Podcast appearances and mentions of terry prachett

Join us for the Lair of Secrets' annual summer reading list! We run down a few of the books on our respective lists, but we're always looking for more! Featured in this episode are: Red Sonja Consumed by Gail Simone When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Infinite Archive (The Midsolar Murders #3) by Mur Lafferty Vicious by V.E. Schwab As well as side quests to talk about Iain Banks' The Culture series, Terry Prachett's Discworld, and Neal Stephenson's Seveneves. Suggest your own book ideas in the comments! Chapters 0:00 Intro & Rocket Misfires0:40 Red Sonja: Sword & Sorcery Revival1:45 Moon Cheese Madness: Scalzi's Absurd Apocalypse3:10 Seveneves vs. Moon Made of Cheese4:20 Ghosts in Cryo: Cold Eternity Breakdown5:35 Space Opera and the Glam-paign Idea6:50 Infinite Archive: Murder, She Wrote in Space8:00 Vicious by V.E. Schwab: Superpowered Rivalry9:10 The Overflowing To-Read Pile10:20 Pratchett's Final Discworld Reflections11:20 Saying Goodbye to The Culture Series12:00 More Books, More Time: Summer Reading Goals13:10 Share Your Book Picks!14:00 Outro & Call to Action Listen to the Episode Watch to the Episode Watch Summer Reading List 2025 (S4E24) on YouTube. Show Notes Red Sonja Consumed by Gail Simone (Ken) - I got this as a Christmas present, and I'm looking forward to Gail's take on Red Sonja in novel form (I already read the comic book series she wrote; it was great). From the book blurb: The gutsy, wild, tortured free spirit, forged in pain yet unafraid of life or death, Red Sonja, the famous, fiery She-Devil and barbarian of Hyrkania has never concerned herself with the consequences of her actions. She's taken what she wanted, from treasure to drink to the companionship of bedfellows. She's fought who deserved it (and sometimes those who didn't). And she's never looked back. But when rumors start bubbling up from her homeland—rumors of unknown horrors emerging from the ground and pulling their unsuspecting victims to their deaths—and a strange voice begins whispering to her in her sleep, she realizes she may have to return to the country that abandoned her. And finally do the only thing that has ever scared her: confront her past. When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi (David) - I've been a fan of most of Scalzi's books. This is one of his more humorous books like Starter Villain and Kaiju Preservation Society. I'm looking forward to it. It's also going to hold me over until the next Old Man's War book comes out. The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible. Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives -- over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to pray, to laugh and to grieve. All in a kaleidoscopic novel that goes all the places you'd expect, and then to so many places you wouldn't. It's a wild moonage daydream. Ride this rocket. Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes (Ken) – Barnes' third sci-fi/horror/ghost story novel is out. I loved the creepy atmosphere of the first two, which makes this one an easy pick. Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth's most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago… The cryo program,

In the finale of A Study in Drowning, we follow Effy as things get stormy and steamy, an ill-advised nap is taken, Ianto gets a phone call and makes some observations, Effy gets on her knees, we learn a lot about Angharad's author. Also, Effy attends a party, and talks to the dean.Patrons can join us next week for A Study in Drowning bonus, where we cover the Preston bonus chapter and cast the characters both well and poorly. For the rest of you, join us in 2 weeks for the first episode of Small Gods by Terry Prachett!We'll be covering 25% of Small Gods for episode 1. The endline of our last covered scene is: '"General Fri'it has other business," said Vorbis. "Most pressing and urgent business. Which only he can attend to."' If ending on the right line sounds stressful, just read to like 30% of the book and expect us not to cover all of what you read. That's fine. Bonus Episodes and more available on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Avui és el nostre programa número 328. Rokuso obre el programa amb una nova Obra Major: Xanadu Next Llegim les vostres respostes al Ready a la Xarxa i us farem una nova proposta.Per tancar el programa parlem de la vida i obra d’un dels més grans escriptors de tots els temps. Avui a va de Jocs, Terry Prachett.

Nous soutenir : https://fr.tipeee.com/pain-sur-la-planche/ La bonne culture ça se partage alors voici les conseils lectures, mangas et vidéos de ELSA BRANTS : Terry PratchettExtrait du chapitre 37 de Pain sur la Planche."Terry Pratchett, né le 28 avril 1948 à Beaconsfield, est un écrivain britannique. Il est principalement connu pour ses romans de fantasy humoristique prenant place dans l'univers du Disque-monde, dans lequel il détourne les canons du genre pour se livrer à une satire de divers aspects de la société contemporaine."----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RETROUVER ESLA BRANTS :

I know. But, NEW BOOK! Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. This damn episode took me 8 tries, EIGHT. So, love it. About and Angel and a Demon. Also, how wrong we are about the dinosaurs...and Earth is a Libra.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/damnedbooks-451/message

It's time for some Jerry the Squirrel! I hope you enjoy listening to these short stories. They are based on stories I used to tell my sons before bed when they were little! Enjoy! Book Blurb: Jerry the Squirrel loves inventing… and he's pretty good at it. What he's not good at, however, is making sure his inventions only do what he wants them to do. Join Jerry the Squirrel in this fun set of short stories as his Nut Harvester turns into a Nut Cannon, as his Ear Plugs turn into Megaphones, and as his Automatic Slippers turn on every Squirrel in the village! Laugh together during bedtime reading or leave your young readers to enjoy these fun, family-friendly stories on their own. These tales are sure to captivate young readers and leave them wanting more. If you love fun stories, this series starter is sure to pull you in! Order your copy now and get ready for ten exciting new adventures! “I've never read anything quite like it before. The tongue-in-cheek humor and squirrel protagonists in a slightly off kilter fantasy world is like a delightful combination of Terry Prachett's Discworld series meets Watership Down.” Rebecca, Amazon Reviewer. “Excellent children's story that this adult loved! I read the second book and then purchased this book even after receiving it as an ARC free from the author because it is that good.” Patricia, Amazon Reviewer. “A story great for bed time. 5 stars to the author for making me laugh…” Issy, Amazon Reviewer. “This book of short stories about Jerry the Squirrel and his madcap inventing escapades made me laugh and smile a lot. They are very daft, but very enjoyable too.” Lolah, Amazon Reviewer. “I read it out loud to my son and he loved it!” Lady Lark, Amazon Reviewer. “I loved this book! Shawn has quite an imagination and puts it to good use in the books he writes! Thanks, Shawn” Anonymous, Amazon Reviewer.

When something is working, we don't often think about it. If a car starts smoothly as soon as you turn the key, we don't think: “Thanks, car, good work today... And thanks to all the engineers and inventors who have pushed this vehicle's design forward and thanks also to the workers who built the roads-”. We do not. Because we would be late for where we are going to and soon be thanking our clients for not doing business with us so swiftly and our family for leaving us with such speed. My point is When things are working, we don't notice them. When things go wrong, we do. If the car doesn't start, we are late and annoyed and probably swearing. If the lid of our takeaway coffee comes off as we rush to work, our fingers might get burned and we might swear again. My point is that because of this we carry around a lot of negative emotions with us and often far fewer positive ones. We notice when things go wrong and we remember them. They affect us. They change our mood for the worse. In the same way that a child carries their favourite soft toy with them everywhere they go, we carry emotional baggage and daily stresses with such regularity we might not even notice we are doing it… Until we are told to let go. In today's episode of The Andrew Sillitoe Show we are going to be talking about ice baths and epiphanies. Come on in and join us, the water's lovely. Titles for The Andrew Sillitoe Show.I'm going to talk to you now about a living legend. Wim Hof. Not only does his name sound like he should be a heroic character in a Terry Prachett novel but he is basically as brave and otherworldly as that BUT he exists in real life. He is nicknamed the Iceman. Presumably, Iceman is the only name cooler than Wim Hof so he was rightly awarded it. If you can't tell, I'm a fan. If you're not a fan, it is probably because you don't know who he is. That's about to change…Wim Hof runs half marathons, bare foot, on ice. Wim Hof set the world record for swimming 57.5 metres completely under ice. Wim Hof climbed 5,700 metres up Mount Everest wearing just shoes and shorts. Wim Hof has also changed my life. He didn't get an award or medal for it at the time so I am going to give it at least some of the recognition he deserves by talking about it in today's episode. A couple of years ago I sat in a bath full of iced water whilst on a Wim Hof Method workshop. During the day, in the few minutes I sat surrounded by freezing cold iced water, I had an epiphany. Although this sentence might, rightly, make you question what sort of person would do that to himself voluntarily, it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Like many good ideas it did not feel like a good idea at the time. It felt like one of the worst. Your body goes into shock. Your brain,that is sending messages to your body is screaming at you to “Stop doing what you are doing, immediately” like a panicked parent when you come into the room and see your child spreading jam on the sofa…Your brain is there to protect you but, as we have mentioned before in previous episodes, with far fewer tigers roaming wild on our streets and the increase in supermarkets, things are slightly less “high stakes” in modern life but our brains have been slower to adapt in some ways. When I was in the ice bath my brain went into panic mode. It assumed I was dying and in a way it felt like I was. It was reacting in the way it has evolved to do, to get me out of danger. The danger, though, as I have said, was not a tiger or a stampede of mammoths, it was an ice bath.My breath quickened and got shallow. I began to tense up and became unable to focus. I was struggling. The man who was leading the exercise, Jakub, was trying to get me to focus, to listen to him. He was telling me to breath, he was telling me to concentrate but I couldn't. Then Jakub said two words that I not only heard but was able to respond to. He said “Let go”. These words were able to cut through the ice. Let go.It was a true moment of clarity. Shockingly so. Like when you accidentally wake up late and open the curtains thinking it's first thing but the sun is shining brightly because it is the middle of the day. Let go. Two words that have changed my life from that moment on. Because you only notice when things go wrong, I was carrying years of pressure, disappointments and fears without noticing. I had with me, without my knowledge and against my wishes, been carrying more emotional baggage than you can carry in both arms… So I started to let go. The good thing about the ice bath is that when you're out of it your brain immediately rewards you for not dying. It floods your body with endorphins that say “HOORAY, YOU MADE IT” and then “DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN, I WAS WORRIED SICK.” In that same way that as a worried parent I have both celebrated and scolded my daughter for coming back from a party late, but in one piece…I had started to let go. Not entirely, not of everything, but I started to let go. Like a sugar cube in a hot tea (which both works as the perfect visual for how “letting go” felt and the perfect drink to have after submerging yourself in freezing cold water) I was able to dissolve, to melt. A friend of mine always starts her day by doing what she calls “swallowing the frog”. No, she does not seek her morning meal from reptilian sources, what she means is she starts her working day with doing the worst job on the to do list. She gets rid of the thing that is hanging over her. She swallows the frog and gets on with her day. Since the ice bath all those years ago, I have started having a cold shower every single morning. I suffer now so I don't have to suffer later. I shock my body and my brain so I am alert and present. It is almost impossible to think of anything else when your body is in cold water. You brain is focused. Your mind is clear. This is cold. This is unpleasant. But it will not last forever and it will not kill me.I have a two minute cold shower everyday and my life has dramatically improved because of it. This is not a fad where you are convinced to financially invest in the latest “must have”. It does not take up more than a couple of minutes of your day. You have 1438 minutes left in the day to spend them however you please, but two minutes in a cold shower can change your life. I went back recently to submerge my body in iced water and something amazing happened. In just a few years, in the same bath, with the same coach, Jakob, I submerged my body in iced water. The difference? My breathing remained the same. There was no panic, there was no sharp, shallow breathing. I had, it seemed, through daily practice, managed to make my body behave the way I wanted to. I didn't see the growth until I was back in the ice bath, but I had moved on from the scared person I was, surrounded by ice and trauma. I had let go.When I take the cold shower, I am suffering. When I am out of it, that suffering immediately stops. Doing it everyday grounds me. It is one of the 10 daily habits that I perform every single day. And I encourage you to do it too. You know that phrase “come on in, the water's lovely”? Well this water is not. It is cold and will shock you. But do it anyway. Spend two minutes out of the 1440 you get today, to change your life. Breathe and Let go. Thanks for joining us. This has been another episode of the Andrew SIllitoe Show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Thomson joins us to talk about developing apps for Apple platforms. James is the creator of PCalc - the official calculator app of MTJC, Drag Thing and his latest app Dice by PCalc. James has been successfully writing apps longer than the iMac has been a thing, worked for Apple, had Douglas Adams beta test his apps, and has been a successful indie developer since the early 90's. Special Guest: James Thomson.

We'd love to hear from you (feedback@breakingbadscience.com)Look us up on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/385282925919540Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breakingbadsciencepodcast/Website: http://www.breakingbadscience.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/breakingbadscienceIn 1983, Terry Prachett brought the fantastical planet to life that he referred to as discworld. The series would prove to be wildly popular and inspire all sorts of fantasy writers today. It was, however, a fantasy series. The idea of a disc shaped world has long since been dismissed, at least outside this genre of novels for perhaps quite a bit longer than most of us realize. So why can so many of us name at least one person who is certain the Earth is flat or is a part of the Flat Earth Society; especially considering a man walked 800 km measuring every step to prove it's not. I know Kyrie Irving is an athlete, but something tells me he hasn't repeated this test. Join hosts Shanti and Danny as we discuss the history of the shape of the Earth and how religions, cults, and the internet have molded our perspective. ReferencesBrown, C.; Measuring the Circumference of the Earth. Khan Academy. 13-Jun-201. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/solar-system-and-earth/knowing-solar-system-earth/a/eratosthenes-of-cyreneDure, B.; Flat-Earthers are Back: ‘It's Almost Like the Beginning of a New Religion'. The Guardian. 20-Jan-2016. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/20/flat-earth-believers-youtube-videos-conspiracy-theoristsDwyer, C.; ‘I Don't Believe in Science,' Says Flat-Earther Set to Launch Himself in Own Rocket. NPR. 22-Nov-2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/22/565926690/i-dont-believe-in-science-says-flat-earther-set-to-launch-himself-in-own-rocketMalik, T.; ‘Mad Mike' Hughes, Daredevil Who Built a Homemade Steam Rocket, Dies in Launch Attempt. Space.com. 23-Feb-2020. https://www.space.com/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-dies-in-homemade-rocket-launch.htmlUselessPickles. Behind the Scenes: Flat Basketball Proof. Imgur.com. 10-Jun-2018. https://imgur.com/gallery/nSGtPtzEnns, P.; The Firmament of Genesis 1 is Solid but That's Not the Point. Biologos. 14-Jan-2010. https://biologos.org/articles/the-firmament-of-genesis-1-is-solid-but-thats-not-the-point/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/breakingbadscience?fan_landing=true)

We Make Books is a podcast for writers and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, and concerns for us to address in future episodes. We hope you enjoy We Make Books! Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap Instagram: @WMBCast  Patreon.com/WMBCast Mentioned in this episode: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett A Ship With No Parrot by R J Theodore (MetaStellar) Episode Transcript (by TK @_torkz) [Upbeat Ukulele Intro Music] This is We Make Books, a podcast about writing publishing and everything in between. Rekka is a published Science Fiction and Fantasy author, and Kaelyn is a professional genre fiction editor. Together, they'll tackle the things you never knew you never knew about getting a book from concept to finished product, with explanations, examples, and a lot of laughter. Get your moleskin notebook ready. It's time for We Make Books. Kaelyn: We're talking today about writing with a friend. Hopefully a friend. If not a friend, then a partner. Rekka: Hopefully a friend for longer than it takes to write the project. K: Hopefully a friend after you're done. [laughing] R: Yes, before and after. Hey, even after is probably more important than before. Let's be clear that you don't wanna destroy a relationship, but you can make a new friend. K: Yes, absolutely. Let's talk first about, why would you do this? R: [giggles] K: Why would you want to - and, okay so maybe a little context first. I will admit I have never worked on a project that a single story had been written or contributed to by two different people. R: As an editor, you mean? K: Yes. R: Ok. K: So why would you do this? It seems like a difficult thing to do. And for context, Rekka has done this a couple times. So Rekka, why would you do this? R: Because writing is lonely, and the idea that someone else will work on a project with you is just like the biggest longest most creative sleepover ever. K: Okay! R: It's a good reason. K: That is certainly a good reason, writing is lonely. I think a lot of writers, their editor when they get one is the first time they're really having somebody to collaborate with, and to talk to. R: To go back and forth. K: Yeah, but the editor is not writing the book. R: I know! Which is unfair, honestly. K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: I wanna know who I talk to about this. K: Yeah but you know what you're right, writing is a lonely process. There's a lot of time spent sitting by yourself just having to think. R: And having feelings. K: Yeah. If you're writing with someone, you get to share those with someone else. R: And shout about things. K: Absolutely. Shouting is a necessary component to that 100% — R: It's actually kinda how it gets started, there's a lot of enthusiastic shouting about an idea. K: [laughing] R: But you know what stinks? Is that you still have to write alone. K: Well and that's exactly what I was gonna ask you. So okay, let's go through this. You've decided I'm tired of being alone here, I want to also inflict this upon somebody else. So what do you do? R: [deep sigh] How do you find someone else to inflict things upon? So the first person that I sat down to write a project with was a friend, and we said like hey we should try this out! And we were both writers to begin with, writing in fairly different genres but still genre fiction. And we decided we were going to do a project and we said hey, it will be this, like we outlined it together. We - or we didn't so much outline it together but we concepted it out together. K: Okay. R: And then we each created a POV character as part of that concept. And then we wrote our chapters back and forth, so that the tone, the voice, for that POV character is consistent. K: Mhm. R: And so that you can have a character that's slightly unreliable, just because like you couldn't catch all the continuity errors, that you and your partner - K [overlapping]: Mhm. Yup. R: - created. It also lets you kind of reshuffle the scenes if you need to later, uh move things around a little bit easier, extract things if you need to without losing too many threads. But my other experience in doing it we did not, we had one POV. So, it doesn't have to be done that way. K: Tell us about the time you wrote one POV. R: I sort of went through my text file that I keep on my phone that's just like the little random lines and concepts, phrases that occur to me. And so the writing partner latched onto one and said, “That's interesting, let's work with that.” And then that was it, we just kind of went. I wrote something and sent it to him, and then I think we gave a week or two weeks max for each turnaround, so that one person wasn't waiting on the other forever. So it kinda bounced back and forth, and it would twist a little, like I'd get back and reread what the new words were and I'd be like oh okay, that's where that's going now. K: [chuckles] R: So it felt a little bit like improv, where somebody tosses you something, and y - the guide for improv is don't say “no,” say “yes, and...” So I think I had more of that spirit in the second project than I did in the first time attempting it, where um. As a kid I used to play with my friends and we'd get the toys all out and I'd immediately have a plot. And my friends would never adhere to it - K [overlapping]: [chuckles] R: Because of course they didn't know it. They would have whatever toy they were holding do a thing and I'd be like “No no no not that, have it do this.” So I can't imagine I was much fun to play with. Nor was it probably much fun to try and write with me on the project where I didn't have the spirit of “yes, and...” I had more like “mmm. That's interesting, how's that gonna fit back into where I'm taking this?” K: Well and that's a very good point, is I think if you're going to write with somebody it has to be a genuinely collaborative effort, rather than someone coming in with a story and having someone else tell it. R: Yeah and like I said, both times it was starting from a concept that, it wasn't like, “Oh I wanna write this book, do you wanna write it with me?” K: Mhm. R: So it was two people coming together each time saying “let's work together on a thing, what should we work on, do you have any ideas, yeah sure how ‘bout this concept, okay that's interesting what can we do with that? And then how do you wanna do this? Like okay I'll write some and then you write some and then I'll write some and then you write some. K: So like just examples off the top of my head, did you read This Is How You Lose the Time War? R: Yes. K: Yeah, so that was, so that's a novella actually written by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. And I remember going like huh, I'm curious to see how they did this, and I went back and I think I read an interview or something with them, and sure enough what they did was they outlined a plot, and then they took turns writing the letters in it, and - R: But not only that, interesting point that maybe you want to cut me off and say we'll get to that in a second - K: No, no prob. [laughing] R: But they wrote it at the same table, part of it at least. K: Yes. If you haven't read This Is How You Lose the Time War, read it, it's very good and it's a quick read. R: It won awards for a reason. K: I - yeah, it won a lot of awards. [chuckles] But the entire story is told through letters being sent back and forth between Agent Red and Agent Blue, both of whom work for separate agencies that go back in time and change things to make history fit what they want it to be. So I remember reading in this that sometimes they were, like they were writing the letters and then mailing them to each other essentially, and letting the other person correspond and reply, it was almost a bit of role-playing. But yes they did write some of it sitting across from each other. But then another good example that's the opposite: Good Omens was written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett and they both - R [overlapping]: [laughing] I was thinking of The Omen, and I'm like, I didn't know - wait what?! K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: They wrote that? Okay, I've caught up, continue. K: Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett, one of them wrote a lot of the main story, and then the other one fleshed out a lot of it. There's a main plot that but there's a lot of other stuff going on, and there's a lot of ancillary characters that turn out to be important to the plot but they never really gave a clear answer if it was like an assignment list so to speak, if there was like a breakdown of who was doing what. It sounds like they are just very good friends who were both very talented writers and were able to do this. I do see a lot of times when there's two authors involved, it's two different POVs, and - which is a perfectly intriguing way to do it. R: The way I always imagine it is that it starts with some sort of conference call or in-person visit, and the bones of the story are shaped out there. And then, at least far enough ahead that people can get to work writing. Because okay we're back to writing being lonely, you do have to go back to your own desk - K: [giggles] R: - and work on the project from your side, by yourself. I have heard of people writing in Google Docs so they can see the other people's words appear at - that just seems like chaos mode. K: I will say that's how I take notes at work when I'm on a call with multiple people from my side and like, I won't say it's easy, it's not terrible. R: It's very distracting. K: [chuckles] R: So I mean that would be a tremendously interesting way to do it, I would love to try that sometime. But coordinating that puts you back into the whole like ‘we have to be at the same place at the same time' aspect, which is probably not one of the benefits that most people would list of co-writing, is that you write your part of it without having to wait for the other person until like your check-in, and then you see what's come up with the other person's side of things and then you go back. And I will say again, the first time I tried to do this, we were writing in a shared Scrivener file. K: Okay. R: This was before Scrivener had real integration with Dropbox. K: The dark ages, yeah. R: Well no but - K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: I don't think it would work now, because back then two people could open the same Scrivener document. Now Scrivener will tell you sorry, you can't. It would have to go back to Google Docs or something, if we wanted to do it that way where we could see all the bones of the project coming together. The second time, we were just emailing a Word document back and forth that was updated and trying to keep them straight and not work in an old version. Which didn't happen, it was short enough that I don't think either of us were confused. K: How important is it to set down rules, so to speak? Of like, “Okay. This is how this is going to happen. Then we're going to, you know, everything must be tracked here, or you have to let the other person know if you're changing something to this.” I imagine it would depend on, are you both writing in the same document or are you each writing from a separate POV and then they're gonna be combined. How did you manage that? R: So it's interesting you ask that, because the first time, my partner and I actually wrote up a contract. K: I almost asked you, and I was like you know what, that seems like something maybe you wouldn't do right at the start of this, but - R: No, I think it's important. It's a good idea to have a contract that outlines who's responsible for what, how quickly people are expected to get things back - K: Mhm. R: How royalties are going to be split. K [overlapping]: Okay. R: Like if somebody's only responsible for the outline, in terms of word count they haven't contributed the same as the other person, but is it possible that you're splitting it 50/50? Either way, put it in writing, because that protects your estate later on from trying to come after somebody in arguing how much should or shouldn't be shared. It also can say like alright, this project is dissolved if the person takes more than two months to come back with their paragraph contribution for the week. K: Yeah. R: You know, all the questions that you just outlined can be described in there, including things like how are we going to edit this? Are we going to finish this project by taking it to a professional editor, like all the nitty gritty details can go, if not in a contract, in a project outline that can be referenced in a contract. K: All of the things we've been saying in the 60-something episodes of this podcast, now imagine you have to okay them with somebody else. R: Yeah. K [laughing]: Like - R: It depends on the personalities involved. One person might be like, ‘I'm going to leave all these decisions to you.' K: Mhm. ‘I'm just here to write,' yeah. R: Well ‘I just wanna write' or ‘I am - my faith in you and your ability to do these things is greater than my willingness to try and learn them,' and then the other person saying like ‘Yes, I agree to also take on all those tasks.' K: Mhm. R: So yeah. The first project, we drew up a contract and we said what the project was, who was going to - that we were splitting it, not necessarily like even chapters but that we were going to have two POVs and the POVs would each be the responsibility of a different person. K: Did you have an expected word count? R: Yeah. I think it was a little bit like a query letter, in terms of the way that the project was described. (I was looking for it but I couldn't find it.) In the way that the project was described and then in the way that we talked about the production timeline after, it was a little bit more like a marketing plan even. Including distribution: how were we going to release this? Was it going to be Kindle Unlimited or was it going to be distributed wide through all the retailers? K: You do need something like that, because let's say you start writing with somebody and you get pretty far down the path and it turns out you fundamentally disagree on what to do with the book. Well each of you have the files now presumably, [laughing] so - R [overlapping]: Mhm. K: What are you gonna do? R: You have to trust that the other person's not going to run off with it. Also, that's what the contract is, to ensure that they don't. K: Did you sit down and kind of come up with some agreed upon stylistic choices? R: In the sense of what? Like, comp title kind of things? K: Not just comp title, but stylistic in terms of writing. Granted if you're writing two different POVs you can attribute these things to a character, but like did you decide ‘Okay this is going to be descriptive, we're going to really emphasize the natural beauty of the setting,' or ‘we're going to make sure the characters always take note of a certain thing so that we can note it to the reader.' How'd you handle worldbuilding? How did you come to terms with all of the things that an author typically has to decide on their own? R: We did not, I think in either case really, get into that. K: Okay. R: We knew enough of each other's writing to sort of know what we were getting into. K: Yeah, and that's a very good point by the way; probably don't try to collaborate on a writing project with somebody whose writing you've never read before. R: Yeah. At the very least read some before you finalize all your contracts. K: Yes. I'd say that's important and, I'm not saying this to be mean or flippant, the last thing you want is to get started on a project and find out the person's not actually a very good writer. R: Or that your styles just don't make for good story together. You are not going to find a writer who writes exactly like you; don't assume that you aren't going to come up against like ‘Oh, I don't actually enjoy reading this from you.' K: Yeah. R: You want to challenge yourself and see how you can make your two styles fit together. Because if you're not growing as you work on anything then why bother? But you also don't want it to be such a challenge that you cannot enjoy the process. K: So what do you do when you have disagreements about something? R: Well hopefully the answer is something that you've already figured out in the contract, like if you're - K: Okay. R: It's kinda like when a company goes back to their mission statement to figure out how to proceed with something. K: What about if it's a story-related thing that's not necessarily outlined in the contract? R: Give me an example. K: Alright so, let's say in the end of the fifth season of Buffy there was like a fight in the writers' room about - uh, spoiler for a show that's been off the air for about 15 years, everyone - ‘we think Buffy maybe needs to die,' ‘no there's no reason she has to die,' and then… there's a fight! [chuckles] R: Hopefully your contract has a walking clause. Something that says like alright, if at some point the parties can't decide on where the story should go, they can walk away, and at that point maybe they decide, or maybe in your contract it should say, that you need to pick who gets to take the story with them - K [overlapping]: Mhm, yeah. R: - if somebody still wants to write it. ‘Cause that's something that wasn't in the contract for my first one, and part of me - like I wouldn't write the same story -  K: Mhm. R: We never finished it. I wouldn't write the same story but there are elements I'd like to take, but they're elements that would be recognizable enough. K: Mhm. R: So, how should we have proceeded? Probably one of us should - well at this point I could write to the person and say, “Hey, I wanna write this story, do you mind if I write this story on my own, not giving you any credit?” K [chuckles]: Yeah. Or if you do, how do I compensate you accordingly? R: Or just an acknowledgement, like I'll acknowledge that the story started, and then y'know life happened, we didn't finish it. K: Well that's a form of compensation. R: Yeah. Acknowledgement is like credit in a certain way, without - but again, in that email you say, “Okay cool.” And they write back and they're like, “Fine,” and I say, “Great. Here's something I'd like you to sign, just to say that like you are aware that I am writing this, and that I'm writing it all on my own -” K [overlapping]: Yup. R: “Using new material. And that, the only thing you expect is to get a nod in the acknowledgements.” That's something that you can do if you get to the point where you disagree on something and there's no - it's like if you're to the point of fisticuffs you should probably walk away, or take a break. Are you so stressed about either the project or whatever that you're just lashing out, or is this actually a problem, this relationship that you're working in? K [overlapping]: Mhm. R: So, you know, be an adult. K: And listen, by the way. I have writers that get, I mean, so defensive, about just - no one that I've worked with on a published book, but people I've talked to, people who've asked for advice and different things. And they're so defensive about the story to an editor. Imagine, again, trying to write this with another person. R: That's the thing is you really have to gauge how well you're going to work together with this person. K [overlapping]: Mhm. R: Do you just wanna do stuff because you're friends and you like spending time with them? That might not be enough to go on for the amount of, like think of the anguish that you put into a novel project in the first place. You would think that co-authoring means you share that anguish, but you actually just each have your own anguish - K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: - which might make you less compatible than you are at the start. K: My grandmother always says to never marry somebody before you've taken a three-day bus trip across country with them. I kind of feel like with writers it's like alright, I wanna see you two cook dinner together in the same kitchen, making the same dish. Like you, you have to collectively present me with one dish. And let's see how that goes. [laughing] R: Are you following a recipe or are you creating a recipe? K: You have to decide. R: Hm. K: But you actually, you kinda touched on something interesting there, which is the other form of collaborative writing that I've seen in query letters a lot, you said “Is this just your friend that you wanna hang out with and spend time with?” And where I get a lot of those from is roleplaying games. R: Mhm. K: There's a lot of thought and worldbuilding and character development and everything that goes into those. The, I hesitate to even call them players, by that point they're basically writers, put a lot of time and effort into developing these characters and these worlds and things and then they interact with other people who help them contribute and grow, and that is a way that I've seen some collaborative writing come to fruition is, start out as a game. R: You have to be a very caring person to be a good gamemaster, in that you have to care about the experience of the people that you are essentially having a collaborative worldbuilding experience with. You have to want them to have fun, or they're not going to have fun. K [overlapping]: [chuckles] R: You have to have set up different paths that they can choose to take so that they have some agency in the experience as well, and you have to be willing to say ‘yes and' rather than ‘no.' And you have to be willing to accept that sort of spontaneity. The best path forward may not always be the one you expect, but if you care about working with someone in a way that 1) doesn't negate their contribution - K: Mhm. R: - and make it seem like ugh, well that almost matches what I would've done; like it's not about anybody looking for permission from somebody else, it's unwinding this coil of like where is this going, and unwinding it together. So we mentioned before that there are experiences where somebody writes the outline and somebody else writes the story to the outline, and I think that's another balancing act because as somebody writes to an outline that they've made for themselves, they feel free to deviate from it. And I imagine that also happens when they write to an outline that somebody else has written. But also, writing an outline doesn't quite transmit everything that goes into a story. It's very hard to imagine what a person intended for an entire scene based on a single sentence or a couple of sentences. So there's gotta be a lot of letting go; if one person is handling one creative step and another person is handling another creative step, again that contract but also your expectations have to be that like that first person is going to be letting go of a lot of control of the story if they're not going to participate in the writing of it. K: It certainly is an exercise in having to give up and trust somebody with something that you created and love. R: It's interpersonal relationships on a scale that usually you can separate from your personal creative self, and you would expect to put this much work into a business project or a marriage or opening a business with somebody - and again like, have a contract. Yeah you are putting that much effort into this. K: You're opening a business with someone in a respect; you're creating a product. R: Yeah we're creating a product here that can be sold and resold and rights have to be licensed and - K: Mhm. R: You have to envision the success of this to really get a grip on all the things you have to consider. You can't just ‘oh haha this'll be fun' if you are going to publish it, because you never know where it's gonna go. K: Look at some of the greatest duos of what-have-you that fell apart because of differences in ideas. R: Mhm. I mean here are the advice like, never work for friends, watch out, you'll ruin your relationship if you try to do this, I mean that's kind of true of this if you don't go into it with the right mindframe. K: So now that we've scared the hell out of everybody and never gonna wanna write a collaborative project together. What were some of the fun things about it? R: The brainstorming at the beginning was definitely really fun. Sit down with somebody that you like and you talk about what ideas might come out of something, depending on your level of prepwork, you might've had a really long conversation or you have lots of these little visual pieces that you're gonna see how you're gonna string together. Or you might have just kinda said ‘well let's just see where it goes.' K: Mhm. R: Which I think was my experience the second time, once we picked that concept out of my Word doc of random ideas that I've had. K [laughing]: By the way, if you're listening to this and you wanna be a writer and you don't have a Word document of random ideas you've had please start one immediately. R: Hopefully if you're called to be a writer and you go ‘oh, you mean I should've been writing all those down,' as opposed to like ‘oh I've gotta start coming up with ideas' - like I think if you're at the point where you don't even have ideas - K: I'm saying for ideas you've already had. R: Okay. K: You need to have a good place to keep them. R: Jot them down. But yeah, so we picked something out of my book of ideas. If it's a collaborative effort between friends, it might've even been something like that started as a Twitter conversation and now you're writing it. So wherever you get your idea from, it usually starts with social connection, friendship, enthusiasm, and hopefully it's all mutual. And then you go to the, ‘okay, are we really doing this?' K: [giggles] R: ‘Let's start the contract.' If the person's not comfortable entering into a contract with you, then that's a red flag right there, that one of you is uncomfortable with what it's gonna take to finish this project out. Because the contract is the thing that's gonna see you through it all, so if you stop and you refuse to move forward at that point, that saves everybody some trouble. But the fun things about it are that starting moment, where the excitement is just zapping back and forth between the two of you, whether online or in person. K: Mhm. R: And then seeing what the other person wrote every week and getting to respond to it in like kind. It's a little bit like writing fanfiction, in real time, with an author. K: [laughing] R: And then the other person can feel the exact same way, that they are the one writing the fanfic in real time with the author. And hopefully it is a surprise every time that you open the document to see what's new. And then you pick someone whose writing you like, whose writing you enjoy, and then honestly it kinda carries you through the submissions process. ‘Cause you're like okay well it can't be that bad because I respect this person's writing - K [overlapping]: Mhm. R: - so if they liked it, then there's just a little like ‘no, this isn't bad,' that you can hold in your heart when you get a rejection from a magazine or something. K: Aww. R: Because like, you have faith that the other person knows what they're doing, and they have faith that you know what you're doing, and together you have this piece that you both believe in, even if you are believing in only half of it. [chuckles] And not the half that, you know, you worked on. So it's just really nice, yeah. K [overlapping]: In the end you're coming together to all believe together. R: Yeah I mean, we kinda, like in the second case it was a short story, and we did finish it. So, going back and forth, one person writing a few thousand words or like kinda getting to the end of a scene, like that break moment kinda thing where like - K: Yup. R: Fade to black, commercial break, whatever you wanna call it, and then going ‘ok! I just feel good about that writing session; I'm sending this back to you.' We did that a few times back and forth. One of us sent the first 500 words in November. By the time we had finished it, it was February of the following year. And, so that's pretty quick - K: Yeah that's really quick. R: We were both on top of it; we only sent it back like a couple of times. I think our total word count is 4100 words, so, at most that was like eight back and forth of - K [overlapping]: Mhm. R: - 500 words each, or I think some of them were a little bit longer. I think once we sorta started to see where it was going some of us were - some of us - [chuckles] K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: Half of us - one of us would write more of that, and the other person would write more of the other. K: Okay. R: So, and then after that, we started talking about like okay what do you wanna do now, ‘let's sit on it for a month' was the response, and then we picked some markets to target and one of us was just in charge of submitting them. K: So you, you had a system, you had a plan. R: Yeah. We didn't have a contract on that one, maybe we should. The nice thing is when you say you're co-authoring, the magazine tends to send two separate payments. K: Okay, nice. R: Or at least in my experience so far, of selling this once. K: [laughing] So overall, a good experience? R: Yeah! Yeah, that one was a lot of fun. Like I said, having a totally different attitude toward where it was going and who was in charge - which was neither of us or both of us? - it was a very different experience than the first time. My first experience was with someone, we were trying to write a whole novel, and I think our intent was it might be a series. So this was like long-haul planning, and it wasn't long before I realized like I don't think our styles really mesh. And he also wrote really really fast, and kind of expected me to write really really fast, so I would turn around something after working on it for like a week or so, and then the next day he'd be like ‘okay, your turn.' And I'd be like ‘oh, see, um, this isn't the only thing I wanna work on.' [laughing] K: Yeah. [chuckles] R: And so it was also, I think, in the middle of the final phases of getting Flotsam out, so it probably felt like a disruption, and the fact that he was turning things around so fast was like, frustrating to me. Whereas like I would work on something for awhile and then think like ‘okay, there, done, check it off my list' - K [chuckles]: Deep breath, yeah. R: And the next day it'd be on my list again. K: That can get a little stressful, certainly. R: Yeah. K: I guess the takeaway from all of this then is whether or not you have a good experience with this, a lot of it comes down to you. R: And planning and expectation yeah. K: Yeah. R: You could go to the Happiest Place On Earth and be a total stick in the mud about it, so - K: Yes. R: Like, that's true of everything. K: Yeah. Yeah but there's certain things you can do to make sure that it doesn't become a miserable experience, certainly. R: Yeah. Or, that you have a way out if it does. K: Yes, yes, there you go. So yeah I think that's - any, Rekka, any parting thoughts, any final suggestions or advice? R: If it's something that you've wanted to do, I definitely recommend doing it. Try it out and see. Hopefully, it doesn't break a friendship - [giggles] K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: Y'know, the first time you try it. Having that contract will go a long way to having a mutual not-fun-anymore clause. If neither party is interested in going forward, then that's it. That's all that has to be said, and the project is dissolved. And if the other person is loving where it was going and wants to keep going with it, then you just have that release agreement, where like “I don't expect any royalties or anything from this, you go ahead and have fun with it.” You hate to think that you need a contract to go do something that you and a friend both love doing, but ahh, I really think it's a good idea. K: It's probably, yeah. R: At worst, it doesn't hurt, and at best, it protects you and it gives you something to fall back on if things aren't going well. But, hopefully things go very very well and you end up with a story and you sell it, like I did! K: There you go. Rekka, what's the story you sold? R: [giggles] K: You knew I was gonna ask you about - R: Maurice Broaddus and I wrote a story called The Archivist, and it sold to Lightspeed magazine and should come out sometime within the next nine months or so. One day I imagine I will wake up and have been tagged on Twitter. K: It's just gonna be on there, yeah. R: And I will be able to share it then. My recent story on MetaStellar I was told the date, and then a few days ahead of time I was told what the URL would be and when it would go live, so I was able to prepare, which was nice. K: Very nice! As always, we hope we left you with some food for thought. R: It's worth doing, if only to find out whether you enjoy it or not, but also keep in mind that it takes the right pair of minds to do it. So if you don't enjoy the first time, that doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun again. But I hope you love it, ‘cause I did enjoy it, and I really am proud of the story that came out of it. I would not have written that story on my own. K: Oh, okay, well great! R: Which is another point, like I shouldn't leave off without saying that, but like we created a story that neither of us would've written if it was just working alone. K: Greater than the sum of their parts. R: Or at least greater than the sum of half the parts. [laughing] K [overlapping]: [laughing] R: Alright, well that is probably enough. If you want more, or you want to be notified when the story goes live, you can send us a message on Twitter or Instagram, we are @WMBcast. You can also find us on WMBcast.com with all our old episodes. If you are listening from the future, I might come back and add the link to that story when it does go live, to the show notes. If you are listening from a very very profitable future - K [overlapping]: [giggles] R: - you might consider going to Patreon.com/WMBcast to support us financially, but we don't need that! What we would really really love are some ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast aggregator, whichever you're listening to right now. That would be so, so helpful; it helps people find us. We had someone shouting on Twitter the other day saying like ‘why are more of you not listening to this podcast?' I guarantee it's because it's hard to find podcasts, unless they have really good ratings and reviews. So please, drop us some five stars and some glowing words, they don't have to be expansive. Just like ‘this podcast rocks!' I mean, that's what I think, that's what I would write. You can use that though. I'm not gonna hold you on a contract or anything. K: [laughing] R: Alright, two weeks from now we'll be talking about something entirely different, but probably just as goofy.

In Episode 14 of the EWBR podcast, Anisha & Dhruv discuss their favourite dark and disturbing books: from Christina Dalcher's Vox to George Orwell's 1984 to Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin to Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me Go and plenty, plenty more. Then there's a little rant about the Amy Adams starrer The Woman in The Window (sigh) and some high praise for Kate Winslet's riveting character study in the limited series, Mare of Easttown. Plus, after being lauded as the future of home entertainment, has the Netflix backlash begun? What gives? BINGE READ  Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781780228228 Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780099532927 A Little Life by Hanya https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781529061246 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571230587 1984 by George Orwell https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781784876555 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781784876258 Vox by Christina Dalcher https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780008300678 V For Vendetta by Alan Moore https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781401285005 Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241953242 My Dark Venessa https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780008342289 Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241989173 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780571335770 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver https://uk.bookshop.org/books/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin/9781781255674 The Push by Ashley Audrain https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780241434550 The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-fifth-child/9780586089033 Good Omens by Neil Gaimen and Terry Prachett https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780552176453 Woman in the Window by AJ Finn https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9780008333324 AJ Finn (author of Window in the Window backstory): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/a-suspense-novelists-trail-of-deceptions The Dinner by Herman Koch by https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781782394884 Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Plats https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4569/9781526602169  WATCH Woman in the Window on Netflix (movie) Mare of Easttown on Now TV, HBO Undoing on House of Cards on Netflix Orange is the New Black on Netflix Tiger King on Netflix Selling Sunset on Netlfix I May Destroy You on BBC  EAT Sorry - nothing to eat! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eatwatchbingeread/message

In our first episode of 2021, we're joined by Bam (BAMMakesGames) to chat about the latest Terry Prachett adaptation The Watch, as well as all the other various things we've been consuming lately. 0:00:00 – The Start of the Show 0:02:17 – Promising Young Woman 0:06:03 – Three Colours Trilogy 0:11:21 – The Punisher S1 0:14:42 – DnD: MCDM Supplements 0:18:56 – Star Wars: The High Republic 0:32:29 – It's A Sin 0:39:01 – A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge 0:46:13 – Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 0:53:25 – American Horror Story: Apocalypse 0:54:49 – Bam's Ratched Rant [Spoilers Are Present] 0:59:44 – The Watch [Slight Spoilers for Episodes 1 & 2] 1:44:50 – What Do We Want To Consume? 1:56:24 – The End of the Show Check out Sandro's other podcast - Oldie But A Goodie! Subscribe through the links and RSS feed here: https://omny.fm/shows/oldie-but-a-goodie Follow the Show! Facebook: http://fb.me/nerdoutwithrobjenandsandro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nerd_out_podcast/ Omny: https://omny.fm/shows/nerdout (Head here for links to iTunes, Spotify, Google, etc) Please send in any questions, review recommendations or feedback to "feedback.nerdout@gmail.com" Follow the Hosts! Sandro Falce - Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrofalce - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sandrofalce Rhys Parton – Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rhysparton - Twitter: https://twitter.com/rhysparton - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rhysparton - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuM9yepgLbYg8_ct8Go8uJQ Bam – Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bammakesgames Twitter: https://twitter.com/bammakesgames Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bamdoesnothing/

En el EPISODIO 23 DE POESIA 1110 Virginia Lago, Pollo Mactas, Carina Buono, Vilma Cepeda, Oscar Del Priore, Marcelo Guaita, Susana Espósito y Ricardo Pedace nos comparten sus textos elegidos. ¿Qué mascota se llevó Lord Byron al Trinity College, para que le haga compañía? ¿Qué y cuán antiguos son los Libros Pop-up? ¿A qué llamamos eufemismo? ¿Y Dilogia? Descubrimos algunas particularidades sobre las Fábulas del antiguo escritor griego, Esopo y nos adentramos en los conceptos de Fábula, Horror Cósmico, y Thriller ¿A qué llamamos cita? ¿Cuáles son las características de la Literatura de Aventuras? Escuchamos, en las voces de nuestros locutores, los pensamientos, poemas y escritos de Terry Prachett, Bram Stocker, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alejandro Dolina y H. P. Lovecraft. ¿Qué le comenta a través de una carta, José Hernández a don José Zoilo Miguens acerca de su gran obra “Martín Fierro”? Nos detenemos a pensar las letras de Jason Mraz, Chico Buarque, Jarabe de Palo, Paco Ibañez, entre otros y conocemos a la Editorial Entropía. Poesía 1110: Un espacio para pensar y resonar el acto poético en todas sus formas; La poesía de todas las cosas.

On this week’s episode of This Week’s Episode, Kris asks everyone to BUY HIS BOOK by way of a classic episode of The Critic. Does this cult classic cartoon hold up? Plus, Fraggle Rock comes back, the casts of Parks and Rec and The State reunite for some quarantine fun, Terry Prachett gets some respect, and more! This week’s episode The Critic - Miserable (S01E04) Next week’s episodes The World According To Jeff Goldblum - Gaming (S01E06) Show Notes FRAGGLE ROCK Reboot Coming to Apple TV+ Netflix: We're not going to run out of shows during the pandemic The State Returns Parks and Recreation cast to reunite in character for special COMING SOON: Time Lord Victorious Terry Pratchett novels to get 'absolutely faithful' TV adaptations Social Stuff Support us on Patreon Geekade Facebook PITAthon Twitter Instagram YouTube Twitch Website Contact Us

Am 16. Jänner haben Irene Zanol und Victoria Strobl den zweiten Teil des Live.Hör.Spiels „Der Zeitdieb“ im BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck besucht. Am Morgen darauf hat Victoria dann Veronika Temml und Alexander Prantner, zwei Mitglieder des Live.Hör.Spiel-Ensembles, zu einem Gespräch getroffen. Dabei haben sie über so spannende Fragen wie „Was ist eigentlich ein Live.Hör.Spiel?“, „Wieso habt ihr euch dafür entschieden, Werke von Terry Prachett zu bearbeiten?“ und „Was zur Hölle haben Lord Rust und Herbert Kickl gemeinsam?“ unterhalten. Einen ausführlichen Bericht zum Live.Hör.Spiel findet ihr übrigens im LiLit – Literarisches Leben in Tirol :) Bei LiLit sind alle jene Leser*innen richtig, die sich für Literatur interessieren. Das Online-Magazin des Literaturhauses am Inn und des Forschungsinstituts Brenner-Archiv setzt sich mit dem literarischen Leben in Nord-, Ost- und Südtirol auseinander.

Reproduzir Em Uma Nova Aba - Faça o Download - Arquivo Zip  Fim de ano é a época das confraternizações, festas da firma, amigos secretos/ocultos e na nave Interlúdio não poderia ser diferente. Reunimos nossa tripulação completa (ou quase) para uma festa com vários convidados e, é claro, não poderia faltar vocês, nossos queridos ouvintes.Ouça e acompanhe nossas indicações feitas através do amigo secreto; cuidado com cachorros perto da mesa da ceia; expulse o tiozão do pavê da sua festa e comemore com a gente a marca dos 50 episódios publicados.Acompanhe-nos, estimado explorador de universos!DURAÇÃO: 1 hora 20 Minutos 28 SegundosABORDADOS NO CAST:Araruama: O Livro das Sementes, Ian Fraser - Skoob - CompreAraruama: O Livro das Raízes. Ian Fraser - Skoob - CompreA Longa Viagem a um Pequeno Planeta Hostil, Becky Chamber - Skoob - CompreA Imensidão Íntima dos Carneiros, Marcelo Maluf - Skoob - CompreO dia em que enterrei Miguel Arcanjo e outros contos de fadas, Jan Santos - Skoob - CompreAntonio descobre Veredas, Deborah Kietzmann Goldemberg - Skoob - CompreTen Little Aliens, Stephen Cole - Skoob - CompreA Cor da Magia, Terry Prachett - Skoob - CompreA Luz Fantástica, Terry Prachett - Skoob - CompreTeto para Dois, Beth O’Leary - Skoob - CompreA Sombra do Vento, Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Skoob - CompreDesaparecido para Sempre, Harlan Coben - Skoob - CompreOs Meninos da Rua Paulo, Ferenc Molnar - Skoob - CompreNeuromancer, William Gibson - Skoob - CompreA TRIPULAÇÃO NAS REDES:Twitter: @MultiversoX - @CapAceBarros - @_Airechu - @JulioBarcellos - @sih_souz - @camiaetria - @samuelmuca_Instagram: @multiversox - @_airechu - @juliobarcellos - @id_diogo - @castelodecartas -  @samuelmuca_ddFacebook: Multiverso XSkoob: - CapAceBarros - Airechu - JulioBarcellos - Sih - Camila Loricchio - Diogo - Samuel MucaPARTICIPE DO NOSSO GRUPO NO TELEGRAM: bit.ly/MXTelegramENCONTRE O X DO MULTIVERSO NO DISCORD: https://discord.gg/j3h6kxQQUER O FEED PARA ADICIONAR NO SEU AGREGADOR FAVORITO?Assine o nosso feed: feeds.feedburner.com/multiversox/podcastSUGESTÕES, CRÍTICAS E DÚVIDAS:Envie e-mails para: contato@multiversox.com.br

Nous continuons de vous présenter des œuvres du label Vertigo et dans cet épisode nous partons pour un voyage onirique avec Sandman de Neil Gaiman. Mais comme d'habitude on commence avec les news :- Des nouveaux détails sur le New God d'Ava Duvernay- Le nouvel éditeur de Buffy publie des anciens récits sur la tueuse- Le pitch du Batman avorté de Ben Affleck Puis nous passons au comics de la semaine : SandmanSandman est née de l'esprit de Neil Gaiman qui est bien sûr scénariste de comics mais aussi romancier. Vous avez peut être vu la série American Gods qui adapte un de ses romans ou plus dernièrement Good Omens sur Amazon Prime qui adapte une des ses collaborations avec Terry Prachett. On vous conseille fortement d'aller écouter le numéro du podcast Hommage Collateral si vous avez envie d'en apprendre plus sur le monsieur, voici le lien pour le retrouver. Sandman est une plongée dans le monde des songes, puisque nous suivons les péripéties de Dream une entitée immortelle qui règne sur le domaine rêve. c'est un comics captivant qui si vous vous laissez emporter va vous chambouler. Neil Gaiman nous entraîne dans son univers merveilleux et fantastique, toute en tissant une histoire superbement construite. Cette bande dessinée a été un véritable coup de coeur pour toute l'équipe nous vous la recommandons chaudement mais on vous en dit plus dans l'émission. Si vous habitez sur Montpellier, que vous êtes disponible le lundi de 18H à 19h , n'hésitez pas à nous contacter à: contact@comicsdiscovery.fr peut être rejoindrez-vous notre équipe. Vous pouvez nous retrouver sur nos réseaux sociaux :Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ComicsDiscovery/Twitter : https://twitter.com/comicsdiscoveryInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/comicsdiscovery/ Vous pouvez nous écouter sur :Spotify : https://spoti.fi/2Qb8ffDAusha : https://podcast.ausha.co/comicsdiscoveryItunes : https://apple.co/2zw9H1QDeezer : https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/55279 Sans oublier le replay en vidéo sur :Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/ComicsDiscovery Si vous voulez nous soutenir vous pouvez le faire sur :Tipeee:https://fr.tipeee.com/james-et-faye Et pour retrouver tout notre contenu vous avez nos sites web :ComicsDiscovery : http://comicsdiscovery.fr/Nos autres productions: http://jamesetfaye.fr/

Good Omens, lançado na Amazon Prime, é uma minissérie incrível. Baseado no livro lançado em 1990, escrito por Neil Gaiman e Terry Pratchett, ele conta a história de um anjo e um demônio que se unem para impedir a destruição do mundo. Mas você sabia que essa adaptação, além de contar a história de Aziraphale e Crowley, também conta uma história de amizade fora das telas? E de um pedido que Terry Prachett fez, à Neil Gaiman, antes de morrer? Ouça o episódio e descubra que promessa foi essa. ---- Assuntos: Cinema, Storytelling, minissérie, análise, roteiro, livro, adaptação de livro, minissérie baseada em livro, neil gaiman, terry pratchett.

Kriss, Ro & Brandon got early screener access to Amazon's new show, Good Omens, based on the novel by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaimen. This is definitely not a show for everyone because it's weird, quirky and might take some getting used to after the first episodes. But if you come just for the back & forth between Michael Sheen and David Tennant then you'll probably stay for the rest. After a little warming up, you'll probably find a lot to latch onto. Not to mention it's only 6 episodes so if it turns out you didn't like it, you won't have to worry about wasting a lot of time.  The show has angels, demons, the Antichrist, witches and a good sense of humor in not taking anything too seriously. Plus, the show opens up with Adam & Eve (Yes that Adam & Eve) being black so...yeah...off the strength of that alone we were in.  Good Omens premieres on Amazon Prime Video on May 31st.  A tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an eleven-year-old Antichrist, and a doom-saying witch.   Like what you hear? Subscribe so you don't miss an episode! Follow us on Twitter: @Phenomblak @InsanityReport @TheMTRNetwork   Our shirts are now on TeePublic.  https://teepublic.com/stores/mtr-network   Want more podcast greatness? Sign up for a MTR Premium Account!  

Episode 0006, Part 6: Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible!   Lords of Light! It's the first show of the new year and Albert is joined by Jonesy from the Cantina Cast to wrap up the pop culture armada found in Chapter 0006! The guys cover Jeopardy, Space Giants, Battle of the Planets, Misfits of Science, Thundarr the Barbarian, Van Halen, Devo, and much more with a special take on the influence of George Lucas. C'mon you Demon Dogs, give this one a listen!  Terry Prachett (1948 - 2015)  DiscWorld  The Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation games Robert A. Heinlein (Auth) (1907 - 1988) Starship Troopers staring Doogie Howser, and Jester from Top Gun Sons of the Lawless and Jake Busey 8 million sequels and the reboot Michael Moorcock  (1938 - present)  Moorcock Multiverse and the Eternal Champion Similarities with avatars in The OASIS Jeopardy (1964 - Present) Alex Trebek and his mighty mustache Favorite game show of the past Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy April Fools Jonesy plays a round of Jeopardy!  The Space Giants (Late 70's - I'm going to say it was around '78 or even '79) Origins of the show and Rodak's shimmery smile Albert walked home from school when he was 1 This shows grows on you, doesn't it? Misfits of Science (1985 - 1986) The prequel to ALF and Friends Tim Kring is a patient man Karen Lawrence is underrated  Leo from Grease and Mr. Hand are in this one Thomas Dolby strikes again Battle of the Planets (1978 - 1980) Origins and US beginnings  "TRANSMUTE!"  Star Wars influences  Notable differences between the US and Japanese versions 7 Zark 7 is a creeper Thundarr the Barbarian (1980 - 1983)  Cast and Crew “Tarzan in space”, and the Lords of Light special Star Wars influences  Thundarr the ROCK BAND! Vashar belongs in Eternia Endor - wut?? Devo (Band) 1973 - Present The definitive New Wave band Band origin name Top 3 songs What is an Energy Dome?   Van Halen (1972 - Present)  Band and band name origins Who really named the band? Van Halen vs. Van Hagar  No one knows where Dave is anymore Top 234 songs It wasn't Gary Cherone's fault Zaxxon (1982) Game name origin First arcade to have a commercial After 37 years nothing has changed: Albert still SUCKS at Zaxxon Akalabeth (1979) Richard Garriott's first work The alumni of Clear Creek High School in Houston TX The sales strategies of Akalabeth and Anorak's Quest A game of firsts  George Walton Lucas Jr.  (1944) George was better than we were at age 30...barely. Favorite movies NOT starting with “Star Wars”  George's influences George's legacy What Star Wars means to us Hosts Albert “Lord of Light” Padilla Jonesy “Demon Dog” 3-2-1 Contact! Instagram: @TheBasementRPO Twitter: @TheBasementRPO Facebook: /TheBasementRPO Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBasementRPO TeePublic: http://tee.pub/lic/mjtTM-nrguo

Amanda and Jenn discuss inclusive horror, small-town fantasies, smart creepy girls, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan and All The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater.   Questions 1. Hi guys, I’m a big horror/thriller fan and I’m looking to include more diverse authors and protagonists in my reading. Most recently I read and loved Lovecraft Country in which a Black community comes together to battle eldritch horrors. I like Joe Hill, Shirley Jackson, Jack Ketchum, novels or short stories, and both supernatural or more reality based stories as long as there’s a scary/spooky atmosphere. Can you recommend some horror authors who are people of color, LGBT or from a religious minority? Or horror books that have a non-white, non-straight protagonist? thanks so much! love the podcast even though you make my TBR pile teeter with all the books I add after hearing of them from you. --Vanessa   2. I just binge watched Twin Peaks and loved it. I'm a sucker for small town drama with mystical elements, and was wondering if you guys had any book recs similar to that. I found some lists online that were mainly comprised of thrillers like Gone Girl, which isn't really my thing. Somebody recommended American Gods to me, and I can see why. I've already read it, and liked it very much, but don't feel like rereading it. Any other suggestions? (Note: I've already read everything written by Neil Gaiman) --Diane   3. Hi Amanda and Jenn! I am seeking book recommendations for my mom who recently retired from a career in early childhood care. As she has not been able to dive into books without crayon marks in years and is unsure of where to start looking, I would like to offer her a number of suggestions from multiple areas -- short stories and fast-paced novels are especially welcome. She is not into horror or science fiction, but she's happy to try other genres. Thank you so much! --Laura   4. Hi ladies, My boyfriend and I met online and immediately bonded over our shared love of books. We've spent countless weekends lounging around reading together in silence. He recently brought up the idea of reading books together and I am 1000% on board. My problem is: how do we choose? I have a 1000+ book "To Read" list on Goodreads and follow all the BookRiot podcasts; he loves to just wander into bookstores and pick up whatever catches his eye. We both enjoy sci-fi and fantasy but my tastes skew a bit more to the side of literary fiction (favorite book: The Sparrow) and he is inclined towards more epic, action-packed adventures (favorite book: anything from the Dark Tower series). I also love nonfiction, which he has never really gotten into despite his love of documentaries. Do you have any recommendations for books that will satisfy us both? I'm thinking something by Terry Prachett or Neil Gaiman would be a good start but would love some more ideas. Thank you! --Ashley   5. Hi Ladies! One of my favorite books of all time is We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Also just recently I discovered the Flavia de Luce series and I'm enjoying it very much. My favorite aspect is that these books focus on creepy smart girls. Do you have any more recs that contain creepy smart girls as main characters? I prefer books on audio. Thanks ladies! --Amanda   6. Hi there! It seems like a majority of the contemporary novels I've read recently either take place in the Midwest or in New York or feature characters from the Midwest who have moved to New York. I enjoy these books, as they tend to feature multi-dimensional characters with rich stories but I grew up and still live in the DC/Maryland area and I would love to read a novel that takes place around here. The only thing is that I don't want to read a DC novel that features politicians or bureaucrats or political intrigue. The only one I know of so far is The Known World so anything else that you can recommend would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! --Aneesa   7. Having had a challenging time with my mental health at the beginning of the year, I have really struggled to get back into the physical act of reading (although have still been buying books, oops). I find audiobooks and podcasts easy to follow as it tends to be my focus that slips. However due to the pile of physical books I own, I am looking for some gateway easy to read books to get back into being a reader and not just a listener. I typically prefer fiction over non-fiction but like a wide range of genres and am willing to give anything a go (although I don't typically enjoy pure romance outside of YA). I do generally lean toward thrillers and mysteries, but think maybe the typically darker subject matter is part of the problem. Any recommendations would be great. Thank you very much for the podcast, your enthusiasm about the books you talk about has really encouraged and ignited my desire to start reading again. --Megan   Books Provenance by Ann Leckie Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Kraken by China Miéville An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Coraline by Neil Gaiman Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (trigger warning: rape, suicide) The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Song Yet Sung by James McBride A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal (Kitty Weeks #1) The Quiche of Death by MC Beaton (Agatha Raisin #1)

Die Crew klickt sich in Gedenken an Terry Prachett durch die Scheibenwelt. Vielleicht hätten wir besser ein Buch gelesen.

In this podcast Eugenia and Gerri are joined by guest presenter Jo. They talk about the world of Terry Prachett that is filled with many wonderful stories and characters. [more]

The crew is finally together to record a wrap up of the goings on at New York Comic Con. We talk Superior Spider-Man, Uncanny Avengers, Batman Death of the Family, Terry Prachett, Firefly and much much more!

This is a terrible cast.  I honestly wouldn't listen to it, if I were you.  I mean, I gotta keep it real, right?  I can't say how awesome our casts are and it mean anything and then drop a turd and talk it up, yeah?  Yeah. Thing is, I'm not sure why it flopped on it's face.  We had some good bullshit up front; pimping the Brew Ha Ha, advances in metallurgy, saying a happy birthday to Alan Turing, and talking about Terry Prachett's dignity in making end of life decisions.  A.Ron plugs one of his favorite twitter feeds, @humblebrag. For our meat, Jim discusses whether or not Super 8 brought back fond memories of Spielberg's innocent sci-fi movies of the 80s, and A.Ron ponders what the recent tidal wave of hacking means for security and privacy in the future.  I dunno, seems like a decent cast.  But it totally wasn't. If you want to break down where we went wrong, Zapruder film style, drop us a line back, and to the left. Back… and to the left.   Unleash your venom at us on Twitter, flame us on our  Facebook fan page, or give us a terrible review on iTunes.  Don't forget our forums!  Any hate you spew there stays forever, permanently etched into our SQL database.  All I ask… is for you to be gentle.