Podcast appearances and mentions of Theodora Goss

Savor sea food with Theodora Goss as we discuss the ways in which being an immigrant is like living in a fantasy world, how she knows when a poem is a poem and a story is a story, the power of the specificity of prose, what Neil Gaiman once said about writing for theme anthologies which perfectly described her own process, our surprisingly similar  experiences with editorial suggestions, why so many fantasy writers love Middlemarch, her theories about the best way to moderate panels, how she knows when a story is truly done, and much more.

Editors' Intro: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Fiction: "One Man's Treasure" by Sarah Pinsker, as read by Matt Peters Poetry: "The Witch Makes Her To-Do List" by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Sarah Pinsker   Want to join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps? You can find new science fiction and fantasy stories, poetry, and nonfiction every month in Uncanny Magazine. Go to uncannymagazine.com or subscribe to the eBook version at weightlessbooks.com or amazon.com. This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky. Music created by Null Device and used with permission. Copyright © 2023 by Uncanny Magazine

Hello and welcome to Episode Forty Eight of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah! If you enjoy the podcast subscribe, tell a friend, or write us a review! The English Language Transcript can be found below But as always we start with Reader's Advisory! The Reader's Advisory for Episode Forty Eight is Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist. If you like the sound of Tripping Arcadia you should also check out: The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss, Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth, and The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas. Bonus segment my personal favorite Goodreads list Tripping Arcadia is on is 2022 Releases I Might Read Happy Reading Everyone Today's Library Tidbit is a history tidbit! More specifically a very brief history of Largo ending with a brief history of the land the current library building sits on. Largo is on the unseeded lands of the Tocoboga and Seminole people. When the Spanish landed in the 1500s at first the traded with the Native population and then proceeded to commit genocide in the name of conquest. By the 1700s the Tocoboga had been virtually annihilated as a people, leaving the Seminole people as the remaining dominate tribe in the area. However, due to war against the Spanish and the English and White Americans the Seminole people were never able to firmly establish in Pinellas County. You can go back to listen to episode 28 of Page Turn to learn more! During the Seminole Wars white settlers came to Pinellas County and began homesteading. Some names you may recognize include McMullen, Lowe, Belcher, and Taylor. Several of their houses have been moved to Heritage Village to preserve the history of the county. The families that settled mid-Pinellas all came to farm the land. Discovering an area that could sustain citrus crops, cattle, as well as, provided ample fish and other meat through hunting. The railroad arrived in Pinellas County in 1888. Prior to this the area had been called Luluville, so named after a 500-acre lake called Lake Tolulu. This lake was believed to have been named by John Gideon Blitch after his daughter Lulu. However, this is possibly apocryphal as I can find few sources, and much is on hearsay. This lake was only known as Lake Tolulu for a few years as it had been renamed Lake Largo by 1888. Once the railroad arrived this area was named Largo after the lake. With the railroad arriving Largo and the surrounding areas increased in size. While St. Pete grew into an urban city attracting tourists to its hotels and beach, Largo focused on farming and citrus packing. Largo continued to increase in population fairly steadily through the years. Leading to more demand for land. Leading to, in the early 1900s, a major push in the state of Florida to drain away all the fresh water in the entire state, who needs that right? Most people in Florida will know of the push to drain the Everglades lead by Jennings and Broward, but that push can also be felt in Pinellas County. Between 1915 and 1917 canals and drainage ditches were dug to drain Lake Largo. And they succeeded! What was once a major source of freshwater, not only for the human population but also for farming and fishing, had been drained into the bayou. What was left behind was great farming land. As the Largo Sentinel said in 1918: “While it was a pleasing picture before the drainage work … it is now a much more pleasing picture when one looks out over the hammock lands now in cultivation. … This large tract of reclaimed land shows what drainage is worth to (the acreage east of Largo) which has always been considered practically worthless.” My favorite part of this decision? By the late 1940s, less than 30 years later, residents of the area had realized that turning all of their freshwater to saltwater had been a mistake and created Lake Seminole to replace Lake Largo. The land the lake was drained for was used as crop ...

Nancy has found a unique way of conquering the general zeitgeist of creativity challenge with meditation and poetry to unlock new creativity. We discuss colonialism, and the challenge of looking at discovered civilizations (on earth, in space, wherever) through a lens of diversity instead of the old models, and what might happen when we start to do that even more. … Continue...Episode 93 – Interview with Nancy Jane Moore

Editors’ Intro: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Fiction: "Tyrannosaurus Hex" by Sam J. Miller, as read by Joy Piedmont Poetry: "Medusa Gets a Haircut" by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Sam J. Miller   Want to join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps? You can find new science fiction and fantasy stories, poetry, and nonfiction every month in Uncanny Magazine. Go to uncannymagazine.com or subscribe to the eBook version at weightlessbooks.com or amazon.com. This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky. Music created by Null Device and used with permission. Copyright © 2021 by Uncanny Magazine

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Legendary Grand Master Jane Yolen shares with Gary some delightful personal news, as well as her advice to aspiring authors on how the lockdown can be seen as a gift to writers, the pleasures of "munchie" writing like Cat Valente or Gregory Maguire, the short stories of Theodora Goss, and Linda Barnes's Carlotta Carlyle mysteries. Books mentioned include: The Midnight Circus by Jane Yolen The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen The Book of Dragons edited by Jonathan Strahan Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire Carlotta Carlyle series by Linda Barnes      

L.C. Barlow is a writer and professor working primarily in the field of speculative fiction. She has an MA in English from the University of Texas at Arlington and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. She has studied with popular writers, including Nancy Holder, Elizabeth Hand, Ted Deppe, James Patrick Kelly, Elizabeth Searle, David Anthony Durham, and Theodora Goss. Her work has been published in Oak Bend Review, Flash Fiction World, Linguistic Erosion, Flashes in the Dark, Separate Worlds, Every Day Fiction, and Popular Culture Review. Her fiction has reached over sixty-five thousand readers and garnered praise, including a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Awards, a winner of the Indie Reader Discovery Awards, a winner of the eLit Awards, and IndieReader’s Best Books of 2014. Barlow’s horror trilogy – Pivot, Perish, and Peak – was picked up in 2018 by California Coldblood Books, an imprint of Rare Bird Books. The first of the trilogy, Pivot, was released in October 2019. Perish will be released this October 2020. Barlow lives in Dallas, TX with her two cats, Smaug and Dusty. Alex Dolan is the author of The Euthanist and The Empress of Tempera. He is also the host of the "Thrill Seekers" show on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. He was an executive committee member of the San Francisco Bay Area's Litquake festival, and is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. He holds an MS in strategic communications from Columbia University. This is a trademarked copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC.

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Today Gary is joined by novelist, poet, scholar, and teacher Theodora Goss, whose trilogy The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, one of the more delightful fantasy series of the past few years, concluded last fall with The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl. We touch upon the story behind her narrative poem in The Book of Dragons, narrative poetry in general, the literature of monsters, relearning Hungarian, and the appeal of detective stories, Daphne Du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Veronica Mars, and nature nonfiction. Books mentioned include: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club by Theodora Goss Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss Medusa's Daughters: Magic and Monstrosity from Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siécle edited by Theodora Goss Abigail by Magda Szabo Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Monster Theory Reader edited by Jeffrey Weinstock On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma      

It was written in the stars that someday we'd join forces with the Reading Glasses gals and create the nerdiest book event ever. Here it is. An hour of live book recommendations done over Zoom. If you missed out and would like us to do this again, reach out to us via twitter or email and let us know! Book requests and our recommendations"  “I just finished the first book in The Witcher series and I’d love more fantasy short story recommendations.”   Jill - Rogues (Anthology) https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780345537263 Dangerous Women https://www.overdrive.com/media/2052864/dangerous-women https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780765332073   Adam - Toil and Trouble (Anthology) https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781335016270   “Looking for a read-a-like for Little Women and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.”   Mallory - Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316204262 https://www.overdrive.com/media/650438/whered-you-go-bernadette   When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781534432871 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4815623/when-we-were-magic   The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinki https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143109433 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2015858/the-girl-who-slept-with-god   “Looking for recommendations for books about small towns with quirky characters, with a sense of a small community where the characters get all up in each other’s business” Adam - Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby https://www.overdrive.com/media/4297634/cedar-valley   Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry https://www.overdrive.com/media/228070/nathan-coulter https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781582434094 Mallory - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781492623441 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2139814/the-readers-of-broken-wheel-recommend   “Looking for a read-a-like for Bunny by Mona Awad, something weird and creepy but with no violence and or horror.”   Mallory - The Return by Rachel Harrison https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780593098660 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4838379/the-return   Sarah Waters https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781594633928 https://www.overdrive.com/media/1742956/the-paying-guests Sarah Perry https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062856401 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5130366/melmoth Dare Me by Megan Abbott https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316430173 https://www.overdrive.com/media/1089210/dare-me Adam - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781101974445 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3108736/meddling-kids   Jill - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781683691433 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5038989/the-southern-book-clubs-guide-to-slaying-vampires   “Looking for queer sci-fi.”   Adam - The Disasters by M.K. England https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062657688 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3900835/the-disasters Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316449274 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4659499/once-future   Mallory - The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781481447942 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5038996/the-stars-are-legion   “Looking for a book recommendation to get me out of a slump. I love sci fi and fantasy and need something that will really get its claws in me and get me excited and invested right away.”   Adam - The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781524739010 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4775066/the-kingdom-of-back   Brea - The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780765392107 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4500036/the-future-of-another-timeline   Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781101886717 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2466122/sleeping-giants   The Test by Sylvain Neuvel https://www.overdrive.com/media/4297407/the-test “Can you recommend any novellas? Big books are intimidating and hard to focus on.” Mallory - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781250294807 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4288450/the-haunting-of-tram-car-015   Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143198055 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3970894/split-tooth   Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781626729247 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5243308/the-phantom-twin   Brea - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780525541332 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4159273/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead   “Looking for recommendations along the lines of Ghost Maps, nonfiction about diseases.” Brea - The Great Influenza by John M. Barry https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143036494 https://www.overdrive.com/media/204479/the-great-influenza New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People by Robert S. Desowitz https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780393304268   “Looking for a good stand alone middle grade novel.”   Adam - Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316531207 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4669399/sunnyside-plaza   Doll Bones by Holly Black https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781416963998 https://www.overdrive.com/media/1139037/doll-bones   Mallory - Small Spaces by Katherine Arden https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780525515043 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3656348/small-spaces    “I really love a teenage girl/young adult detective story. Any recommendations in that realm?   Mallory - Goldie Vance https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781608868988 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3007148/goldie-vance-volume-1   Jill - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780385343497 https://www.overdrive.com/media/199312/the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie   Adam & Brea - A Study in Charllote by Brittany Cavallaro https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062398918 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2236808/a-study-in-charlotte   “Looking for a read-a-like for Seanin McGuire/Mira Grant, historical or modern fantasy, maybe combined with a fairytale.”   Mallory - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781250147936 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4559254/the-hazel-wood   Adam - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781594634666 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4394966/gingerbread   Brea - A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781250211668 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3750319/a-blade-so-black The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781481466516 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2988715/the-strange-case-of-the-alchemists-daughter   “Looking for diverse mystery recommendations.”   Jill - The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781492670124 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3877587/the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle   Ruth Ware https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781501132957 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2526344/the-woman-in-cabin-10 Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062645234 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2962692/magpie-murders   Mallory - Sarah Waters https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781573228732 https://www.overdrive.com/media/242291/affinity   “I’ve been into nonfiction comics lately … looking for more.” Adam - The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781419718786 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3135209/the-best-we-could-do   Brea - My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris “Looking for a read-a-like for the Wayward Children series, reverse portal fantasy.”   Mallory - Ten Thousands Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316421997 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4513546/the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january   Brea - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780385541213 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4716002/the-starless-sea   “Looking for nihilistic YA…  desperately want more reads with nihilistic young adults as they go through a crisis of self and get closer to university. ”   Mallory - A.S. King   Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future https://www.overdrive.com/media/1547918/glory-obriens-history-of-the-future   Dig https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781101994917   Adam - The Rest of Us Just Live by Patrick Ness https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062403179 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2052828/the-rest-of-us-just-live-here   “Read-a-like for an adult version of Yoon Ha Lee’s books, looking for a Star Trek vibe.”   Brea - Space Opera by Catherynne Valente https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781481497503 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3442025/space-opera   Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780765336309 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2875604/dark-orbit   Jill - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062444134 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2245998/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet   “Looking for lush historical horror a la Alma Katsu.”   Mallory - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781594484469 https://www.overdrive.com/media/552325/the-little-stranger   The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143131632 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3309311/the-silent-companions

Mario nos habla hoy de cuatro relatos cortos completamente diferentes: "Alone with the Stars", de David R. Gillham; "Cut and Run", de Ben Acker y Ben Blacker; "For He Can Creep", de Siobhan Carroll; y "Red as Blood and White as Bone" de Theodora Goss. Y en El Rincón del Comic, Mario comenta el tercer volumen de Transformers: Lost Light, serie escrita por James Roberts.

Sure, I know István Horvath. We met about a year before Eva died. That’s my wife, Eva. You knew that? Yeah, I figured you were pretty thorough. It was the year of the blizzard, when snow covered the cars parked on the streets and even the Post Office shut down. I didn’t have to go to work for a week. So one night, I think it was Thursday, Eva says, “Mike, I only have one of the blue pills left.” This was when we still thought the chemo was doing something. | Copyright 2005 by Theodora Goss. Originally published in Realms of Fantasy. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Kristoffer Tabori.

Sure, I know István Horvath. We met about a year before Eva died. That’s my wife, Eva. You knew that? Yeah, I figured you were pretty thorough. It was the year of the blizzard, when snow covered the cars parked on the streets and even the Post Office shut down. I didn’t have to go to work for a week. So one night, I think it was Thursday, Eva says, “Mike, I only have one of the blue pills left.” This was when we still thought the chemo was doing something. | Copyright 2005 by Theodora Goss. Originally published in Realms of Fantasy. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Kristoffer Tabori.

In which we finally complete the Joanna Russ book club in our final ep for 2019!   Tansy - Terror Australis   Alex goes to Broadside, The Wheeler Centre’s festival of feminist ideas, and is confronted by whiteness. (https://broadside.wheelercentre.com)   WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:   Rebuilding Tomorrow crowdfunded - postponed JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB: Author’s Note and Afterword CULTURE CONSUMED:   Alisa: the great Twelfth Planet Press move (again)   Tansy: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss; The Crown; Big Finish: Cicero; Dead Media by John Richards;    Alex: Infomocracy, Malka Older; The Name of the Rose (tv series); White Tears/ Brown Scars, Ruby Hamad   Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon - which now includes access to the ever so exclusive GS Slack - and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on July 17, 2019, with guests Theodora Goss & Cadwell Turnbull.   Theodora Goss Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning author of novels, short stories, essays, and poetry. Her most recent collection, Snow White Learns Witchcraft, retells and recasts fairy tales and her forthcoming […]

Editors’ Intro: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Fiction: "Nice Things" by Ellen Klages, as read by Erika Ensign Poetry: "The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly" by Theodora Goss, as read by Stephanie Malia Morris Interview: Ellen Klages interviewed by Lynne M. Thomas  Want to join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps? You can find new science fiction and fantasy stories, poetry, and nonfiction every month in Uncanny Magazine. Go to uncannymagazine.com or subscribe to the eBook version at weightlessbooks.com or amazon.com. This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky. Music created by Null Device and used with permission. Copyright © 2019 by Uncanny Magazine

In The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, Theodora Goss takes the most famous of 19th-century monster tales and turns them on their heads, making the female monsters of the narratives (or the female monsters from the spaces between the canon) into the protagonists of their own story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" A group of academics initiate a project to "imagine" a fictional country, only to find that their collective imaginings have coalesced into a very real country with very real history, culture, and geopolitical significance. The story takes the form of one of the academics' writings, which take a harrowing and intimately personal turn. The Author: Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning author of the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting (2006); Interfictions (2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; The Thorn and the Blossom (2012), a novella in a two-sided accordion format; the poetry collection Songs for Ophelia (2014); debut novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017), and sequel European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (2018). She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has been translated into twelve languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Visit her at theodoragoss.com. The Actor: Wilson Fowlie has been reading stories out loud since the age of 4, and credits any talent he has in this area to his parents, who are both excellent at reading aloud. He started narrating stories for more than just his own family in late 2008, when he answered a call for readers on the PodCastle forum. Since then, he has gone on to become PodCastle’s most prolific narrator, reading or appearing in over 30 episodes. He’s also narrated for many other podcasts, including all of the other Escape Artists ’casts, StarShipSofa and other District of Wonder podcasts, Beam Me Up, Cast Macabre, Dunesteef Audio Fiction magazine and the Journey Into… podcast. He fits in all this narrating between his day job as a web developer in Vancouver, Canada, acting in local theatre productions and looking for voice acting jobs.

Once upon a time, there was a princess named Little Snowdrop, who had six brothers and four sisters. Her brothers were ravens, and her sisters were swans. Whenever they wished, they would fly around the castle on their black or white wings, but Snowdrop, not having any wings of her own, could not join them. She could only wave at them from the window of a high tower as they flew by. Her father was the King, and he loved her very much. | Copyright 2018 by Theodora Goss. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.

While our show is on hiatus, we want to be sure you still get book suggestions from us. Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week! Today's book is from Mary, and is by Theodora Goss. Want to be a full book group member? ! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.   We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

On today's episode, Adam and Jill get to talk with Keiko Agena who played Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls. Along with acting, she is also a visual artist who has a new workbook for artists out now called No Mistakes. Part adult coloring book, part artistic exercises, this workbook is perfect for anyone wanting to stretch their artistic limits whether you are a writer, an artist, or still trying to find your creative voice. Adam and Jill also offer up some recent reads for listeners.  Books mentioned in this episode: The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy The Call by Peadar O'Guilin Final Girls by Riley Sager How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather Truth or Beard by Penny Reid Beard Science by Penny Reid The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss   Say Hello! Find us on Instagram and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter.

Editors’ Intro: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Short Fiction: "Blessings" by Naomi Novik, as read by Stephanie Malia Morris Poetry: "Persephone in Hades" by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign Interview: Ilana C. Myer interviewed by Lynne M. Thomas Want to join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps? You can find new science fiction and fantasy stories, poetry, and nonfiction every month in Uncanny Magazine. Go to uncannymagazine.com or subscribe to the eBook version at weightlessbooks.com or amazon.com. This podcast was produced by Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky. Music created by Null Device and used with permission. Copyright © 2018 by Uncanny Magazine

       This week, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, we are joined by two authors whose own recent works celebrate that classic work.  John Kessel's Pride and Prometheus will be published in February, combining characters from Shelley's classic and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, while Theodora Goss's The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, featuring a number of classic characters from 19th century fantastic fiction—including Frankenstein's “daughter”--will be joined by its sequel European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman in July; both are part of her series "The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club.” We touch upon Shelley's work, the problems of writing narratives that exist within the spaces of earlier novels, whether or not Frankenstein was really the first science fiction novel, and—briefly—on the debt we all own to Ursula K. Le Guin after her passing earlier in the week. As always, our thanks to our guests, Dora and John. We hope you enjoy the episode. See you next week!

Normal service resumes with a rambly episode after last week's chat with Jane Yolen. Having decided what they were going to discuss beforehand, Gary and Jonathan immediately head off and start discussing something else altogether! It's a ramble, it's a chat, it's very much business as usual. Topics discussed this week include novellas, Kelly Robson's "Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach", the persistence of fairy tales in modern fantasy, and the new anthology Robots v. Fairies.  The frankly dodgy Western Australian internet connection didn't quite hold out until the end, so the chat ends a little short, though complete.   As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. Next week: John Kessel and Theodora Goss are scheduled to discuss their new novels and the fascination with Frankenstein.

Synopsis: Please enjoy this bonus mini-episode of COVERED as you work toward your own writing and publishing goals. Maybe you’re struggling to write 50,000 words by the end of the month, or perhaps you’re deep in the query trenches looking for a sign of hope. Well, here it is. Theodora Goss shares her wisdom and the five most important things she learned while writing and publishing her novel, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Normally, these mini-episodes are only for Patreon subscribers at the $5+ level. If you enjoy this content and would like a new mini-episode delivered straight to your inbox with each full-length episode, please consider becoming a Patreon patron today. Duration: 09:10 Present: Harry C. Marks, Theodora Goss The Guest Website Twitter The Book The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss Audiobook Follow your host and the show on Twitter @HCMarks @COVERED_fm @HologramRadio for more podcasts to listen to! Subscribe to Covered! Get Covered on iTunes, or via RSS. Support the show! Become a patron! Check out our new show, LEARN ME SOMETHING! A new podcast from Aaron Stewart and Rich Plumb that celebrates our ignorance as the beginning of the search for Truth. SUBSCRIBE! Please take a moment to rate our show in iTunes, even if it’s just a star rating. It really does make a difference in helping us reach a wider audience. Download: Episode S4E5a: Theodora Goss’s 5 Lessons Learned While Writing and Publishing THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER

Synopsis: Author Theodora Goss discusses her Victorian/Gothic mashup, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, as well as why we keep revisiting the same monster stories, their hidden feminism, and the trials and tribulations of writing historical fiction. As a bonus for NaNoWriMo, Theodora’s “Five Lessons Learned” mini-episode, normally a perk only for Patreon members at the $5 level, will be available to everyone. If you enjoy this content and would like to support the show AND receive a cool bonus with each episode, please consider pledging $5 or more. This episode of COVERED is sponsored by: Nacht Sound Engineering: Streamline the process of delivering high-quality shows to your audience and focus on what you love. Feedpress: Blog and podcast analytics starting at $4 a month, podcast hosting starting at just $8 a month. Use promo code COVERED to get 10% off your first year. Duration: 01:04:51 Present: Harry C. Marks, Theodora Goss The Guest Website Twitter The Book The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss Audiobook Books/Articles Discussed Dracula by Bram Stoker Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore “Hilary Mantel: Women Writers Must Stop Falsely Empowering Female Characters in History” | Telegraph Follow your host and the show on Twitter @HCMarks @COVERED_fm @HologramRadio for more podcasts to listen to! Subscribe to Covered! Get Covered on iTunes, or via RSS. Support the show! Become a patron! Check out our new show, LEARN ME SOMETHING! A new podcast from Aaron Stewart and Rich Plumb that celebrates our ignorance as the beginning of the search for Truth. SUBSCRIBE! Please take a moment to rate our show in iTunes, even if it’s just a star rating. It really does make a difference in helping us reach a wider audience. Download: Episode S4E5: Theodora Goss, THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER

That's right, Sword and Laser has been picking and reading books for 10 years and we're not even close to stopping. This week we discuss why you don't need to travel to London to read Theodora Goss but it doesn't hurt. And why we're extra excited for Andy Weir's Artemis.

After a long and mostly unplanned hiatus, we're back! We travelled to Helsinki, Finland to attend WorldCon75, and then spent time travelling and not thinking about podcasting very much at all. Still, all holidays must come to an end, and so we headed back up to the Gershwin Room one more time to discuss WorldCon, the Hugo Awards, and the merits of developing a list of books for a Fantasy 101 type course (inspired by a question from Theodora Goss). As you can imagine, we talk, we disagree, there's rambling and Coode St is pretty much as it always is. We hope you enjoy the episode. See you next week!

Hello Everyone, As promised, here is the finale episode of my interview with Theodora Goss, and it's probably my favorite part. As you'll hear, we talk about Hungary as a fairyland, the politics of walls, Jane Austin as post apocalyptic required reading, and bears. But most important, we really get at Theodora's writer's journey, which is always personal, nuanced, and challenging for anybody who picks up the pen (keyboard? tablet? Smartphone?). Thank you, Theodora for your honesty, time, and of course your stories. Everyone, go buy her book. Also, look for me and the rest of BSFW at Readercon as we launch the Kickstarter for Season 2 of the Kaleidocast! -Rob Cameron

Here is Part 3 of my interview with Theodora Goss. But, I realized today I have enough for a fourth episode. So, surprise! There will be one more! In today's episode, we'll start the discussion with the differences between vampires, fairies, and witches in Eastern Europe and the Catholic church's fight against them, or at least the belief in them. And speaking of vampires, we'll get a little more into the backstory of the classic novel, Dracula, particularly what (or who) was left out. We'll also discuss some of the other stories that Theodora is working on and how teaching has improved her own writing. Finally, we'll discuss one of my favorite stories from Theodora, Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology.

Hello Writers, Here's part 2 of my interview with Theodora. This time, we'll be discussing... The enigmatic Sarah Bernhardt Writers craft and poetics in story telling And how to make room for the fantastic in the real world.

Hello Writers! This is Cameron Roberson, and what you're about to listen to is an interview I did with award winning author and professor of English literature, Theodora Goss. In part 1 of this three part interview, we'll discuss: -animal magic and Ursilla LeGuin's science fiction -the significance of the Gothic Period(s) and anthropology to our conception of the modern monster -Theodora's latest novel, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter -Why the best way to start on the path of a successful novelist is to get your PhD in English literature.

This week we talk with the multi-talented Theodora Goss, whose forthcoming novel, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, draws not only from her own doctoral research in late Victorian Gothic fiction, but from her earlier story "The Mad Scientist's Daughter." By focusing on a group of women characters drawn from classic tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley—and bearing the familiar names of Jekyll, Hyde, Moreau, Rappaccini, and Frankenstein—Goss gives a voice to the largely invisible figures from classic works of terror. We also touch upon her recent story, “Come See the Living Dryad”—is it fantasy or not?-- as well as the reasons behind the appeal of monsters and the monstrous, and the delights of playing with genre. As always, we'd like thank Dora for making time to talk to us, and we hope you enjoy the episode. Note: We experienced some technical difficulties with this episode. There were issues with the audio (Dora drops out occasionally). We think the episode is interesting enough to release, but do apologise for the problems and hope you'll persevere.

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on August 17, 2016, with guests Leanna Renee Hieber and Theodora Goss. Only Leanna’s audio is included with this podcast. Leanna Renee Hieber Leanna Renee Hieber, a classically trained actress, has written nine Gothic Victorian Historical Fantasy novels for adults and teens. Her Strangely Beautiful saga […]

October Poetry Read by Susan Ramirez, Ciro Faienza, Shveta Thakrar, and Ada Hoffmann In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents poetry from the October issues of Strange Horizons. "Swan Girls" by Theodora Goss read by Susan Ramirez. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Theodora here. "Harrowing" by Lynette Mejía read by Ciro Faienza. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Lynette here. "A Love in Twelve Feathers" by Shveta Thakrar read by Shveta Thakrar. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Shveta here. "Octopi Viewing a Submersible" by Ada Hoffmann read by Ada Hoffmann. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Ada here.

You know who I'm talking about. You can see them on Sunday afternoons, in places like Knoxville, Tennessee or Flagstaff, Arizona, playing pool or with their elbows on the bar, drinking a beer before they head out into the dusty sunlight and get into their pickups, onto their motorcycles. Some of them have dogs. Some of their dogs wear bandanas around their necks. | Copyright 2012 by Theodora Goss. Originally published in ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.

Remembering Cimmeria: I walk through the bazaar, between the stalls of the spice sellers, smelling turmeric and cloves, hearing the clash of bronze from the sellers of cooking pots, the bleat of goats from the butcher's alley. Rugs hang from wooden racks, scarlet and indigo. In the corners of the alleys, men without legs perch on wooden carts, telling their stories to a crowd of ragged children, making coins disappear into the air. | Copyright 2014 by Theodora Goss. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

In Part 2 of our Readercon 2013 special, we talk with authors Theodora Goss, Valya Lupescu and Nancy Hightower about their new books, their writing careers, their literary influences, what Readercon means to them, and more!

It's time for a 2-part podcast! I went up to Readercon 24 in Burlington, MA in July and came back with a passel of conversations! First, John Crowley, author of Little, Big, Aegypt, Engine Summer and other great novels and short stories, joined us talk about his work, his influences, the shifting nature of the literary marketplace, the allure of imaginary books, and more! Then, fiction-writer, editor, wrestling biographer (?) and ukelele enthusiast Scott Edelman joins us to talk about zombies, literary genre ghettoes, his history at conventions, his time working at Marvel Comics in the '70s, and the virtues of workshopping fiction! Next episode: Readercon conversations with Theodora Goss, Valya Dudycz Lupescu and Nancy Hightower!

When the Queen learned that she could not have a child, she cried for three days. She cried in the clinic in Switzerland, on the shoulder of the doctor, an expert on women's complaints, leaving tear stains on his white coat. She cried on the train through Austria, while the Alps slipped past the window of her compartment, their white peaks covered with snow. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.

Coming Up Fact: Science News by J J Campanella 05:30 Main Fiction: “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter” by Theodora Goss 27:50. Narrator: Justine Eyre  The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our second piece of audio fiction for October is "England under the White Witch" written by Theodora Goss and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.