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Welcome back to Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast podcast, with The Lost Records Journal co-hosts Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt chatting about all of the latest news around Deck Nine, Don't Nod Entertainment, Square Enix's Life Is Strange franchise and Don't Nod Montreal's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.Just an FYI, folks: this week will be a double-header week for our podcasts. That's right, The Lost Records Journal and StrangeCast are both intended to return this week. For important context, too: we recorded this episode of StrangeCast straight after The Lost Records Journal; both episodes were done on Saturday last week. Stay tuned for the return of The Lost Records Journal at some point this week!Timestamps:00:00 -- Introduction00:14 -- Pre-podcast natter between Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt, including the schedule for StrangeCast and The Lost Records Journal04:36 -- Deck Nine's Life Is Strange: Double Exposure won in the 'Public Service & Social Impact: AI, Immersive & Games' category at The Webby Awards 2025. Don't Nod's Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden lost in the 'Action & Adventure' category19:10 -- Webb Pickersgill, who was the performance director on Life Is Strange: True Colors and Double Exposure and co-director on Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, has taken up the role of 'co-dev director' for Deck Nine's cinematic co-dev partner service27:59 -- Jonathan Stauder and Aysha Farah both reacted to the two 2025 Gayming Awards nominations — ‘Game of the Year' and ‘Readers Award' — received for Deck Nine's Life Is Strange: Double Exposure37:30 -- Publisher Pix'n Love Games shared a teasing update about the artbook ‘The Art of Jusant - The Great Expedition' for Don't Nod's 2023 puzzle platformer Jusant41:41 -- SPOILER WARNING FOR LOST RECORDS: BLOOM & RAGE: comment from the listener! (Thanks, @lilbigjp1989!

Matty Dalrymple talks with Timons Esaias about THE SECRETS OF WORLD-BUILDING: IT'S THE SMALL STUFF, including his insights into effective world-building for fiction, emphasizing the importance of small, non-generic details that enhance character development and scene-setting. He touches on the difference between immersive storytelling and simpler narratives and offers practical tips on how to gather and use unique details from ephemera, old books, and postcards to enrich a narrative. He offers guidance on balancing research with storytelling ... and on knowing when to stop.   Interview video at https://youtu.be/HLmimkI-Dqg   Show notes at https://www.theindyauthor.com/podcast.html   If you find the information in this video useful, please consider supporting The Indy Author! https://www.patreon.com/theindyauthor https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattydalrymple   Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer, and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in twenty-two languages. He has been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award, and he won the Winter Anthology Contest, the SFPA Poetry Contest, and the Asimov's Readers Award (twice). He is a recent Pushcart nominee, and Intrepid Award winner for the story "To Do." His poetry collection is “Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek.” He collects chess sets.   Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers, beginning with ROCK PAPER SCISSORS; the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, beginning with THE SENSE OF DEATH; and the Ann Kinnear Suspense Shorts. She is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. Matty also writes, speaks, and consults on the writing craft and the publishing voyage, and shares what she's learned on THE INDY AUTHOR PODCAST. She has written books on the business of short fiction and podcasting for authors; her articles have appeared in "Writer's Digest" magazine. She serves as the Campaigns Manager for the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Our latest podcast episode features a celebrated story from our March/April 2022. Here is Anna Scotti's "Schrodinger, Cat,"  a Macavity Award nominee and third place finisher in our 2022 Readers Award poll.

As heard on Planet Raconteur Podcast Season 2 episode 5 "Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest" by Bruce Boston, which appears in "Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest." https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NA05QDL/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i10 http://bruceboston.com Bruce Boston's poetry and fiction have received numerous awards, most notably: a Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov's Readers Award, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. His latest fiction collection, Gallimaufry, is available from Amazon and other online booksellers. We would like to Thank You, for visiting, The Planet Raconteur. Planet Raconteur Links: Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plan…ur/id1504582518 Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/5B8jTqcmmoflJcOK0mOEyl Soundcloud - @planetraconteur Spreaker - www.spreaker.com/show/planetraconteurpodcast Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/podcast/planet-raconteur iHeart Radio - www.iheart.com/podcast/269-plane…conteur-60732867/ RSS - feeds.feedburner.com/planetraconteur Youtube - bit.ly/prpyoutube Twitter - twitter.com/planetraconteur Facebook - fb.me/planetraconteur

Thank you for always turning to us for your Audio Drama entertainment. We appreciate each and every one of you. This podcast's stories are as follows: "Anastasia" by Vic Smith https://vicsstories.wordpress.com/ "Dread" by John Dulak https://johndulak416773382.wordpress.com/contact/ "Surrounded by The Mutant Rain Forest" by Bruce Boston, which appears in "Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest." https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NA05QDL/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i10 http://bruceboston.com/ Bruce Boston's poetry and fiction have received numerous awards, most notably: a Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov's Readers Award, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. His latest fiction collection, Gallimaufry, is available from Amazon and other online booksellers. We would like to Thank You, for visiting, The Planet Raconteur. Planet Raconteur Links: Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plan…ur/id1504582518 Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/5B8jTqcmmoflJcOK0mOEyl Soundcloud - @planetraconteur Spreaker - www.spreaker.com/show/planetraconteurpodcast Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/podcast/planet-raconteur iHeart Radio - www.iheart.com/podcast/269-plane…conteur-60732867/ RSS - feeds.feedburner.com/planetraconteur Youtube - bit.ly/prpyoutube Twitter - twitter.com/planetraconteur Facebook - fb.me/planetraconteur

How far are we willing to go when it comes to AI and our children? Mahiro Saeki is a Japanese writer living in Chiba. In 2020, she was a finalist in the eleventh Sogen SF Short Story Prize. In the same year, Mahiro won the Readers Award in the first Kaguya SF Contest organized by Virtual Gorilla Plus. "Becoming a Mother" previously appeared in Welkin. https://welkinmag.com/product/spring-2021/ Translated by Toshiya Kamei Fiction Website https://toshiyakameiwrites.wordpress.com/ Translation Services https://toshiyakamei.wordpress.com/bio/ ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to submit? Submission guidelines can be found at TallTaleTV.com ---- About Tall Tale TV ---- My name is Chris Herron, and I narrate audiobooks. In 2015, poor control of my diabetes left me legally blind for the better part of a year. The doctors predicted an 80% chance I would never see again, but I changed the way I was living and through sheer willpower beat the odds. During this time I couldn't read or write. Two things that I had been turning to for comfort since I was a small child. With the sheer amount of stress I was under, this was devastating. My wife took me by the arm, lead me into the local library, and read out titles of audiobooks to me. I chose the audiobook versions of books I had loved such as the Disc World series, Name of the Wind, Harry Potter and more. They brought my favorite stories to life in ways I never thought possible and helped me through the darkest time of my life. Once my vision recovered, I maintained a love for audiobooks. I decided I would turn my focus from being a writer to becoming a narrator. I devised Tall Tale TV as a way to help out all the amazing authors in the writing communities I had come to love before my ordeal. I created Tall Tale TV to help aspiring authors by providing them with a promotional audiobook video. A way to showcase their skills with the written word. They say the strongest form of advertisement is word of mouth, so I provide a video to a platform of readers to help get people talking. Help them spread the word. Click the share button and let the world know about this author. ---- legal ---- All images used in this video are either original or Royalty and Attribution free. Most stock images used are provided by http://www.pixabay.com . Image attribution will be declared only when required by the copyright owner. All stories on Tall Tale TV have been submitted in accordance with the terms of service provided on http://www.talltaletv.com or obtained with permission by the author. Common Affiliates are: Amazon, Smashwords

The Infernal Itch by Bruce Boston. Narrated by Joel Simler. Hosted by Erik Grove. #fantasy #writing #hell   I turned up the hot water and let it flow across my body. I took the shampoo that Dr. Pederson had given me, poured a dose between my palms, and rubbed it into my scalp. As the medication penetrated the itching lessened and disappeared. I'd been through this routine before and knew relief would be temporary. Within hours it would again feel as if my scalp were infested by a colony of angry mites. My life had seemed perfect until a couple days ago. That was when limousine pulled up across the street, the dreams began, and the itching started.   Bruce Boston is the author of more than fifty books, including the novels The Guardener's Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His  poems have appeared in Asimov's SF, Analog, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Daily Science Fiction, NewMyths, Pedestal, Strange Horizons, Nebula Awards Showcase and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov's Readers Award, and the Rhysling and Grand Master Awards of the SFPA. His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and twice been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (novel, short story). Find him at http://bruceboston.com/   Joel Simler is an audiobook narrator born and raised in the Pacific Northwest - which is truly the best place to be a narrator as he can happily hunker down in his padded closet… err...uhh, his recording booth for those excessively rainy days. His love of reading can be traced back to his grandpa, who first introduced him to his first fantasy series. He also blames his grandpa for his getting in trouble in grade school during class for reading, instead of listening to the teacher. Find him on social media @SimlerSound and at www.simlersound.com.   Please help support The Overcast. Become a Patron Today! Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Spotify so you never miss an episode. While you're there, don't forget to leave a review!  

Nachrichten, Tagesthema, Magazin - Genuss, historische Architektur und ein Bürgerverein: Die Weinkeller von Stará Horá nahe Sebechleby. Doku-Roman "Die letzte Baronin" von Silvester Lavrík: Buch erhielt den Readers Award bei Anasoft Litera 2020.

Stacy Woodson, the most recent winner of the EQMM Readers Award, made her fiction debut in EQMM’s Department of First Stories in the November/December 2018 issue. That debut story is only the second first story in the thirty-four years of Readers Award history to take first place. While in New York City for the awards ceremony last month, the Washington D.C. area author read her winning tale for this podcast. http://stacywoodson.com https://www.purple-planet.com

Patreon Support for us.Main Fiction: ““An Incident in the Literary Life of Nathan Arkwright” by Allen SteeleOriginally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2017Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. became a full-time science fiction writer in 1988, following publication of his first short story, "Live From The Mars Hotel" (Asimov's, mid-Dec. `88). Since then he has become a prolific author of novels, short stories, and essays, with his work translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. His novels include Orbital Decay, Clarke County, Space, Lunar Descent, Labyrinth of Night, The Jericho Iteration and Arkwright amongst others. His most recent novel is Avengers of the Moon, a new Captain Future novel. His novelette, “The Emperor of Mars” won the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and also the Asimov’s Readers Award. His novella “The Legion of Tomorrow”, which was expanded as Part One of Arkwright, won the Asimov’s Readers Award in 2015.Narrated by: Drew SebestenyWriter and designer, editor and inventor, brewer and narrator, Drew’s been called a lot of things in his career – some nicer than others. By day he spins stories with words and pictures as an advertising creative director. But by the light of the moon, he can be found weaving tales for sound and screen, and alchemizing bubbly brews with hops and barley. Drew’s also associate editor, and a regular narrator, for Tales to Terrify here in the District of Wonders. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada with his wife, son and a menagerie of small creatures. Discover more about Drew at www.idrewthis.ca. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month we feature one of the stories that won EQMM’s Readers Award for 2015, “Rizzo’s Good Cop.” Its author, Lou Manfredo, is known for the authenticity of his crime fiction. The story, from his series featuring Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo, was first published in the December 2015 EQMM and is read for us by the author. www.loumanfredo.com

Novelist and short-story writer Brendan DuBois has been contributing to EQMM for twenty years. He is a master at evoking the undercurrents to small-town life, and in 2015 he came in second in EQMM's annual Readers Award competition for just such a story. Here he is reading “The Lake Tenant” (EQMM November 2015), his winning story. www.brendandubois.com

Coming Up… Octagon Technology Main Fiction: “The Fitter” by Timons Esaias Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in eighteen languages. He has over a hundred poems in print, in markets ranging from Asimov’s Science Fiction and 5AM to Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Literary Journal of Baseball. He has also been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award, and won the Asimov’s Readers Award. His story “Norbert and the System” has appeared in a textbook, and in college curricula. Recent science fiction appearances include Asimov’s, Analog and Future Games.His News Nots satire column appeared in seven newspapers, and convinced many readers that the Vatican was relocating to St. Louis; that the Pittsburgh Sewer & Water Authority had decided to add Prozac to the water supply (along... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.