Tales From The Trunk

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This time around, we're joined once again by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (@Merc_Wolfmoor) to talk about their new novella, The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt! We talk about queernorm worlds, physical video game packaging, and some of the great things we've been reading.   Things mentioned on this episode: Grimdark (genre) Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Friends for Robots, by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor Neon Hemlock's novella series Network Effect, by Martha Wells Caitlin Starling Premee Mohamed The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed Archival Quality, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz The Secret Garden on 81st Street, by Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla Finna and Defekt, by Nino Cipri Merc's website

This time around, I'm joined by multiply-Hugo-nominated podcaster and author of the forthcoming novel, A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (@freyamarske), thus completing the prophecy. Freya reads an excerpt of her story, "One Version of Yourself, at the Speed of Light," which leads us into a great discussion about using our day-job-expertise in our writing, the end of Be the Serpent, a hot take about historical fiction, and of course a lot of talk about fanfic.   Things we mention in this episode: Be the Serpent  Alexandra Rowland  Jennifer "Macey" Mace  Hurt/comfort  The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk Edwardian England  World War One  The Hugo Awards  Worldcon  My episode being interviewed by Sharon Hsu  The Archive of Our Own (AO3)  Kudos (AO3) Goodreads  Crack fic  AUs  Five things fic  Brooklyn Nine-Nine  Ninefox Gambit, the first book of The Machineries of Empire series, by Yoon Ha Lee A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine Battlestar Galactica  Tumblr  Ted Lasso  Summer Sons, by

This time around, to open out our unintentional Oceana month, I'm joined by the delightful Rem Wigmore (@faewriter), whose novel, Foxhunt, is available now, wherever you get your books, from Queen of Swords Press. They read us a slightly-spoiler-y excerpt of the book (you can skip ahead 11:40 from the start of the reading if you'd rather not be spoiled) that leads us into some great conversation about banter, taking the piss, and how mythology might survive into the future.   Things we mention in this episode: Hades (game) Orpheus and Eurydice  The Realm of the Elderlings series, by Robin Hobb These Violent Delights, by Chloe Gong Butcherbird, by Cassie Hart Riverwitch, by Rem Wigmore The Contemporary Witchy Fiction project The Waikato River  Rem's website    Join us again on the 15th of October, when my guest will be Freya Marske!

This time around, I had the pleasure of talking to Hugo-award-winning author and editor Elsa Sjunneson (@snarkbat)! Elsa reads an excerpt from her terrific currently-trunked novel, The Livelong Night, which launches us into a conversation about representation, trunking (the bad kind), disability, and her forthcoming memoir, Being Seen, which releases this October!   Things we mentioned this episode: Worldcon 76 Burying your gays (trope)  Mad-Eye Moody  Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir The Book of Eli  Daredevil  The ghost of Peter Stuyvesant  Reviews of Being Seen from Kirkus and Booklist  Scream (TV show) “I Belong Where the People Are: Disability & The Shape of Water," by Elsa Sjunneson Children of a Lesser God  Me Before You  "The Home Front," my 9/11 essay "Blind Women Get Married Too," by Elsa Sjunneson RSD - Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Ready or Not  The Invisible Man (2020) The Chair  The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver Exvangelicals  Beowulf, audiobook, translated b

This time around, we're joined once again by Sarah Hollowell (@sarahhollowell) whose debut, A Dark and Starless Forest comes out September 14th! Sarah reads an excerpt of her book that leads us into a fun conversation about the terrible faces that cats make, natural disasters, and probably some stuff about the book, too.   Things we mention in this episode: The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett Tangled  The 12 Dancing Princesses  "Crow's Eye," by Sarah Hollowell The geology of Indiana  The Airborne Toxic Event  Duck and cover  This Poison Heart, by Kalynn Bayron The Ones We're Meant to Find, by Joan He Each of Us a Desert, by Mark Oshiro Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer Sarah's insta and website  Sarah Gailey  R. K. Duncan  Kate Lechler    Join us again in two weeks with my guest, Elsa Sjunneson!

This time around we're joined by Leigh Harlen (@leighharlen) to talk about the new printing of their collection, Blood Like Garnets! Leigh reads to us from their pissed off, queer response to that wizard series, which leads us into a discussion on new and exciting forms of self-rejection, and why community is so important to us as writers.   Things we mention in this episode: Studio Ghibli  Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea  "Blood Makes the Fruit Grow Sweet," by Leigh Harlen in Dark Moon Digest  The Dark  TKO (publisher) Worldcon 76  Norwescon  Neon Hemlock  Fireside Magazine  Fiyah Literary Magazine  Premee's book launch event  Yellow Jessamine, by Caitlin Starling Stephen King  V O I D J U N K  The Silence of the Lambs  "Prey," by Richard Matheson The Babadook as a queer icon  This year's World Fantasy Awards finalists  Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark Lovecraft Country  Train to Busan  Night of the Living Dead  Pseudopod  The Submission Grinder  SFWA pro rates  Star Trek: Deep Space Nin

This time around, I'm rejoined by Premee Mohamed (@premeesaurus) to talk about her amazing new novella, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, out now from Neon Hemlock! After hearing the first chapter of the book, straight from the mouth of the author, we get into all the stories that Premee still wants to tell in the world of the book, and we talk fondly of a viscerally-uncomfortable scene from the book that we both love to bits. We also take a bit of time to talk about the other three (3) books that Premee has or will have out this year, all of which are well worth your time.   Things we mention in this episode: My very on-brand outfit for this audio recording Neon Hemlock Press  The And What Can We Offer You Tonight launch party  Leigh Harlen  Mad Max  The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway L. D. Lewis' appearance on this very show dave ring  These Lifeless Things, by Premee Mohamed The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and The Void Ascen

After some trials and tribulations with our audio, L. D. Lewis (@Ellethevillain) joins us on this episode with her amazing climatepunk story, "The Last Stand of the E 12th St Pirates." Following the reading, we talk about how that story came about before taking some time to talk about Fiyah Literary Magazine and Fiyahcon (September 16-19, 2021).   Things we mention in this episode: Cyberpunk  And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed "For Every Jack," by R. K. Duncan Geneva Bowers, nee Benton  Fiyah on Twitter  Fireside Magazine  Fire!!  Langston Hughes  Zora Neale Hurston  Fiyahcon  Breonna Taylor  George Floyd  Vida Cruz  Iori Kusano  Ignyte Awards  Airmeet  Norwescon  Monterey Bay Aquarium  L's Website  Slack  TikTok  LeVar Burton Reads Writing Contest  Tor.com  Diana M. Pho  Realm  Reading Rainbow  Geordi La Forge    Join us again next month, when Premee Mohamed and Leigh Harlen will be my guests!

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To open pride month this year, we're joined by Jen Karner (@articulatedream), whose sapphic debut, Cinders of Yesterday, releases later this month! Jen reads us a delicious excerpt of their book, and we chat about some of her favorite bits, the chaos energy of their drafting process, and why we shouldn't treat her as any kind of example for how publishing usually goes.   Things we mention in this episode: NaNoWriMo  She-Ra and the Princesses of Power  Mobile Suit Gundam Wing  fanfiction.net  GeoCities  Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi Baltimore Pride  Boffer weapons  LARPing  Buffy the Vampire Slayer  Supernatural  Teen Wolf  Pitch Wars  RevPit  Jen's insta, website, and facebook fan page    Join us again on June 18th, when our guest will be dave ring!

This time around, my guest is friend and co-host of the podcast, We Make Books, R. J. Theodore (@bittybittyzap)! Rekka reads an excerpt from the third book of her Peridot Shift series, Cast Off, which leads us into a great conversation about what can happen when your publisher closes its doors, murderboarding for fun and profit, and the things that we love so dearly about steampunk.   Things we mention in this episode: Parvus Press  Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian Steampunk  Space elves discourse (I believe the discourse came from this) Ever Given  Sarah Pinsker  Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir Jennifer "Macey" Mace's Murderboard Method, on We Make Books C. J. Cherryh  Mistborn series, by Brandon Sanderson Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin Scrivener (software) Epistolary fiction  Gail Carriger  The Brass Goggles forum  Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly Jules Verne  The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk Guillotine  The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien Star Trek Pocket Books 

This time around, we're joined by my friend, Sarah Loch (@sloch), whose new book, Blue Line, written as Ariel Bishop, just released! After hearing an excerpt from the book, we talk about about fake dating, representation, and self-publishing. Also, Sarah took a moment to tell us about her friend, F. A. Ray's new m/m soccer (football, to our listeners outside of North America) romance, Yellow Card, which is also available in early access on Gumroad.   Things we mention in this episode: The Tripping series, by Ariel Bishop BDSM (link contains NSFW content) Switch (link contains NSFW content) Demiromantic  Aromantic  She-Ra and the Princesses of Power  Haikyu!!    Join us next episode, when I'll be talking with R. J. Theodore!

This time around, we're joined by Nino Cipri (@ninocipri) to talk about their forthcoming Defekt, sequel to the amazing, Hugo-finalist novella, Finna. Nino reads their trunked story, "Presque Vu" (no, not that one, the trunked one), and we talk about their thoughts on composting stories, writing workshops, and why capitalism is bad, actually. Things we mention in this episode: Homesick, by Nino Cipri The Clarion (and Clarion West) Workshop "Presque Vu," by Nino Cipri IKEA  420 (nice) The Nebula Conference  AWP  N. K. Jemisin  John Scalzi  Jim C. Hines  Nino's website, insta, and newsletter    Join us again in May when our guests will be Sarah Loch and R. J. Theodore!

This time around on book tour, we're joined by Steve Toase (@stevetoase), whose collection, To Drown in Dark Water, releases on April 27th, 2021! After Steve reads a selection of flash stories from the collection, we talk about cosmic horror, organic servers, and the Munich art scene. Things we mention in the episode: Jordan Kurella's appearance on the show The Best Horror of the Year, volumes 6 and 11, edited by Ellen Datlow Stefan Koidl  Hazel Ang  Short Story Day "Terminus Post Quem," by Steve Toase Mad Scientist Journal  Analog  Dendrochronology  RFC (Request for Comments) April Fool's RFCs  Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol  IP over Avian Carriers  Whale fall  "The Silent Brush of Wings," by Steve Toase, in Three-Lobed Burning Eye Franz Marc  Der Blaue Reiter  Atelier  "Simplicity," by Wassily Kandinsky Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann Gladius Dei, by Thomas Mann Robert W. Chambers  M.R. James  our awful, racist uncle, Howard (Phillips Lovecraft)  Paul Klee  Cosmic horror

Hello, and welcome to season 3! This time around, we're joined by Kelly Robson (@kellyoyo), whose new collection, Alias Space, comes out April 30th, 2021, from Subterranean Press! Kelly reads her story, "Deadfall," which she wrote as a futurist-in-residence during a conference, and we dive right into talking about what being a futurist is all about.   Things we mentioned in this episode: A. M. Dellamonica  Stan Rogers  The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan The Newsflesh series, by Mira Grant Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow Shaw Broadcasting  Stantec Engineering  Nakoda (Stoney) Tribe Lenape (Delaware) Tribe Karl Schroeder  IBM  Madeline Ashby  Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity  Futurescapes  Oculus VR  Animal Crossing: New Horizons  Codex Writer's Group  She-Ra and the Princesses of Power  Nanowrimo  Moby Dick, by Herman Melville Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon Subterranean Press  Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood   Join us agai

This time on book tour, we're joined by returning guest Karen Osborne (@karenthology) to talk about Engines of Oblivion, the amazing sequel to last year's Architects of Memory, and conclusion of the Memory War duology. Karen reads us an excerpt from the book, and we take some time to talk about some of her favorite bits both that made it into print and that got taken out in edits. Things we mentioned in this episode: The Imperial Radch Trilogy, by Ann Leckie Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee Wandavision  "Agatha All Along" Interstellar  Mass Effect  The Expanse  "The Sky is a Neighborhood," by Foo Fighters "Trip Switch," by Nothing but Thieves "Daddy Lessons," by Beyonce, featuring the Dixie Chicks Don't Touch That: An Anthology of Parenthood in SFF, edited by Jaymee Goh   Join us again next time, when my guest will be Kelly Robson!

This episode, we are joined by Nebula-nominated author and journalist extraordinaire, Jason Sanford (@jasonsanford). Jason reads us his story, "The Wheels on the Torture Bus Go Round and Round," and we discuss progress in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror community, the joys of short fiction, and Jason's Genre Grapevine column on his patreon, where he covers news in the field.   Things discussed in this episode: Meadowbrook Press  Shel Silverstein  Newfangled Fairy Tales, edited by Bruce Lansky "Rumplestiltskin, Private Eye," by Jason Sanford, in Newfangled Fairy Tales #2  A. J. Hackwith on Tales from the Trunk  "May Our Voices Sing Like Blood from Open Wounds," by Jason Sanford, in Intergalactic Medicine Show "The Eight-Thousanders," by Jason Sanford, in the September/October, 2020, issue of Asimov's  Locus  The Society of Professional Journalists  Lady Whistledown's Society Papers  Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies (the sad/rabids) Under Everest, by D. H. Dunn Uncanny Magazine  Analog Mag

This time around, we're re-joined by Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey), who brings us an exclusive excerpt from their forthcoming novel, The Echo Wife, which releases on February 16th, 2021. Following the reading, we talk a bit about some not-so-usual book-event questions.   Other things we mention in this episode: The Echo Wife in Entertainment Weekly  in Cosmopolitan  "Look," the scary eyeball story, by Sarah Gailey Hamilton  Sarah (Other Sarah) Hollowell (on Tales from the Trunk) Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey The Echo Wife tour  Miriam Weinberg  River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, by Sarah Gailey When We Were Magic, by Sarah Gailey Sarah's Substack newsletter, Stone Soup  Sarah's Instagram  Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Instagram) The Mermaid, The Witch, And The Sea, by Maggie Tokuda-Hall Gritty    Tune in again in two weeks, when our guest will be Jason Sanford!