Blighted Stars https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-27-megan-e-o-keefe-%e2%80%93-the-blighted-stars/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-27-megan-e-o-keefe-%e2%80%93-the-blighted-stars/#comments Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/f0384ce5-68b9-3ee8-8a2b-cb50b605d26b This time around, I’m delighted to welcome back to the show Megan E. O’Keefe (@MeganEOKeefe) to talk about her brand new book, The Blighted Stars, out May 23rd from Orbit Books! In between saying “spaceship books” a lot, we talk about some things that got left out for the betterment of the book, some beloved tropes, and what else you can look forward to from Megan!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Megan’s previous episode

Val’s last episode

K.B. Wagers’ last episode

Jaime Jones’ cover

The Archive Undying, by Emma Mieko Candon

Friends at the Table (of course)

The Imperial Radch Trilogy, by Ann Leckie

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee

Velocity Weapon, by Megan E. O’Keefe

The Scorched Continent Trilogy, by Megan E. O’Keefe

The First Omega, by Megan E. O’Keefe

Cormac McCarthy

Philip K. Dick

Terry Pratchett

Final Fantasy XIV

The Bone Shard Daughter, by Andrea Stewart

Megan’s website, insta, twitch, and github 

State machines

Pico air monitor

Micropython

Purple Air Dev

Ludum Dare

Johnny 5

Seek the Light, on Megan’s itch

 

]]> This time around, I’m delighted to welcome back to the show Megan E. O’Keefe (@MeganEOKeefe) to talk about her brand new book, The Blighted Stars, out May 23rd from Orbit Books! In between saying “spaceship books” a lot, we talk about some things that got left out for the betterment of the book, some beloved tropes, and what else you can look forward to from Megan!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Megan’s previous episode

Val’s last episode

K.B. Wagers’ last episode

Jaime Jones’ cover

The Archive Undying, by Emma Mieko Candon

Friends at the Table (of course)

The Imperial Radch Trilogy, by Ann Leckie

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee

Velocity Weapon, by Megan E. O’Keefe

The Scorched Continent Trilogy, by Megan E. O’Keefe

The First Omega, by Megan E. O’Keefe

Cormac McCarthy

Philip K. Dick

Terry Pratchett

Final Fantasy XIV

The Bone Shard Daughter, by Andrea Stewart

Megan’s website, insta, twitch, and github 

State machines

Pico air monitor

Micropython

Purple Air Dev

Ludum Dare

Johnny 5

Seek the Light, on Megan’s itch

 

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1862 5 5 full Episode 50: Brandon O’Brien – ”Content is Cuisine” Episode 50: Brandon O’Brien – ”Content is Cuisine” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-50-brandon-o-brien-%e2%80%93-content-is-cuisine/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-50-brandon-o-brien-%e2%80%93-content-is-cuisine/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/ff270349-aee6-35dd-a7b4-a15eea3a7145 This episode’s reading carries a content warning for discussion of online harassment. If you would like to skip the reading, fast forward to timestamp 0:17:25 from the start of the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my absolute delight to welcome to the show Brandon O’Briend (@therisingtithes)! Brandon reads from their story, “Content is Cuisine,” before we launch into a wonderful conversation about the intersection of poetry and game design, how recipes and poems are alike, and how H. P. Lovecraft was accidentally kinda hip-hop.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Suzan’s episode

Mike’s episode

Speculate!

Valerie Valdes

Girl By Moonlight

Iori Kusano

Jeoi Gawain Lin

FB moderation expose

Sin-eater

All Our Yesterdays

The Moon Wants Me To Leave You

Anteater tumblr post

Can You Sign My Tentacle?, by Brandon O’Brien

Interstellar Flight Press

Uncanny Magazine

Lovecraft’s cat (CW: racial slurs)

Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Cookbook

Shing Yin Khor

“Trust the Process,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Elgin Award

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Gregory A. Wilson

Blades in the Dark

Slugblaster

Lasers & Feelings

Evil Hat Productions

Friends at the Table (of course)

The Rookie

“Call ACab,” by Sam Stone

Sam Waterston

Aaron Sorkin

The Newsroom

Nickel Creek

Pavement

“Spit on a Stranger,” by Nickel Creek

Brandon’s insta and newsletter and website

Fiyah

]]> This episode’s reading carries a content warning for discussion of online harassment. If you would like to skip the reading, fast forward to timestamp 0:17:25 from the start of the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my absolute delight to welcome to the show Brandon O’Briend (@therisingtithes)! Brandon reads from their story, “Content is Cuisine,” before we launch into a wonderful conversation about the intersection of poetry and game design, how recipes and poems are alike, and how H. P. Lovecraft was accidentally kinda hip-hop.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Suzan’s episode

Mike’s episode

Speculate!

Valerie Valdes

Girl By Moonlight

Iori Kusano

Jeoi Gawain Lin

FB moderation expose

Sin-eater

All Our Yesterdays

The Moon Wants Me To Leave You

Anteater tumblr post

Can You Sign My Tentacle?, by Brandon O’Brien

Interstellar Flight Press

Uncanny Magazine

Lovecraft’s cat (CW: racial slurs)

Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Cookbook

Shing Yin Khor

“Trust the Process,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks

Elgin Award

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Gregory A. Wilson

Blades in the Dark

Slugblaster

Lasers & Feelings

Evil Hat Productions

Friends at the Table (of course)

The Rookie

“Call ACab,” by Sam Stone

Sam Waterston

Aaron Sorkin

The Newsroom

Nickel Creek

Pavement

“Spit on a Stranger,” by Nickel Creek

Brandon’s insta and newsletter and website

Fiyah

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4339 5 4 full Book Tour 26: Ladz – Ice Upon a Pier Book Tour 26: Ladz – Ice Upon a Pier https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-26-ladz-%e2%80%93-ice-upon-a-pier/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-26-ladz-%e2%80%93-ice-upon-a-pier/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/2fd3ea50-4e2b-3726-8a7b-d1d967916f6c This episode’s reading carries content warnings for implied child abuse and violence. If you would like to skip the reading, please skip forward to the 0:21:00 mark from the start of the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Ladz (@LadzWriting) to the show! They join us to talk about their forthcoming debut novella, Ice Upon a Pier, releasing April 11th, 2023, from Robot Dinosaur Press!

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Robot Dinosaur Press

The Chipped Cup Collective

Sarah Loch

Rekka

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Andi C. Buchanan

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

Dark Souls

The Last Podcast on the Left - Richard Kuklinski

Disney World

Ryszard Kukliński

Tales of Symphonia

Natuto

Greenpoint (NYC)

Aleta Perez

Last Call, by Elon Green

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, by Philip Carlo

Ladz’s blog

Terry J. Benton-Walker on Ladz’s blog

“Problem for Tomorrow’s You,” by Ladz on itch.io

Better Call Saul

Darkest Dungeon II

Frostpunk

Light novels

Bakemonogatari

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Vampire Hunter D (light novels)

Poppy Z. Brite

Gormenghast trilogy, by Mervin Peake

Leech, by Hiron Ennes

Edward Gorey

The Hobbit cover Smaug

Sarah Gailey’s original River of Teeth map

Ice Upon a Pier cover reveal on Sarah Gailey’s Stone Soup

The Balde Between, by Sam J Miller

The Sleepless, by Victor Manibo

The Bruising of Qilwa, by Naseem Jamnia

Ladz’s insta, blog, and newsletter

 

Join me again in two weeks, when my guest will be Brandon O'Brien!

]]> This episode’s reading carries content warnings for implied child abuse and violence. If you would like to skip the reading, please skip forward to the 0:21:00 mark from the start of the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Ladz (@LadzWriting) to the show! They join us to talk about their forthcoming debut novella, Ice Upon a Pier, releasing April 11th, 2023, from Robot Dinosaur Press!

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Robot Dinosaur Press

The Chipped Cup Collective

Sarah Loch

Rekka

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Andi C. Buchanan

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

Dark Souls

The Last Podcast on the Left - Richard Kuklinski

Disney World

Ryszard Kukliński

Tales of Symphonia

Natuto

Greenpoint (NYC)

Aleta Perez

Last Call, by Elon Green

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, by Philip Carlo

Ladz’s blog

Terry J. Benton-Walker on Ladz’s blog

“Problem for Tomorrow’s You,” by Ladz on itch.io

Better Call Saul

Darkest Dungeon II

Frostpunk

Light novels

Bakemonogatari

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Vampire Hunter D (light novels)

Poppy Z. Brite

Gormenghast trilogy, by Mervin Peake

Leech, by Hiron Ennes

Edward Gorey

The Hobbit cover Smaug

Sarah Gailey’s original River of Teeth map

Ice Upon a Pier cover reveal on Sarah Gailey’s Stone Soup

The Balde Between, by Sam J Miller

The Sleepless, by Victor Manibo

The Bruising of Qilwa, by Naseem Jamnia

Ladz’s insta, blog, and newsletter

 

Join me again in two weeks, when my guest will be Brandon O'Brien!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3025 5 3 full Episode 49: Suzan Palumbo – ”Fricatives” Episode 49: Suzan Palumbo – ”Fricatives” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-49-suzan-palumbo-%e2%80%93-fricatives/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-49-suzan-palumbo-%e2%80%93-fricatives/#comments Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/b5954c4a-c819-304b-8584-148d5ec563fb This episode’s reading carries a content warning for ableist themes around deafness. If you would like to skip this, skip ahead to the 11-minute mark to bypass the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome fellow gremlin Suzan Palumbo (@sillysyntax) to talk about…something. Suzan reads their trunked story, “Fricatives,” which leads us into a discussion about walking away from stories we’ve written that aren’t ours to tell. And then bagged pickles. We do get things back on track, amazingly, and have some great conversation about the place of emotion versus professionalism in writing, the current discourse around so-called “artificial intelligence” (large language models), and the baseball of crying.

 

Things we mention this episode

 

“Every Day is Halloween,” by Ministry

Joyce Carol Oates

“Apolépisi: A De-Scaling,” by Suzan Palumbo

Welcome to the Black Parade, by My Chemical Romance

Give Up, by The Postal Service

Plans, by Death Cab for Cutie

Pickle tweets

Shut the fuck up Friday

Friends at the Table

“Bloody Therapy,” by Suzan Palumbo

Shimmer

Elise Tobler

John Wiswell

Personal Canons Cookbook

Miri’s episode

Clarkesworld AI submissions

  1. D. Perry’s Resident Evil novels

Harley Quinn

Poison Ivy

“Soup Boys” and “NYC Cops” by Heems

“Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” by Das Racist

“Douen,” by Suzan Palumbo

Skin Thief: Stories, by Suzan Palumbo

dave ring

Cult of the Lamb

“Temple,” by River Boy

Interview with the Vampire

Tell me I’m Worthless, by Alison Rumfitt

Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet Suite, by Sergei Prokofiev

“The Death of Tybalt,” by Sergei Prokofiev

Suzan’s insta, mastodon, and website

 

Join us next month, when my guests will be Ladz and Brandon O’Brien!

]]> This episode’s reading carries a content warning for ableist themes around deafness. If you would like to skip this, skip ahead to the 11-minute mark to bypass the reading.

 

This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome fellow gremlin Suzan Palumbo (@sillysyntax) to talk about…something. Suzan reads their trunked story, “Fricatives,” which leads us into a discussion about walking away from stories we’ve written that aren’t ours to tell. And then bagged pickles. We do get things back on track, amazingly, and have some great conversation about the place of emotion versus professionalism in writing, the current discourse around so-called “artificial intelligence” (large language models), and the baseball of crying.

 

Things we mention this episode

 

“Every Day is Halloween,” by Ministry

Joyce Carol Oates

“Apolépisi: A De-Scaling,” by Suzan Palumbo

Welcome to the Black Parade, by My Chemical Romance

Give Up, by The Postal Service

Plans, by Death Cab for Cutie

Pickle tweets

Shut the fuck up Friday

Friends at the Table

“Bloody Therapy,” by Suzan Palumbo

Shimmer

Elise Tobler

John Wiswell

Personal Canons Cookbook

Miri’s episode

Clarkesworld AI submissions

  1. D. Perry’s Resident Evil novels

Harley Quinn

Poison Ivy

“Soup Boys” and “NYC Cops” by Heems

“Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” by Das Racist

“Douen,” by Suzan Palumbo

Skin Thief: Stories, by Suzan Palumbo

dave ring

Cult of the Lamb

“Temple,” by River Boy

Interview with the Vampire

Tell me I’m Worthless, by Alison Rumfitt

Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet Suite, by Sergei Prokofiev

“The Death of Tybalt,” by Sergei Prokofiev

Suzan’s insta, mastodon, and website

 

Join us next month, when my guests will be Ladz and Brandon O’Brien!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 5238 5 2 full Book Tour 25: Malka Older – The Mimicking of Known Successes Book Tour 25: Malka Older – The Mimicking of Known Successes https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-25-malka-older-%e2%80%93-the-mimicking-of-known-successes/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-25-malka-older-%e2%80%93-the-mimicking-of-known-successes/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/c663f324-fb92-372f-bcfe-bbf4cb37716f Hello, and welcome to season five (5) of Tales from the Trunk, where it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome Dr. Malka Older to the show to talk about her brand new novel, The Mimicking of Known Successes, out in just a few days on March 7th, 2023 from Tor dot com publishing! Malka reads us a couple of excerpts from the book, and then we geek out about putting puns in books because we can!

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Infomocracy, by Malka Older

Tor.com Publishing

Brent Lambert

NaNoWriMo

Juliet Kemp’s episode

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, by Malka Older

The Archive Undying, by Emma Mieko Candon

C.L. Polk’s recent book tour

Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk

Malka and Cee’s event, March 9th, 3:00 pm Pacific at Loyalty Bookstore

“Narrative Disorder,” by Malka Older

…and Other Disasters, by Malka Older

Daniel Jose Older

Meru, by S.B. Divya

The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz

A Scatter of Light, by Melinda Lo

Malka’s mastodon, insta, and tumblr

 

Join us again in two weeks, when I’ll be talking with Suzan Palumbo!

]]> Hello, and welcome to season five (5) of Tales from the Trunk, where it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome Dr. Malka Older to the show to talk about her brand new novel, The Mimicking of Known Successes, out in just a few days on March 7th, 2023 from Tor dot com publishing! Malka reads us a couple of excerpts from the book, and then we geek out about putting puns in books because we can!

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

 

Infomocracy, by Malka Older

Tor.com Publishing

Brent Lambert

NaNoWriMo

Juliet Kemp’s episode

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, by Malka Older

The Archive Undying, by Emma Mieko Candon

C.L. Polk’s recent book tour

Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk

Malka and Cee’s event, March 9th, 3:00 pm Pacific at Loyalty Bookstore

“Narrative Disorder,” by Malka Older

…and Other Disasters, by Malka Older

Daniel Jose Older

Meru, by S.B. Divya

The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz

A Scatter of Light, by Melinda Lo

Malka’s mastodon, insta, and tumblr

 

Join us again in two weeks, when I’ll be talking with Suzan Palumbo!

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 2308 5 1 full Episode 48: Aimee Ogden – Starstruck Episode 48: Aimee Ogden – Starstruck https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-48-aimee-ogden-%e2%80%93-starstruck/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-48-aimee-ogden-%e2%80%93-starstruck/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/78139ef7-5108-31ca-ab92-d1ee022b9336 This time around, to close out our fourth (4th!) season, it’s my pleasure to welcome Aimee Ogden (@aimeeogden@wandering.shop) to the show! Aimee reads from her delightful trunked YA novel, Starstruck, which leads us into a lovely conversation about lesbian radishes, the exhausting nature of submitting work, and short fiction magazines we love.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Aimee Kuzenski’s episode

Network Effect, by Martha Wells

Gregory A. Wilson

Beauty heart (watermelon) radish

Cat Valente

Tamora Pierce

The Wings of Fire series, by Tui T. Sutherland

Redwall series, by Brian Jacques

Diggers, Guards! Guards!, Hogfather, and The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett

“The Cold Calculations,” by Aimee Ogden

Be the Serpent

Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Cookbook

Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger, edited by John Appel, Mary Agner, and Jo Miles

Mary Robinette Kowal

F&SF

Clarkesworld

Ann Leckie

Analog

Translunar Traveler’s Lounge

Friends Journal QSFF issue

Emergent Properties, by Aimee Ogden

“A Love Letter Written at the Heat Death of the Universe,” by Aimee Ogden

The Deadlands

Shimmer

Fireside

Augur

Local Star, by Aimee Ogden

“Flower Daughter, Soil Seed,” by Eugenia Triantafyllou

“Sturgeon Moon Jam,” by Jennifer Hudak

The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, by Stephanie Burgis

Everything Everywhere All At Once

My Neighbor Totoro

Aimee’s website

 

Join us again next month, when our guests for the start of season 5 will be Malka Older and Suzan Palumbo!

 

]]> This time around, to close out our fourth (4th!) season, it’s my pleasure to welcome Aimee Ogden (@aimeeogden@wandering.shop) to the show! Aimee reads from her delightful trunked YA novel, Starstruck, which leads us into a lovely conversation about lesbian radishes, the exhausting nature of submitting work, and short fiction magazines we love.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

Aimee Kuzenski’s episode

Network Effect, by Martha Wells

Gregory A. Wilson

Beauty heart (watermelon) radish

Cat Valente

Tamora Pierce

The Wings of Fire series, by Tui T. Sutherland

Redwall series, by Brian Jacques

Diggers, Guards! Guards!, Hogfather, and The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett

“The Cold Calculations,” by Aimee Ogden

Be the Serpent

Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Cookbook

Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger, edited by John Appel, Mary Agner, and Jo Miles

Mary Robinette Kowal

F&SF

Clarkesworld

Ann Leckie

Analog

Translunar Traveler’s Lounge

Friends Journal QSFF issue

Emergent Properties, by Aimee Ogden

“A Love Letter Written at the Heat Death of the Universe,” by Aimee Ogden

The Deadlands

Shimmer

Fireside

Augur

Local Star, by Aimee Ogden

“Flower Daughter, Soil Seed,” by Eugenia Triantafyllou

“Sturgeon Moon Jam,” by Jennifer Hudak

The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, by Stephanie Burgis

Everything Everywhere All At Once

My Neighbor Totoro

Aimee’s website

 

Join us again next month, when our guests for the start of season 5 will be Malka Older and Suzan Palumbo!

 

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4294 4 24 full Book Tour 24: C.L. Polk – Even Though I Knew The End Book Tour 24: C.L. Polk – Even Though I Knew The End https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-24-cl-polk-%e2%80%93-even-though-i-knew-the-end/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-24-cl-polk-%e2%80%93-even-though-i-knew-the-end/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/936b213e-3d07-3009-b9ac-cc4768bfe0e7 This time around, it’s my joy to welcome back World Fantasy Award winner and fantastic human being C.L. Polk (@clpolk@wandering.shop) to talk about their newest novella, Even Though I Knew The End. After hearing an excerpt from the book’s first act, we get into its unexpected origin story, the things we write for our nine (9) goblin friends, and an introduction to Cee’s other books!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

The Kingston Cycle and The Midnight Bargain, by C.L. Polk

Detroit Red Wings

Chicago Blackhawks

Supernatural

AO3

Hardboiled fiction

The Magicians

Discord

Guy Noir, Private Eye

A Prairie Home Companion

Phillip Marlowe

Raymond Chandler

An American Werewolf in London

Hermie (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice

Masters of Magic

Dragon Age

Dragon Age: Absolution

The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Lady Astronaut series, by Mary Robinette Kowal

Cee’s website

Groundhog Day

 

Join us again in two weeks, when my guest will be Aimee Ogden!

]]> This time around, it’s my joy to welcome back World Fantasy Award winner and fantastic human being C.L. Polk (@clpolk@wandering.shop) to talk about their newest novella, Even Though I Knew The End. After hearing an excerpt from the book’s first act, we get into its unexpected origin story, the things we write for our nine (9) goblin friends, and an introduction to Cee’s other books!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

The Kingston Cycle and The Midnight Bargain, by C.L. Polk

Detroit Red Wings

Chicago Blackhawks

Supernatural

AO3

Hardboiled fiction

The Magicians

Discord

Guy Noir, Private Eye

A Prairie Home Companion

Phillip Marlowe

Raymond Chandler

An American Werewolf in London

Hermie (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice

Masters of Magic

Dragon Age

Dragon Age: Absolution

The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Lady Astronaut series, by Mary Robinette Kowal

Cee’s website

Groundhog Day

 

Join us again in two weeks, when my guest will be Aimee Ogden!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3026 4 23 full Episode 47: Juliet Kemp – Between Stars, Between Minds Episode 47: Juliet Kemp – Between Stars, Between Minds https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-47-juliet-kemp-%e2%80%93-between-stars-between-minds/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-47-juliet-kemp-%e2%80%93-between-stars-between-minds/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/89a324d4-fddd-3c0d-94df-75c955d7fa9a This time around, it’s my delight to welcome Juliet Kemp (twitter @julietk, mastodon @juliet@zirk.us) to the show! They read from their trunked sci-fi novel, Between Stars, Between Minds, which leads us into a discussion of messy first drafts, lived-in science fiction worlds, and finishing a four-book series.

 

Things we mentioned in this episode:

Chipped Cup Collective

Andor

Friends at the Table

Austin Walker

A More Civilized Age

“Blocking,” by Juliet Kemp in Strange Bedfellows

Angry Robot Books

The City Revealed, by Juliet Kemp

Ocean’s series

Alien Quadrilogy

Lois McMaster Bujold

Terry Pratchett

Macey’s Murderboard method

“Monday,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks

LiveJournal

Lockie Hunter

A Starbound Solstice, by Juliet Kemp

“At the Lighthouse Out by the Othersea,” by Juliet Kemp

Our Flag Means Death

Black Sails

A League of Their Own

The Hands of the Emperor and At the Feet of the Sun, by Victoria Goddard

Flotsam, by R.J. Theodore

Juliet’s website

 

Join us next month, when I’ll be talking to C.L. Polk and Aimee Ogden!

]]> This time around, it’s my delight to welcome Juliet Kemp (twitter @julietk, mastodon @juliet@zirk.us) to the show! They read from their trunked sci-fi novel, Between Stars, Between Minds, which leads us into a discussion of messy first drafts, lived-in science fiction worlds, and finishing a four-book series.

 

Things we mentioned in this episode:

Chipped Cup Collective

Andor

Friends at the Table

Austin Walker

A More Civilized Age

“Blocking,” by Juliet Kemp in Strange Bedfellows

Angry Robot Books

The City Revealed, by Juliet Kemp

Ocean’s series

Alien Quadrilogy

Lois McMaster Bujold

Terry Pratchett

Macey’s Murderboard method

“Monday,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks

LiveJournal

Lockie Hunter

A Starbound Solstice, by Juliet Kemp

“At the Lighthouse Out by the Othersea,” by Juliet Kemp

Our Flag Means Death

Black Sails

A League of Their Own

The Hands of the Emperor and At the Feet of the Sun, by Victoria Goddard

Flotsam, by R.J. Theodore

Juliet’s website

 

Join us next month, when I’ll be talking to C.L. Polk and Aimee Ogden!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4030 4 22 full 2022 Awards Eligibility Roundup 2022 Awards Eligibility Roundup https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/2022-awards-eligibility-roundup/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/2022-awards-eligibility-roundup/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/0cd62089-a665-329e-a834-78c716cdd944 It's awards time again! A full transcript of the show is included below.

 

 

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: nominating the works that did make it! I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

 

Friends, it’s been another amazing year for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and beyond, and I’m here once more to let you know about some of the amazing works by my fantastic guests, which you can nominate for this year’s awards!

 

Andi C. Buchanan, who joined us in April of 2022, has a number of eligible works including their novel, Sanctuary, and the essay “Human not machine: how autistic writers are writing new space for themselves.”

 

A link to their eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://andicbuchanan.org/2022/12/18/2022-publications/ 

 

C.L. Clark, who just joined us in December, is eligible in most novelette categories for "Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home," published in Uncanny May/June 2022

 

Amanda Cook, who joined us in June of 2022, has six stories eligible for short story categories: “The Impossible Task of Bringing Water,” “Germinating Everyday Magic,” “Weaving Serenity,” “Lily and Ink,” “Print a Soul in Six Easy Steps, a Primer by Clover Silverbrook,” and “When Dreams Do Show Me Thee.” 

 

A link to her eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://acooksbooks.com/2022/11/28/babys-first-awards-eligibility-post/

 

Marion Deeds, who made her debut on this show in May of 2022, has an eligible novella, Comeuppance Served Cold, which you can hear an excerpt of on that episode, along with an eligible novel, Golden Rifts.

 

Ruthana Emrys, who appeared on the show in July of last year, has an eligible novel, A Half-Built Garden, and her column, Reading the Weird, is eligible for Best Related Work.

 

A link to her eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://twitter.com/R_Emrys/status/1592598551364005888

 

Sarah Gailey, this show’s patron saint, joined us again last year in support of their eligible novel, Just Like Home. Among their other eligible works are their newsletter, Stone Soup, and their original comic miniseries, Know Your Station.

 

A link to their eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://sarahgailey.com/awards-eligibility-2022 

Victor Manibo, who joined us in December of 2021, is eligible for his debut novel, The Sleepless.

 

Freya Marske, who joined us in October of 2021, is eligible in the various novel categories for A Restless Truth, the excellent sequel to her 2021 debut, A Marvellous Light.

 

Sam J. Miller, who joined us last January, has an eligible novella, Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy, as well as a collection, for such awards as have categories for collections, Boys, Beasts & Men.

 

Scientist, and definitely not a multi-colored beetle, Premee Mohamed, who last joined us in August of 2021, is eligible for Best Series for the first time for her Beneath the Rising series, which concluded with eligible novel The Void Ascendant. She also has several eligible short stories, including “All That Burns Unseen.”

 

Her eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://www.premeemohamed.com/post/2022-eligibility-post

 

Aidan Moher, who joined us back in October after far, far too long, is eligible with Fight, Magic, Items for Best Related work. He’s also eligible for Best Fanzine for Astrolabe, and for Best Fan Writer for his work all over the place.

 

Aidan’s eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://astrolabe.aidanmoher.com/p/2022-award-eligibility-hugos-nebulas

 

Hailey Piper, who joined us to open season four of the show back in March, has an eligible short story, “We Frolic Within the Leviathan’s Heart,” a novella, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, and a novel, No Gods for Drowning.

C.L. Polk, who will be returning to the show next month, has an excellent eligible novella, Even Though I Knew The End.

 

dave ring, patron saint of queer small-press publishing, is eligible for Best Editor, short form, for his work on Baffling Magazine as well as many other fine publications. His work with Marianne Kirby on Neon Hemlock Live is also eligible for Best Related Work.

 

A link to dave’s eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://www.dave-ring.com/news/2022/11/18/2022-eligibility-post

 

Valerie Valdes, who joined us again this past August, is eligible for Best Novel (Science Fiction, where applicable) for Fault Tolerance, for Best Series for Chilling Effect, for Best Short Story for both “Team Building Exercise” and “Working from Home,” and for Best Semiprozine for Escape Pod, which she edits with Mur Lafferty.

 

Val’s eligibility post is linked in the show notes. http://candleinsunshine.com/news/awards-eligibility-for-2022/ 

 

Fellow Warren Wilson alumnus Fran Wilde has various short stories eligible but is most excited to be eligible, for the first time this year, for Best Editor, Short Form, for her work at The Sunday Morning Transport!

 

John Wiswell, excellent human being, has many, many eligible short stories, including “D.I.Y.” and “Demonic Invasion or Placebo Effect?”

 

John’s full eligibility post is linked in the show notes. https://johnwiswell.substack.com/p/all-the-short-stories-i-published

 

Finally, I have 100% more eligible work this year than last! In addition to this very show, Tales from the Trunk, which is eligible for Best Fancast and other podcast and audio categories, I also published a game, All Our Yesterdays, which is eligible for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

 

Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you to everyone who nominates and votes in any of our genre’s awards! That’s very cool of you.

 

Join us again next week, when my guest will be Juliet Kemp!

 

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

 

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Lillian Boyd.

 

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

 

You can find the show on Twitter and Tumblr at trunkcast, and I tweet and tumbl at hbbisenieks.

 

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

 

And remember: don't self-reject.

 

]]> It's awards time again! A full transcript of the show is included below.

 

 

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: nominating the works that did make it! I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

 

Friends, it’s been another amazing year for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and beyond, and I’m here once more to let you know about some of the amazing works by my fantastic guests, which you can nominate for this year’s awards!

 

Andi C. Buchanan, who joined us in April of 2022, has a number of eligible works including their novel, Sanctuary, and the essay “Human not machine: how autistic writers are writing new space for themselves.”

 

A link to their eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://andicbuchanan.org/2022/12/18/2022-publications/ 

 

C.L. Clark, who just joined us in December, is eligible in most novelette categories for "Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home," published in Uncanny May/June 2022

 

Amanda Cook, who joined us in June of 2022, has six stories eligible for short story categories: “The Impossible Task of Bringing Water,” “Germinating Everyday Magic,” “Weaving Serenity,” “Lily and Ink,” “Print a Soul in Six Easy Steps, a Primer by Clover Silverbrook,” and “When Dreams Do Show Me Thee.” 

 

A link to her eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://acooksbooks.com/2022/11/28/babys-first-awards-eligibility-post/

 

Marion Deeds, who made her debut on this show in May of 2022, has an eligible novella, Comeuppance Served Cold, which you can hear an excerpt of on that episode, along with an eligible novel, Golden Rifts.

 

Ruthana Emrys, who appeared on the show in July of last year, has an eligible novel, A Half-Built Garden, and her column, Reading the Weird, is eligible for Best Related Work.

 

A link to her eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://twitter.com/R_Emrys/status/1592598551364005888

 

Sarah Gailey, this show’s patron saint, joined us again last year in support of their eligible novel, Just Like Home. Among their other eligible works are their newsletter, Stone Soup, and their original comic miniseries, Know Your Station.

 

A link to their eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://sarahgailey.com/awards-eligibility-2022 



Victor Manibo, who joined us in December of 2021, is eligible for his debut novel, The Sleepless.

 

Freya Marske, who joined us in October of 2021, is eligible in the various novel categories for A Restless Truth, the excellent sequel to her 2021 debut, A Marvellous Light.

 

Sam J. Miller, who joined us last January, has an eligible novella, Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy, as well as a collection, for such awards as have categories for collections, Boys, Beasts & Men.

 

Scientist, and definitely not a multi-colored beetle, Premee Mohamed, who last joined us in August of 2021, is eligible for Best Series for the first time for her Beneath the Rising series, which concluded with eligible novel The Void Ascendant. She also has several eligible short stories, including “All That Burns Unseen.”

 

Her eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://www.premeemohamed.com/post/2022-eligibility-post

 

Aidan Moher, who joined us back in October after far, far too long, is eligible with Fight, Magic, Items for Best Related work. He’s also eligible for Best Fanzine for Astrolabe, and for Best Fan Writer for his work all over the place.

 

Aidan’s eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://astrolabe.aidanmoher.com/p/2022-award-eligibility-hugos-nebulas

 

Hailey Piper, who joined us to open season four of the show back in March, has an eligible short story, “We Frolic Within the Leviathan’s Heart,” a novella, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, and a novel, No Gods for Drowning.



C.L. Polk, who will be returning to the show next month, has an excellent eligible novella, Even Though I Knew The End.

 

dave ring, patron saint of queer small-press publishing, is eligible for Best Editor, short form, for his work on Baffling Magazine as well as many other fine publications. His work with Marianne Kirby on Neon Hemlock Live is also eligible for Best Related Work.

 

A link to dave’s eligibility post is included in the show notes. https://www.dave-ring.com/news/2022/11/18/2022-eligibility-post

 

Valerie Valdes, who joined us again this past August, is eligible for Best Novel (Science Fiction, where applicable) for Fault Tolerance, for Best Series for Chilling Effect, for Best Short Story for both “Team Building Exercise” and “Working from Home,” and for Best Semiprozine for Escape Pod, which she edits with Mur Lafferty.

 

Val’s eligibility post is linked in the show notes. http://candleinsunshine.com/news/awards-eligibility-for-2022/ 

 

Fellow Warren Wilson alumnus Fran Wilde has various short stories eligible but is most excited to be eligible, for the first time this year, for Best Editor, Short Form, for her work at The Sunday Morning Transport!

 

John Wiswell, excellent human being, has many, many eligible short stories, including “D.I.Y.” and “Demonic Invasion or Placebo Effect?”

 

John’s full eligibility post is linked in the show notes. https://johnwiswell.substack.com/p/all-the-short-stories-i-published

 

Finally, I have 100% more eligible work this year than last! In addition to this very show, Tales from the Trunk, which is eligible for Best Fancast and other podcast and audio categories, I also published a game, All Our Yesterdays, which is eligible for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

 

Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you to everyone who nominates and votes in any of our genre’s awards! That’s very cool of you.

 

Join us again next week, when my guest will be Juliet Kemp!

 

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

 

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Lillian Boyd.

 

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

 

You can find the show on Twitter and Tumblr at trunkcast, and I tweet and tumbl at hbbisenieks.

 

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

 

And remember: don't self-reject.

 

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 494 4 21 bonus Book Tour 23: Annalee Newitz – The Terraformers Book Tour 23: Annalee Newitz – The Terraformers https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-23-annalee-newitz-%e2%80%93-the-terraformers/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-23-annalee-newitz-%e2%80%93-the-terraformers/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/f1b0835c-6918-3fc8-bc60-62da3d630744 This time around, it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome a fellow podcaster, Annalee Newitz (@annaleen), to talk about their forthcoming novel, The Terraformers, out January 31st, 2023, from wherever fine books are sold! We get to hear an excerpt from the book that leads us into a great discussion about transit gays, flying moose romance, and robot trans culture, among other things.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

 

Tumblr

Mastodon

I-5 cattle ranches

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Friends at the Table

Jeffrey Tumlin

Plate tectonics

Chuck Tingle

Michael Hobbes

Maintenance Phase

If Books Could Kill

Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

Charlie Jane Anders

Our Opinions are Correct

The myth of progress episode

Brad DeLong 

Four Lost Cities, by Annalee Newitz

Annalee’s website and tiktok

]]> This time around, it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome a fellow podcaster, Annalee Newitz (@annaleen), to talk about their forthcoming novel, The Terraformers, out January 31st, 2023, from wherever fine books are sold! We get to hear an excerpt from the book that leads us into a great discussion about transit gays, flying moose romance, and robot trans culture, among other things.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

 

Tumblr

Mastodon

I-5 cattle ranches

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Friends at the Table

Jeffrey Tumlin

Plate tectonics

Chuck Tingle

Michael Hobbes

Maintenance Phase

If Books Could Kill

Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

Charlie Jane Anders

Our Opinions are Correct

The myth of progress episode

Brad DeLong 

Four Lost Cities, by Annalee Newitz

Annalee’s website and tiktok

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2179 4 20 full Episode 46: C.L. Clark – The Bitch of Maradon Episode 46: C.L. Clark – The Bitch of Maradon https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-46-cl-clark-%e2%80%93-the-bitch-of-maradon/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-46-cl-clark-%e2%80%93-the-bitch-of-maradon/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/d0545eef-d5cc-3c0b-bbaf-496b1350ec02 It’s my distinct pleasure, for this, our post-NaNo episode, to welcome C.L. Clark (@C_L_Clark) to the show! Cherae reads a pair of excerpts from their trunked novel, The Bitch of Maradon, which leads us into a great conversation about formal and informal writing education, interrogating our biases, and how awkward it can be to revisit our old writing in the context of actually reading it out loud. Cherae also shares the story of her journey from NaNoWriMo to publication for their amazing novel, The Unbroken.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

The Unbroken, by C.L. Clark

Héctor’s episode

My episode with Sharon Hsu

George Carlin

NaNoWriMo

Brandon Sanderson

Scrivener

Podcastle

Frodo it is done dot gif

#DVPit

Just Like Home episode

The Faithless, by C.L. Clark

Writers of the Future

Tor.com

“Sisyphus,” by C.L. Clark

Queers Destroy SF

Seanan McGuire

Lockie Hunter

Steering the Craft, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Wonderbook, by Jeff Vandermeer

The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey

The Godkiller, by Hannah Kaner

Small Gods and Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

Cherae’s website and insta

Maslowe’s Hierarchy of Needs

The Skeleton War

“SFF’s Big Fat Problem,” by R.K. Duncan

 

Join us next month, when I’ll be talking to Annalee Newitz and Juliet Kemp, plus our annual awards roundup!

]]> It’s my distinct pleasure, for this, our post-NaNo episode, to welcome C.L. Clark (@C_L_Clark) to the show! Cherae reads a pair of excerpts from their trunked novel, The Bitch of Maradon, which leads us into a great conversation about formal and informal writing education, interrogating our biases, and how awkward it can be to revisit our old writing in the context of actually reading it out loud. Cherae also shares the story of her journey from NaNoWriMo to publication for their amazing novel, The Unbroken.

 

Things we mention this episode:

 

The Unbroken, by C.L. Clark

Héctor’s episode

My episode with Sharon Hsu

George Carlin

NaNoWriMo

Brandon Sanderson

Scrivener

Podcastle

Frodo it is done dot gif

#DVPit

Just Like Home episode

The Faithless, by C.L. Clark

Writers of the Future

Tor.com

“Sisyphus,” by C.L. Clark

Queers Destroy SF

Seanan McGuire

Lockie Hunter

Steering the Craft, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Wonderbook, by Jeff Vandermeer

The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey

The Godkiller, by Hannah Kaner

Small Gods and Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

Cherae’s website and insta

Maslowe’s Hierarchy of Needs

The Skeleton War

“SFF’s Big Fat Problem,” by R.K. Duncan

 

Join us next month, when I’ll be talking to Annalee Newitz and Juliet Kemp, plus our annual awards roundup!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4006 4 19 full Episode 45: R.J. Theodore – Flotsam Episode 45: R.J. Theodore – Flotsam https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-45-rj-theodore-%e2%80%93-flotsam/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-45-rj-theodore-%e2%80%93-flotsam/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/3087822f-eb43-3737-9ded-edf5620e0c5e Happy NaNoWriMo, for all of you who observe! This time around, we’re joined once again by R.J. Theodore (@bittybittyzap) to talk about the crazy act of writing a novel in a single month and the freedom that comes with actually deciding to finish a thing. Rekka brings us a compare and contrast reading of two different beginnings of their novel, Flotsam, first from the NaNo when she first finished the book and the second from the version you can go and buy for yourself!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

NaNoWriMo ML

Rekka’s book tour

We Make Books

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Pumpkin Landing

xkcd 483

Neal Stephenson

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Rekka’s first episode

The Peridot Shift series, by R.J.Theodore

Murderboard podcast episode

Writing book three of a duology with Premee podcast episode

Stephen King

Sarah Gailey

Coffee shop AU

Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree

Our Flag Means Death

John Wiswell

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

Bridge to Elsewhere, edited by Alana Joli Abbott & Julia Rios

Neon Hemlock Press

Quick Sip Reviews

Robot Dinosaur Press

Chipped Cup Collective

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Sarah Loch

Andi C. Buchanan

Novae Caelum

Nia Quinn

Carlie St. George

Juliet Kemp

Rekka’s website, insta, and patreon

 

Join us next month, when I’ll be talking to C.L. Clark!

]]> Happy NaNoWriMo, for all of you who observe! This time around, we’re joined once again by R.J. Theodore (@bittybittyzap) to talk about the crazy act of writing a novel in a single month and the freedom that comes with actually deciding to finish a thing. Rekka brings us a compare and contrast reading of two different beginnings of their novel, Flotsam, first from the NaNo when she first finished the book and the second from the version you can go and buy for yourself!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

NaNoWriMo ML

Rekka’s book tour

We Make Books

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Pumpkin Landing

xkcd 483

Neal Stephenson

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Rekka’s first episode

The Peridot Shift series, by R.J.Theodore

Murderboard podcast episode

Writing book three of a duology with Premee podcast episode

Stephen King

Sarah Gailey

Coffee shop AU

Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree

Our Flag Means Death

John Wiswell

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

Bridge to Elsewhere, edited by Alana Joli Abbott & Julia Rios

Neon Hemlock Press

Quick Sip Reviews

Robot Dinosaur Press

Chipped Cup Collective

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Sarah Loch

Andi C. Buchanan

Novae Caelum

Nia Quinn

Carlie St. George

Juliet Kemp

Rekka’s website, insta, and patreon

 

Join us next month, when I’ll be talking to C.L. Clark!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4529 4 18 full Book Tour 22: Jordan Kurella – When I Was Lost Book Tour 22: Jordan Kurella – When I Was Lost https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-22-jordan-kurella-%e2%80%93-when-i-was-lost/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-22-jordan-kurella-%e2%80%93-when-i-was-lost/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/22c3b9ba-316d-3c32-930c-cafe22b25744 This time around, it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome back to the show Jordan Kurella (@kurellian) to talk about his new collection, When I Was Lost, available now wherever fine books are sold! He reads a previously-unpublished story, “The Hero and the Leviathan,” out of the collection, which leads us to ponder the question: what if a spaceship had PTSD?

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Trepidatio Press

Mikio Murakami

“Jewel of the Vashwa,” by Jordan Kurella in Apex Magazin

Keanu Reeves

Apex Magazine

Jason Sizemore

Friends at the Table - HOUNDS

Farscape

PTSD

Aaron Rosenberg

Gen Con

The Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

“How the Carrion Crew Stopped Courting Death and Other Methods of Lost Hope,” by Jordan Kurella in Fusion Fragment #6

“A Promise of Dying Embers,” by Jordan Kurella in Diabolical Plots

King’s Quest III 

“The Warsong of Berra and Irrit,” by Jordan Kurella in Lamplight Magazine

Lamplight Magazine

E Catherine Tobler

Shimmer Magazine

The Deadlands

“The Air Gap,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Lamplight Magazine

Jacob Haddon

Mary Shelley

I Never Liked You Anyway, by Jordan Kurella

Orpheus and Euridice

Am I the Asshole?

Dead Collections, by Isaac Fellman

Archive Of Our Own

Final Fantasy XIV

MMO

World of Warcraft

Clue

The Sandman (Netflix)

Mythic Quest

Siren Queen, by Nghi Vho

Jordan’s first episode

Jordan’s website

 

Join us again in two weeks, when my guest will be R.J. Theodore!

]]> This time around, it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome back to the show Jordan Kurella (@kurellian) to talk about his new collection, When I Was Lost, available now wherever fine books are sold! He reads a previously-unpublished story, “The Hero and the Leviathan,” out of the collection, which leads us to ponder the question: what if a spaceship had PTSD?

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Trepidatio Press

Mikio Murakami

“Jewel of the Vashwa,” by Jordan Kurella in Apex Magazin

Keanu Reeves

Apex Magazine

Jason Sizemore

Friends at the Table - HOUNDS

Farscape

PTSD

Aaron Rosenberg

Gen Con

The Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

“How the Carrion Crew Stopped Courting Death and Other Methods of Lost Hope,” by Jordan Kurella in Fusion Fragment #6

“A Promise of Dying Embers,” by Jordan Kurella in Diabolical Plots

King’s Quest III 

“The Warsong of Berra and Irrit,” by Jordan Kurella in Lamplight Magazine

Lamplight Magazine

E Catherine Tobler

Shimmer Magazine

The Deadlands

“The Air Gap,” by Hilary B. Bisenieks in Lamplight Magazine

Jacob Haddon

Mary Shelley

I Never Liked You Anyway, by Jordan Kurella

Orpheus and Euridice

Am I the Asshole?

Dead Collections, by Isaac Fellman

Archive Of Our Own

Final Fantasy XIV

MMO

World of Warcraft

Clue

The Sandman (Netflix)

Mythic Quest

Siren Queen, by Nghi Vho

Jordan’s first episode

Jordan’s website

 

Join us again in two weeks, when my guest will be R.J. Theodore!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2368 4 17 full Episode 44: Héctor González – v o i d j u n k Episode 44: Héctor González – v o i d j u n k https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-44-hector-gonzalez-%e2%80%93-v-o-i-d-j-u-n-k/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-44-hector-gonzalez-%e2%80%93-v-o-i-d-j-u-n-k/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/09592c39-11c7-39ec-8aa9-ddfe215e86b0 Mexicanity) to the show! Héctor reads a pair of spooky, voidy stories from the latest issue of v o i d j u n k , which leads us into a wide-ranging conversation about kindness, viscera, technology, chairs, and fandom.   This episode’s readings carry content warnings for descriptions of viscera, possession, and transformation, and for sexual themes. If you would like to skip them, the two readings are from 3:50 to 8:05 and 15:15 to 19:31.   Things we mention in this episode: v o i d j u n k dave’s episode Sarah Loch Héctor’s linktree “Gracias, Orlando: A Genre Film and a Queer Body Awakening,” by Héctor González Hector of Troy Spider-Man Batman Superman Bachan Frank Miller Xanga John Picacio Worldcon 76 Mexicanx Initiative John Scalzi Alejandro Jodorowski George R.R. Martin Isaac Asimov Robert Heinlein Arthur C. Clarke Hugo Loser’s Party Aidan Moher Sarahs Gailey and Hollowell The Dot-Com Bubble Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Héctor’s essay Momo challenge Momo and The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende Terry Pratchett The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, by Sarah Gailey Unmasking Autism and Laziness Does Not Exist, by Devon Price We’re Here 2020, edited by C.L. Clark and Charles Peyseur Charles Peyseur C.L. Clark “The Captain and the Quartermaster,” by C.L. Clarke Babel, by R.F. Kuang Superliminal (game) Portal Key & Peele Nope Dave Chapelle (fuck that guy) Reboot Buster Keaton Paul Rudd Héctor’s insta   Tune in next month, when my guests will be Jordan Kurella and R.J. Theodore! ]]> Mexicanity) to the show! Héctor reads a pair of spooky, voidy stories from the latest issue of v o i d j u n k , which leads us into a wide-ranging conversation about kindness, viscera, technology, chairs, and fandom.   This episode’s readings carry content warnings for descriptions of viscera, possession, and transformation, and for sexual themes. If you would like to skip them, the two readings are from 3:50 to 8:05 and 15:15 to 19:31.   Things we mention in this episode: v o i d j u n k dave’s episode Sarah Loch Héctor’s linktree “Gracias, Orlando: A Genre Film and a Queer Body Awakening,” by Héctor González Hector of Troy Spider-Man Batman Superman Bachan Frank Miller Xanga John Picacio Worldcon 76 Mexicanx Initiative John Scalzi Alejandro Jodorowski George R.R. Martin Isaac Asimov Robert Heinlein Arthur C. Clarke Hugo Loser’s Party Aidan Moher Sarahs Gailey and Hollowell The Dot-Com Bubble Sarah Gailey’s Personal Canons Héctor’s essay Momo challenge Momo and The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende Terry Pratchett The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, by Sarah Gailey Unmasking Autism and Laziness Does Not Exist, by Devon Price We’re Here 2020, edited by C.L. Clark and Charles Peyseur Charles Peyseur C.L. Clark “The Captain and the Quartermaster,” by C.L. Clarke Babel, by R.F. Kuang Superliminal (game) Portal Key & Peele Nope Dave Chapelle (fuck that guy) Reboot Buster Keaton Paul Rudd Héctor’s insta   Tune in next month, when my guests will be Jordan Kurella and R.J. Theodore! ]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4527 4 16 full Book Tour 21: Aidan Moher – Fight, Magic, Items Book Tour 21: Aidan Moher – Fight, Magic, Items https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-21-aidan-moher-%e2%80%93-fight-magic-items/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-21-aidan-moher-%e2%80%93-fight-magic-items/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/fde67b91-9541-3f85-be98-2649c86596bb This time around, it’s my delight to welcome (finally) Hugo-winning fan writer, Aidan (@adribbleofink) Moher to the show! We’re talking about his new book, Fight, Magic, Items, which just released October 4th! Aidan reads from the introduction to the book, which leads us into a deep discussion of the games that shaped our childhoods.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

A Dribble of Ink

Final Fantasy

Dragon Quest

The Offspring

NOFX

Warcraft II

LAN Party

Doom II

Final Fantasy VI

Xenogears

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Yuji Horii

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Game Boy

Final Fantasy Legend II

The Legend of Zelda

Akitoshi Kawazu

Doom

Final Fantasy III

Game Players

Electronic Gaming Monthly

Nintendo Power

Chrono Trigger

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks

Magic: the Gathering

Dragon Ball Z

Shōnen

Super NES

Playstation 1

Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy X

Grandia

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete

Tales of Destiny

Visual Novels

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Final Fantasy Adventure

Mana series

Kirby’s Dream Land 2

Pokemon Red

Final Fantasy VII

The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan

Tetris

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (Game Boy game)

Carl Jung

Gnosticism

K’Nex

Metal Gear Solid

Suikoden III

Hideo Kojima

Sega Saturn

Panzer Dragoon Saga

Grandia (Sega Saturn)

Vagrant Story

Aidan’s localization piece (not published yet, link TK)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

Power-Up, by Chris Kohler

Final Fantasy V, by Chris Kohler

Press Reset and Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, by Jason Schreier

Pure Invention, by Matt Alt

Sailor Moon

Aidan’s website

fighmagicitems.rocks

Astrolabe

Patrick Klepek

Less Than Jake

 

Join us again in two weeks, when my guest will be Héctor González! 

]]> This time around, it’s my delight to welcome (finally) Hugo-winning fan writer, Aidan (@adribbleofink) Moher to the show! We’re talking about his new book, Fight, Magic, Items, which just released October 4th! Aidan reads from the introduction to the book, which leads us into a deep discussion of the games that shaped our childhoods.


 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

A Dribble of Ink

Final Fantasy

Dragon Quest

The Offspring

NOFX

Warcraft II

LAN Party

Doom II

Final Fantasy VI

Xenogears

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Yuji Horii

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Game Boy

Final Fantasy Legend II

The Legend of Zelda

Akitoshi Kawazu

Doom

Final Fantasy III

Game Players

Electronic Gaming Monthly

Nintendo Power

Chrono Trigger

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks

Magic: the Gathering

Dragon Ball Z

Shōnen

Super NES

Playstation 1

Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy IX

Final Fantasy X

Grandia

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete

Tales of Destiny

Visual Novels

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Final Fantasy Adventure

Mana series

Kirby’s Dream Land 2

Pokemon Red

Final Fantasy VII

The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan

Tetris

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (Game Boy game)

Carl Jung

Gnosticism

K’Nex

Metal Gear Solid

Suikoden III

Hideo Kojima

Sega Saturn

Panzer Dragoon Saga

Grandia (Sega Saturn)

Vagrant Story

Aidan’s localization piece (not published yet, link TK)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

Power-Up, by Chris Kohler

Final Fantasy V, by Chris Kohler

Press Reset and Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, by Jason Schreier

Pure Invention, by Matt Alt

Sailor Moon

Aidan’s website

fighmagicitems.rocks

Astrolabe

Patrick Klepek

Less Than Jake

 

Join us again in two weeks, when my guest will be Héctor González! 

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 3564 4 10 bonus Episode 43: Aimee Kuzenski – Tilted Episode 43: Aimee Kuzenski – Tilted https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-43-aimee-kuzenski-%e2%80%93-tilted/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-43-aimee-kuzenski-%e2%80%93-tilted/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/ec4ebbe9-ce85-3b48-b063-ada2ffbcea8d In case you missed the announcement at the start of our last episode, with Neon Yang, my new game, All Our Yesterdays, is available now for pay-what-you-want on my itch! 

This time around, it’s my absolute pleasure to welcome to the show Aimee Kuzenski (@aimeekuzenski)! Aimee reads to us from her novel, Tilted, which leads us into a great discussion on the interiority of writing, thoughts about reading aloud, and how important a good fight scene is.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Viable Paradise

John Appel

Karen Osborne

Valerie Valdes

Scrivener

Third person omniscient

The Earthsea Cycle, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Jane Austen

Karen’s twitch

“Fractured,” by Aimee Kuzenski

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

The Broken Earth series, by N.K. Jemisin

The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Blade Runner

Wow, cool robot

Hayao Miyazaki

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Shadow out of Time”, by racist uncle Howard

Beneath the Rising series, by Premee Mohamed

The Innsmouth Legacy series, by Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna’s episode

Dune, by Frank Herbert

“How I Became Coruscating Queen of All the Realms, Pierced the Obsidian Night, Destroyed a Legendary Sword, and Saved My Heart’s True Love,” by Baker and Dovey

No Shit, There I Was, edited by Alex Acks

Story Hour

Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger, edited by Agner, Appel, and Miles

“The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe

Castle

Fix My Fight Scene on Twitch and Youtube

K.B. Wagers

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson

Kate Winslet

Persuasion 

Clueless

What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher

The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

]]> In case you missed the announcement at the start of our last episode, with Neon Yang, my new game, All Our Yesterdays, is available now for pay-what-you-want on my itch! 

This time around, it’s my absolute pleasure to welcome to the show Aimee Kuzenski (@aimeekuzenski)! Aimee reads to us from her novel, Tilted, which leads us into a great discussion on the interiority of writing, thoughts about reading aloud, and how important a good fight scene is.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Viable Paradise

John Appel

Karen Osborne

Valerie Valdes

Scrivener

Third person omniscient

The Earthsea Cycle, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Jane Austen

Karen’s twitch

“Fractured,” by Aimee Kuzenski

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

The Broken Earth series, by N.K. Jemisin

The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Blade Runner

Wow, cool robot

Hayao Miyazaki

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Shadow out of Time”, by racist uncle Howard

Beneath the Rising series, by Premee Mohamed

The Innsmouth Legacy series, by Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna’s episode

Dune, by Frank Herbert

“How I Became Coruscating Queen of All the Realms, Pierced the Obsidian Night, Destroyed a Legendary Sword, and Saved My Heart’s True Love,” by Baker and Dovey

No Shit, There I Was, edited by Alex Acks

Story Hour

Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger, edited by Agner, Appel, and Miles

“The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe

Castle

Fix My Fight Scene on Twitch and Youtube

K.B. Wagers

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson

Kate Winslet

Persuasion 

Clueless

What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher

The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4140 4 12 full Book Tour 20: Neon Yang – The Genesis of Misery Book Tour 20: Neon Yang – The Genesis of Misery https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-20-neon-yang-%e2%80%93-the-genesis-of-misery/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-20-neon-yang-%e2%80%93-the-genesis-of-misery/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/6c4f8e42-fec3-3e76-b149-d1322856b5c3 As mentioned at the top of the show, I have a game out, All Our Yesterdays, which you can find on my Itch.io!

 

It’s my absolute pleasure, this time around, to welcome Neon Yang to the show to talk about their brand new book, The Genesis of Misery, out September 27th, 2022, from Tor books! Neon reads to us from the start of the book, which leads us into some great discussion about why doing multiple rewrites can be good, actually.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Neon’s Tensorate series

Joan of Arc

Gundam

Sarah Gailey’s latest book tour

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

Dongwon Song

Friends at the Table PARTIZAN

Monster Hunter Rise

Devil May Cry

Elden Ring

Neon’s insta

 

Join us next time, when my guest will be Aimee Kuzenski!

]]> As mentioned at the top of the show, I have a game out, All Our Yesterdays, which you can find on my Itch.io!

 

It’s my absolute pleasure, this time around, to welcome Neon Yang to the show to talk about their brand new book, The Genesis of Misery, out September 27th, 2022, from Tor books! Neon reads to us from the start of the book, which leads us into some great discussion about why doing multiple rewrites can be good, actually.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Neon’s Tensorate series

Joan of Arc

Gundam

Sarah Gailey’s latest book tour

Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey

Dongwon Song

Friends at the Table PARTIZAN

Monster Hunter Rise

Devil May Cry

Elden Ring

Neon’s insta

 

Join us next time, when my guest will be Aimee Kuzenski!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1697 4 8 full Episode 42: Rem Wigmore - ”Considine’s Counsel” Episode 42: Rem Wigmore - ”Considine’s Counsel” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-42-rem-wigmore-considine-s-counsel/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-42-rem-wigmore-considine-s-counsel/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/344410b1-6678-32ff-b38e-0d358e5c02b8 This time around, we’re joined once again by Rem Wigmore (@faewriter), who brings us a delicious excerpt from their trunked novella, Considine’s Counsel, which leads us into a great conversation about the study of story forms, actual play podcasts, and an opportunity, as if we needed one, to just be 110% on our bullshit.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Foxhunt and Wolfpack, by Rem Wigmore

Lake Taupō

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Friends at the Table

The Tiffany problem

Dungeons & Dragons

Miri’s episode

The Witcher (TV Series)

Newgrange

Passage tombs

CoNZealand

Codex writers group 

C.L. Polk

Neon Hemlock

Kai Ashante Wilson’s novellas

F&SF

“Time Bomb Time,” by C.C. Finlay

Villanelle (poetry)

And What Can We Offer You Tonight By Premee Mohamed

Premee’s book tour episode

Tor.com publishing

River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

The Tensorate series, by Neon Yang

Emily Tesh

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

The Blacktongue Thief, by Christopher Buehlman

K.J. Charles’ Will Darling Adventures

Kurangaituku, by Whiti Hereaka

Eat the Rich, by Sarah Gailey

Squad, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Girl and the Sea, by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Witch Boy, by Molly Knox Ostertag

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Escape from the Blood Keep

Critical Role

Matt Mercer

Ify Nwadiwe

Exandria Unlimited

Erika Ishii

Last Shooting 

Doctor Who

Queen of Swords Press

Rem’s previous episode

Rem’s website

 

Stick around next month, when my guests will be Neon Yang and Aimee Kuzenski!

]]> This time around, we’re joined once again by Rem Wigmore (@faewriter), who brings us a delicious excerpt from their trunked novella, Considine’s Counsel, which leads us into a great conversation about the study of story forms, actual play podcasts, and an opportunity, as if we needed one, to just be 110% on our bullshit.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Foxhunt and Wolfpack, by Rem Wigmore

Lake Taupō

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Friends at the Table

The Tiffany problem

Dungeons & Dragons

Miri’s episode

The Witcher (TV Series)

Newgrange

Passage tombs

CoNZealand

Codex writers group 

C.L. Polk

Neon Hemlock

Kai Ashante Wilson’s novellas

F&SF

“Time Bomb Time,” by C.C. Finlay

Villanelle (poetry)

And What Can We Offer You Tonight By Premee Mohamed

Premee’s book tour episode

Tor.com publishing

River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

The Tensorate series, by Neon Yang

Emily Tesh

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

The Blacktongue Thief, by Christopher Buehlman

K.J. Charles’ Will Darling Adventures

Kurangaituku, by Whiti Hereaka

Eat the Rich, by Sarah Gailey

Squad, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Girl and the Sea, by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Witch Boy, by Molly Knox Ostertag

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Escape from the Blood Keep

Critical Role

Matt Mercer

Ify Nwadiwe

Exandria Unlimited

Erika Ishii

Last Shooting 

Doctor Who

Queen of Swords Press

Rem’s previous episode

Rem’s website

 

Stick around next month, when my guests will be Neon Yang and Aimee Kuzenski!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4292 4 10 full Book Tour 19: Valerie Valdes - Fault Tolerance Book Tour 19: Valerie Valdes - Fault Tolerance https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-19-valerie-valdes-fault-tolerance/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-19-valerie-valdes-fault-tolerance/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/c9aa9106-0ba3-3808-893a-157e3a4eac00 This time around, I’m very pleased to welcome back one of my guests from this show’s very first season, Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), to talk about the conclusion of her Chilling Effect trilogy, Fault Tolerance, which just released this Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022! Val reads to us from the opening chapter, which leads us into a lively discussion of video game tropes, fanfic, screenwriting, and who Val mains in Super Smash Bros.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Val’s first-season episode

Chilling Effect, by Valerie Valdes

Garrus

Mass Effect

Fix-it fic

Thane

Chekhov’s gun

Mario Kart

Mad Max: Fury Road

Portal

Super Smash Bros

Pokémon

Transformers

Assassin’s Orbit, by John Appel

The Memory War series, by Karen Osborne

Megan E. O’Keefe

K.B. Wagers

The NeoG series, by K.B. Wagers

Annihilation Aria, by Mike Underwood

Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

The Machineries of Empire, by Yoon Ha Lee

D.J. Older

Mike Chen

Rebecca Roanhorse

Doctor Aphra, by Alyssa Wong

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Rarepair

Austin Walker

Five plus one fic

Harold (improv)

Conrad Verner

Tekken 2

Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Jigglypuff

Link

Zelda/Sheik

Samus

Kirby

Shang Tsung

Tron Bonne

Servbot

Roll

Jill

Marth

Mr. Game & Watch

Horizon Zero Dawn

Hades

Val’s twitch

Guardians of the Galaxy (2021)

Girl by Moonlight

Blades in the Dark

Magical girl genre

Persona series

Serial Experiments Lain

Brandon O’Brien

Mike Underwood

Iori Kusano

Jeoi Gawain Lin

ArvanEleron on twitch

Arvan Eleron’s Youtube channel

Stone the Crows, by Grant Howitt

Friends at the Table Partizan

Beam Saber, by Austin Ramsay

Scum and Villainy

Ms Marvel

Our Flag Means Death

Moon Knight

Knights and Bikes

 

Join us again next time, when Rem Wigmore will be returning to the show!

]]> This time around, I’m very pleased to welcome back one of my guests from this show’s very first season, Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), to talk about the conclusion of her Chilling Effect trilogy, Fault Tolerance, which just released this Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022! Val reads to us from the opening chapter, which leads us into a lively discussion of video game tropes, fanfic, screenwriting, and who Val mains in Super Smash Bros.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Val’s first-season episode

Chilling Effect, by Valerie Valdes

Garrus

Mass Effect

Fix-it fic

Thane

Chekhov’s gun

Mario Kart

Mad Max: Fury Road

Portal

Super Smash Bros

Pokémon

Transformers

Assassin’s Orbit, by John Appel

The Memory War series, by Karen Osborne

Megan E. O’Keefe

K.B. Wagers

The NeoG series, by K.B. Wagers

Annihilation Aria, by Mike Underwood

Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

The Machineries of Empire, by Yoon Ha Lee

D.J. Older

Mike Chen

Rebecca Roanhorse

Doctor Aphra, by Alyssa Wong

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Rarepair

Austin Walker

Five plus one fic

Harold (improv)

Conrad Verner

Tekken 2

Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Jigglypuff

Link

Zelda/Sheik

Samus

Kirby

Shang Tsung

Tron Bonne

Servbot

Roll

Jill

Marth

Mr. Game & Watch

Horizon Zero Dawn

Hades

Val’s twitch

Guardians of the Galaxy (2021)

Girl by Moonlight

Blades in the Dark

Magical girl genre

Persona series

Serial Experiments Lain

Brandon O’Brien

Mike Underwood

Iori Kusano

Jeoi Gawain Lin

ArvanEleron on twitch

Arvan Eleron’s Youtube channel

Stone the Crows, by Grant Howitt

Friends at the Table Partizan

Beam Saber, by Austin Ramsay

Scum and Villainy

Ms Marvel

Our Flag Means Death

Moon Knight

Knights and Bikes

 

Join us again next time, when Rem Wigmore will be returning to the show!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3504 4 11 full Episode 41: Miri Baker - ”DUEL” Episode 41: Miri Baker - ”DUEL” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-41-miri-baker-duel/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-41-miri-baker-duel/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/5b755956-f5f9-3d1d-a742-e948bca2733f This time around, we’re joined by the one and only Miri Baker (@MiriBaker). Miri brings us a trunked story from ye olden days, all the way back in 2011, plus a lot of great conversation about the load-bearing parts of our personalities, cosplay, and how genuinely liking the things we like is good, actually.

This episode’s reading carries content warnings for blood, extremely unsafe handling of swords, and extremely incorrect understanding of swords. It is just under 20 minutes long.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

Blue at War, the cape Miri made for Amal El-Mohtar for the 2020 Hugos

Lillian Boyd

Machine of Death and This Is How You Die, edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

Duotrope’s Digest

The Submission Grinder

Wondermark! By David Malki

Steampunk

Fence, by C.S. Pacat

Sarah Rees Brennan

The Demon’s Lexicon, by Sarah Rees Brennan

In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan

Monstrous Affections, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

Be the Serpent

Worldcon 76

Fullmetal Alchemist

Himoru Arakawa

Neil Gaiman’s Journal

Tumblr

Arthur, season 14, episode 4, ­“Falafelosophy”

Miss Snark’s Blog

Query Shark

George Clponey

John Scalzi’s Whatever

Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds

Mary Robinette Kowal’s My Favorite Bit

Sarah Gailey’s Stone Soup

Writing Excuses

Schlock Mercenary, by Howard Tayler

LiveJournal

Fantasy Rants

Gaia Online

NaNoWriMo

Uncanny Magazine

Viable Paradise

Sarah Gailey

River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah’s Star Wars tweets

Amanda Cook’s episode

The Hugo Awards

Yaya Han’s ultimate bodysuit pattern

SFWA

Annalee Flower Horne

Anime Weekend Atlanta

Friends at the Table

Gravity Falls

Steven Universe

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Archive of our Own

Fanfiction dot net

Arcane

Riot Games

League of Legends

RWBY

Rooster Teeth

Red vs. Blue

Halo

Persona 5 Royal

Steam

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Cybergoth freeway rave

Miri’s portfolio

Rekka Jay

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

 

Stick around next month for the return of Valeria Valdes and Rem Wigmore!

]]> This time around, we’re joined by the one and only Miri Baker (@MiriBaker). Miri brings us a trunked story from ye olden days, all the way back in 2011, plus a lot of great conversation about the load-bearing parts of our personalities, cosplay, and how genuinely liking the things we like is good, actually.

This episode’s reading carries content warnings for blood, extremely unsafe handling of swords, and extremely incorrect understanding of swords. It is just under 20 minutes long.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

Blue at War, the cape Miri made for Amal El-Mohtar for the 2020 Hugos

Lillian Boyd

Machine of Death and This Is How You Die, edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

Duotrope’s Digest

The Submission Grinder

Wondermark! By David Malki

Steampunk

Fence, by C.S. Pacat

Sarah Rees Brennan

The Demon’s Lexicon, by Sarah Rees Brennan

In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan

Monstrous Affections, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

Be the Serpent

Worldcon 76

Fullmetal Alchemist

Himoru Arakawa

Neil Gaiman’s Journal

Tumblr

Arthur, season 14, episode 4, ­“Falafelosophy”

Miss Snark’s Blog

Query Shark

George Clponey

John Scalzi’s Whatever

Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds

Mary Robinette Kowal’s My Favorite Bit

Sarah Gailey’s Stone Soup

Writing Excuses

Schlock Mercenary, by Howard Tayler

LiveJournal

Fantasy Rants

Gaia Online

NaNoWriMo

Uncanny Magazine

Viable Paradise

Sarah Gailey

River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah’s Star Wars tweets

Amanda Cook’s episode

The Hugo Awards

Yaya Han’s ultimate bodysuit pattern

SFWA

Annalee Flower Horne

Anime Weekend Atlanta

Friends at the Table

Gravity Falls

Steven Universe

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Archive of our Own

Fanfiction dot net

Arcane

Riot Games

League of Legends

RWBY

Rooster Teeth

Red vs. Blue

Halo

Persona 5 Royal

Steam

The Locked Tomb series, by Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Cybergoth freeway rave

Miri’s portfolio

Rekka Jay

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

 

Stick around next month for the return of Valeria Valdes and Rem Wigmore!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4220 4 10 full Book Tour 18: Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden Book Tour 18: Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-18-ruthanna-emrys-a-half-built-garden/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-18-ruthanna-emrys-a-half-built-garden/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/680b12b5-bef9-3fd8-94f5-2cff068998ca This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Ruthanna Emrys (@R_Emrys), who joins us to talk about her new novel, A Half-Built Garden, which comes out on July 26th from Tor Dot Com publishing. We talk about ecological sci-fi, the things that got left on the cutting-room floor, and Ruthanna’s current reads.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Winter Tide, by Ruthanna Emrys

David Bowie

The Innsmouth Legacy series, by Ruthanna Emrys

Seanan McGuire

Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, by Amelia Gorman

Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki

Ruthana’s Patreon

Reading the Weird on Tor.com

Anne M. Pillsworth

The City We Became, by N.K. Jemisin

 

Tune in next time, when my guest will be Miri Baker!

]]> This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome Ruthanna Emrys (@R_Emrys), who joins us to talk about her new novel, A Half-Built Garden, which comes out on July 26th from Tor Dot Com publishing. We talk about ecological sci-fi, the things that got left on the cutting-room floor, and Ruthanna’s current reads.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Winter Tide, by Ruthanna Emrys

David Bowie

The Innsmouth Legacy series, by Ruthanna Emrys

Seanan McGuire

Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, by Amelia Gorman

Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki

Ruthana’s Patreon

Reading the Weird on Tor.com

Anne M. Pillsworth

The City We Became, by N.K. Jemisin

 

Tune in next time, when my guest will be Miri Baker!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1791 4 9 full Episode 40: Amanda Cook - ”Snow Day” Episode 40: Amanda Cook - ”Snow Day” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-40-amanda-cook-snow-day/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-40-amanda-cook-snow-day/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/be24e1c9-500c-326e-9953-22035315d262 AmandaCook627)! Amanda reads her trunked story, “Snow Day,” which leads us into a delightful conversation about cozy fiction, early-career writing, cosplay, and patience! This episode’s reading carries content notices for some brief mentions of guns and other weapons, along with a mention of nuclear war.   Things we mention in this episode: Book Tour 17: Sarah Gailey - Just Like Home Dealing with Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse,” by Rae Carson John Wiswell Wyngraf Tales & Feathers Magazine Augur 4th Street Fantasy “Ruby’s Delivery,” by Amanda Cook The Submission Grinder Etherea Magazine NaNoWriMo The Golden Orb, by Amanda Cook Tor When We Were Forgotten, by Amanda Cook Moiraine Damodred (from The Wheel of Time, not GoT) Frozen Once Upon a Time Gen Con Crowley David Tennant “Weaving Serenity,” by Amanda Cook “Lily and Ink,” by Amanda Cook Apparition Lit Our Flag Means Death The Kids in the Hall Hell’s Library series, by A.J. Hackwith Sweep of Stars, by Maurice Broaddus Black Panther The Expanse Amanda’s insta, Facebook, and blog   Tune in next month, when my guests will be Ruthana Emrys and Miri Baker! ]]> AmandaCook627)! Amanda reads her trunked story, “Snow Day,” which leads us into a delightful conversation about cozy fiction, early-career writing, cosplay, and patience! This episode’s reading carries content notices for some brief mentions of guns and other weapons, along with a mention of nuclear war.   Things we mention in this episode: Book Tour 17: Sarah Gailey - Just Like Home Dealing with Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede “Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse,” by Rae Carson John Wiswell Wyngraf Tales & Feathers Magazine Augur 4th Street Fantasy “Ruby’s Delivery,” by Amanda Cook The Submission Grinder Etherea Magazine NaNoWriMo The Golden Orb, by Amanda Cook Tor When We Were Forgotten, by Amanda Cook Moiraine Damodred (from The Wheel of Time, not GoT) Frozen Once Upon a Time Gen Con Crowley David Tennant “Weaving Serenity,” by Amanda Cook “Lily and Ink,” by Amanda Cook Apparition Lit Our Flag Means Death The Kids in the Hall Hell’s Library series, by A.J. Hackwith Sweep of Stars, by Maurice Broaddus Black Panther The Expanse Amanda’s insta, Facebook, and blog   Tune in next month, when my guests will be Ruthana Emrys and Miri Baker! ]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 4097 4 8 full Book Tour 17: Sarah Gailey - Just Like Home Book Tour 17: Sarah Gailey - Just Like Home https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-17-sarah-gailey-just-like-home/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-17-sarah-gailey-just-like-home/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/df451649-8df3-3a81-8ec5-b4c6594314ef This episode carries content warnings for mentions of parental death, terminal illness, serial killers, and feelings of powerlessness. Additionally, the reading from this episode contains an overall sense of tension and dread. If you would like to skip the reading, you can skip forward 18 minutes from the beginning of the reading to bypass it.

This time around, we’re joined once again by the incomparable Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey) to talk about their incredible (and incredibly terrifying) new book, Just Like Home, available July 19th wherever fine books are sold! Sarah tells us about the staggering number of rewrites that this book went through and what was learned along the way.

 

Things we mention this episode:

The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

The Southern Reach Trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer

Flowers for the Sea, by Zin E. Rocklyn

Queen Amidala

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

And then a skeleton popped out

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

NetGalley

Eat the Rich, by Sarah Gailey and Pius Bak

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey

“The Foundations of Decay,” by My Chemical Romance

The Great (TV)

Veep (TV)

Number One Fan, by Meg Elison

Misery

Empire of the Wild, by Cherie Dimaline

Sarah’s website and Insta

Stone Soup newsletter

Kompromat

 

Join us in two weeks, when my guest will be Amanda Cook!

]]> This episode carries content warnings for mentions of parental death, terminal illness, serial killers, and feelings of powerlessness. Additionally, the reading from this episode contains an overall sense of tension and dread. If you would like to skip the reading, you can skip forward 18 minutes from the beginning of the reading to bypass it.

This time around, we’re joined once again by the incomparable Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey) to talk about their incredible (and incredibly terrifying) new book, Just Like Home, available July 19th wherever fine books are sold! Sarah tells us about the staggering number of rewrites that this book went through and what was learned along the way.

 

Things we mention this episode:

The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

The Southern Reach Trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer

Flowers for the Sea, by Zin E. Rocklyn

Queen Amidala

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

And then a skeleton popped out

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

NetGalley

Eat the Rich, by Sarah Gailey and Pius Bak

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey

“The Foundations of Decay,” by My Chemical Romance

The Great (TV)

Veep (TV)

Number One Fan, by Meg Elison

Misery

Empire of the Wild, by Cherie Dimaline

Sarah’s website and Insta

Stone Soup newsletter

Kompromat

 

Join us in two weeks, when my guest will be Amanda Cook!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2705 4 7 full Episode 39: Michael R. Underwood - The Broken Summit Episode 39: Michael R. Underwood - The Broken Summit https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-39-michael-r-underwood-the-broken-summit/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-39-michael-r-underwood-the-broken-summit/#comments Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/38dba8ca-b0cb-3088-8d53-ae1b84be209e Update: I've fixed some issues with the audio mixing for this episode that should make it easier to listen to now.

This time around, it’s my absolute joy to welcome Michael R. Underwood (@MikeRUnderwood) to the show! Mike reads from his trunked novel, The Broken Summit before (and after) we have a conversation about the intersection of writing and tabletop roleplaying, the life of a content creator, and some excellent advice about shaping your career goals.

 

This episode’s reading is 17 minutes long and carries content warnings for themes of war and imperialism.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

Friends at the Table

The Adventure Zone

The Quiet Year

The McElroys

Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Tom Clancy

Angry Robot Books

Penguin Random House

Hot Wheels boosters

Chilling Effect, bu Valeria Vlades

Yoon Ha Lee

River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah’s Star Wars tweets

Genrenauts series, by Michael R. Underwood

Monster of the Week

Tortall setting (Tamora Pierce)

Blue Rose (RPG)

3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons

Shadowrun 3rd Edition

Sorcerer

Dogs in the Vineyard

Apocalypse World

Blades in the Dark

GenCon

Indie Press Revolution

DriveThruRPG

Creative Commons

Game Jam

Open Game License

Powered by the Apocalypse

Speculate!

Fagin 

NaNoWriMo

Anamnesis

Mage: The Ascension

White Wolf Publishing

The Game Master’s Apprentice

ConFusion

Friends Journal Quaker Spec-Fic issue

Clapcast

Clarion West

Cassie Alexander

Better-Faster Academy

Dear Writer, You Need to Quit, by Becca Syme

The Nebula Awards

George R. R. Martin

Twitch

Elden Ring

TikTok

Maya MacGregor’s TikTok

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, by Maya MacGregor

Hank Green

Celebromancy series, by Michael R. Underwood

Citizen Sleeper

Dungeons and Dating series, by Katherine McIntyre

Mike’s Twitch 

Val’s Twitch

Hades

Karen Osborne’s Twitch

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Sarah Gailey and Amanda Cook!

]]> Update: I've fixed some issues with the audio mixing for this episode that should make it easier to listen to now.

This time around, it’s my absolute joy to welcome Michael R. Underwood (@MikeRUnderwood) to the show! Mike reads from his trunked novel, The Broken Summit before (and after) we have a conversation about the intersection of writing and tabletop roleplaying, the life of a content creator, and some excellent advice about shaping your career goals.

 

This episode’s reading is 17 minutes long and carries content warnings for themes of war and imperialism.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

Friends at the Table

The Adventure Zone

The Quiet Year

The McElroys

Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Tom Clancy

Angry Robot Books

Penguin Random House

Hot Wheels boosters

Chilling Effect, bu Valeria Vlades

Yoon Ha Lee

River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah’s Star Wars tweets

Genrenauts series, by Michael R. Underwood

Monster of the Week

Tortall setting (Tamora Pierce)

Blue Rose (RPG)

3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons

Shadowrun 3rd Edition

Sorcerer

Dogs in the Vineyard

Apocalypse World

Blades in the Dark

GenCon

Indie Press Revolution

DriveThruRPG

Creative Commons

Game Jam

Open Game License

Powered by the Apocalypse

Speculate!

Fagin 

NaNoWriMo

Anamnesis

Mage: The Ascension

White Wolf Publishing

The Game Master’s Apprentice

ConFusion

Friends Journal Quaker Spec-Fic issue

Clapcast

Clarion West

Cassie Alexander

Better-Faster Academy

Dear Writer, You Need to Quit, by Becca Syme

The Nebula Awards

George R. R. Martin

Twitch

Elden Ring

TikTok

Maya MacGregor’s TikTok

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, by Maya MacGregor

Hank Green

Celebromancy series, by Michael R. Underwood

Citizen Sleeper

Dungeons and Dating series, by Katherine McIntyre

Mike’s Twitch 

Val’s Twitch

Hades

Karen Osborne’s Twitch

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Sarah Gailey and Amanda Cook!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 5132 4 39 full Book Tour 16: Marion Deeds - Comeuppance Served Cold Book Tour 16: Marion Deeds - Comeuppance Served Cold https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-16-marion-deeds-comeuppance-served-cold/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-16-marion-deeds-comeuppance-served-cold/#comments Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/928a61b0-61e6-3f30-9325-7dfb1d3ed596 This time around, we're joined by author Marion Deeds (@mariond_d) to talk about her new novella, Comeuppance Served Cold, a wonderful alternate-history fantasy-noir out now from Tor.com publishing. Marion talks about baking versus cooking when working on books, and we muse on the current golden age of SFFH novellas.

 

Things we mention this episode:

Story Hour

Laura Blackwell

Helen Crawford-White

Tor Dot Com

Queen of Swords Press

Neon Hemlock

Hugo ballot

Premee Mohamed

The Poppy War, by R.F. Kuang

Victories Greater Than Death and Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, by Charlie Jane Anders

Our Opinions Are Correct

Be The Serpent

Marion’s Facebook and Blog

Fantasy Literature dot com

Falstaff Press

Aluminum Leaves, Copper Road, and Golden Rifts, by Marion Deeds

Kat Hooper

Kate Lechler

Alix E. Harrow

]]> This time around, we're joined by author Marion Deeds (@mariond_d) to talk about her new novella, Comeuppance Served Cold, a wonderful alternate-history fantasy-noir out now from Tor.com publishing. Marion talks about baking versus cooking when working on books, and we muse on the current golden age of SFFH novellas.

 

Things we mention this episode:

Story Hour

Laura Blackwell

Helen Crawford-White

Tor Dot Com

Queen of Swords Press

Neon Hemlock

Hugo ballot

Premee Mohamed

The Poppy War, by R.F. Kuang

Victories Greater Than Death and Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, by Charlie Jane Anders

Our Opinions Are Correct

Be The Serpent

Marion’s Facebook and Blog

Fantasy Literature dot com

Falstaff Press

Aluminum Leaves, Copper Road, and Golden Rifts, by Marion Deeds

Kat Hooper

Kate Lechler

Alix E. Harrow

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 1951 4 5 full Episode 38: Andi C. Buchanan - Invented Wings Episode 38: Andi C. Buchanan - Invented Wings https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-38-andi-c-buchanan-invented-wings/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-38-andi-c-buchanan-invented-wings/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/2dbbc74d-8694-3efa-afb3-38b082f96c5b This time around, we're joined by Andi C. Buchanan! Andi reads from their trunked YA steampunk novel, which leads us into a great discussion about steampunk, accessibility, well-intentioned white people (like us), and their brand new book, Sanctuary, which came out earlier this week from Robot Dinosaur Press!

Show notes coming soon!

]]> This time around, we're joined by Andi C. Buchanan! Andi reads from their trunked YA steampunk novel, which leads us into a great discussion about steampunk, accessibility, well-intentioned white people (like us), and their brand new book, Sanctuary, which came out earlier this week from Robot Dinosaur Press!

Show notes coming soon!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3396 4 38 full Book Tour 15: Maya MacGregor - The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester Book Tour 15: Maya MacGregor - The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-15-maya-macgregor-the-many-half-lived-lives-of-sam-sylvester/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-15-maya-macgregor-the-many-half-lived-lives-of-sam-sylvester/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/3918cdc2-3b00-3e4a-ba09-5195cdfdb79a This time around, it's my absolute delight to welcome Maya MacGregor (@Maigheach) to the show to talk about their brand new book, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, which releases this May!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Jennifer (Macey) Mace's appearance on this very show

Look to the Sun, by Emmie Mears

The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick

The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Dune (2021 film)

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

Pine, by Francine Toon

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben

Pretty Little Liars 

The Books of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Charles Vess 

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, by Gabriella Coleman

Anonymous 

This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends, by Nicole Perlroth

Nina Niskanen 

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 

The Forgetting River, by Doreen Carvajal

Conversos 

Maya's Insta and TikTok 

And of course, Maya's cats, Tara:

And Willow:

 

Stick around next time, when I'll be joined by Andi C. Buchanan!

]]> This time around, it's my absolute delight to welcome Maya MacGregor (@Maigheach) to the show to talk about their brand new book, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, which releases this May!

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Jennifer (Macey) Mace's appearance on this very show

Look to the Sun, by Emmie Mears

The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick

The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Dune (2021 film)

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

Pine, by Francine Toon

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben

Pretty Little Liars 

The Books of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Charles Vess 

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, by Gabriella Coleman

Anonymous 

This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends, by Nicole Perlroth

Nina Niskanen 

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 

The Forgetting River, by Doreen Carvajal

Conversos 

Maya's Insta and TikTok 

And of course, Maya's cats, Tara:

And Willow:

 

Stick around next time, when I'll be joined by Andi C. Buchanan!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3378 4 3 full Episode 37: Lillian Boyd - ”Inside Job” Episode 37: Lillian Boyd - ”Inside Job” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-37-lillian-boyd-inside-job/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-37-lillian-boyd-inside-job/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/8ebd38df-61f7-3808-91fc-e61733a9886c It's my absolute delight, this time around, to welcome our very own composer, Lillian Boyd (@herelieslill), onto the show. Lillian reads her short-story-that-should-be-a-novella, "Inside Job" (cw: gore, skip forward 10:15 to avoid) before we just go off on an extended tangent about horror movies, noir, pulp, and being as thoroughly on our bullshit as is possible.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Rank and Vile

Tetsuo the Iron Man

28 Days Later

My appearance on Rank and Vile

The Reinvented Detective, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo (2023)

Raymond Chandler

Guy Noir: Private Eye

A Prairie Home Companion

Nick Danger

The Firesign Theater

Clive Barker

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

Nick and Nora

Humphrey Bogart

Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler

H. P. Lovecraft (notable racist)

Scrip

Neuromancer, by William Gibson

Blade Runner

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

"Panama," by Van Halen

Terry Pratchett

Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Discworld

The Bromeliad

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

Chandler's cat letters

Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett

Neil Gaiman

Ichabod Crane

Michael Kane

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

"The Book Job," The Simpsons season 23, episode 6

"Falafelosophy," Arthur season 14, episode 4a

"Neil Gaiman! What are you doing in my falafel?"

Alanis Morisette

Amanda Palmer

Tori Amos

Fiona Apple

"Silent All These Years," by Tori Amos

Where's Neil When You Need Him?

The Crüxshadows

Mirrormask

"Mr. Sandman," by The Chordettes

"Enter Sandman," by Metallica

Hot Topic

"Cry Little Sister," by Gerard McMann

The Lost Boys

Voltaire

Ego Likeness

The Velocipastor

"Toasty"

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Daybreakers

Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Kate Bush

Velvet Goldmine

"20th Century Boy," by Placebo

"20th Century Boy," by T. Rex

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Queen of the Damned

Twilight

Failure to Adapt

The baseball scene from Twilight

Underworld

Blade 3: Trinity

Triple-H

House of Wax

Friends at the Table: Sangfielle

The VVitch

Sarah Gailey's appearance on Episode 1 of this very show

Hailey Piper

Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, by Hailey Piper

Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott

The Mountain Goats

Alien Vs. Predator

Fireside Quarterly, June-July 2021

The Rank and Vile list

Bride of Frankenstein

And Now the Screaming Starts!

Candyman II: Farewell to the Flesh

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Brainscan

Videodrome

Audition

Lillian's Twitch

Hair Metal

"Dream Warriors," by Dokken

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Books of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Charles Vess

The Farthest Shore, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Keebio's Iris keyboard

Pictured above: my personal Iris keyboard (rev 2b, Kailh speed copper switches, Matt3o DSA Nerd keycaps)

Bán Dénes, mrzealot

Ergogen

Ghost in the Shell

Data

Hako Royal True switches

Hellraiser

Lillian's website, soundcloud, and reedsy

 

Join us next month, when my guests will be Maya MacGregor and Andi C. Buchanan!

]]> It's my absolute delight, this time around, to welcome our very own composer, Lillian Boyd (@herelieslill), onto the show. Lillian reads her short-story-that-should-be-a-novella, "Inside Job" (cw: gore, skip forward 10:15 to avoid) before we just go off on an extended tangent about horror movies, noir, pulp, and being as thoroughly on our bullshit as is possible.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Rank and Vile

Tetsuo the Iron Man

28 Days Later

My appearance on Rank and Vile

The Reinvented Detective, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo (2023)

Raymond Chandler

Guy Noir: Private Eye

A Prairie Home Companion

Nick Danger

The Firesign Theater

Clive Barker

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

Nick and Nora

Humphrey Bogart

Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler

H. P. Lovecraft (notable racist)

Scrip

Neuromancer, by William Gibson

Blade Runner

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

"Panama," by Van Halen

Terry Pratchett

Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

The Discworld

The Bromeliad

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

Chandler's cat letters

Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett

Neil Gaiman

Ichabod Crane

Michael Kane

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

"The Book Job," The Simpsons season 23, episode 6

"Falafelosophy," Arthur season 14, episode 4a

"Neil Gaiman! What are you doing in my falafel?"

Alanis Morisette

Amanda Palmer

Tori Amos

Fiona Apple

"Silent All These Years," by Tori Amos

Where's Neil When You Need Him?

The Crüxshadows

Mirrormask

"Mr. Sandman," by The Chordettes

"Enter Sandman," by Metallica

Hot Topic

"Cry Little Sister," by Gerard McMann

The Lost Boys

Voltaire

Ego Likeness

The Velocipastor

"Toasty"

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Daybreakers

Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Placebo

"Running Up That Hill," by Kate Bush

Velvet Goldmine

"20th Century Boy," by Placebo

"20th Century Boy," by T. Rex

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Queen of the Damned

Twilight

Failure to Adapt

The baseball scene from Twilight

Underworld

Blade 3: Trinity

Triple-H

House of Wax

Friends at the Table: Sangfielle

The VVitch

Sarah Gailey's appearance on Episode 1 of this very show

Hailey Piper

Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, by Hailey Piper

Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott

The Mountain Goats

Alien Vs. Predator

Fireside Quarterly, June-July 2021

The Rank and Vile list

Bride of Frankenstein

And Now the Screaming Starts!

Candyman II: Farewell to the Flesh

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Brainscan

Videodrome

Audition

Lillian's Twitch

Hair Metal

"Dream Warriors," by Dokken

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Books of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Charles Vess

The Farthest Shore, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Keebio's Iris keyboard

Pictured above: my personal Iris keyboard (rev 2b, Kailh speed copper switches, Matt3o DSA Nerd keycaps)

Bán Dénes, mrzealot

Ergogen

Ghost in the Shell

Data

Hako Royal True switches

Hellraiser

Lillian's website, soundcloud, and reedsy

 

Join us next month, when my guests will be Maya MacGregor and Andi C. Buchanan!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4397 4 2 full Book Tour 14: Hailey Piper - Your Mind is a Terrible Thing Book Tour 14: Hailey Piper - Your Mind is a Terrible Thing https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-14-hailey-piper-your-mind-is-a-terrible-thing/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/book-tour-14-hailey-piper-your-mind-is-a-terrible-thing/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/e00818c5-b2b3-3b4a-abce-4e8326ae0c5e Welcome to season 4! This time around, Hailey Piper (@HaileyPiperSays) is leading the way with an appearance in support of her forthcoming novella, Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, which comes out May 7th, 2022! Hailey brings us some fantastic words to live by as an artist, and I hope we can all hold on to this throughout the coming year and beyond: "be brave: let it be weird."

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The 2021 Bram Stoker Award ballot 

Star Wars 

NaNoWriMo 

Off Limits Press 

Queen of Teeth, by Hailey Piper

"Recitation of the First Feeding," by Hailey Piper in Unfortunate Elements of my Anatomy 

The Shape of Water 

Tales from the Hood 

This Appearing House, by Ally Malinenko

The Fervor, The Hunger, and The Deep, by Alma Katsu

HMHS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic

RMS Lusitania, not the sister ship to the Titanic

Wrath Goddess Sing, by Maya Deane

Stokercon 

No Gods for Drowning, by Hailey Piper

Other Terrors, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason

Stephen Graham Jones 

S. A. Cosby 

The Book of Queer Saints, edited by Mae Murray

Eric LaRocca 

Joe Koch 

Hailey's website and insta 

Laura Lockwood 

 

Stick around next time, when my guest will be none other than our own composer, Lillian Boyd!

]]> Welcome to season 4! This time around, Hailey Piper (@HaileyPiperSays) is leading the way with an appearance in support of her forthcoming novella, Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, which comes out May 7th, 2022! Hailey brings us some fantastic words to live by as an artist, and I hope we can all hold on to this throughout the coming year and beyond: "be brave: let it be weird."

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The 2021 Bram Stoker Award ballot 

Star Wars 

NaNoWriMo 

Off Limits Press 

Queen of Teeth, by Hailey Piper

"Recitation of the First Feeding," by Hailey Piper in Unfortunate Elements of my Anatomy 

The Shape of Water 

Tales from the Hood 

This Appearing House, by Ally Malinenko

The Fervor, The Hunger, and The Deep, by Alma Katsu

HMHS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic

RMS Lusitania, not the sister ship to the Titanic

Wrath Goddess Sing, by Maya Deane

Stokercon 

No Gods for Drowning, by Hailey Piper

Other Terrors, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason

Stephen Graham Jones 

S. A. Cosby 

The Book of Queer Saints, edited by Mae Murray

Eric LaRocca 

Joe Koch 

Hailey's website and insta 

Laura Lockwood 

 

Stick around next time, when my guest will be none other than our own composer, Lillian Boyd!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2194 4 1 full Episode 36: Ivy Noelle Weir - Archival Quality Episode 36: Ivy Noelle Weir - Archival Quality https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-36-ivy-noelle-weir-archival-quality/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-36-ivy-noelle-weir-archival-quality/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/4d7be9da-69ef-3d2b-8059-6ce2a9dfb01e For the final episode of our third season (wild, right?), I had the absolute delight of having Ivy Noelle Weir (@ivynoelle) on to record one of the most chaotic episodes, energy-wise, possibly ever in the history of this show! Ivy reads from The Archivist, the original title of the novel that became her and Steenz's graphic novel, Archival Quality, which leads us into a great conversation about how the transition from prose to comics came about, as well as Ivy's recently-released and forthcoming graphic adaptations of several works of classic children's literature.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

R. K. Duncan 

Magic: the Gathering 

The Mütter Museum 

The Clarion Workshop 

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

"The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe

The First Unit 

Eastern State Penitentiary 

Gritty 

The Phillie Phanatic 

Pennsylvania politicians convicted of crimes 

Steenz 

Neil Gaiman 

The Valkyries 

Tini Howard 

Vita Ayala 

The Eisner Awards 

Oni Press 

Eat the Rich, by Sarah Gailey and Pius Bak

Bountiful Garden, by Ivy Noelle Weir, Steenz, and Kelly Williams

Rumiko Takahashi 

Junji Ito 

Hellboy, by Mike Mignola

Molly Knox Ostertag 

The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang

The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Ngyuen

Tidesong, by Wendy Xu

Gotham Academy, by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher

Batman: The Animated Series 

Nintendo Switch 

Death Cab for Cutie 

Looks at the camera like I'm on The Office 

Broadchurch 

The Fall 

Maus, by Art Spiegelman

Barefoot Gen, by Kaiji Nakazawa

Anne of West Philly, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes

Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery

The Secret Garden On 81st Street, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla

The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden (1993) 

Anne with an E 

The Library of the Dead, by T. L. Huchu

TikTok 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh

Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh

Shirley Jackson 

Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama

Bravo 

The Bachelor 

Yellowjackets 

John Waters 

Ivy's TikTok and website 

]]> For the final episode of our third season (wild, right?), I had the absolute delight of having Ivy Noelle Weir (@ivynoelle) on to record one of the most chaotic episodes, energy-wise, possibly ever in the history of this show! Ivy reads from The Archivist, the original title of the novel that became her and Steenz's graphic novel, Archival Quality, which leads us into a great conversation about how the transition from prose to comics came about, as well as Ivy's recently-released and forthcoming graphic adaptations of several works of classic children's literature.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

R. K. Duncan 

Magic: the Gathering 

The Mütter Museum 

The Clarion Workshop 

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

"The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe

The First Unit 

Eastern State Penitentiary 

Gritty 

The Phillie Phanatic 

Pennsylvania politicians convicted of crimes 

Steenz 

Neil Gaiman 

The Valkyries 

Tini Howard 

Vita Ayala 

The Eisner Awards 

Oni Press 

Eat the Rich, by Sarah Gailey and Pius Bak

Bountiful Garden, by Ivy Noelle Weir, Steenz, and Kelly Williams

Rumiko Takahashi 

Junji Ito 

Hellboy, by Mike Mignola

Molly Knox Ostertag 

The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang

The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Ngyuen

Tidesong, by Wendy Xu

Gotham Academy, by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher

Batman: The Animated Series 

Nintendo Switch 

Death Cab for Cutie 

Looks at the camera like I'm on The Office 

Broadchurch 

The Fall 

Maus, by Art Spiegelman

Barefoot Gen, by Kaiji Nakazawa

Anne of West Philly, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Myisha Haynes

Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery

The Secret Garden On 81st Street, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla

The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden (1993) 

Anne with an E 

The Library of the Dead, by T. L. Huchu

TikTok 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh

Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh

Shirley Jackson 

Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama

Bravo 

The Bachelor 

Yellowjackets 

John Waters 

Ivy's TikTok and website 

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4053 3 25 full Shelter in Place 23: R. J. Theodore - Flotsam Shelter in Place 23: R. J. Theodore - Flotsam https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-23-r-j-theodore-flotsam/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-23-r-j-theodore-flotsam/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/953fc406-12af-3c81-b685-3db9a7fed619 first appearance on the show, where they read from book 3, Cast Off NaNoWriMo Robot Dinosaur Press Chipped Cup Collective Latte Literary Merc Fenn Wolfmoor Sarah Loch Self-Publishing Formatting Guidelines, by R. J. Theodore Parvus Press Joss Whedon Firefly The Wayfarers Series, by Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers "Oversharing," by R. J. Theodore The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling Animal Crossing: New Horizons Super Smash Brothers Encanto Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton Encanto (Japanese Soundtrack) Encanto (Spanish Soundtrack) "We Don't Talk About Bruno (Japanese)" Supernatural Rekka's website, insta, and patreon We Make Books Unfettered Hexes We Make Books, Episode 5 at the 2019 Nebulas John Scalzi The Murderboard Episode, with Jennifer Mace both is good dot gif   Stick around next time, when Ivy Noelle Weir will be joining me! ]]> first appearance on the show, where they read from book 3, Cast Off NaNoWriMo Robot Dinosaur Press Chipped Cup Collective Latte Literary Merc Fenn Wolfmoor Sarah Loch Self-Publishing Formatting Guidelines, by R. J. Theodore Parvus Press Joss Whedon Firefly The Wayfarers Series, by Becky Chambers The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers "Oversharing," by R. J. Theodore The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling Animal Crossing: New Horizons Super Smash Brothers Encanto Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton Encanto (Japanese Soundtrack) Encanto (Spanish Soundtrack) "We Don't Talk About Bruno (Japanese)" Supernatural Rekka's website, insta, and patreon We Make Books Unfettered Hexes We Make Books, Episode 5 at the 2019 Nebulas John Scalzi The Murderboard Episode, with Jennifer Mace both is good dot gif   Stick around next time, when Ivy Noelle Weir will be joining me! ]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 2606 3 24 bonus Episode 35: Sam J. Miller - Blue Matter Episode 35: Sam J. Miller - Blue Matter https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-35-sam-j-miller-blue-matter/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-35-sam-j-miller-blue-matter/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/ac35e4b9-f1aa-3d20-ae9c-2969145dbe71 This time around, I'm joined by multi-award-nominated-and-winning author Sam J. Miller (@sentencebender)! Sam reads from his trunked novel, Blue Matter, which leads us into a great conversation about YA, the ways that genre books are in conversation with each other, and why we're ultimately glad that our journeys as creators have been the shapes they are.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller

Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller

The Blade Between, by Sam J. Miller

Michael Pollan 

Ted Chiang 

The Clarion Workshop 

Octavia Butler 

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

John Bellairs 

Joan Aiken 

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier

The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss

Mutual assured destruction 

The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

RuPaul's Drag Race 

Aikido 

Be the Serpent, Episode 91 

Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Iambic pentameter 

"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe

Hudson, NY 

This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar Max and Gladstone

Mexican Gothic, by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey

Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

The Unbroken, by C. L. Clark

The Death of Jane Lawrence and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

Boys, Beasts & Men, by Sam J. Miller

Sam's website and insta 

 

Join us again next month, when I'll be talking to R. J. Theodore and Ivy Noelle Weir!

]]> This time around, I'm joined by multi-award-nominated-and-winning author Sam J. Miller (@sentencebender)! Sam reads from his trunked novel, Blue Matter, which leads us into a great conversation about YA, the ways that genre books are in conversation with each other, and why we're ultimately glad that our journeys as creators have been the shapes they are.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller

Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller

The Blade Between, by Sam J. Miller

Michael Pollan 

Ted Chiang 

The Clarion Workshop 

Octavia Butler 

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

John Bellairs 

Joan Aiken 

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier

The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss

Mutual assured destruction 

The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

RuPaul's Drag Race 

Aikido 

Be the Serpent, Episode 91 

Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Iambic pentameter 

"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe

Hudson, NY 

This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar Max and Gladstone

Mexican Gothic, by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey

Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

The Unbroken, by C. L. Clark

The Death of Jane Lawrence and The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

Boys, Beasts & Men, by Sam J. Miller

Sam's website and insta 

 

Join us again next month, when I'll be talking to R. J. Theodore and Ivy Noelle Weir!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3626 3 23 full 2021 Awards Eligibility 2021 Awards Eligibility https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/2021-awards-eligibility/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/2021-awards-eligibility/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/e7c0d5aa-7d34-3fb0-813d-38565140f4b5 Yeah buddy! It's awards season once again! And just like we have every year since the show started, we've got a roundup of eligible works from past guests!

This episode's full transcript, with links, is below.

 

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: nominating the stories (and other things) that did make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

Listeners, it’s that time of year again, where we’re all looking back—maybe frantically—on what we did last year and what we consumed as awards nominations open up. To help with that, I’ve once again reached out to all of my past guests to see if there’s anything they’d like me to mention on this show. The full transcript of this show will also be in the show notes, so don’t worry if things go by fast.

To start off, I know I’ve tweeted about it, but I want to thank every single one of you who nominated this show for Best Fancast last year. I’m still in a bit of shock that this show made it to the Hugo award long list. This year, Tales from the Trunk is eligible for Best Fancast for the Hugos and, until January 21st, r/Fantasy’s Stabby Award for Best Audio Original - Nonfiction. It would be a huge honor to get your nominating vote for either award.

John Appel, who joined us on book tour last summer, is eligible for both Best Novel and Best Debut Novel in the science fiction category, where applicable, for Assassin’s Orbit.

Nino Cipri is eligible in the Best Novella category for Defekt, the sequel-ish follow up to 2020’s Finna.

R. K. Duncan, who joined us way back in our very first season, has five eligible short stories, which you can find in his awards eligibility post, linked in the show notes. Of those, “Her Black Coal Heart a Diamond in My Hand” is dearest to his heart.

Sarah Gailey, one of this show’s staunchest and most long-time supporters, has The Echo Wife, eligible for Best Novel, and their limited series, Eat the Rich, eligible for Best Graphic Story and other comics categories.

Sarah Hollowell (you didn’t think you’d get one of these Sarahs without the other, did you?) is eligible for Best Novel, Best Young Adult, and Best Debut Novel for A Dark and Starless Forest!

Tyler Hayes (Tyler, please forgive me for putting you slightly out-of-order) has the story “The Devil You Don’t” eligible for Best Short Story.

Jordan Kurella has both a story and an essay eligible this year! Their story, “Personal Histories Surrounding La Rive Gauche, Paris: 1995-2015” carries content warnings for mentions of suicide and psychological abuse, and is eligible for Best Short Story. Their essay “Un/Reliable: Reflections in The Drowning Girl,” which carries content warnings for discussion of mental illness and suicide, is eligible for Best Related Work.

L. D. Lewis, who joined us this past spring, is eligible in a bevy of categories! Her stories “From Witch to Queen and God” and “Dizzy in the Weeds” are both eligible for Best Short Story. FIYAHCON 2021, like the 2020 version, is eligible for Best Related Work, meanwhile, and the Hugo Award-winning FIYAH Literary Magazine is eligible for Best Semiprozine.

Sarah Loch has a number of stories and essays eligible, all of which you can find in her eligibility post. Of those, she’d like to particularly highlight “How Dungeons & Dragons Helped Me Escape a Cult” for Best Related Work.

Jennifer Mace, the English One, is eligible for Best Fancast for Be The Serpent—and I should mention that this is their final year of eligibility—along with Freya Marske, the Australian one, and Alex Rowland, the American One. Additionally, Macey’s poem, “letters from the ides” is eligible wherever speculative poetry awards are given, and her poem-story, “Birds Are Trying to Reinvent Your Heart,” which is eligible for Best Short Story.

Speaking of the Australian One, Freya Marske, who joined us in the traditional serpent month, October, is eligible for Best Novel and Best Debut for A Marvellous Light.

Preeme Mohamed, who joined us again this summer, has had quite the year as far as novellas go! These Lifeless Things, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, and The Annual Migration of Clouds are all eligible for Best Novella. Additionally, A Broken Darkness is eligible for Best Novel. You can find a link to her full eligibility post in the show notes.

C. L. Polk has an eligible story, “The Music of Siphorophenes,” and a novel, Soulstar, and, in a first for guests of this show, their Kingston Cycle, consisting of Witchmark, Stormsong, and Soulstar, is eligible for the Best Series Hugo.

dave ring has a trio of eligible works this year: The Hidden Ones is eligible for Best Novella, “Top Ten Demons to Kill Before The World Ends” is eligible for Best Short Story, and Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness is eligible for Best Anthology!

Elsa Sjunneson is eligible for Best Fan Writer for her editorial column at Uncanny Magazine, where she’s just finished her tenure as nonfiction editor (Uncanny is eligible for Best Semiprozine). Additionally, “Ocean’s 6” is eligible for Best Short Story, and Being Seen is eligible for Best Related Work!

R. J. Theodore has two stories eligible for Best Short Story, “A Ship With No Parrot” and “The Coven of TAOS-9.” Additionally, Underway is eligible for Best Novella, and Self-Publishing Formatting Guidelines is eligible for Best Related Work. Finally, I would be remiss not to mention that We Make Books, which Rekka hosts with Kaelyn Considine, is eligible for Best Fancast!

Rem Wigmore, who joined us for an impromptu Oceana Month is eligible for Best Novel with Foxhunt.

Fran Wilde, who joined us way way back at the start of 2021, would like to highlight “Unseelie Brothers, ltd.” which is eligible for Best Novelette. You can find other things she wrote and read last year on her blog, linked in the show notes.

Finally, last, but most certainly not least (and who would have thought that we’d have so many W-names?), John Wiswell would love for you to read and consider his novelette “That Story Isn’t The Story.” His other eligible works can be found on his site, linked in the show notes.

2021 was absolutely a wild year, but I hope that this episode helps jog your memory of some of your favorite things, or maybe even introduces you to a brand new favorite that you missed the first time around. I’m deeply grateful for your consideration of this show or any of the works mentioned on this episode, as are all the amazing, talented creators behind those works.

As mentioned at the top of the episode, links to all of the works mentioned, along with any eligibility posts, whether specifically called out or not, will be in the show notes.

Thank you so much for listening, and thank you to all of the amazing creators who have been a part of this show over the past three seasons!

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Ryan Boyd.

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

You can find the show on Twitter at trunkcast, and I tweet at hbbisenieks.

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

And remember: don't self-reject.

]]> Yeah buddy! It's awards season once again! And just like we have every year since the show started, we've got a roundup of eligible works from past guests!

This episode's full transcript, with links, is below.

 

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: nominating the stories (and other things) that did make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

Listeners, it’s that time of year again, where we’re all looking back—maybe frantically—on what we did last year and what we consumed as awards nominations open up. To help with that, I’ve once again reached out to all of my past guests to see if there’s anything they’d like me to mention on this show. The full transcript of this show will also be in the show notes, so don’t worry if things go by fast.

To start off, I know I’ve tweeted about it, but I want to thank every single one of you who nominated this show for Best Fancast last year. I’m still in a bit of shock that this show made it to the Hugo award long list. This year, Tales from the Trunk is eligible for Best Fancast for the Hugos and, until January 21st, r/Fantasy’s Stabby Award for Best Audio Original - Nonfiction. It would be a huge honor to get your nominating vote for either award.

John Appel, who joined us on book tour last summer, is eligible for both Best Novel and Best Debut Novel in the science fiction category, where applicable, for Assassin’s Orbit.

Nino Cipri is eligible in the Best Novella category for Defekt, the sequel-ish follow up to 2020’s Finna.

R. K. Duncan, who joined us way back in our very first season, has five eligible short stories, which you can find in his awards eligibility post, linked in the show notes. Of those, “Her Black Coal Heart a Diamond in My Hand” is dearest to his heart.

Sarah Gailey, one of this show’s staunchest and most long-time supporters, has The Echo Wife, eligible for Best Novel, and their limited series, Eat the Rich, eligible for Best Graphic Story and other comics categories.

Sarah Hollowell (you didn’t think you’d get one of these Sarahs without the other, did you?) is eligible for Best Novel, Best Young Adult, and Best Debut Novel for A Dark and Starless Forest!

Tyler Hayes (Tyler, please forgive me for putting you slightly out-of-order) has the story “The Devil You Don’t” eligible for Best Short Story.

Jordan Kurella has both a story and an essay eligible this year! Their story, “Personal Histories Surrounding La Rive Gauche, Paris: 1995-2015” carries content warnings for mentions of suicide and psychological abuse, and is eligible for Best Short Story. Their essay “Un/Reliable: Reflections in The Drowning Girl,” which carries content warnings for discussion of mental illness and suicide, is eligible for Best Related Work.

L. D. Lewis, who joined us this past spring, is eligible in a bevy of categories! Her stories “From Witch to Queen and God” and “Dizzy in the Weeds” are both eligible for Best Short Story. FIYAHCON 2021, like the 2020 version, is eligible for Best Related Work, meanwhile, and the Hugo Award-winning FIYAH Literary Magazine is eligible for Best Semiprozine.

Sarah Loch has a number of stories and essays eligible, all of which you can find in her eligibility post. Of those, she’d like to particularly highlight “How Dungeons & Dragons Helped Me Escape a Cult” for Best Related Work.

Jennifer Mace, the English One, is eligible for Best Fancast for Be The Serpent—and I should mention that this is their final year of eligibility—along with Freya Marske, the Australian one, and Alex Rowland, the American One. Additionally, Macey’s poem, “letters from the ides” is eligible wherever speculative poetry awards are given, and her poem-story, “Birds Are Trying to Reinvent Your Heart,” which is eligible for Best Short Story.

Speaking of the Australian One, Freya Marske, who joined us in the traditional serpent month, October, is eligible for Best Novel and Best Debut for A Marvellous Light.

Preeme Mohamed, who joined us again this summer, has had quite the year as far as novellas go! These Lifeless Things, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, and The Annual Migration of Clouds are all eligible for Best Novella. Additionally, A Broken Darkness is eligible for Best Novel. You can find a link to her full eligibility post in the show notes.

C. L. Polk has an eligible story, “The Music of Siphorophenes,” and a novel, Soulstar, and, in a first for guests of this show, their Kingston Cycle, consisting of Witchmark, Stormsong, and Soulstar, is eligible for the Best Series Hugo.

dave ring has a trio of eligible works this year: The Hidden Ones is eligible for Best Novella, “Top Ten Demons to Kill Before The World Ends” is eligible for Best Short Story, and Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness is eligible for Best Anthology!

Elsa Sjunneson is eligible for Best Fan Writer for her editorial column at Uncanny Magazine, where she’s just finished her tenure as nonfiction editor (Uncanny is eligible for Best Semiprozine). Additionally, “Ocean’s 6” is eligible for Best Short Story, and Being Seen is eligible for Best Related Work!

R. J. Theodore has two stories eligible for Best Short Story, “A Ship With No Parrot” and “The Coven of TAOS-9.” Additionally, Underway is eligible for Best Novella, and Self-Publishing Formatting Guidelines is eligible for Best Related Work. Finally, I would be remiss not to mention that We Make Books, which Rekka hosts with Kaelyn Considine, is eligible for Best Fancast!

Rem Wigmore, who joined us for an impromptu Oceana Month is eligible for Best Novel with Foxhunt.

Fran Wilde, who joined us way way back at the start of 2021, would like to highlight “Unseelie Brothers, ltd.” which is eligible for Best Novelette. You can find other things she wrote and read last year on her blog, linked in the show notes.

Finally, last, but most certainly not least (and who would have thought that we’d have so many W-names?), John Wiswell would love for you to read and consider his novelette “That Story Isn’t The Story.” His other eligible works can be found on his site, linked in the show notes.

2021 was absolutely a wild year, but I hope that this episode helps jog your memory of some of your favorite things, or maybe even introduces you to a brand new favorite that you missed the first time around. I’m deeply grateful for your consideration of this show or any of the works mentioned on this episode, as are all the amazing, talented creators behind those works.

As mentioned at the top of the episode, links to all of the works mentioned, along with any eligibility posts, whether specifically called out or not, will be in the show notes.

Thank you so much for listening, and thank you to all of the amazing creators who have been a part of this show over the past three seasons!

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Ryan Boyd.

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

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If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

And remember: don't self-reject.

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 594 3 22 bonus Shelter in Place 22: Jennie Goloboy - Obviously, Aliens Shelter in Place 22: Jennie Goloboy - Obviously, Aliens https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-22-jennie-goloboy-obviously-aliens/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-22-jennie-goloboy-obviously-aliens/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/4206739d-8d62-3e44-967d-bb547899116e This time around, my guest is author and agent Jennie Goloboy (@JennieGoloboy), whose Obviously, Aliens released in November 2021 from Queen of Swords Press! After hearing the opening chapter of the book, we get into what made it and what didn't in the final draft, along with some great talk about the craft of humor writing and some excellent recommendations! 

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Queen of Swords Press 

Foxhunt, by Rem Wigmore 

Doge (meme)

Terry Roy 

NaNoWriMo 

Seasteading 

Peter Thiel 

Monty Python's Life of Brian 

Men in Black 

The War of 1812 

P. G. Wodehouse 

Graceland 

Denver International Airport (DEN) 

Ted Lasso 

The Murderbot Diaries, (Wikipedia) by Martha Wells

2021 Hugo Award results 

Soldier (1998)

Unforgiven 

The Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

The Last Watch, by J. S. Dewes

Jennie's website 

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, by A. J. Fitzwater

]]> This time around, my guest is author and agent Jennie Goloboy (@JennieGoloboy), whose Obviously, Aliens released in November 2021 from Queen of Swords Press! After hearing the opening chapter of the book, we get into what made it and what didn't in the final draft, along with some great talk about the craft of humor writing and some excellent recommendations! 

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Queen of Swords Press 

Foxhunt, by Rem Wigmore 

Doge (meme)

Terry Roy 

NaNoWriMo 

Seasteading 

Peter Thiel 

Monty Python's Life of Brian 

Men in Black 

The War of 1812 

P. G. Wodehouse 

Graceland 

Denver International Airport (DEN) 

Ted Lasso 

The Murderbot Diaries, (Wikipedia) by Martha Wells

2021 Hugo Award results 

Soldier (1998)

Unforgiven 

The Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

The Last Watch, by J. S. Dewes

Jennie's website 

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, by A. J. Fitzwater

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2391 3 21 bonus Episode 34: Victor Manibo - ”The Casket” Episode 34: Victor Manibo - ”The Casket” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-34-victor-manibo-the-casket/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-34-victor-manibo-the-casket/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/57f88521-57da-3940-9a40-338173f09e76 This time around, I'm joined by the amazing Victor Manibo (@VictorManibo), author of The Sleepless, coming out in June of 2022 from Erewhon Books! Victor reads his trunked Poe retelling before we launch into a discussion of life after NaNoWriMo and how he went from never having heard of the event to getting his book onto store shelves.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

NaNoWriMo 

"The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allan Poe

Favelas 

The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

"There is no there there"

Publishers Weekly (PW)

Nina Niskanen 

Mary Robinette Kowal 

Viable Paradise 

Rubber ducky debugging 

Jennifer "Macey" Mace 

Valerie Valdez 

Brass Goggles 

Tor.com 

Fae's purrs 

Worldcon 

Cowboy Bebop (anime and live-action)

Firefly 

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 

The Expanse 

Victor's website and insta 

Obviously, Aliens, by Jennie Goloboy

Queen of Swords Press 

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Jennie Goloboy and Sam J. Miller!

]]> This time around, I'm joined by the amazing Victor Manibo (@VictorManibo), author of The Sleepless, coming out in June of 2022 from Erewhon Books! Victor reads his trunked Poe retelling before we launch into a discussion of life after NaNoWriMo and how he went from never having heard of the event to getting his book onto store shelves.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

NaNoWriMo 

"The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allan Poe

Favelas 

The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

"There is no there there"

Publishers Weekly (PW)

Nina Niskanen 

Mary Robinette Kowal 

Viable Paradise 

Rubber ducky debugging 

Jennifer "Macey" Mace 

Valerie Valdez 

Brass Goggles 

Tor.com 

Fae's purrs 

Worldcon 

Cowboy Bebop (anime and live-action)

Firefly 

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 

The Expanse 

Victor's website and insta 

Obviously, Aliens, by Jennie Goloboy

Queen of Swords Press 

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Jennie Goloboy and Sam J. Miller!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3478 3 20 full Shelter in Place 21: Cassie Alexander - AITA? Shelter in Place 21: Cassie Alexander - AITA? https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-21-cassie-alexander-aita/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-21-cassie-alexander-aita/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/82ed913c-7762-3d8a-82a6-d035cf0e8b46 This is a spicy one, folks, so put those headphones in! This time around, it was my absolute delight to talk to Cassie Alexander (@CassieY4), author of many fine, spicy books. This time around, we're talking about her newest, AITA? and the fugue-state that Cassie wrote this book in!

 

Things mentioned on this episode:

AITA? (subreddit) 

Schitt's Creek 

Her Ex-boyfriend's Werewolf Lover, by Cassie Alexander

Blood of the Pack, by Cassie Alexander

Sons of Anarchy 

Chuck Tingle 

Quiver & Quill, by A. M. Kore

Mothman (cryptid)

Cassie's website and TikTok 

 

Stick around for next time, when Victor Manibo will be joining the show!

]]> This is a spicy one, folks, so put those headphones in! This time around, it was my absolute delight to talk to Cassie Alexander (@CassieY4), author of many fine, spicy books. This time around, we're talking about her newest, AITA? and the fugue-state that Cassie wrote this book in!

 

Things mentioned on this episode:

AITA? (subreddit) 

Schitt's Creek 

Her Ex-boyfriend's Werewolf Lover, by Cassie Alexander

Blood of the Pack, by Cassie Alexander

Sons of Anarchy 

Chuck Tingle 

Quiver & Quill, by A. M. Kore

Mothman (cryptid)

Cassie's website and TikTok 

 

Stick around for next time, when Victor Manibo will be joining the show!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1944 3 19 bonus Episode 33: Nina Niskanen - ”The Golden Bees of the Black Stream” Episode 33: Nina Niskanen - ”The Golden Bees of the Black Stream” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-33-nina-niskanen-the-golden-bees-of-the-black-stream/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-33-nina-niskanen-the-golden-bees-of-the-black-stream/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/12459156-c725-3b83-b273-b3dc8167b317 Show notes coming soon!

]]> Show notes coming soon!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4147 3 18 full Shelter in Place 20: Merc Fenn Wolfmoor - The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt Shelter in Place 20: Merc Fenn Wolfmoor - The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-20-merc-fenn-wolfmoor-the-wolf-among-the-wild-hunt/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-20-merc-fenn-wolfmoor-the-wolf-among-the-wild-hunt/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/589c5351-209f-32e1-bdfe-9c3a1ca652e0 This time around, we're joined once again by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (@Merc_Wolfmoor) to talk about their new novella, The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt! We talk about queernorm worlds, physical video game packaging, and some of the great things we've been reading.

 

Things mentioned on this episode:

Grimdark (genre)

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Friends for Robots, by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Neon Hemlock's novella series

Network Effect, by Martha Wells

Caitlin Starling

Premee Mohamed

The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed

Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

The Secret Garden on 81st Street, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla

Finna and Defekt, by Nino Cipri

Merc's website

]]> This time around, we're joined once again by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (@Merc_Wolfmoor) to talk about their new novella, The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt! We talk about queernorm worlds, physical video game packaging, and some of the great things we've been reading.

 

Things mentioned on this episode:

Grimdark (genre)

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Friends for Robots, by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Neon Hemlock's novella series

Network Effect, by Martha Wells

Caitlin Starling

Premee Mohamed

The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed

Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz

The Secret Garden on 81st Street, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla

Finna and Defekt, by Nino Cipri

Merc's website

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1929 3 17 bonus Episode 32: Freya Marske - ”One Version of Yourself, at the Speed of Light” Episode 32: Freya Marske - ”One Version of Yourself, at the Speed of Light” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-32-freya-marske-one-version-of-yourself-at-the-speed-of-light/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-32-freya-marske-one-version-of-yourself-at-the-speed-of-light/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/0c2551f4-7c78-3449-baf2-6cb8580eeb84 This time around, I'm joined by multiply-Hugo-nominated podcaster and author of the forthcoming novel, A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (@freyamarske), thus completing the prophecy. Freya reads an excerpt of her story, "One Version of Yourself, at the Speed of Light," which leads us into a great discussion about using our day-job-expertise in our writing, the end of Be the Serpent, a hot take about historical fiction, and of course a lot of talk about fanfic.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Be the Serpent 

Alexandra Rowland 

Jennifer "Macey" Mace 

Hurt/comfort 

The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk

Edwardian England 

World War One 

The Hugo Awards 

Worldcon 

My episode being interviewed by Sharon Hsu 

The Archive of Our Own (AO3) 

Kudos (AO3)

Goodreads 

Crack fic 

AUs 

Five things fic 

Brooklyn Nine-Nine 

Ninefox Gambit, the first book of The Machineries of Empire series, by Yoon Ha Lee

A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine

Battlestar Galactica 

Tumblr 

Ted Lasso 

Summer Sons, by Lee Mandello

Dark academia 

Friends at the Table (specifically Sangfielle, their current season)

Hellboy 

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

Seducing the Sorcerer, by Lee Welch

Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones

The works of T. Kingfisher 

Freya's insta and website 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe 

Infinity Stones 

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Merc Fenn Wolfmoor and Nina Niskanen!

]]> This time around, I'm joined by multiply-Hugo-nominated podcaster and author of the forthcoming novel, A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (@freyamarske), thus completing the prophecy. Freya reads an excerpt of her story, "One Version of Yourself, at the Speed of Light," which leads us into a great discussion about using our day-job-expertise in our writing, the end of Be the Serpent, a hot take about historical fiction, and of course a lot of talk about fanfic.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Be the Serpent 

Alexandra Rowland 

Jennifer "Macey" Mace 

Hurt/comfort 

The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk

Edwardian England 

World War One 

The Hugo Awards 

Worldcon 

My episode being interviewed by Sharon Hsu 

The Archive of Our Own (AO3) 

Kudos (AO3)

Goodreads 

Crack fic 

AUs 

Five things fic 

Brooklyn Nine-Nine 

Ninefox Gambit, the first book of The Machineries of Empire series, by Yoon Ha Lee

A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine

Battlestar Galactica 

Tumblr 

Ted Lasso 

Summer Sons, by Lee Mandello

Dark academia 

Friends at the Table (specifically Sangfielle, their current season)

Hellboy 

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

Seducing the Sorcerer, by Lee Welch

Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones

The works of T. Kingfisher 

Freya's insta and website 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe 

Infinity Stones 

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Merc Fenn Wolfmoor and Nina Niskanen!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3896 3 16 full Shelter in Place 19: Rem Wigmore - Foxhunt Shelter in Place 19: Rem Wigmore - Foxhunt https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-19-rem-wigmore-foxhunt/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-19-rem-wigmore-foxhunt/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/94d2e870-0948-348a-9c54-d57002d96223 This time around, to open out our unintentional Oceana month, I'm joined by the delightful Rem Wigmore (@faewriter), whose novel, Foxhunt, is available now, wherever you get your books, from Queen of Swords Press. They read us a slightly-spoiler-y excerpt of the book (you can skip ahead 11:40 from the start of the reading if you'd rather not be spoiled) that leads us into some great conversation about banter, taking the piss, and how mythology might survive into the future.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Hades (game)

Orpheus and Eurydice 

The Realm of the Elderlings series, by Robin Hobb

These Violent Delights, by Chloe Gong

Butcherbird, by Cassie Hart

Riverwitch, by Rem Wigmore

The Contemporary Witchy Fiction project

The Waikato River 

Rem's website 

 

Join us again on the 15th of October, when my guest will be Freya Marske!

]]> This time around, to open out our unintentional Oceana month, I'm joined by the delightful Rem Wigmore (@faewriter), whose novel, Foxhunt, is available now, wherever you get your books, from Queen of Swords Press. They read us a slightly-spoiler-y excerpt of the book (you can skip ahead 11:40 from the start of the reading if you'd rather not be spoiled) that leads us into some great conversation about banter, taking the piss, and how mythology might survive into the future.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Hades (game)

Orpheus and Eurydice 

The Realm of the Elderlings series, by Robin Hobb

These Violent Delights, by Chloe Gong

Butcherbird, by Cassie Hart

Riverwitch, by Rem Wigmore

The Contemporary Witchy Fiction project

The Waikato River 

Rem's website 

 

Join us again on the 15th of October, when my guest will be Freya Marske!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1894 3 15 bonus Episode 31: Elsa Sjunneson - The Livelong Night Episode 31: Elsa Sjunneson - The Livelong Night https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-31-elsa-sjunneson-the-livelong-night/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-31-elsa-sjunneson-the-livelong-night/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/6e216ace-0699-36d4-9d09-152d93e4fdc6 This time around, I had the pleasure of talking to Hugo-award-winning author and editor Elsa Sjunneson (@snarkbat)! Elsa reads an excerpt from her terrific currently-trunked novel, The Livelong Night, which launches us into a conversation about representation, trunking (the bad kind), disability, and her forthcoming memoir, Being Seen, which releases this October!

 

Things we mentioned this episode:

Worldcon 76

Burying your gays (trope) 

Mad-Eye Moody 

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

The Book of Eli 

Daredevil 

The ghost of Peter Stuyvesant 

Reviews of Being Seen from Kirkus and Booklist 

Scream (TV show)

“I Belong Where the People Are: Disability & The Shape of Water," by Elsa Sjunneson

Children of a Lesser God 

Me Before You 

"The Home Front," my 9/11 essay

"Blind Women Get Married Too," by Elsa Sjunneson

RSD - Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Ready or Not 

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Chair 

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

Exvangelicals 

Beowulf, audiobook, translated by Seamus Heaney

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Rem Wigmore and Freya Marske!

]]> This time around, I had the pleasure of talking to Hugo-award-winning author and editor Elsa Sjunneson (@snarkbat)! Elsa reads an excerpt from her terrific currently-trunked novel, The Livelong Night, which launches us into a conversation about representation, trunking (the bad kind), disability, and her forthcoming memoir, Being Seen, which releases this October!

 

Things we mentioned this episode:

Worldcon 76

Burying your gays (trope) 

Mad-Eye Moody 

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

The Book of Eli 

Daredevil 

The ghost of Peter Stuyvesant 

Reviews of Being Seen from Kirkus and Booklist 

Scream (TV show)

“I Belong Where the People Are: Disability & The Shape of Water," by Elsa Sjunneson

Children of a Lesser God 

Me Before You 

"The Home Front," my 9/11 essay

"Blind Women Get Married Too," by Elsa Sjunneson

RSD - Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Ready or Not 

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Chair 

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

Exvangelicals 

Beowulf, audiobook, translated by Seamus Heaney

 

Join us again next month, when my guests will be Rem Wigmore and Freya Marske!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3476 3 14 full Shelter in Place 18: Sarah Hollowell - A Dark and Starless Forest Shelter in Place 18: Sarah Hollowell - A Dark and Starless Forest https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-18-sarah-hollowell-a-dark-and-starless-forest/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-18-sarah-hollowell-a-dark-and-starless-forest/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/d49c7701-a14c-3dda-b8ac-2774ab7f4f4c This time around, we're joined once again by Sarah Hollowell (@sarahhollowell) whose debut, A Dark and Starless Forest comes out September 14th! Sarah reads an excerpt of her book that leads us into a fun conversation about the terrible faces that cats make, natural disasters, and probably some stuff about the book, too.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett

Tangled 

The 12 Dancing Princesses 

"Crow's Eye," by Sarah Hollowell

The geology of Indiana 

The Airborne Toxic Event 

Duck and cover 

This Poison Heart, by Kalynn Bayron

The Ones We're Meant to Find, by Joan He

Each of Us a Desert, by Mark Oshiro

Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

Sarah's insta and website 

Sarah Gailey 

R. K. Duncan 

Kate Lechler 

 

Join us again in two weeks with my guest, Elsa Sjunneson!

]]> This time around, we're joined once again by Sarah Hollowell (@sarahhollowell) whose debut, A Dark and Starless Forest comes out September 14th! Sarah reads an excerpt of her book that leads us into a fun conversation about the terrible faces that cats make, natural disasters, and probably some stuff about the book, too.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett

Tangled 

The 12 Dancing Princesses 

"Crow's Eye," by Sarah Hollowell

The geology of Indiana 

The Airborne Toxic Event 

Duck and cover 

This Poison Heart, by Kalynn Bayron

The Ones We're Meant to Find, by Joan He

Each of Us a Desert, by Mark Oshiro

Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

Sarah's insta and website 

Sarah Gailey 

R. K. Duncan 

Kate Lechler 

 

Join us again in two weeks with my guest, Elsa Sjunneson!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2563 3 13 bonus Episode 30: Leigh Harlen - ”Snakes and Snails and Big Ol’ Rat Tails” Episode 30: Leigh Harlen - ”Snakes and Snails and Big Ol’ Rat Tails” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-30-leigh-harlen-snakes-and-snails-and-big-ol-rat-tails/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-30-leigh-harlen-snakes-and-snails-and-big-ol-rat-tails/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/aaebf6bc-29b0-33ba-875e-0ac4239fb754 This time around we're joined by Leigh Harlen (@leighharlen) to talk about the new printing of their collection, Blood Like Garnets! Leigh reads to us from their pissed off, queer response to that wizard series, which leads us into a discussion on new and exciting forms of self-rejection, and why community is so important to us as writers.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Studio Ghibli 

Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea 

"Blood Makes the Fruit Grow Sweet," by Leigh Harlen in Dark Moon Digest 

The Dark 

TKO (publisher)

Worldcon 76 

Norwescon 

Neon Hemlock 

Fireside Magazine 

Fiyah Literary Magazine 

Premee's book launch event 

Yellow Jessamine, by Caitlin Starling

Stephen King 

V O I D J U N K 

The Silence of the Lambs 

"Prey," by Richard Matheson

The Babadook as a queer icon 

This year's World Fantasy Awards finalists 

Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark

Lovecraft Country 

Train to Busan 

Night of the Living Dead 

Pseudopod 

The Submission Grinder 

SFWA pro rates 

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 13 - "Far Beyond the Stars"

Weird Tales 

A guide to Twitter Lists 

Victories Greater Than Death, by Charlie Jane Anders

Elatsoe, by Darcie Littlebadger

Leigh's website 

 

Join us again in September, when our guests will be Sarah Hollowell and Elsa Sjunneson!

]]> This time around we're joined by Leigh Harlen (@leighharlen) to talk about the new printing of their collection, Blood Like Garnets! Leigh reads to us from their pissed off, queer response to that wizard series, which leads us into a discussion on new and exciting forms of self-rejection, and why community is so important to us as writers.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Studio Ghibli 

Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea 

"Blood Makes the Fruit Grow Sweet," by Leigh Harlen in Dark Moon Digest 

The Dark 

TKO (publisher)

Worldcon 76 

Norwescon 

Neon Hemlock 

Fireside Magazine 

Fiyah Literary Magazine 

Premee's book launch event 

Yellow Jessamine, by Caitlin Starling

Stephen King 

V O I D J U N K 

The Silence of the Lambs 

"Prey," by Richard Matheson

The Babadook as a queer icon 

This year's World Fantasy Awards finalists 

Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark

Lovecraft Country 

Train to Busan 

Night of the Living Dead 

Pseudopod 

The Submission Grinder 

SFWA pro rates 

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 13 - "Far Beyond the Stars"

Weird Tales 

A guide to Twitter Lists 

Victories Greater Than Death, by Charlie Jane Anders

Elatsoe, by Darcie Littlebadger

Leigh's website 

 

Join us again in September, when our guests will be Sarah Hollowell and Elsa Sjunneson!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3477 3 12 full Shelter in Place 17: Premee Mohamed - And What Can We Offer You Tonight Shelter in Place 17: Premee Mohamed - And What Can We Offer You Tonight https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-17-premee-mohamed-and-what-can-we-offer-you-tonight/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-17-premee-mohamed-and-what-can-we-offer-you-tonight/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/9f060e50-9278-371a-98b9-4dff8b8fe977 This time around, I'm rejoined by Premee Mohamed (@premeesaurus) to talk about her amazing new novella, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, out now from Neon Hemlock! After hearing the first chapter of the book, straight from the mouth of the author, we get into all the stories that Premee still wants to tell in the world of the book, and we talk fondly of a viscerally-uncomfortable scene from the book that we both love to bits. We also take a bit of time to talk about the other three (3) books that Premee has or will have out this year, all of which are well worth your time.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

My very on-brand outfit for this audio recording

Neon Hemlock Press 

The And What Can We Offer You Tonight launch party 

Leigh Harlen 

Mad Max 

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

L. D. Lewis' appearance on this very show

dave ring 

These Lifeless Things, by Premee Mohamed

The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed

Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed

Premee on We Make Books 

Premee's website 

 

Join us again later this month, when I'll be talking with Leigh Harlen!

]]> This time around, I'm rejoined by Premee Mohamed (@premeesaurus) to talk about her amazing new novella, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, out now from Neon Hemlock! After hearing the first chapter of the book, straight from the mouth of the author, we get into all the stories that Premee still wants to tell in the world of the book, and we talk fondly of a viscerally-uncomfortable scene from the book that we both love to bits. We also take a bit of time to talk about the other three (3) books that Premee has or will have out this year, all of which are well worth your time.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

My very on-brand outfit for this audio recording

Neon Hemlock Press 

The And What Can We Offer You Tonight launch party 

Leigh Harlen 

Mad Max 

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

L. D. Lewis' appearance on this very show

dave ring 

These Lifeless Things, by Premee Mohamed

The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed

Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed

Premee on We Make Books 

Premee's website 

 

Join us again later this month, when I'll be talking with Leigh Harlen!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2154 3 11 bonus Episode 29: L. D. Lewis - ”Last Stand of the E 12th St Pirates” Episode 29: L. D. Lewis - ”Last Stand of the E 12th St Pirates” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-29-l-d-lewis-last-stand-of-the-e-12th-st-pirates/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-29-l-d-lewis-last-stand-of-the-e-12th-st-pirates/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/4883f964-a873-36b0-bf71-72825e4add21 After some trials and tribulations with our audio, L. D. Lewis (@Ellethevillain) joins us on this episode with her amazing climatepunk story, "The Last Stand of the E 12th St Pirates." Following the reading, we talk about how that story came about before taking some time to talk about Fiyah Literary Magazine and Fiyahcon (September 16-19, 2021).

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Cyberpunk 

And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed

"For Every Jack," by R. K. Duncan

Geneva Bowers, nee Benton 

Fiyah on Twitter 

Fireside Magazine 

Fire!! 

Langston Hughes 

Zora Neale Hurston 

Fiyahcon 

Breonna Taylor 

George Floyd 

Vida Cruz 

Iori Kusano 

Ignyte Awards 

Airmeet 

Norwescon 

Monterey Bay Aquarium 

L's Website 

Slack 

TikTok 

LeVar Burton Reads Writing Contest 

Tor.com 

Diana M. Pho 

Realm 

Reading Rainbow 

Geordi La Forge 

 

Join us again next month, when Premee Mohamed and Leigh Harlen will be my guests!

]]> After some trials and tribulations with our audio, L. D. Lewis (@Ellethevillain) joins us on this episode with her amazing climatepunk story, "The Last Stand of the E 12th St Pirates." Following the reading, we talk about how that story came about before taking some time to talk about Fiyah Literary Magazine and Fiyahcon (September 16-19, 2021).

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Cyberpunk 

And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed

"For Every Jack," by R. K. Duncan

Geneva Bowers, nee Benton 

Fiyah on Twitter 

Fireside Magazine 

Fire!! 

Langston Hughes 

Zora Neale Hurston 

Fiyahcon 

Breonna Taylor 

George Floyd 

Vida Cruz 

Iori Kusano 

Ignyte Awards 

Airmeet 

Norwescon 

Monterey Bay Aquarium 

L's Website 

Slack 

TikTok 

LeVar Burton Reads Writing Contest 

Tor.com 

Diana M. Pho 

Realm 

Reading Rainbow 

Geordi La Forge 

 

Join us again next month, when Premee Mohamed and Leigh Harlen will be my guests!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3408 3 10 full Shelter in Place 16: John Appel - Assassin’s Orbit Shelter in Place 16: John Appel - Assassin’s Orbit https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-16-john-appel-assassins-orbit/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-16-john-appel-assassins-orbit/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/a2f787e5-eaa8-3e77-9929-31f8f3b05f3d show notes coming soon!

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]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2043 3 9 bonus Episode 28: dave ring - ”Checks and Balances” Episode 28: dave ring - ”Checks and Balances” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-28-dave-ring-checks-and-balances/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-28-dave-ring-checks-and-balances/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/b780c625-c297-3395-ac22-2a93314a484b show notes coming soon

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]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3308 3 8 full Shelter in Place 15: Jen Karner - Cinders of Yesterday Shelter in Place 15: Jen Karner - Cinders of Yesterday https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-15-jen-karner-cinders-of-yesterday/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-15-jen-karner-cinders-of-yesterday/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/4be6dfef-1462-3fdd-b3cf-90406d7a08c2 To open pride month this year, we're joined by Jen Karner (@articulatedream), whose sapphic debut, Cinders of Yesterday, releases later this month! Jen reads us a delicious excerpt of their book, and we chat about some of her favorite bits, the chaos energy of their drafting process, and why we shouldn't treat her as any kind of example for how publishing usually goes.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

NaNoWriMo 

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 

fanfiction.net 

GeoCities 

Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi

Baltimore Pride 

Boffer weapons 

LARPing 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

Supernatural 

Teen Wolf 

Pitch Wars 

RevPit 

Jen's insta, website, and facebook fan page 

 

Join us again on June 18th, when our guest will be dave ring!

]]> To open pride month this year, we're joined by Jen Karner (@articulatedream), whose sapphic debut, Cinders of Yesterday, releases later this month! Jen reads us a delicious excerpt of their book, and we chat about some of her favorite bits, the chaos energy of their drafting process, and why we shouldn't treat her as any kind of example for how publishing usually goes.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

NaNoWriMo 

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 

fanfiction.net 

GeoCities 

Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi

Baltimore Pride 

Boffer weapons 

LARPing 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

Supernatural 

Teen Wolf 

Pitch Wars 

RevPit 

Jen's insta, website, and facebook fan page 

 

Join us again on June 18th, when our guest will be dave ring!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2244 3 7 bonus Episode 27: R. J. Theodore - Cast Off Episode 27: R. J. Theodore - Cast Off https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-27-r-j-theodore-cast-off/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-27-r-j-theodore-cast-off/#comments Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/e3968177-5000-34ff-baab-f13dfeabd75b This time around, my guest is friend and co-host of the podcast, We Make Books, R. J. Theodore (@bittybittyzap)! Rekka reads an excerpt from the third book of her Peridot Shift series, Cast Off, which leads us into a great conversation about what can happen when your publisher closes its doors, murderboarding for fun and profit, and the things that we love so dearly about steampunk.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Parvus Press 

Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian

Steampunk 

Space elves discourse (I believe the discourse came from this)

Ever Given 

Sarah Pinsker 

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Jennifer "Macey" Mace's Murderboard Method, on We Make Books

C. J. Cherryh 

Mistborn series, by Brandon Sanderson

Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin

Scrivener (software)

Epistolary fiction 

Gail Carriger 

The Brass Goggles forum 

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly

Jules Verne 

The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk

Guillotine 

The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Star Trek Pocket Books 

Wesley Crusher 

Livejournal 

"The Coven of Taos-9," by R. J. Theodore, in Unfettered Hexes 

Episodes 48 and 51 of We Make Books, featuring Hilary B. Bisenieks

 

Join us next month, when Jen Karner and dave ring will be our guests!

]]> This time around, my guest is friend and co-host of the podcast, We Make Books, R. J. Theodore (@bittybittyzap)! Rekka reads an excerpt from the third book of her Peridot Shift series, Cast Off, which leads us into a great conversation about what can happen when your publisher closes its doors, murderboarding for fun and profit, and the things that we love so dearly about steampunk.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

Parvus Press 

Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian

Steampunk 

Space elves discourse (I believe the discourse came from this)

Ever Given 

Sarah Pinsker 

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Jennifer "Macey" Mace's Murderboard Method, on We Make Books

C. J. Cherryh 

Mistborn series, by Brandon Sanderson

Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin

Scrivener (software)

Epistolary fiction 

Gail Carriger 

The Brass Goggles forum 

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly

Jules Verne 

The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk

Guillotine 

The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Star Trek Pocket Books 

Wesley Crusher 

Livejournal 

"The Coven of Taos-9," by R. J. Theodore, in Unfettered Hexes 

Episodes 48 and 51 of We Make Books, featuring Hilary B. Bisenieks

 

Join us next month, when Jen Karner and dave ring will be our guests!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3997 3 6 full Shelter In Place 14: Sarah Loch - Blue Line Shelter In Place 14: Sarah Loch - Blue Line https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-14-sarah-loch-blue-line/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-14-sarah-loch-blue-line/#comments Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/9165746a-d424-3e09-975e-a664d891f21f This time around, we're joined by my friend, Sarah Loch (@sloch), whose new book, Blue Line, written as Ariel Bishop, just released! After hearing an excerpt from the book, we talk about about fake dating, representation, and self-publishing. Also, Sarah took a moment to tell us about her friend, F. A. Ray's new m/m soccer (football, to our listeners outside of North America) romance, Yellow Card, which is also available in early access on Gumroad.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The Tripping series, by Ariel Bishop

BDSM (link contains NSFW content)

Switch (link contains NSFW content)

Demiromantic 

Aromantic 

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Haikyu!! 

 

Join us next episode, when I'll be talking with R. J. Theodore!

]]> This time around, we're joined by my friend, Sarah Loch (@sloch), whose new book, Blue Line, written as Ariel Bishop, just released! After hearing an excerpt from the book, we talk about about fake dating, representation, and self-publishing. Also, Sarah took a moment to tell us about her friend, F. A. Ray's new m/m soccer (football, to our listeners outside of North America) romance, Yellow Card, which is also available in early access on Gumroad.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

The Tripping series, by Ariel Bishop

BDSM (link contains NSFW content)

Switch (link contains NSFW content)

Demiromantic 

Aromantic 

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Haikyu!! 

 

Join us next episode, when I'll be talking with R. J. Theodore!

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 1848 3 5 bonus Episode 26: Nino Cipri - ”Presque Vu” Episode 26: Nino Cipri - ”Presque Vu” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-26-nino-cipri-presque-vu/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-26-nino-cipri-presque-vu/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/487c5db3-2482-30fb-ba61-9d3f8da904a1 This time around, we're joined by Nino Cipri (@ninocipri) to talk about their forthcoming Defekt, sequel to the amazing, Hugo-finalist novella, Finna. Nino reads their trunked story, "Presque Vu" (no, not that one, the trunked one), and we talk about their thoughts on composting stories, writing workshops, and why capitalism is bad, actually.

Things we mention in this episode:

Homesick, by Nino Cipri

The Clarion (and Clarion West) Workshop

"Presque Vu," by Nino Cipri

IKEA 

420 (nice)

The Nebula Conference 

AWP 

N. K. Jemisin 

John Scalzi 

Jim C. Hines 

Nino's website, insta, and newsletter 

 

Join us again in May when our guests will be Sarah Loch and R. J. Theodore!

]]> This time around, we're joined by Nino Cipri (@ninocipri) to talk about their forthcoming Defekt, sequel to the amazing, Hugo-finalist novella, Finna. Nino reads their trunked story, "Presque Vu" (no, not that one, the trunked one), and we talk about their thoughts on composting stories, writing workshops, and why capitalism is bad, actually.

Things we mention in this episode:

Homesick, by Nino Cipri

The Clarion (and Clarion West) Workshop

"Presque Vu," by Nino Cipri

IKEA 

420 (nice)

The Nebula Conference 

AWP 

N. K. Jemisin 

John Scalzi 

Jim C. Hines 

Nino's website, insta, and newsletter 

 

Join us again in May when our guests will be Sarah Loch and R. J. Theodore!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3744 3 4 full Shelter in Place 13: Steve Toase - To Drown in Dark Water Shelter in Place 13: Steve Toase - To Drown in Dark Water https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-13-steve-toase-to-drown-in-dark-water/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-13-steve-toase-to-drown-in-dark-water/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/ce9c873a-5d97-3cf6-828d-74ffdc56c7bd This time around on book tour, we're joined by Steve Toase (@stevetoase), whose collection, To Drown in Dark Water, releases on April 27th, 2021! After Steve reads a selection of flash stories from the collection, we talk about cosmic horror, organic servers, and the Munich art scene.

Things we mention in the episode:

Jordan Kurella's appearance on the show

The Best Horror of the Year, volumes 6 and 11, edited by Ellen Datlow

Stefan Koidl 

Hazel Ang 

Short Story Day

"Terminus Post Quem," by Steve Toase

Mad Scientist Journal 

Analog 

Dendrochronology 

RFC (Request for Comments)

April Fool's RFCs 

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol 

IP over Avian Carriers 

Whale fall 

"The Silent Brush of Wings," by Steve Toase, in Three-Lobed Burning Eye

Franz Marc 

Der Blaue Reiter 

Atelier 

"Simplicity," by Wassily Kandinsky

Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann

Gladius Dei, by Thomas Mann

Robert W. Chambers 

M.R. James 

our awful, racist uncle, Howard (Phillips Lovecraft) 

Paul Klee 

Cosmic horror 

The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers

The Yellow Sign, by Robert W. Chambers

Fortean Times Magazine 

Harrogate, north Yorkshire

Flint knapping 

Silicosis 

Asbestosis WARNING: some gross images on that wikipedia page

Embodied Geographies, edited by Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather

Steve's blog 

Steve's newsletter 

Steve's patreon 

 

Join us again on April 16th, when our guest will be Nino Cipri!

]]> This time around on book tour, we're joined by Steve Toase (@stevetoase), whose collection, To Drown in Dark Water, releases on April 27th, 2021! After Steve reads a selection of flash stories from the collection, we talk about cosmic horror, organic servers, and the Munich art scene.

Things we mention in the episode:

Jordan Kurella's appearance on the show

The Best Horror of the Year, volumes 6 and 11, edited by Ellen Datlow

Stefan Koidl 

Hazel Ang 

Short Story Day

"Terminus Post Quem," by Steve Toase

Mad Scientist Journal 

Analog 

Dendrochronology 

RFC (Request for Comments)

April Fool's RFCs 

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol 

IP over Avian Carriers 

Whale fall 

"The Silent Brush of Wings," by Steve Toase, in Three-Lobed Burning Eye

Franz Marc 

Der Blaue Reiter 

Atelier 

"Simplicity," by Wassily Kandinsky

Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann

Gladius Dei, by Thomas Mann

Robert W. Chambers 

M.R. James 

our awful, racist uncle, Howard (Phillips Lovecraft) 

Paul Klee 

Cosmic horror 

The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers

The Yellow Sign, by Robert W. Chambers

Fortean Times Magazine 

Harrogate, north Yorkshire

Flint knapping 

Silicosis 

Asbestosis WARNING: some gross images on that wikipedia page

Embodied Geographies, edited by Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather

Steve's blog 

Steve's newsletter 

Steve's patreon 

 

Join us again on April 16th, when our guest will be Nino Cipri!

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 1763 3 3 bonus Episode 25: Kelly Robson - ”Deadfall” Episode 25: Kelly Robson - ”Deadfall” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-25-kelly-robson-deadfall/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-25-kelly-robson-deadfall/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/b34bd593-181c-3091-b284-9b464be966b8 Hello, and welcome to season 3!

This time around, we're joined by Kelly Robson (@kellyoyo), whose new collection, Alias Space, comes out April 30th, 2021, from Subterranean Press! Kelly reads her story, "Deadfall," which she wrote as a futurist-in-residence during a conference, and we dive right into talking about what being a futurist is all about.

 

Things we mentioned in this episode:

A. M. Dellamonica 

Stan Rogers 

The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan

The Newsflesh series, by Mira Grant

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

Shaw Broadcasting 

Stantec Engineering 

Nakoda (Stoney) Tribe

Lenape (Delaware) Tribe

Karl Schroeder 

IBM 

Madeline Ashby 

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 

Futurescapes 

Oculus VR 

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 

Codex Writer's Group 

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Nanowrimo 

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

Subterranean Press 

Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood

 

Join us again on April 16th, when our guest will be Nino Cipri!

]]> Hello, and welcome to season 3!

This time around, we're joined by Kelly Robson (@kellyoyo), whose new collection, Alias Space, comes out April 30th, 2021, from Subterranean Press! Kelly reads her story, "Deadfall," which she wrote as a futurist-in-residence during a conference, and we dive right into talking about what being a futurist is all about.

 

Things we mentioned in this episode:

A. M. Dellamonica 

Stan Rogers 

The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan

The Newsflesh series, by Mira Grant

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

Shaw Broadcasting 

Stantec Engineering 

Nakoda (Stoney) Tribe

Lenape (Delaware) Tribe

Karl Schroeder 

IBM 

Madeline Ashby 

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 

Futurescapes 

Oculus VR 

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 

Codex Writer's Group 

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Nanowrimo 

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

Subterranean Press 

Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood

 

Join us again on April 16th, when our guest will be Nino Cipri!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3420 3 2 full Shelter In Place 12: Engines of Oblivion, with Karen Osborne Shelter In Place 12: Engines of Oblivion, with Karen Osborne https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-12-engines-of-oblivion-with-karen-osborne/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-12-engines-of-oblivion-with-karen-osborne/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/c32e9d14-7377-37ce-9b0f-1f98fc71fbcd This time on book tour, we're joined by returning guest Karen Osborne (@karenthology) to talk about Engines of Oblivion, the amazing sequel to last year's Architects of Memory, and conclusion of the Memory War duology. Karen reads us an excerpt from the book, and we take some time to talk about some of her favorite bits both that made it into print and that got taken out in edits.

Things we mentioned in this episode:

The Imperial Radch Trilogy, by Ann Leckie

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee

Wandavision 

"Agatha All Along"

Interstellar 

Mass Effect 

The Expanse 

"The Sky is a Neighborhood," by Foo Fighters

"Trip Switch," by Nothing but Thieves

"Daddy Lessons," by Beyonce, featuring the Dixie Chicks

Don't Touch That: An Anthology of Parenthood in SFF, edited by Jaymee Goh

 

Join us again next time, when my guest will be Kelly Robson!

]]> This time on book tour, we're joined by returning guest Karen Osborne (@karenthology) to talk about Engines of Oblivion, the amazing sequel to last year's Architects of Memory, and conclusion of the Memory War duology. Karen reads us an excerpt from the book, and we take some time to talk about some of her favorite bits both that made it into print and that got taken out in edits.

Things we mentioned in this episode:

The Imperial Radch Trilogy, by Ann Leckie

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee

Wandavision 

"Agatha All Along"

Interstellar 

Mass Effect 

The Expanse 

"The Sky is a Neighborhood," by Foo Fighters

"Trip Switch," by Nothing but Thieves

"Daddy Lessons," by Beyonce, featuring the Dixie Chicks

Don't Touch That: An Anthology of Parenthood in SFF, edited by Jaymee Goh

 

Join us again next time, when my guest will be Kelly Robson!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 1608 3 1 bonus Episode 24: Jason Sanford - ”The Wheels on the Torture Bus Go Round and Round” Episode 24: Jason Sanford - ”The Wheels on the Torture Bus Go Round and Round” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-24-jason-sanford-the-wheels-on-the-torture-bus-go-round-and-round/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-24-jason-sanford-the-wheels-on-the-torture-bus-go-round-and-round/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/12caed57-b054-3b61-9437-504deaef0b13 This episode, we are joined by Nebula-nominated author and journalist extraordinaire, Jason Sanford (@jasonsanford). Jason reads us his story, "The Wheels on the Torture Bus Go Round and Round," and we discuss progress in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror community, the joys of short fiction, and Jason's Genre Grapevine column on his patreon, where he covers news in the field.

 

Things discussed in this episode:

Meadowbrook Press 

Shel Silverstein 

Newfangled Fairy Tales, edited by Bruce Lansky

"Rumplestiltskin, Private Eye," by Jason Sanford, in Newfangled Fairy Tales #2 

A. J. Hackwith on Tales from the Trunk 

"May Our Voices Sing Like Blood from Open Wounds," by Jason Sanford, in Intergalactic Medicine Show

"The Eight-Thousanders," by Jason Sanford, in the September/October, 2020, issue of Asimov's 

Locus 

The Society of Professional Journalists 

Lady Whistledown's Society Papers 

Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies (the sad/rabids)

Under Everest, by D. H. Dunn

Uncanny Magazine 

Analog Magazine 

Randall Kenan 

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, by Randall Kenan

"Run, Mourner, Run," by Randall Kenan, in Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

The Peace Corps 

If I Had Two Wings, by Randall Kenan

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

Sarah Gailey on Tales from the Trunk

Tor.com Publishing 

"Sublimation Angels," by Jason Sanford

Plague Birds, by Jason Sanford

 

Join us again next month, when our guest will be Kelly Robson

]]> This episode, we are joined by Nebula-nominated author and journalist extraordinaire, Jason Sanford (@jasonsanford). Jason reads us his story, "The Wheels on the Torture Bus Go Round and Round," and we discuss progress in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror community, the joys of short fiction, and Jason's Genre Grapevine column on his patreon, where he covers news in the field.

 

Things discussed in this episode:

Meadowbrook Press 

Shel Silverstein 

Newfangled Fairy Tales, edited by Bruce Lansky

"Rumplestiltskin, Private Eye," by Jason Sanford, in Newfangled Fairy Tales #2 

A. J. Hackwith on Tales from the Trunk 

"May Our Voices Sing Like Blood from Open Wounds," by Jason Sanford, in Intergalactic Medicine Show

"The Eight-Thousanders," by Jason Sanford, in the September/October, 2020, issue of Asimov's 

Locus 

The Society of Professional Journalists 

Lady Whistledown's Society Papers 

Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies (the sad/rabids)

Under Everest, by D. H. Dunn

Uncanny Magazine 

Analog Magazine 

Randall Kenan 

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, by Randall Kenan

"Run, Mourner, Run," by Randall Kenan, in Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

The Peace Corps 

If I Had Two Wings, by Randall Kenan

The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells

Sarah Gailey on Tales from the Trunk

Tor.com Publishing 

"Sublimation Angels," by Jason Sanford

Plague Birds, by Jason Sanford

 

Join us again next month, when our guest will be Kelly Robson

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3915 2 23 full Shelter in Place 11: The Echo Wife, with Sarah Gailey Shelter in Place 11: The Echo Wife, with Sarah Gailey https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-11-the-echo-wife-with-sarah-gailey/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-11-the-echo-wife-with-sarah-gailey/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/818f4280-f33f-38db-9c07-edb7d5fe483f This time around, we're re-joined by Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey), who brings us an exclusive excerpt from their forthcoming novel, The Echo Wife, which releases on February 16th, 2021. Following the reading, we talk a bit about some not-so-usual book-event questions.

 

Other things we mention in this episode:

The Echo Wife in Entertainment Weekly 

in Cosmopolitan 

"Look," the scary eyeball story, by Sarah Gailey

Hamilton 

Sarah (Other Sarah) Hollowell (on Tales from the Trunk)

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

The Echo Wife tour 

Miriam Weinberg 

River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, by Sarah Gailey

When We Were Magic, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah's Substack newsletter, Stone Soup 

Sarah's Instagram 

Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Instagram)

The Mermaid, The Witch, And The Sea, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Gritty 

 

Tune in again in two weeks, when our guest will be Jason Sanford!

]]> This time around, we're re-joined by Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey), who brings us an exclusive excerpt from their forthcoming novel, The Echo Wife, which releases on February 16th, 2021. Following the reading, we talk a bit about some not-so-usual book-event questions.

 

Other things we mention in this episode:

The Echo Wife in Entertainment Weekly 

in Cosmopolitan 

"Look," the scary eyeball story, by Sarah Gailey

Hamilton 

Sarah (Other Sarah) Hollowell (on Tales from the Trunk)

Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey

The Echo Wife tour 

Miriam Weinberg 

River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, by Sarah Gailey

When We Were Magic, by Sarah Gailey

Sarah's Substack newsletter, Stone Soup 

Sarah's Instagram 

Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Instagram)

The Mermaid, The Witch, And The Sea, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Gritty 

 

Tune in again in two weeks, when our guest will be Jason Sanford!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 2020 2 22 bonus Episode 23: Fran Wilde - ”How Sentient Kudzu Solved the KRYPTOS K4 Code and How the CIA Covered It Up A Revolution in Four Parts” Episode 23: Fran Wilde - ”How Sentient Kudzu Solved the KRYPTOS K4 Code and How the CIA Covered It Up A Revolution in Four Parts” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-22-fran-wilde-how-sentient-kudzu-solved-the-kryptos-k4-code-and-how-the-cia-covered-it-up-a-revolution-in-four-parts/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-22-fran-wilde-how-sentient-kudzu-solved-the-kryptos-k4-code-and-how-the-cia-covered-it-up-a-revolution-in-four-parts/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/83417167-a111-3959-a967-fe72a51b76a3 We're joined this time around by Fran Wilde (@fran_wilde), who reads her story, "How Sentient Kudzu Solved the KRYPTOS K4 Code and How the CIA Covered It Up A Revolution in Four Parts," which leads us into a discussion of invasive plants, poetry, and some unexpected connections from our shared alma mater.

 

Things we mentioned in this episode:

Gritty 

Kryptos 

Kudzu 

Philadelphia World's Fair 

Elise Tobler 

Shimmer 

John Bartram 

Warren Wilson College 

Rita Dove 

Debra Nystrom 

Gregory Orr 

Charles Wright 

Heather McHugh 

Eleanor Wilner 

Brigit Pegeen Kelly 

Larry Levis 

Joan Aleshire 

"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop

George Oppen 

"Without," by Fran Wilde, in Nature: Futures

"Everlasting," by Fran Wilde, in Daily Science Fiction

Updraft, by Fran Wilde

The Nebula Awards 

Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith

Julia Rios 

Lanternfish Press 

Klein bottles 

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, by Theodora Goss

Fran's Patreon 

Ideomancer 

Sam J. Miller 

Uncanny Magazine 

Viable Paradise 

"The Ghost Tide Chanty," by Fran Wilde

"Mayor for Today," by Fran Wilde, in Asimov's, January/February 2021

"Rhizome by Starlight," by Fran Wilde, in Rebuilding Tomorrow 

The Ship of Stolen Words, by Fran Wilde

Riverland, by Fran Wilde

Narnia 

Clock Star Rose Spine, by Fran Wilde

Boskone 

Futurescapes 

Cat Rambo's classes 

Wester Colorado University's MFA in Creative Writing program

 

Join us again on February 19th, when Jason Sanford will be our guest!

]]> We're joined this time around by Fran Wilde (@fran_wilde), who reads her story, "How Sentient Kudzu Solved the KRYPTOS K4 Code and How the CIA Covered It Up A Revolution in Four Parts," which leads us into a discussion of invasive plants, poetry, and some unexpected connections from our shared alma mater.

 

Things we mentioned in this episode:

Gritty 

Kryptos 

Kudzu 

Philadelphia World's Fair 

Elise Tobler 

Shimmer 

John Bartram 

Warren Wilson College 

Rita Dove 

Debra Nystrom 

Gregory Orr 

Charles Wright 

Heather McHugh 

Eleanor Wilner 

Brigit Pegeen Kelly 

Larry Levis 

Joan Aleshire 

"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop

George Oppen 

"Without," by Fran Wilde, in Nature: Futures

"Everlasting," by Fran Wilde, in Daily Science Fiction

Updraft, by Fran Wilde

The Nebula Awards 

Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith

Julia Rios 

Lanternfish Press 

Klein bottles 

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, by Theodora Goss

Fran's Patreon 

Ideomancer 

Sam J. Miller 

Uncanny Magazine 

Viable Paradise 

"The Ghost Tide Chanty," by Fran Wilde

"Mayor for Today," by Fran Wilde, in Asimov's, January/February 2021

"Rhizome by Starlight," by Fran Wilde, in Rebuilding Tomorrow 

The Ship of Stolen Words, by Fran Wilde

Riverland, by Fran Wilde

Narnia 

Clock Star Rose Spine, by Fran Wilde

Boskone 

Futurescapes 

Cat Rambo's classes 

Wester Colorado University's MFA in Creative Writing program

 

Join us again on February 19th, when Jason Sanford will be our guest!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3803 2 21 full Shelter In Place 10: 2020 Awards Eligibility Shelter In Place 10: 2020 Awards Eligibility https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-10-2020-awards-eligibility/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-10-2020-awards-eligibility/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/e7f54cb2-ed71-3ef0-97a4-e2bcab77edcd Happy new year, everyone! It's been awards season for a hot minute already, but it takes a little while to do a roundup for all my guests who are interested in being a part of it, so here we are!

Works mentioned in this episode:

When We Were Magic, by Sarah Gailey

Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

“We Don’t Talk About the Dragon,” in The Book of Dragons, by Sarah Gailey

“Drones to Plowshares,” by Sarah Gailey

“Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right,” by Sarah Gailey

“Everything Is The Hunger Games Now,” by Sarah Gailey

Here's the Thing 

Sarah's awards post 

“Raff and the Scissor-Finger,” by R. K. Duncan

“Clever Jack, Heavy with Stories,” by R. K. Duncan

“For Every Jack,” by R. K. Duncan

"Witness," from Fireweed: Stories of the Revolution, by R. K. Duncan

R. K. Duncan's awards post 

Prime Deceptions, by Valerie Valdes

Chilling Effect, by Valerie Valdes

The Archive of the Forgotten, by A. J. Hackwith

The Library of the Unwritten, by A. J. Hackwith

Finding Faeries, by Alexandra Rowland

Be The Serpent 

Beneath the Rising, by Premee Mohamed

“Everything As Part Of Its Infinite Place,” (Patreon-locked) by Premee Mohamed

“The Redoubtables,” by Premee Mohamed

“Restoration of function to Biochemical Structure 34 using iterative molecular construction techniques: teaching an old dome new tricks,” by Premee Mohamed

“An Empathy of Fear,” by Premee Mohamed

The Big Idea: Premee Mohamed, John Scalzi's blog, March 2020

Whatever, John Scalzi's blog

Premee's awards post 

“And All the Trees of the Forest Shall Clap Their Hands,” by Sharon Hsu

“Upon What Soil They Fed,” by Jennifer Mace

“In the Salt Crypts of Ghiarelle,” in Silk and Steel, by Jennifer Mace

Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology 

"saltwashed," by Jennifer Mace

“Open House on Haunted Hill,” by John Wiswell

Machina, by Fran Wilde, Malka Older, Curtis C. Chen, and Martha Wells

 

A transcript of the show is below:

--

Before we get started, a quick reminder that I’ll be returning as a guest on the next episode of We Make Books, which should be hitting the feed on January 5th, talking about the process of trunking things. A huge shout out to Rekka and Kaelyn for inviting me back on the show!

[“Paper Wings” plays]

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: Reading the stories that didn’t make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

It’s awards season once again, and while I’ve already made my obligatory awards post on social media, that doesn’t do a whole lot if you don’t follow me or the show on Twitter. So once again, I’m collecting awards information for the show and all interested guests here in the feed.

This show, Tales from the Trunk, is once again eligible for Best Fancast and is my only eligible work for 2020.

Sarah Gailey, who appeared on our very first episode in March of 2019, is eligible for the Lodestar and other YA awards for When We Were Magic. They are eligible for Best Novella for Upright Women Wanted, (one of my favorite books of the past year). In the Best Short Story category, they have the following eligible stories: “We Don’t Talk About the Dragon,” “Drones to Plowshares,” and “Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right.” They are eligible for Best Related Work for their essay “Everything Is The Hunger Games Now,” and for Best Fan Writer for their newsletter, Here’s the Thing. A link to their awards post will be in the show notes.

R. K. Duncan, our May 2019 guest, has three stories eligible for Best Short Story: “Raff and the Scissor-Finger,” “Clever Jack, Heavy with Stories,” and “For Every Jack.” Additionally, their poem, “Witness,” is eligible for various poetry awards. A link to their awards post will be in the show notes.

Valerie Valdes, our July 2019 guest, is eligible for Best Novel for Prime Deceptions, the excellent sequel to last year’s Chilling Effect.

A.J. Hackwith, who was on the show in September of 2019, is in her second year of eligibility for the Outstanding Award for New Writers. The Archive of the Forgotten, the sequel to last year’s stellar debut, The Library of the Unwritten, is eligible for Best Novel.

Alex Rowland, who came on the show in October of 2019, is eligible for Best Novella for Finding Faeries, and Best Fancast for Be The Serpent, along with our October 2020 guest, Jennifer Mace.

Premee Mohamed, who joined us in November of 2019, is eligible for Best Novel for her debut, Beneath the Rising. The following are eligible for Best Short Story: “Everything As Part Of Its Infinite Place,” “The Redoubtables,” and “Restoration of function to Biochemical Structure 34 using iterative molecular construction techniques: teaching an old dome new tricks.” She is eligible for various nonfiction awards for her essay “An Empathy of Fear,” and her appearance on John Scalzi’s “Big Idea” feature on his blog, Whatever. A link to Premee’s awards post will be in the show notes.

Sharon Hsu, our December 2019 guest, is eligible for Best Short Story for “And All the Trees of the Forest Shall Clap Their Hands.”

Macey, AKA Jennifer Mace, who joined us in October of this year is eligible alongside their podcasting compatriots, Alex Rowland and Freya Marske, for Be the Serpent in the Best Fancast category. Macey’s stories, “Upon What Soil They Fed” and “In the Salt Crypts of Ghiarelle” are both eligible for Best Short Story. Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology is eligible for the World Fantasy Award for Best Speculative Anthology, and “saltwashed,” is eligible for poetry awards.

John Wiswell, who joined us in November of 2020, is eligible for Best Short Story for “Open House on Haunted Hill.”

Finally, Fran Wilde, who will be joining us on the show in two weeks, has the Serial Box serial, Machina, eligible for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, along with Malka Older and Curtis C. Chen.

Links for eligibility posts, as applicable, along with all the works mentioned on this episode will be available in the show notes.

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Ryan Boyd.

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

You can find the show on Twitter at trunkcast, and I tweet at hbbisenieks.

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

And remember: don't self-reject.

[“Paper Wings” plays]

]]> Happy new year, everyone! It's been awards season for a hot minute already, but it takes a little while to do a roundup for all my guests who are interested in being a part of it, so here we are!

Works mentioned in this episode:

When We Were Magic, by Sarah Gailey

Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

“We Don’t Talk About the Dragon,” in The Book of Dragons, by Sarah Gailey

“Drones to Plowshares,” by Sarah Gailey

“Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right,” by Sarah Gailey

“Everything Is The Hunger Games Now,” by Sarah Gailey

Here's the Thing 

Sarah's awards post 

“Raff and the Scissor-Finger,” by R. K. Duncan

“Clever Jack, Heavy with Stories,” by R. K. Duncan

“For Every Jack,” by R. K. Duncan

"Witness," from Fireweed: Stories of the Revolution, by R. K. Duncan

R. K. Duncan's awards post 

Prime Deceptions, by Valerie Valdes

Chilling Effect, by Valerie Valdes

The Archive of the Forgotten, by A. J. Hackwith

The Library of the Unwritten, by A. J. Hackwith

Finding Faeries, by Alexandra Rowland

Be The Serpent 

Beneath the Rising, by Premee Mohamed

“Everything As Part Of Its Infinite Place,” (Patreon-locked) by Premee Mohamed

“The Redoubtables,” by Premee Mohamed

“Restoration of function to Biochemical Structure 34 using iterative molecular construction techniques: teaching an old dome new tricks,” by Premee Mohamed

“An Empathy of Fear,” by Premee Mohamed

The Big Idea: Premee Mohamed, John Scalzi's blog, March 2020

Whatever, John Scalzi's blog

Premee's awards post 

“And All the Trees of the Forest Shall Clap Their Hands,” by Sharon Hsu

“Upon What Soil They Fed,” by Jennifer Mace

“In the Salt Crypts of Ghiarelle,” in Silk and Steel, by Jennifer Mace

Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology 

"saltwashed," by Jennifer Mace

“Open House on Haunted Hill,” by John Wiswell

Machina, by Fran Wilde, Malka Older, Curtis C. Chen, and Martha Wells

 

A transcript of the show is below:

--

Before we get started, a quick reminder that I’ll be returning as a guest on the next episode of We Make Books, which should be hitting the feed on January 5th, talking about the process of trunking things. A huge shout out to Rekka and Kaelyn for inviting me back on the show!

[“Paper Wings” plays]

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: Reading the stories that didn’t make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

It’s awards season once again, and while I’ve already made my obligatory awards post on social media, that doesn’t do a whole lot if you don’t follow me or the show on Twitter. So once again, I’m collecting awards information for the show and all interested guests here in the feed.

This show, Tales from the Trunk, is once again eligible for Best Fancast and is my only eligible work for 2020.

Sarah Gailey, who appeared on our very first episode in March of 2019, is eligible for the Lodestar and other YA awards for When We Were Magic. They are eligible for Best Novella for Upright Women Wanted, (one of my favorite books of the past year). In the Best Short Story category, they have the following eligible stories: “We Don’t Talk About the Dragon,” “Drones to Plowshares,” and “Tiger Lawyer Gets It Right.” They are eligible for Best Related Work for their essay “Everything Is The Hunger Games Now,” and for Best Fan Writer for their newsletter, Here’s the Thing. A link to their awards post will be in the show notes.

R. K. Duncan, our May 2019 guest, has three stories eligible for Best Short Story: “Raff and the Scissor-Finger,” “Clever Jack, Heavy with Stories,” and “For Every Jack.” Additionally, their poem, “Witness,” is eligible for various poetry awards. A link to their awards post will be in the show notes.

Valerie Valdes, our July 2019 guest, is eligible for Best Novel for Prime Deceptions, the excellent sequel to last year’s Chilling Effect.

A.J. Hackwith, who was on the show in September of 2019, is in her second year of eligibility for the Outstanding Award for New Writers. The Archive of the Forgotten, the sequel to last year’s stellar debut, The Library of the Unwritten, is eligible for Best Novel.

Alex Rowland, who came on the show in October of 2019, is eligible for Best Novella for Finding Faeries, and Best Fancast for Be The Serpent, along with our October 2020 guest, Jennifer Mace.

Premee Mohamed, who joined us in November of 2019, is eligible for Best Novel for her debut, Beneath the Rising. The following are eligible for Best Short Story: “Everything As Part Of Its Infinite Place,” “The Redoubtables,” and “Restoration of function to Biochemical Structure 34 using iterative molecular construction techniques: teaching an old dome new tricks.” She is eligible for various nonfiction awards for her essay “An Empathy of Fear,” and her appearance on John Scalzi’s “Big Idea” feature on his blog, Whatever. A link to Premee’s awards post will be in the show notes.

Sharon Hsu, our December 2019 guest, is eligible for Best Short Story for “And All the Trees of the Forest Shall Clap Their Hands.”

Macey, AKA Jennifer Mace, who joined us in October of this year is eligible alongside their podcasting compatriots, Alex Rowland and Freya Marske, for Be the Serpent in the Best Fancast category. Macey’s stories, “Upon What Soil They Fed” and “In the Salt Crypts of Ghiarelle” are both eligible for Best Short Story. Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology is eligible for the World Fantasy Award for Best Speculative Anthology, and “saltwashed,” is eligible for poetry awards.

John Wiswell, who joined us in November of 2020, is eligible for Best Short Story for “Open House on Haunted Hill.”

Finally, Fran Wilde, who will be joining us on the show in two weeks, has the Serial Box serial, Machina, eligible for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, along with Malka Older and Curtis C. Chen.

Links for eligibility posts, as applicable, along with all the works mentioned on this episode will be available in the show notes.

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Ryan Boyd.

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

You can find the show on Twitter at trunkcast, and I tweet at hbbisenieks.

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

And remember: don't self-reject.

[“Paper Wings” plays]

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 423 2 20 bonus Episode 22: Phoebe Barton - ”More Things Than Are Dreamt Of” Episode 22: Phoebe Barton - ”More Things Than Are Dreamt Of” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-22-phoebe-barton-more-things-than-are-dreamt-of/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-22-phoebe-barton-more-things-than-are-dreamt-of/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/e8cb2c91-ada0-3257-ad0a-a283e59f1730 This time around, it's my pleasure to welcome Phoebe Barton (@aphoebebarton | phoebebartonsf.com) onto the show! Phoebe reads their story, "More Things Than Are Dreamt Of," which leads us into a great conversation about how the submissions game has changed since we got started and what Phoebe's just-released interactive fiction game, The Luminous Underground, taught her new things about writing linear fiction.

You can find links to purchase The Luminous Underground on the Choice of Games website. 

 

Things we mentioned this episode:

SFWA 

Cowboy Bebop 

Bakka-Phoenix Books 

Analog 

Asimov's 

“The Paragon of Animals,” by Phoebe Barton (Analog, March 2013)

F&SF 

Weird Tales 

Chocobos 

John W. Campbell 

Choice of Games 

Ghostbusters 

Choice of Games: pitching 

Twine 

NaNoWriMo 

Clarion West 

Worldcon 

 

Join us again on January 15th, when our guest will be Fran Wilde!

]]> This time around, it's my pleasure to welcome Phoebe Barton (@aphoebebarton | phoebebartonsf.com) onto the show! Phoebe reads their story, "More Things Than Are Dreamt Of," which leads us into a great conversation about how the submissions game has changed since we got started and what Phoebe's just-released interactive fiction game, The Luminous Underground, taught her new things about writing linear fiction.

You can find links to purchase The Luminous Underground on the Choice of Games website. 

 

Things we mentioned this episode:

SFWA 

Cowboy Bebop 

Bakka-Phoenix Books 

Analog 

Asimov's 

“The Paragon of Animals,” by Phoebe Barton (Analog, March 2013)

F&SF 

Weird Tales 

Chocobos 

John W. Campbell 

Choice of Games 

Ghostbusters 

Choice of Games: pitching 

Twine 

NaNoWriMo 

Clarion West 

Worldcon 

 

Join us again on January 15th, when our guest will be Fran Wilde!

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 3198 2 19 full Shelter in Place 9: Post-NaNoWriMo Shelter in Place 9: Post-NaNoWriMo https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-9-post-nanowrimo/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-9-post-nanowrimo/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/55ac8054-abc1-319b-8119-cc8a93efda9c For this month's bonus episode, I'm talking a bit about NaNoWriMo! The transcript for this episode follows:

--

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: reading the stories that didn’t make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

Twenty twenty might have been simultaneously the best and worst year to try to do NaNoWriMo. Best because we didn’t have our usual distractions thanks to the pandemic, so we could spend more time at home working on our writing. Worst because, well, everything. And despite or because of all that, many of us tried to write a novel this November.

As some of you may have seen on my main twitter account, I won NaNo this year. This was my first time winning—by which I mean writing over fifty thousand words during November—though it was my sixth November attempt. I wrote fifty thousand, four hundred and fifty one words of a brand new manuscript in November, which represents what I estimate to be about fifty five percent of the first draft of this book. So yes, I “won” NaNo in that I wrote all those words, but I didn’t finish the book in November.

That’s ok, though. I’m over halfway done with the first draft of a novel. I wrote more in the past month than I did in the previous few years combined. That’s a huge win for me. And like John Wiswell said on our November episode, if you manage to write any words in November, you’re doing better than most writers out there. So however much you wrote in November, good job! And if you didn’t write in November, guess what? You’re still doing great.

So as someone who finally won after five quote-unquote unsuccessful attempts, what did I learn? What were my secrets?

Mostly it came down to having support. Nobody actually writes (or creates any other art, for that matter) in a vacuum. In my case, I couldn’t have written as much as I did without the support of my spouse (who won NaNo on her first try!) or all my friends online, who encouraged me to sit down and write for half an hour with them at whatever time I was at my computer. Elizabeth, Macey, Noah, Caitlin, Rem, Val, Laura, and so many other folks were right there cheering me and everyone else along.

It turns out for me that doing sprints like that is the most-consistent way I can get words out. If I just sit down to write with the goal of just making wordcount for the day, often I’ll just stare at the blinking cursor. If I sit down and put on a timer for fifteen or thirty minutes and announce on twitter or slack or to my spouse that I’m going to write for a set amount of time, that creates enough pressure on me to get words out, and if I can just keep going after that timer goes off? Great! And if not, there will be another run after a short break.

The other thing, which I learned about myself a while ago, but which doing NaNo really reinforced for me, is that I need an outline for longer works, but that I shouldn’t be too precious with it. While for most of the month I had at least two thirds of the book outlined, I only really needed to have the next two chapters firm in my head, because anything beyond that was likely to change in some way or another anyway.

Finally, I learned that I can, in point of fact, win NaNoWriMo. I went in with the goal to write fifty thousand words, an average of sixteen hundred and sixty-seven words a day, and I did that. If I didn’t hit par one day, and I frequently didn’t, that was fine. And if I hadn’t won? That would have been fine, too. Any words I made in November would be a win. Any words you can make any month are a win.

NaNo doesn’t work for everyone, and that’s ok. You know the best way to make words for yourself, and anything anyone else tells you is at best a helpful suggestion.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go make some more words. This novel isn’t going to finish itself, however hard I might wish that it would.

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Ryan Boyd.

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

You can find the show on Twitter at trunkcast, and I tweet at hbbisenieks.

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

And remember: don't self-reject.

]]> For this month's bonus episode, I'm talking a bit about NaNoWriMo! The transcript for this episode follows:

--

Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk: reading the stories that didn’t make it. I’m Hilary B. Bisenieks.

Twenty twenty might have been simultaneously the best and worst year to try to do NaNoWriMo. Best because we didn’t have our usual distractions thanks to the pandemic, so we could spend more time at home working on our writing. Worst because, well, everything. And despite or because of all that, many of us tried to write a novel this November.

As some of you may have seen on my main twitter account, I won NaNo this year. This was my first time winning—by which I mean writing over fifty thousand words during November—though it was my sixth November attempt. I wrote fifty thousand, four hundred and fifty one words of a brand new manuscript in November, which represents what I estimate to be about fifty five percent of the first draft of this book. So yes, I “won” NaNo in that I wrote all those words, but I didn’t finish the book in November.

That’s ok, though. I’m over halfway done with the first draft of a novel. I wrote more in the past month than I did in the previous few years combined. That’s a huge win for me. And like John Wiswell said on our November episode, if you manage to write any words in November, you’re doing better than most writers out there. So however much you wrote in November, good job! And if you didn’t write in November, guess what? You’re still doing great.

So as someone who finally won after five quote-unquote unsuccessful attempts, what did I learn? What were my secrets?

Mostly it came down to having support. Nobody actually writes (or creates any other art, for that matter) in a vacuum. In my case, I couldn’t have written as much as I did without the support of my spouse (who won NaNo on her first try!) or all my friends online, who encouraged me to sit down and write for half an hour with them at whatever time I was at my computer. Elizabeth, Macey, Noah, Caitlin, Rem, Val, Laura, and so many other folks were right there cheering me and everyone else along.

It turns out for me that doing sprints like that is the most-consistent way I can get words out. If I just sit down to write with the goal of just making wordcount for the day, often I’ll just stare at the blinking cursor. If I sit down and put on a timer for fifteen or thirty minutes and announce on twitter or slack or to my spouse that I’m going to write for a set amount of time, that creates enough pressure on me to get words out, and if I can just keep going after that timer goes off? Great! And if not, there will be another run after a short break.

The other thing, which I learned about myself a while ago, but which doing NaNo really reinforced for me, is that I need an outline for longer works, but that I shouldn’t be too precious with it. While for most of the month I had at least two thirds of the book outlined, I only really needed to have the next two chapters firm in my head, because anything beyond that was likely to change in some way or another anyway.

Finally, I learned that I can, in point of fact, win NaNoWriMo. I went in with the goal to write fifty thousand words, an average of sixteen hundred and sixty-seven words a day, and I did that. If I didn’t hit par one day, and I frequently didn’t, that was fine. And if I hadn’t won? That would have been fine, too. Any words I made in November would be a win. Any words you can make any month are a win.

NaNo doesn’t work for everyone, and that’s ok. You know the best way to make words for yourself, and anything anyone else tells you is at best a helpful suggestion.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go make some more words. This novel isn’t going to finish itself, however hard I might wish that it would.

Tales from the Trunk is mixed and produced in beautiful Oakland, California.

Our theme music is “Paper Wings,” by Ryan Boyd.

You can support the show on patreon at patreon dot com slash trunkcast. All patrons of the show now get a sticker and logo button, along with show outtakes and other content that can't be found anywhere else.

You can find the show on Twitter at trunkcast, and I tweet at hbbisenieks.

If you like the show, consider taking a moment to rate and review us on your preferred podcast platform.

And remember: don't self-reject.

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 387 2 18 full Episode 21: John Wiswell - ”Tonight at the Palindrome” Episode 21: John Wiswell - ”Tonight at the Palindrome” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-21-john-wiswell-tonight-at-the-palindrome/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-21-john-wiswell-tonight-at-the-palindrome/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/360ae16d-12fa-3797-b82a-0be9d74bbe24 This month, we're honored to be joined by John Wiswell (@Wiswell), who reads an excerpt of his story, "Tonight at the Palindrome." After that, we talk about our experiences navigating non-genre bachelors programs as genre writers and why it's so important to be open about our rejections as well as our sales.

Things that we mentioned this episode:

"Tank!" by John Wiswell

Ellen Datlow 

Arkady Martine 

A. T. Greenblatt 

Uncanny Magazine 

Shimmer 

Julia Rios 

Fireside Magazine 

Worldcon 76 

Bogi Takács 

NaNoWriMo 

Curtis C. Chen 

Mary Robinette Kowal 

Seanan McGuire 

Warren Wilson College 

Louis L'Amour 

Stephen King 

J. R. R. Tolkien 

Ursula K. Le Guin 

Richard Matheson 

"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson

Bennington College 

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

William Faulkner 

Tor 

Peter Jackson 

Campbellian monomyth 

Astounding 

Amazing Stories 

TSR (the publisher, as opposed to "TRS," as in the Tandy TRS-80, which was mistakenly name-dropped in the episode)

Lois McMaster Bujold 

Diana Wynne Jones 

Cowboy Bebop 

"Tank!" by Yoko Kanno and Seatbelts

Personal Canons: Dragon Ball by John Wiswell (free to read, despite what was said on the show, but do consider subscribing anyway)

Sarah Gailey's Here's the Thing 

Orson Scott Card 

"The Bottomless Martyr," by John Wiswell

The Bathroom Monologues 

 

Please join us again next month, on December 18th, when our guest will be Phoebe Barton!

]]> This month, we're honored to be joined by John Wiswell (@Wiswell), who reads an excerpt of his story, "Tonight at the Palindrome." After that, we talk about our experiences navigating non-genre bachelors programs as genre writers and why it's so important to be open about our rejections as well as our sales.

Things that we mentioned this episode:

"Tank!" by John Wiswell

Ellen Datlow 

Arkady Martine 

A. T. Greenblatt 

Uncanny Magazine 

Shimmer 

Julia Rios 

Fireside Magazine 

Worldcon 76 

Bogi Takács 

NaNoWriMo 

Curtis C. Chen 

Mary Robinette Kowal 

Seanan McGuire 

Warren Wilson College 

Louis L'Amour 

Stephen King 

J. R. R. Tolkien 

Ursula K. Le Guin 

Richard Matheson 

"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson

Bennington College 

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

William Faulkner 

Tor 

Peter Jackson 

Campbellian monomyth 

Astounding 

Amazing Stories 

TSR (the publisher, as opposed to "TRS," as in the Tandy TRS-80, which was mistakenly name-dropped in the episode)

Lois McMaster Bujold 

Diana Wynne Jones 

Cowboy Bebop 

"Tank!" by Yoko Kanno and Seatbelts

Personal Canons: Dragon Ball by John Wiswell (free to read, despite what was said on the show, but do consider subscribing anyway)

Sarah Gailey's Here's the Thing 

Orson Scott Card 

"The Bottomless Martyr," by John Wiswell

The Bathroom Monologues 

 

Please join us again next month, on December 18th, when our guest will be Phoebe Barton!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4115 2 17 full Shelter in Place 8: Fae’s Purrs Shelter in Place 8: Fae’s Purrs https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-8-faes-purrs/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-8-faes-purrs/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/d875098f-f991-33a7-a062-4a5eef056155 It's been a week, y'all, so here's some comforting content.

You can catch me on We Make Books on November 17th.

Join us again on November 20th, when my guest will be John Wiswell.

]]> It's been a week, y'all, so here's some comforting content.

You can catch me on We Make Books on November 17th.

Join us again on November 20th, when my guest will be John Wiswell.

]]> Just 11 minutes of a happy cat purring. Tales from the Trunk false No 721 2 16 bonus Episode 20: Jennifer Mace - Hagstone Episode 20: Jennifer Mace - Hagstone https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-20-jennifer-mace-hagstone/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-20-jennifer-mace-hagstone/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/3e42e22c-2efe-3c05-a849-5d94b4812e7a Darling listeners, we're joined this month by Jennifer Mace (@englishmace), one of the hosts of Be the Serpent, a podcast of Extremely Deep Literary Merit. Macey reads us a chapter out of the trunked novel that was to be her YA debut, and we talk about murder-boards, Nanowrimo, and some previews of upcoming Serpentcast episodes! Silk & Steel, a queer adventure anthology that Macey co-edited, will be released in November of 2020.

Also, if you can't get enough of me, I'm happy to announce that I will be on the next episode of Rank & Vile, talking about one of my favorite horror movies, 28 Days Later, which will be going up on their Patreon this Saturday, the 17th, and in the public feed the following week. Also, I will be appearing on Story Hour at 7PM Pacific on Wednesday, October 21st, along with Laura Pearlman.

Things we mention in this episode:

Hag of the Hills 

#PitMad 

Tithe, by Holly Black

"A Cradle of Vines," by Jennifer Mace

"saltwashed," by Jennifer Mace

"A Step Out Into the Blue," by Hilary B. Bisenieks

"Thou Shalt Be Free As Mountain Winds," by Jennifer Mace

Managing Mayhem with Murderboards - We Make Books Podcast

Design documents 

NaNoWriMo 

Brandon Sanderson lecture series 

Quick Sips Reviews 

"Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time," by K. M. Szpara

Binge Mode 

Haikyu!! 

 

Join us again next month, when our guest will be John Wiswell!

]]> Darling listeners, we're joined this month by Jennifer Mace (@englishmace), one of the hosts of Be the Serpent, a podcast of Extremely Deep Literary Merit. Macey reads us a chapter out of the trunked novel that was to be her YA debut, and we talk about murder-boards, Nanowrimo, and some previews of upcoming Serpentcast episodes! Silk & Steel, a queer adventure anthology that Macey co-edited, will be released in November of 2020.

Also, if you can't get enough of me, I'm happy to announce that I will be on the next episode of Rank & Vile, talking about one of my favorite horror movies, 28 Days Later, which will be going up on their Patreon this Saturday, the 17th, and in the public feed the following week. Also, I will be appearing on Story Hour at 7PM Pacific on Wednesday, October 21st, along with Laura Pearlman.

Things we mention in this episode:

Hag of the Hills 

#PitMad 

Tithe, by Holly Black

"A Cradle of Vines," by Jennifer Mace

"saltwashed," by Jennifer Mace

"A Step Out Into the Blue," by Hilary B. Bisenieks

"Thou Shalt Be Free As Mountain Winds," by Jennifer Mace

Managing Mayhem with Murderboards - We Make Books Podcast

Design documents 

NaNoWriMo 

Brandon Sanderson lecture series 

Quick Sips Reviews 

"Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time," by K. M. Szpara

Binge Mode 

Haikyu!! 

 

Join us again next month, when our guest will be John Wiswell!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 4316 2 15 full Shelter in Place 7: Exquisite Corpse Shelter in Place 7: Exquisite Corpse https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-7-exquisite-corpse/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-7-exquisite-corpse/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/7cba82ef-cc2e-3de3-aff3-61a450e58f79 Hello, and welcome to Spooky Season!

We've got a bit of a weird one for you this time around, but I think it came out well. I asked a number of friends of the show if they would contribute to a literary exquisite corpse and got some phenomenal submissions.

Thank you so much to John Wiswell, Aimee Kuzenski, Premee Mohamed, Kate Lechler, Laura Blackwell, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, R. K. Duncan, Dave Ring, Hana Russell, Tyler Hayes, and Jordan Kurella, our literary doctors Frankenstein.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

]]> Hello, and welcome to Spooky Season!

We've got a bit of a weird one for you this time around, but I think it came out well. I asked a number of friends of the show if they would contribute to a literary exquisite corpse and got some phenomenal submissions.

Thank you so much to John Wiswell, Aimee Kuzenski, Premee Mohamed, Kate Lechler, Laura Blackwell, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, R. K. Duncan, Dave Ring, Hana Russell, Tyler Hayes, and Jordan Kurella, our literary doctors Frankenstein.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 612 2 14 bonus Episode 19: Caitlin Starling - Untitled Faerie Story Episode 19: Caitlin Starling - Untitled Faerie Story https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-19-caitlin-starling-untitled-faerie-story/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-19-caitlin-starling-untitled-faerie-story/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/6f2364de-e0d9-3777-80cd-ddba9fcd2458 This month, we're joined by Locus and Bram Stoker Award nominated author, and winner of this year's Ladies in Horror Award, Caitlin Starling (@see_starling @authorcstarling)! Caitlin's new novella, Yellow Jessamine, came out on September 5th from Neon Hemlock Press. We're treated to an excerpt of Caitlin's trunked novel, Untitled Faerie Story, which can be affectionately described as "idiots to lovers," before having a wonderful conversation about the whys and hows of writing horror and how online text-based roleplaying helped to shape Caitlin's writing.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

Valerie Valdes 

Guild Wars 2 

Martha Wells 

Max Gladstone 

Clockwork Boys, by T. Kingfisher

Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett (GNU)

The California State Railroad Museum 

Zootopia 

Megan E. O'Keefe 

Animal Crossing 

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

Rubber duck debugging 

Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Silk and Steel 

 

Join us again on October 16th, when our guest will be Jennifer Mace

]]> This month, we're joined by Locus and Bram Stoker Award nominated author, and winner of this year's Ladies in Horror Award, Caitlin Starling (@see_starling @authorcstarling)! Caitlin's new novella, Yellow Jessamine, came out on September 5th from Neon Hemlock Press. We're treated to an excerpt of Caitlin's trunked novel, Untitled Faerie Story, which can be affectionately described as "idiots to lovers," before having a wonderful conversation about the whys and hows of writing horror and how online text-based roleplaying helped to shape Caitlin's writing.

 

Things mentioned in this episode:

The Luminous Dead, by Caitlin Starling

Valerie Valdes 

Guild Wars 2 

Martha Wells 

Max Gladstone 

Clockwork Boys, by T. Kingfisher

Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett (GNU)

The California State Railroad Museum 

Zootopia 

Megan E. O'Keefe 

Animal Crossing 

The Death of Jane Lawrence, by Caitlin Starling

Rubber duck debugging 

Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Silk and Steel 

 

Join us again on October 16th, when our guest will be Jennifer Mace

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3573 2 13 full Shelter in Place 6: Q&A Shelter in Place 6: Q&A https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-6-qa/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-6-qa/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/63354f76-7a0a-3754-ad51-666eed72b1d6 We've got a Q&A for this month's bonus episode! Thank you to Miri, Jo, D. H. Dunn, R. K. Duncan, Nina, Diane, Valerie, Sarah, Dave, and Amanda for submitting questions on such short notice! I promise I'll give everyone more than a couple weeks advance warning before I do another of these!

Join us again on September 18th, when Caitlin Starling will be on the show!

]]> We've got a Q&A for this month's bonus episode! Thank you to Miri, Jo, D. H. Dunn, R. K. Duncan, Nina, Diane, Valerie, Sarah, Dave, and Amanda for submitting questions on such short notice! I promise I'll give everyone more than a couple weeks advance warning before I do another of these!

Join us again on September 18th, when Caitlin Starling will be on the show!

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 2621 2 12 bonus Episode 18: Karen Osborne - ”Slingshot Protocol” Episode 18: Karen Osborne - ”Slingshot Protocol” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-18-karen-osborne-slingshot-protocol/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-18-karen-osborne-slingshot-protocol/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/b53b3d24-fa02-30ab-8c6e-b23ad4def35e We're joined this month by Karen Osborne, who reads us her trunked space lighthouse story "Slingshot Protocol." Afterwards, we talk about the fine art of listening to and then not acting on what your beta readers say and keeping your eyes on your own paper. Karen's debut novel, Architects of Memory, comes out on September 8th from Tor books.

Join us again on September 4th for another Shelter in Place special, where I'll be answering listener questions, and then on September 18th, when our guest will be author Caitlin Starling!

]]> We're joined this month by Karen Osborne, who reads us her trunked space lighthouse story "Slingshot Protocol." Afterwards, we talk about the fine art of listening to and then not acting on what your beta readers say and keeping your eyes on your own paper. Karen's debut novel, Architects of Memory, comes out on September 8th from Tor books.

Join us again on September 4th for another Shelter in Place special, where I'll be answering listener questions, and then on September 18th, when our guest will be author Caitlin Starling!

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3995 2 11 full Shelter in Place 5: ”Once Upon a Conspiracy” Shelter in Place 5: ”Once Upon a Conspiracy” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-5-once-upon-a-conspiracy/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-5-once-upon-a-conspiracy/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/11fe64ef-a7d5-33ea-b53d-a333f6eb2ae5 Here we are: another month of something like lockdown, another Shelter in Place special. This time around, I'm bringing you another story from my own trunk, all the way from January of 2010.

 

If you're a US citizen, please make sure that you're registered to vote in this year's general election, which will take place on Tuesday, November 3rd. You can find out how to register to vote in your state by visiting vote.gov.

 

Join us again in two weeks, on August 21st, when our guest will be Karen Osborne. You can preorder her debut, Architects of Memory, now (and you should)!

A transcript of this episode is available here.

  ]]> Here we are: another month of something like lockdown, another Shelter in Place special. This time around, I'm bringing you another story from my own trunk, all the way from January of 2010.

 

If you're a US citizen, please make sure that you're registered to vote in this year's general election, which will take place on Tuesday, November 3rd. You can find out how to register to vote in your state by visiting vote.gov.

 

Join us again in two weeks, on August 21st, when our guest will be Karen Osborne. You can preorder her debut, Architects of Memory, now (and you should)!

A transcript of this episode is available here.

  ]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 332 2 10 bonus Episode 17: ”When Dreams Like Fire Spread” - Merc Fenn Wolfmoor Episode 17: ”When Dreams Like Fire Spread” - Merc Fenn Wolfmoor https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-17-when-dreams-like-fire-spread-merc-fenn-wolfmoor/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/episode-17-when-dreams-like-fire-spread-merc-fenn-wolfmoor/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/d7e2cdac-142a-525d-92d6-bb398ccf210f We're joined on this episode by author and Nebula Award finalist, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (@Merc_Wolfmoor). Merc reads their short horror story, "When Dreams Like Fire Spread," and we talk about horror, portal fantasies, queer representation, and fanfiction. Merc's newest story, "Bring the Bones That Sing," is now up on Diabolical Plots!

 

A transcript of the episode, provided by D. H. Dunn, is available here.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Robot Dinosaur Fiction 

AJ Hackwith's appearance on Tales from the Trunk

LORE 

The Magnus Archives 

Writing Excuses 

Welcome to Night Vale 

X Minus One 

"This is Not a Wardrobe Door," by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan

Fireside Quarterly 

Pokémon Go 

Dawn of the Dead 

"Blink"

The Ring 

They Live (alluded to)

Psycho 

The Destroy anthology series

Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! 

John Wiswell 

Elsa Sjunneson 

Nightmare Magazine being edited by Wendy Wagner beginning in 2021

Be the Serpent 

Archive Of Our Own 

My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark 

The Dystopia Triptych 

Silk & Steel 

Sword and Sonnet 

No Shit, There I Was 

Avatars Inc 

Architects of Memory, by Karen Osborne

 

Join us again on August  7th for whatever our next Shelter in Place special, and August 21st, when our guest will be Karen Osborne

]]> We're joined on this episode by author and Nebula Award finalist, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (@Merc_Wolfmoor). Merc reads their short horror story, "When Dreams Like Fire Spread," and we talk about horror, portal fantasies, queer representation, and fanfiction. Merc's newest story, "Bring the Bones That Sing," is now up on Diabolical Plots!

 

A transcript of the episode, provided by D. H. Dunn, is available here.

 

Things we mention on this episode:

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 

Robot Dinosaur Fiction 

AJ Hackwith's appearance on Tales from the Trunk

LORE 

The Magnus Archives 

Writing Excuses 

Welcome to Night Vale 

X Minus One 

"This is Not a Wardrobe Door," by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan

Fireside Quarterly 

Pokémon Go 

Dawn of the Dead 

"Blink"

The Ring 

They Live (alluded to)

Psycho 

The Destroy anthology series

Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! 

John Wiswell 

Elsa Sjunneson 

Nightmare Magazine being edited by Wendy Wagner beginning in 2021

Be the Serpent 

Archive Of Our Own 

My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark 

The Dystopia Triptych 

Silk & Steel 

Sword and Sonnet 

No Shit, There I Was 

Avatars Inc 

Architects of Memory, by Karen Osborne

 

Join us again on August  7th for whatever our next Shelter in Place special, and August 21st, when our guest will be Karen Osborne

]]> Tales from the Trunk true No 3891 2 9 full Shelter in Place 4: ”The Doorway” Shelter in Place 4: ”The Doorway” https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-4-the-doorway/ https://www.talesfromthetrunk.com/e/shelter-in-place-4-the-doorway/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0600 talesfromthetrunk.podbean.com/46ba04ef-aeb8-5898-8262-e85bd31f7870 Friends, somehow it is July of twenty twenty. We’re still sheltering in place, here in Beautiful Oakland, California, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon. I hope that wherever you are in the world, you and your friends and loved ones are safe and well.

For this month’s Shelter in Place episode, we’re diving back into my trunk, all the way back to the spring of 2010, a whole entire decade ago, to brush some of the dust off of another story that I wrote for an assignment. I don’t recall what, if anything, I was given as a prompt, but I turned it into another vaguely horror-y tunnel story, which should surprise approximately nobody.

Actually, this story predates “Green Line,” which I read on our April episode, by about a year.

 

Join us again on July 17th, when Merc Fenn Wolfmoor will be on the show!

]]> Friends, somehow it is July of twenty twenty. We’re still sheltering in place, here in Beautiful Oakland, California, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon. I hope that wherever you are in the world, you and your friends and loved ones are safe and well.

For this month’s Shelter in Place episode, we’re diving back into my trunk, all the way back to the spring of 2010, a whole entire decade ago, to brush some of the dust off of another story that I wrote for an assignment. I don’t recall what, if anything, I was given as a prompt, but I turned it into another vaguely horror-y tunnel story, which should surprise approximately nobody.

Actually, this story predates “Green Line,” which I read on our April episode, by about a year.

 

Join us again on July 17th, when Merc Fenn Wolfmoor will be on the show!

]]> Tales from the Trunk false No 665 2 8 bonus