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Galactic Chat Episode 81: Alan Baxter
Show Notes:
David McDonald chats with Alan Baxter about writing and community in the COVID world, how some places take on life as a character in their own right, and the very Aussie horror of The Gulp. Alan also shares what he read in lockdown, tips for writing fights right, and talks about presidential life.
Author Website: https://www.alanbaxteronline.com/
Credits
Interviewer: David McDonald Interviewer Twitter: @sircamaris Guest: Alan Baxter Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Galactic Chat Episode 80: Deborah Sheldon
Show Notes:
Helen Stubbs chats with Deborah Sheldon about her novels Body Farm Z and The Long Shot, her research and writing of Australian small towns and landscape and the value of Australian work overseas. Sheldon talks about her research and writing process, body farms, a different approach to zombie characters, as well as her experience writing for Neighbours and Australian Most Wanted.
Author Website: https://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Deborah Sheldon Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Galactic Chat Episode 79: Cat Sparks
Show Notes:
Helen Stubbs chats with Cat Sparks about her new collection, Dark Harvest, and her most hated award-winning story, No Fat Chicks. They also discuss the current state of the world including the climate crisis and Covid19, found art-photography and much more.
Author Website: https://catsparks.net
Twitter: @catsparx
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Cat Sparks Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Galactic Chat Episode 78: Leife Shallcross
Show Notes:
Helen Stubbs chats with Leife Shallcross about her novel The Beast’s Heart, including the dynamics of the writing and publishing process. Their conversation also touches on Leife’s current work in progress, connecting with friends and readers using various platforms, the Canberra Science Fiction Guild, and exercise.
Author Website: https://leifeshallcross.com
Twitter: @leioss
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Leife Shallcross Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Galactic Chat Episode 77: Lisa Cassidy
Show Notes:
Helen Stubbs chats with Lisa Cassidy about her fantasy series, The Mage Chronicles, and the first book, Darkskull Hall, as well as being listed as a finalist in the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off competition. Lisa also talks about independent publishing and her press Tate House.
Author Website: https://tatehousebooks.com
Twitter: @LCASS_writes
Instagram: @lcasswrites
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Lisa Cassidy Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Galactic Chat Episode 76: Aiki Flinthart
Show Notes:
Helen Stubbs chats with Aiki Flinthart about her historical fiction novel, Blackbirds Sing, her upcoming science fiction/fantasy shared world novel authored with Pamela Jeffs, The Zookeeper’s Tales of Interstellar Oddities, and her Fight Like A Girl non-fiction book and workshops--and The Witcher.
Author Website: https://www.aikiflinthart.com
Twitter: @aikiflinthart
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Aiki Flinthart Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Galactic Chat Episode 75
Show Notes:
Galactic Chat returns! To mark the start of a series of exciting new interviews, Helen Stubbs chats with Claire McKenna about the upcoming launch of her book MONSTROUS HEART with Harper Voyager.
Author Website: http://www.clairemckenna.net
Twitter: @mckenna_claire
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Claire McKenna Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Kevin J. Anderson Galactic Chat Episode 74
Show Notes:
David chats to New York Times Bestselling author, Kevin J. Anderson, about the wide range of projects he is currently working on, how he manages to be so prolific, and his daring new adventure—allowing his fans to watch the writing of his novel from first draft to completion, everything exposed!
Kevin also talks about his tie-in work (while David tries to restrain himself from fanboying out) and collaborations, as well his publishing imprint, WordFire Press.
And, he also tells us about the massive shared world anthology, Jeff Sturgeon's Last Cities of Earth, currently raising funds via a Kickstarter campaign (Full disclosure: David may have a vested interested in this one!).
Author Website: http://www.wordfire.com Jeff Sturgeon's Last Cities of Earth - The Illustrated Books Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2tQqjAy Twitter: @TheKJA
Credits
Interviewer: David McDonald Interviewer Twitter: @sircamaris Guest: Kevin J. Anderson Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Thoraiya Dyer 28 July 2016 Galactic Chat Episode
Show Notes:
Helen chats to the fab Thoraiya Dyer about Crossroads of Canopy, upcoming Worldcon 2017 in Helsinki, forests, and other great stuff.
Author Website: www.thoraiyadyer.com Twitter: @ThoraiyaDyer
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs Interviewer Twitter: @superleni Guest: Thoraiya Dyer Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-production: David McDonald
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Ditmar Award winning Australian author and editor Rivqa Rafael takes a moment out from an exciting new crowdfunding campaign to talk to David McDonald in the first Galactic Chat of the year.
In this interview, they talk about Rivqa's background as an editor, her own writing, and how the two shape each other. We also get to here about the unique perspective that having degrees in both writing and science brings to Rivqa's work.
Rivqa also shares her experiences attending Wiscon, leading into a discussion of feminism and intersectionality—including discussing her perspective as a Jewish writer.
And, we hear how we can support an amazing new project from The Future Fire: Problem Daughters.
Problem Daughters will amplify the voices of women who are sometimes excluded from mainstream feminism. It will be an anthology of beautiful, thoughtful, unconventional speculative fiction and poetry around the theme of intersectional feminism, focusing on the lives and experiences of marginalized women, such as those who are of color, QUILTBAG, disabled, sex workers, and all intersections of these.
Problem Daughters Crowdfunding Campaign
Problem Daughters Press Release Credits:
Interviewer: David McDonald Guest: Rivqa Rafael Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: David McDonald Feedback: Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com
David McDonald interviews award winning artist extraordinaire John Picacio on the eve of his art show at Balticon.
In this interview, they talk about John's influences and inspirations, and pay tribute to some of the great artists of spec fic. They also discuss the responsibilities that come with having a platform, and how we can work to bring cultural change.
John talks about his creator owned art, including the amazing Loteria series, and they discuss cultural appropriation.
John also provides a number of recommendations of artists for listeners to check out. This list includes, but is not limited to, some of the names below:
Richard M. Powers
John Berkey
Brad Holland
Marshall Arisman
Joseph Cornell
Bill Sienkiewicz
Dave McKean
Kent Williams
Gerald Brom
John Picacio Website
Lone Boy
Credits:
Interviewer: David McDonald Guest: John Picacio Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: David McDonald
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After a holiday break, Galactic Chat returns! David McDonald interviews author Peter Clines on the eve of the release of his new book, Ex-Isle.
In a wide ranging interview, they cover topics from the"Ex" series to Peter's Hollywood career, and discuss the nature of heroism and the power of storytelling.
Join them as they fanboy over Classic Doctor Who and Supergirl, and listen in amazement as David tempts Peter into joining him on his soapbox about "Man of Steel".
NB: Sadly, technical issues mean that David's first few questions are a bit distorted (though intelligible), but please bear with it as Peter is crystal clear and Skype reins in its anger in time to let you hear David gush.
As Sean is on sabbatical, this is David's first attempt at creating a podcast so all issues are his fault, and should not reflect on the podcast as a whole!
Peter's website Ex-Isle Amazon Page The Doctor Who episode they are talking about The Dragon Movie
Credits:
Interviewer: David McDonald Guest: Peter Clines Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: David McDonald
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In this week's Galactic Chat, Aurealis Award winning author, Trent Jamieson, talks about his new novel Day Boy as well as his other novels including the Death Works series and Roil. He talks about his career, his writing process, and what he’s working on and reading. Author Website: http://www.trentjamieson.com
Credits Interviewer: Helen StubbsGuest: Trent JamiesonMusic & Intro: Tansy Rayner RobertsPost-production: Sean Wright Feedback: Twitter: @galactichatEmail: galactichat at gmail dot com
This week's chat sees Sean interviewing fellow chatter and recent HarperCollins author David McDonald.
They talk about David's new film novelisation and volunteering in the speculative fiction community. Of particular interest will be some of the expectations on writers when writing for tie-in properties.
David also talks about the wonderful and enlightening responses he's got to his Paying For Our Passion guest post series.
The Salon article David mentions can be found here. If you are interested in his guest post series the initial post is here.
You can find more on David McDonald here.
Credits:Interviewer: Sean WrightGuest: David McDonaldMusic & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: Sean Wright Feedback:Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com
This weeks chat was recorded at Swancon. Helen Stubbs sat down with well known Australian author Kylie Chan and discussed a number of topics from author recaps in sequels or series, furry fan service and finally writers and their feline overlords.
Of particular interest to writers would be Chan's discussion around digital self publishing - she's currently conducting her second masters on the topic.
It is a live recording in an auditorium and while the recording is good there is some background noise. At some points members of the audience ask questions and where the mic has picked them up the production team has left them in the recording.
You can find more on Kylie Chan here.
Credits:Interviewer: Helen StubbsGuest: Kylie ChanMusic & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: Sean Wright Feedback:Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com
In this week's chat, Alex talks with Garth Nix about exploring character through story, how Garth approaches writing for different genre categories and there's also a lengthy discussion on how he came to write The Old Kingdom Series.
There's news on upcoming releases both short stories and novels as well as the sad tale of how his 1990's Thriller/Regency Romance never came to be.
You can find out more about Garth at his website.
Credits:Interviewer: Alexandra Pierce Guest: Garth NixMusic & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: Sean Wright Feedback:Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com
In this week's chat, David talks with Tsana Dolichva about her work as an Astrophysicist, providing scientific advice for authors and her role in the upcoming crowd funded anthology Defying Doomsday. They also chat about reviewing in small communities and the Australian Women Writers Challenge.
You can find the various links for Defying Doomsday below:
Links:
Pozible Campaign:http://pozi.be/defyingdoomsday
Website: http://defyingdoomsday.twelfthplanetpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DefyingDoomsday
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefyingDoomsday
Tumblr: http://defyingdoomsday.tumblr.com/
Credits:Interviewer: David McDonaldGuest: Tsana DolichvaMusic & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: Sean Wright Feedback:Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com
In this week's chat, David talks with Amanda Pillar about her work as an editor on such projects as Ishtar, her day job as an Archaeologist and her debut novel Graced, from Momentum Publishing.
You can source Amanda's novel from links at the Momentum website here.
Credits: Interviewer: David McDonald Guest: Amanda Pillar Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: Sean Wright Feedback: Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com
In this weeks chat, our first for the year, David talks with Pat Cadigan about her early influences and her friendship with Heinlein. There's some brief talk about the honorable tradition of fix-up novels in Science Fiction and some discussion around the early formation of the Cyberpunk Genre.
Pat also talks openly about her response to cancer and gives us an update on how she is coping.
Finally there is some discussion about projects that have been launched in response to the Requires Hate situation to promote and support POC in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community.
CreditsInterviewer: David McDonaldGuest: Pat CadiganMusic & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: Sean Wright Feedback:Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com
In this weeks chat, our last for the year, Sean talks with Dr Lisa Hannett about her upcoming mosaic novel, her recent release through Twelfth Planet Press with Dr Angela Slatter and Icelandic Medieval Literature. They also talk about the Australian Gothic, how Australians can be just as nice as Canadians and Lisa's fear of the scaly creatures of the shallows. Please enjoy and have a safe and merry Christmas. CreditsInterviewer: Sean WrightGuest: Dr Lisa HannettMusic & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts Post-prod.: Sean Wright Feedback:Twitter: @galactichat Email: galactichat at gmail dot com