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Episode 44: Meeting "the one." Something most feeling, sentient creatures long for. We all want to be able to tell a great story about how we met our life partners. Even if they are time travelling assassins attempting to undo your entire existence, you can't really help who you love right? Join the crew as they break the wax seal on Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's This Is How You Lose the Time War. Join the discussion with Escape the Earth: email: saplescapetheearth@gmail.com goodreads: www.goodreads.com/group/show/10939…escape-the-earth libguide: guides.mysapl.org/ETE
In the first half of this two-part episode, author Rae Wilde ("Merciless Waters," I Do Not Apologize For My Position on Men") returns to talk about her upcoming novella "I Can Fix Her" (June 3, CLASH Books). They discuss the terror of "nightmare logic," Rae's interest in exploring toxic sapphic romance, the "Wilde Test" (i.e. decentering men altogether as significant drivers of plot in narrative), the unique lure of obsession, and the hazards of power in relationships. Rae and Scotty also dive into an impromptu conversation about Darren Aronofsky's divisive 2017 psychological horror film "mother!" In the second half, Scotty welcomes Albuquerque-based actor Peter Diseth ("Roswell, New Mexico," "Better Call Saul") to talk about his performance as Jorg in the new satirical horror film "Opus" (2025), starring Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, and written/directed by newcomer Mark Anthony Green. Aside from discussing his experience on the film itself, they spend a few minutes on Peter's background in the New Mexico film and theatre scene, explore the fine line between comedy and horror, and consider the trend towards "the horror of politeness" in film like "Opus," "The Invitation" (2015), "Speak No Evil" (2022), and "The Menu" (2022). Find Rae online at https://www.raewilde.com Pre-order "I Can Fix Her" at https://indiepubs.com/products/i-can-fix-her Check out Rae's recommendation of "This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war Find Peter online at https://www.peterdiseth.com Check out Peter on IMDB at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5674152/ Watch Peter in Episode 9 of the webseries "Overlook, NM": https://youtu.be/5uSBs383Rlo?si=QkrZ_2LWTQd39vyB Watch the trailer for "Opus" here: https://youtu.be/5owo-kbx8X0?si=AHbsmF79h4WM6Zrc Be sure to tune in to Daniel Braum's YouTube series "Night Time Logic." The series focuses on the strange, weird, and wonderful side of dark fiction through readings and discussions with diverse authors from around the world. You can tune in on Daniel's You Tube Channel, which is his name DanielBraum or @danielbraum7838. https://www.facebook.com/groups/429777132474382 https://www.youtube.com/@danielbraum7838 This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Rebecca, Mary Ann, and Martha Brookbank discuss This Is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone.
Brendan talks about the books he read in Quarter 3 of 2024. Join us, won't you?Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (2007)Echopraxia (Firefall #2) by Peter Watts, Adam J. Rough (Narrator) (2014)Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Naomi Alderman et al (2022)Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Mary Robinette Kowal (Narrator), Will Damron (Narrator) (2015)Edge of the Wire by Scott Kenemore (2024)Dwellings (Dwellings #1-3) by Jay Stephens (2024)Death of a Maid (Hamish MacBeth #22) by M.C. Beaton (2007)This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019)JAWS by Peter Benchley (1974)What did you read in Q3 of 2024? Share your reading over on Boardgamegeek in Guild #3269.
Brendan talks about the books he read in Quarter 3 of 2024. Join us, won't you?Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (2007)Echopraxia (Firefall #2) by Peter Watts, Adam J. Rough (Narrator) (2014)Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Naomi Alderman et al (2022)Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Mary Robinette Kowal (Narrator), Will Damron (Narrator) (2015)Edge of the Wire by Scott Kenemore (2024)Dwellings (Dwellings #1-3) by Jay Stephens (2024)Death of a Maid (Hamish MacBeth #22) by M.C. Beaton (2007)This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019)JAWS by Peter Benchley (1974)What did you read in Q3 of 2024? Share your reading over on Boardgamegeek in Guild #3269.
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB's Patreon!Credits:Guest: Anna McFarlaneTitle: The This by Adam RobertsHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Anna's books, including Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology, The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture, Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture, and Adam Roberts: Critical EssaysMary Butts' “Mappa Mundi”Jordan S. Carroll's Speculative WhitenessAdam Roberts' The Thing Itself, Lake of Darkness, New Model Army, and nonfictionChristopher PriestThe Thing, dir. John CarpenterKant's Critique of Pure ReasonDeleuze's concept of The FoldNabokov's Pale FireMichael Swanwick Stations of the Tide & Vacuum FlowersCory Doctorow & Greg EganNeal Stephenson's Snow CrashWilliam Gibson's NeuromancerPatricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About ThisRobert A. Heinlein's Starship TroopersJoe Haldeman's The Forever WarStar Trek's BorgE.M. Forster's “The Machine Stops”George Orwell's 1984Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit"The sky above the port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel"The idea of the pharmakonThe Big Read podcast on The ThisShulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of SexOttessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and RelaxationRobot monkey/wiremother experimentsRoberts's review of The Book of ElsewhereRoberts on BlueskyBlack MirrorThomas Disch's 334 & Camp ConcentrationDavid LynchPeter Watts' Blindsight & EchopraxiaKurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, & GalapagosVonnegut thing about delivering a letterVonnegut's “Biafra: A People Betrayed”Fix-up novelsJo Walton's “On Selecting the Top Ten Genre Books of the First Quarter of the Century”Casella's essay on This Is How You Lose the Time WarLavie Tidhar's Central Station, The Circumference of the World, Osama, A Man Lies DreamingA line from Hegel to Marx to Darko SuvinThe conclusion to Walter Pater's The RenaissanceMolly Templeton's “A Modest Request for a Little More Genre Chaos”Young Frankenstein dir. Mel BrooksAnna on BlueskyThe Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
Join Snaxton & Goose as hey discuss Kamala's campaign, tranq zombies, The Sphere by Michael Crichton, and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe!
Two authors, two characters, and a novella with no rules about space or time... who wouldn't be curious? "This Is How You Lose the Time War" takes readers on a unique and unexpected adventures. It leaves a lot to discuss.
In this episode, Kaori tells listeners about a science fiction adventure: This Is How You Lose the Time War. From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-travelling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Find this title in the FVRL collection: https://fvrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S21C1788115
Mike's Picks: * This Is How You Lose the Time War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_War) * Dinner Time Live with David Chang (https://www.netflix.com/title/81748864) Adam's Picks: * Blue Lips - Schoolboy Q (https://open.spotify.com/album/107WsrBqn5xVPgystkziry?si=vofxq7P_QkqC_TJ38Z_7_Q) * Dan Soder: On The Road (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lik3hSyhrY) In the dimly lit casino, Jake's hand trembled as he stared at his cards. He had always been a decent poker player, but tonight, something strange was happening. As he glanced at his opponents, he noticed an odd sensation—a tingling in his eyes. With each hand dealt, Jake's vision seemed to sharpen, revealing the faintest outlines of his opponents' cards. At first, he dismissed it as a trick of the light, but as the game progressed, he couldn't deny the truth: he had X-ray vision. With this newfound ability, Jake felt invincible. He could see through bluffs, decipher the strongest hands, and anticipate his opponents' moves before they made them. The chips piled up in front of him as he effortlessly dominated the table. However, as the night wore on, Jake began to realize the dark side of his gift. He saw the desperation in the eyes of his opponents as he stripped them of their hard-earned winnings. Guilt gnawed at him, but the lure of easy money was too strong to resist. In the end, Jake walked away from the table a wealthy man, but the victory felt hollow. He knew that his X-ray vision had come with a price—a loss of integrity and the tarnishing of the game he once loved. Naturtally, his mind drifted to new ways to make this new gift open the world around him.
Jenn and guest Erica talk about their favorite character pairings in SF/F, from romantic to platonic to #complicated, and discuss the Hugo Awards shenanigans, Dolly Parton's connection to Buffy, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We'll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Buffy Reboot news via Dolly Parton [Popverse] Hugo 2023 Shenanigans, Recapped, Plus Resignations [Book Riot, File770] The Audie Awards Finalists [Book Riot] Books Discussed Platonic Soulmates: Camilla Hect and Palimedes in The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir Complicated Besties: Johnny and Nick in Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed Unconditional Acceptance Romance: Yasira and Productivity in The Outside by Ada Hoffmann Former Mentor/Mentee Turned Bros: Cas and Rio in Zero Sum Game by SL Huang Pining Sapphics/Beefing Rappers Turned Lovers: Red and Blue in This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone Friends on a Quest: Miuko and Magpie Spirit Geiki in A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee Annoying Friends and Low-Key Co-Parents: Murderbot and ART/Perihelion in Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Human/Animal Companions: Vasilisa and Solovey (the horse!) in The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they reminisce on the year that was with podcasters Dylan Marsh and Charles M.C. (co-hosts of The Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast). During the panel they share their top picks for favorite SFF reads of the year (3 each for a total of 12), reflect on the ups and downs 2023, offer some honorable mentions, talk about hikes, make surprise book announcements, split "assets" in a hypothetical "divorce" and more. BOOKS MENTIONED: - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini: https://amzn.to/3uQtOHz - The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence: https://amzn.to/3uXmc5U - Wayward by Chuck Wendig: https://amzn.to/3NlhiGe - The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman: https://amzn.to/4aaifeq - The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee: https://amzn.to/41dvabo - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: https://amzn.to/3TfLLcy - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: https://amzn.to/3GUct3n - The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez: https://amzn.to/3RdKujM - The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart: https://amzn.to/4a9Gl99 - The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi: https://amzn.to/3RzJB6q - The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie: https://amzn.to/41hpxZC - The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter: https://amzn.to/41m8ZQn SUPPORT THE SHOW: - Patreon (for exclusive bonus episodes, author readings, book giveaways and more) - Merch shop (for a selection of tees, tote bags, mugs, notebooks and more) - Subscribe to the FanFiAddict YouTube channel or check us out on Spotify, where this and every other episode of the show is available in full video - Rate and review SFF Addicts on your platform of choice, and share us with your friends EMAIL US WITH YOUR QUESTIONS & COMMENTS: sffaddictspod@gmail.com ABOUT OUR GUESTS: Dylan Marsh is a podcaster and one half of The Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast. Find Dylan on Twitter, Instagram or The FTF Podcast website. Charles M.C. is a podcaster and one half of The Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast. Find Charles on Twitter or The FTF Podcast website. ABOUT OUR HOSTS: Adrian M. Gibson is a podcaster, writer and illustrator, and is releasing his debut novel in 2024. Find Adrian on Twitter, Instagram or his personal website. M.J. Kuhn is the author of Among Thieves, her debut novel, and its sequel Thick as Thieves. Find M.J. on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok or her personal website. FOLLOW SFF ADDICTS: FanFiAddict Book Blog Twitter Instagram MUSIC: Intro: "Into The Grid" by MellauSFX Outro: “Galactic Synthwave” by Divion --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sff-addicts/message
Nach einer kurzen Sommerpause zurück! Wie immer widmen wir uns den wichtigsten Themen überhaupt. Ihr wisst ja dann was kommen muss. Sonst lests unten oder hört halt die Folge. Ist eh nur Fließtext hier: Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum... Viel Spaß! Vorurteile: (03:21) - Wohnen in der Innenstadt und sich über Lärm beschweren - Mücken AI Cover von Elvis, Freddy Mercury oder Johnny Cash: (08:19) - Elvis singing Hallelujah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1pdq1196Js - Austrian Painter singing Billie Jean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZh9vhFeck - Austrian Painter singing Blitzkrieg Bop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2a200xOa6o - One Guy, 30 voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i62sCK4-FLM This is how you lose the time war: (28:35) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_War - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/bigolas-dickolas-time-war-booktok/ - https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/bigolas-dickolas-wolfwood-this-ist-how-you-lose-the-time-war-twitter-literatur-1.5901873?reduced=true Kontakt: - https://www.instagram.com/diesitzungpodcast - https://www.facebook.com/diesitzungpodcast - info@tfn-records.de
Tonight on the GeekNights Book Club, we discuss This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It's short and worth a read, but it's not going to blow your mind like some people on the Internet are saying (unless you haven't read much science fiction). A little Singularity, a little Instrumentality, and a story told partially as an epistolary.
Sergio joins the book club to discuss This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, an LGBT romance novel set in the backdrop of an existentstial time war. We also listen to Fallout Boy's cover of We Didn't Start the Fire. Check out our links: https://linktr.ee/sytycfanon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sytycfanon/support
This month, Ian wanted to read R.F. Kuang's: Babel! Babel is the story of a young Cantonese boy named Robin who is brought to England and raised to work at the Oxford Translation Institute. In this version of England, the empire is powered by silver working and a magical version of language translation. Babel follows Robin and his friends Ramy, Victoire, and Letty as they navigate the world and find their place in it. Babel offers a lot of cultural criticism and broaches interesting topics including language, history, and colonialism, and tells it through an interesting, academic lens. We both loved it! Next month, we're reading: "This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone!
Greetings, stranger! Have you heard tell of this new literary hero? This publishing world pugilist? His very words conjure riches. Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood is his name. Would you like to hear more? Well then, come. Sit! Warm yourself by the fire and listen for a spell. It's a tale as old as time. A story of anime and sapphic science fiction and…the internet! Official Recommendations From Kris: Queen Charlotte (Netflix) This week, Kris recommends Queen Charlotte, the prequel to creator Shonda Rimes' Bridgerton. The main plot revolves around Queen Charlotte's rise to power from a young age, and while that "would be interesting enough," according to Kris, the real gem of the piece is the relationship between the royalty's secretaries, Brimsley and Reynolds. You know Kris doesn't recommend anything without chemistry, and these two have it. From Tara: How to Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Some of us are called. Others are chosen. In Tara's case, she was reminded this week, due to the Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood of it all, that one of her favourite books of all time still exists. How to Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is a short novel told in the correspondence of two agents on opposing sides of a millenia-spanning Time War. Through these letters, they fall in love and have to decide if their love means more to them than the cause they've dedicated their existence to. Works/People Discussed We're Here (HBO) - Congrats on the Peabody win, We're Here team!!! Age of Pleasure by Janelle Monáe This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Jeopardy! Masters (ABC) Air (2023) Fear the Walking Dead (AMC) RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Season Eight (Paramount+) RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (MTV) Queer Eye, Season Seven (Netflix) Strange World (2022) Loop Hero (Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Series X/S) Support & follow the show Buy us a Ko-fi Sign up for our newsletter Twitter: @queerlyrec Facebook: @QueerlyRecommended Instagram: @queerlyrecommended Tumblr: @queerlyrecommended TikTok: @queerlyrecommended Get all our links on Linktr.ee Support local animal shelters by joining Kris's Patreon
Becca Caddy writes about science and technology, and is a self-avowed tech addict. Her book Screen Time tells us how to make peace with our tech devices and not be overwhelmed by them. Show notes: Becca Caddy (https://beccacaddy.com) Screen Time (https://beccacaddy.com/screen-time-book/) Composition Mode and other focus features in Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/distraction-free-writing-with-scrivener) Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Is-How-You-Lose-the-Time-War/Amal-El-Mohtar/9781534430990) Learn more about Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview), and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/store). If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/write-now-with-scrivener/id1568550068) or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of Write Now with Scrivener (https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com).
Spoiler Free! The Friends recommend the 2019 science fiction epistolary novel This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction, the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2019 and the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Our Website: https://www.theftfpodcast.com/
“At any given time, there's a choir of ideas and nagging voices in my head — chatter that I had to contend with I guess — in the end it ends up with this model of working and living in which everything is happening simultaneously.” Aleksandar Hemon, author of National Book Award Finalist The Lazarus Project, has no shortage of accomplishments, including screenwriting credits on Sense8 and The Matrix: Revolutions. He's back with The World and All That it Holds, an epic love story spanning decades, countries, and political boundaries. Hemon joins us to talk about his multitudinous (and simultaneous) projects, his music career as Cielo Hemon, being a romantic (or not) and more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. Featured Books: The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Featured Books (TBR Topoff): The Passion by Jeanette Winterson This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays with occasional Saturdays.
Recorded June 5, 2022 This week, Nate and Ryan talk about how they consume media and the efforts they take to not mindlessly munch media. Ryan details what it means to work together and collaborate as instructed by a magical talking book from the game, It Takes Two. After that, they try yet another odd Calpis and Orange Chocolate Kit Kats before talking about some of their most memorable first impressions of new places. Finally they talk about the weight of experiences, decisiveness of characters, and trying to sleep through screaming slugs in their discussion of the main media, To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers. Connect with us Become a member: myhilltodieon.com/members Reddit: r/MyHillToDieOn Twitter: @MyHillToDieOn Email: myhilltodieon@gmail.com Our Popular Episodes 25: The Liss Family Lexicon (our episode with Casey Liss) 34: People and Being Nice to People (our episode with John Moltz about Ted Lasso) 44: Slowly Indoctrinate You With Good Fantasy (our Stardust episode) 36: Sameness for a Safe Life (our The Giver episode) 46: Still Trying to Make Something Good Happen (our Princess Mononoke episode) 19: Is There Gonna Be a Tapper Story? (our episode with Dan Moren about his book: The Aleph Extraction) Other Key Episodes 49: Consigliere and Corn Salad (our Vincenzo episode) 54: The Second Book Made Me Angry (our The City of Ember/People of Sparks episode) 37: Falling In Love With Someone Over Letters (our This Is How You Lose the Time War episode) 43: Pay Respect to the Klingon Culture (our Star Trek: TNG - A Matter of Honor episode) What is Entertainment? Dude Perfect YouTube channel (yes, Nate likes them enough to endorse them now) Cortex 129: The Wrong Kind of Munching (the episode about YouTube shorts) Use Screen Time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch Nate's GoodReads account It Takes Two Official Site Amazon.com Amazon.co.jp Pick 2: First Impressions of New Places Nate: Mount Fuji Ryan: Idyllic Japan Nate: Disappointing Hotel in Izu Ryan: Miyajima, Hiroshima Taste of Japan Citrus Calpis KitKat Chocolate Orange To Be Taught if Fortunate Amazon.com Amazon.co.jp Audible 18: A Chosen Family (our episode about The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet) 27: Writing in Your Purpose Text Field (our episode about A Closed and Common Orbit) 38: Character Observation Kind-of Story (our episode about Record of a Spaceborn Few) 56: Seal the Respect for Each Other (our episode about The Galaxy and the Ground Within) Theme by Michael AD https://soundcloud.com/michael-ad/the-deep-end used with permission
Luke didn’t finish a story about the most interesting people in the multiverse because they were so BORING, and Juliane didn’t finish because she didn’t like the writing. A SFBRP short about This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Discuss this book at Goodreads.com Support Luke and Juliane […]
It's a-MAZE-ing! Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of The Third Task or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU BUY OUR MERCH: https://www.bonfire.com/store/restrictedsectionpod/ THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/ Check out our other amazing Movie Night Crew Network podcasts! www.movienightcrewnetwork.com/ This episode featured: Special guest Adele! TW @adelemaralin https://twitter.com/adele_maralin Adele plugged This Is How You Lose the Time War https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9781534430990 Christina Kann https://linktr.ee/christinakann Christina plugged Infinity Train https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8146754/ Lelia Hilton IG @leelz4realz http://instagram.com/leelz4realz TW @leelz4realz https://twitter.com/leelz4realz Lelia plugged Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9781250787101 See also, Do You Wanna Taco Bout It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A8nEfYmmtM
Happy New Year from the Radaptations sisters! We're ready to say goodbye to 2021 by looking back on all the titles we read and watched last year. In this episode, you'll be treated to some non-adaptation book and movie recommendations before we award the annual Raddies to the best and worst titles from our canon. If you're reading and watching along with us, prepare yourself for Frank Herbert's DUNE dropping in February 2022. Books recommended in this episode: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski; This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone; The Only Good Indian and My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones; The Changeling by Victor LaValle; and The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives by Brian Moylan. Movies recommended in this episode: Free Guy, Belfast, Spencer, Pig, and Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
It's Tessa turn to tell Andy and Sam watch to watch and read this week: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture], and Castlevania! 2:15 - This Is How You Lose the Time War 24:57 - Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] 50:34 - Castlevania
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Today, we're chatting about flying broomsticks. Sound off in the comments, are flying broomsticks a real thing? No one can say for sure. But actually, now that it's October, tune in to hear where we'd all fly if we were the witches of our dreams (aka: if we had a flying broomstick). Then we're getting into the books, including an academic thriller, witchy horror, mind-bending sci-fi, and very messy, very queer literary fiction. Also, shoutout to Libby for running a marathon yesterday :) go, girl. THANKS FOR LISTENING, WE LOVE YOU! Grab your BATC merch here: https://www.booksandthecitypod.com/merch. Browse and shop all the books we've discussed on this episode and past episodes at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/booksandthecity. Subscribe to our newsletter on our website, and send us an email at booksandthecitypod@gmail.com-------------> Libby just read: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (10:04-22:04) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621886/detransition-baby-by-torrey-peters/ On Libby's TBR: One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London Becky just read: House of Hollow by Crystal Sutherland (22:05-31:25) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624629/house-of-hollow-by-krystal-sutherland/ On Becky's TBR: The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw Emily just read: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (31:26-39:50) https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Is-How-You-Lose-the-Time-War/Amal-El-Mohtar/9781534430990 On Emily's TBR: Jade City by Fonda Lee Kayla just read: The Ivies by Alexa Donne (39:51-49:41) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647405/the-ivies-by-alexa-donne/ On Kayla's TBR: When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton Music by EpidemicSound, logo art by @niczollos, all opinions are our own.
It's another book club episode! This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is the book and it… was… awesome! We also talk about the Hawkeye trailer and our latest movie jar pull, On the Waterfront.
Hear interviews with authors Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, and E.J. Koh. El-Mohtar and Gladston chat about their spy novella, This Is How You Lose the Time War. Koh discusses her memoir, The Magical Language of Others. Each author talks about how letter writing can act as a form of time travel. We also share some of our other favorite epistolary works.
For our 50th episode, we each share a book we feel is our quintessential read. Thank you so much for supporting this podcast! To celebrate this milestone, we are doing a prize draw for all the listeners of this podcast. Tell us about your favourite Keep It Fictional episode or moment, or a book you've read because of this podcast. Email askthelibrary@portmoody.ca by September 7, 2021 and we'll enter your name into a prize draw. Books mentioned in this episode (can you guess who picked which book?): This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, Book Love by Debbie Tung, Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith, and Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/keepitfictional/message
Sometimes the only way forward is through fire. The only way to stay true to yourself is to change. Sometimes that can change the world. Read by Lanna Joffrey and Tatiana Grey, our grand finale comes from Amal El-Mohtar and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. A poem of survival from Amal and a story of revolution's dawning from Merc. Resistance for the sake of love. Theirs are the words we truly need to hear, now more than ever. "A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds" by Amal El-Mohtar, Read by Lanna Joffrey Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning author and critic. She's the science fiction and fantasy columnist for the New York Times Book Review and the author, with Max Gladstone, of This Is How You Lose the Time War. She lives in Ottawa. Lanna Joffrey is an actor, spoken-word performer and writer working in the United States and United Kingdom based in London. She has earned a New York Fringe, IRNE and Ovation Award in Performance. And her verbatim play of women's war stories, "Valiant" has traveled the U.K. and U.S. to critical acclaim. lannajoffrey.com "Brightening Star, Ascending Dawn" by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, Read by Tatiana Grey Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary fiction author who lives in Minnesota, USA, with two adorable cats. Merc has had over 40 short stories published so far, many of which you can read for free via their website: mercfennwolfmoor.com. Tatiana Grey is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth. She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn't won a single damned thing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. See more about Tatiana at www.tatianagrey.com
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.
Join us on a journey through the timestream as we tackle This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Last year Coode Street sat down with people from all over the world to talk about what they were reading, what they were up to, and how they were coping with strange times. We did it every day, which we probably never will again, and along the way found out it was fun and interesting to check in for a short chat. We're continuing that during 2021. Ten Minutes with Max Gladstone The second "Ten Minutes with..." chat for 2021 is with Max Gladstone, the acclaimed author of the Craft Sequence, the Empress of Forever and, with Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War. Max sat down with Jonathan last year and discussed what he had been reading (a lot!), what he'd recommend, and what he had coming up. As always, our thanks to Max for taking the time to chat with us.
In this conversation, Philip spends time Dr. Jenny L. Davis, author of How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things. In their conversation, they discuss the conditions and frameworks that are part nuanced field of affordances. They cover the political choices of technology and culture and the inherent role that power plays in our design choices. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip's Drop: This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Is-How-You-Lose-the-Time-War/Amal-El-Mohtar/9781534430990) Jenny's Drop: Design Justice: Community Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need – Sasha Costanza-Chock (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice) Special Guest: Jenny L. Davis.
In this month's book club, Scott and Matt cover their 5th BrandoSandoBooko with his colorful one-off novel Warbreaker. As always, this is an audio copy of the live-streamed discussion over on YouTube, so you'll hear us interact with the audience a bit as well as reference slides Click here for a copy of the slide deck used! Next month's book is This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. The Livestream discussion will happen on Friday, January 29th at 9:30 PM Central Time Support us on Patreon Matt's Twitter: @moridinamael Scott's Twitter:@scottdaly85 Stay updated with Doof Media: @doofmedia See all of our podcasts, writing and more at www.doofmedia.com
Y'all, it's going down now. *Lydia has run off with a man,* and now everyone is running around trying to fix this colossal scandal. Elizabeth has some feelings about Darcy's feelings. And Mrs. Bennet is a total mess.### MENTIONS**Brit Bennett's *The Vanishing Half***: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51791252-the-vanishing-half](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51791252-the-vanishing-half)**Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's *This Is How You Lose the Time War***: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war)**Helen Hoang's *The Kiss Quotient***: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36199084-the-kiss-quotient](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36199084-the-kiss-quotient)**Kazuo Ishiguro's *Never Let Me Go***: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go][https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go]**Matt Ruff's *Lovecraft Country***:[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25109947-lovecraft-country](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25109947-lovecraft-country)**Alexis Daria's *You Had Me at Hola***: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52886627-you-had-me-at-hola](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52886627-you-had-me-at-hola)If you want to join in on the conversation, join us in reading **chapters 51 to 55 of Pride and Prejudice**Talk to us! We'd love to hear from you.[https://thedailyknightley.com](https://thedailyknightley.com)Twitter: [https://twitter.com/knightleypod](https://twitter.com/knightleypod)Instagram: [https://instagram.com/thedailyknightley](https://instagram.com/thedailyknightley)Email: [thedailyknightley@gmail.com](mailto:thedailyknightley@gmail.com)Goodreads: [https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/995555-the-daily-knightley](https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/995555-the-daily-knightley)Music from [https://filmmusic.io](https://filmmusic.io): “Improbable” by Kevin MacLeod ([https://incompetech.com](https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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 Jonathan fires up Skype and calls Hugo and Nebula award winning writer, poet, and critic Amal El-Mohtar, whose novella This Is How You Lose the Time War (co-written with Max Gladstone) has been sweeping all of the awards this year, to chat about reading, working and living during the pandemic, the pleasure of reading graphic novels, and some great new books. Amal's poem "A Final Knight to Her Love and Foe", appears in The Book of Dragons. If you live in the US and are over 18 you can enter our sweepstakes to win one of ten copies by following this link! Books mentioned include: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Die by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
Perry and David discuss the upcoming Hugo Awards, and David discusses with Rob Gerrand their mutual love of the work of Jack Vance. Hugo Award nominees 2020 (34:18) Fiction categories (01:24) Novel category (00:28) The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (03:33) The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (04:26) Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (03:11) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (03:43) The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (00:45) A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (00:48) Hugo Voting Package (00:31) The Deep by Rivers Solomon (01:01) To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (01:23) Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang (01:23) The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (01:09) In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (01:10) This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (03:17) David's Reading (08:23) The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (04:04) Tom's Midnight Garden by Philipa Pearce (04:03) Interview with Rob Gerrand (35:02) About Jack Vance (01:37) Rob's introduction to Vance (00:27) Tschai tetralogy (00:37) Demon Princes novels (04:30) David's introduction to Vance (00:29) The Dragon Masters (01:31) Demon Princes series (02:37) Bad Ronald (00:16) The View from Chickweed's Window (02:08) Big Planet (01:05) Emphyrio (00:23) The Blue World (00:45) Lyonnesse (04:14) Vance Integral Edition (05:38) Ebooks based on the VIE (01:53) The Languages of Pao (01:44) Lyonnesse (01:21) Vance's Crime Novels (01:46) SF Writers and crime writing (00:16) Frederick Brown (00:19) Madball~Frederick Brown (00:15) Night of the Jabberwock~Frederick Brown (00:03) The Screaming Mimi~Frederick Brown (00:16) The Fabulous Clipjoint~Frederick Brown (00:13) Windup (02:41) Image based on the illustrations by Jack Gaughan to “The Dragon Masters” by Jack Vance, Galaxy August 1962.
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang clocked in at number 80 on The Guardian's list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Barack Obama's a fan too. But what about Laura's book club? What did they make of this mesmerising collection of eight stories, one of which formed the basis of the film Arrival starring Amy Adams? Real-life rocket scientists Kristy and Ed join the discussion and weigh in on the big questions. Like, will reading Chiang make you more intelligent? Do you have to be a sci-fi devotee to enjoy these stories? And finally, did the book make for a good book club discussion? All this, plus some great book recommendations for your next read. • Find us on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod email thebookclubreview@gmail.com Please do take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to us on iTunes, it helps other listeners find us and means you'll never miss an episode. • Books mentioned This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer by Sue Nelson Pavane by Keith Roberts Ed's author recommendations: John Brunner, James Blish ('Cities in Flight' and 'The Seedling Stars' [with the puddle story 'Surface Tension'] among others), and Algis Budrys
In This Episode The Book Evangelists discuss National Novel Writing Month — NaNoWriMo and why YOU should write a novel this November. Morning Chatter Note: In the last episode we promised we were going to discuss nonfiction. Clearly, that has changed. This is what happens when you let two NaNoWriMo fanatics have a podcast. Because we are well into #NaNoPrep. National Novel Writing Month To participate, you write 50,000 words of fiction in the 30 days of November. Sign up at nanowrimo.org. Lissa and Marian both think NaNoWriMo is the best thing ever. Lissa has been writing November novels every year since 2003. Marian has won every year since 2012. Tips and Techniques for Winning NaNoWriMo • “Let me give you the tricks I know of, in hopes that you give me the tricks you know of, in hopes that we both can trick ourselves into writing novels.” – Lissa • “I think the big thing is just never never never never quit.” – Marian • “Put your butt in your chair. Try to have a big word count day.” – Marian Coming Up Next episode: We will discuss The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone and Our Show Notes include mentions and recommendations, all linked for your convenience. What else would you like to see here? Music Credit: The music used during transitions in our podcast is adapted from: Jazzy Sax, Guitar, and Organ at the club by Admiral Bob (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/58382 Ft: geoffpeters
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