Writers Drinking Coffee

Lyndsie is an artist and a writer, and a frequent guest at Steampunk conventions for her subject matter and experience on the topic. Dave and Jeannie sit down with Lyndsie today to discuss Steampunk and British Colonialism, science, mad science, fantasy, and more. If you love brass goggles, brown leather boots, and thinking about alternative power sources for machinery, this is for you! … Co...

Critic, writer, and editor Jerry Wheeler discusses small press collections, the joy of good titles, the business of editing, among other things, and answers our questions. He brings a joyous voice and intelligent eye, and has advice worth listening to. … Continue... Episode 128 – Interview with Jerry L. Wheeler

Aliette joins us from Paris, France to talk about her writing, perceptions of science and world building, and the myth and power of storytelling. As a child of French and Vietnamese descent, she grew up with influences from both worlds and uses her strong multicultural awareness in her writing. She talks to us of liminal spaces, the unspoken area between multiple cultures, as well as diasporas and...

Today we talk to Karen Hicks, something of a polymath in areas of interest and writing. Karen is a screenwriter and journalist, a newsletter chronicler, a biographer, a romance novelist, a short story and ghost writer, a non-fiction writer, and a columnist. She shares with us her methods on research as well as the passion and discovery that writing can inspire. … Continue... Episode 126 &#82...

Becky Chambers, if not the mother of Hopepunk, is certainly its standard bearer. She has new takes on robots beyond the uncanny valley, exploring ideas and concepts like what is kindness, compassion, and even “humanity” through the eyes of the construct rather than those made of meat. Becky started as a self-published author with a Kickstarter idea, and was later picked up by traditional publishin...

Dr. Joshua Palmatier has tasty brains, and we pick them both on his writing while earning a PhD and on his successful press, and what it has taught him.  You should listen and learn too about ZombiesEatBrains! … Continue... Episode 124 – Zombies Need Brains

Catherine Lundoff is a writer, editor and publisher of Queen of Swords press, and joins us today to talk about all three! How she researches and writes, what she writes about, how she works as an editor, teacher, and publisher, and how to do all three in the middle of a plague. … Continue... Episode 123 – Interview with Catherine Lundoff

20 years ago, two towers fell in America and it shocked the world. Whether people lived in New York or California, or in between, they were wrapped in trauma and grief, and needed the words to articulate their feelings and experience. Andrea Carter Brown captured her own eyewitness views and feelings to help process the negative memories into a new healing through poetry and reflection. From shock...

Ashanti has written plays, poetry, and screenplays, and has recently released Black Under - which won the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition at Black Lawrence Press. She reads two of the poems from this collection for you all to enjoy; come revel with us in her vivid imagery and stunning clarity of phrase. … Continue... Episode 121 – Poetry with Ashanti

Meet the talented Brenda Clough, who has been putting a new book out nearly every month in 2021! Brenda is an inspiration of constant writing, publishing, and working with Book View Cafe. Her latest work is historical thriller, with a hint of fantasy as the series progresses. … Continue... Episode 120 – Interview with Brenda Clough

KL Gallagher joins us for her very first book interview! WDC is honoured to introduce you to her first novel: Hat Trick; a tale of romance, hockey, and lesbians taking over the world! (that last part may be exaggerated). KL talks about her inspiration, her guiding force, and finding her way from reader to author all in one wild year. … Continue... Episode 119 – The Hat Trick of Romance

Chaz has new books out and coming soon, and we are all terribly excited about it! Chaz talks about his new collection the "Best of", along with a new story on Tor. Com. And then there's the Boarding School books and Outremer and a cookbook for next Christmas. And Karen got in print, too! There's tons to celebrate at the Brenchley house, and you're invited to share it. … Continue... Episode 1...

An interview with International Youth and Author Lisa Czarina Michaud, who brings the music of words to youth romance (is it romance? Is it love? It is a time of difficulties, both in age and in the United States.) It is a memoir of her youth in New York, and we're glad she didn't wait any longer to write it, because it's wonderful. … Continue... Episode 117 – Interview with Lisa Czari...

Welcome to episode CXVI, where we talk to author Christine Cianci about her new book Walking the Mosaic. Christine is an amazing artist in multiple mediums, and adds science fiction to her portfolio with this new release. We caught up with her to talk about Rome, art, and the other influences in her creation. Jeannie, John, Christine Cianci … Continue... Episode 116 – Interview with Ch...

We sat down with Cassandra Alexander to talk about her writing career, and in particular her newest foray into non-fiction with a memoir called The Year of the Nurse. Her recounting of being an ICU nurse during the Covid crisis is by turns moving, chilling, and filled with the dark humor that is so often found in hospitals. … Continue... Episode 115 – Interview with Cassandra Alexander

Anyone can get blocked in writing. It can be agonizing over an opening and how much exposition to put in, plotting how to take over the world, or even just herding cats to give you time to write. Jeannie invited Madeleine Robins and Cliff Winnig back to talk about their individual blocks in an attempt to crowdsource ideas about building plot events as a demonstration of how you might be able to ge...

Todd Downing is a proper renaissance writer of Gen X. He’s been deeply involved in playing, running, and creating RPGs for decades. He’s written for stage, screen, comics, interactive and narrative games. He even records his own novels into audiobooks! … Continue... Episode 113 – Interview with Todd Downing

John and Dave interview Joel Righetti about his storytelling podcast. Tales from the Dungeon is a fantasy fiction podcast that will immerse you in a mystical world filled with swords and magic, heroes, and villains. … Continue... Episode 112 – Tales from the Dungeon

Herein referred to as Episode Nelson for reasons discussed within the episode, we introduce you to Stephen Murray. Stephen Murray is from S. Africa and Europe, settled in Vegas, and has retired to write short love stories, cozy mysteries, and more recently has forayed into the superstition of 111 … Continue... Episode 111 – Interview with Stephen Murray

Isabelle started as a fashion designer, and her eye for rich detail turned into a love of writing. She started with a short story for an Anthology, discovered world building, and from that writing the Delacourt Shapeshifter Trilogy sprang up. Her latest new book is out - The Witch of Belle Fleur, with a sequel on the way. Isabelle created an Afro-Latina protagonist based on her own Miami upbringin...

Cassandra started as a reporter, then went back to get her MFA in creative writing. Cassandra’s first full-length book is a non-fiction memoir called We Are Bridges, and Jeannie devoured it entirely in a day. We Are Bridges a story that ranges across three generations from Louisiana with the lynching of a great-grandfather to modern life in Los Angeles, exploring romance and race and motherhood an...

Liz Williams is a British science fantasy writer, historian, and occultist. With a PhD in Epistemology and a fascination for occultism, her work ranges from science, pure fantasy, supernatural, and even into non-fiction historical survey of British paganism. We loved her “pantsing a bucket list” approach! Grab a latte and learn more! … Continue... Episode 108 – Interview with Liz Williams

The Kickstarter is going strong for the Adventures in Oz 5e RPG, and Jeannie and Dave (both contributing writers) sit down with David Speakman and Aaron Cheung from Double Critical to talk about the mechanics of cranking out a major game module set in L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz. … Continue... Episode 107 – Adventures in Oz!

Cliff Winnig joins Jeannie in the coffee lounge to read a story he wrote for the last Mad Scientist Journal called The Obelisk. … Continue... Episode 106 – Cliff Winnig Reads a Story

Monique started as a journalist, and after covering the news for years developed an interest in writing True Crime novels, especially from the view of the victims and the impact on the affected communities. The disparity of how victims can be treated by the law and wheels of justice as well as in the press inspires her to tell their stories and hope that they can help inspire change. She has writt...