For those of you who have been around for a little while, you’ll know that I started a podcast back in 2017 with Devin Poore called Spirited Discourse. It’s a simple premise — we get together with fellow creatives or fellow geeks and talk over drinks and record it. After a long absence after our first season, we’re back with Season 2 of the podcast. Two episodes have already gone up, episode 1 with Theresa Delucci where we discuss Game of Thrones (pre-season 8), Red Dead Redemption 2, and The Haunting of Hill House television show (among other things), and episode 2 with Trevor Quachri, editor of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION & FACT to discuss Avengers: Endgame. The podcasts are available on iTunes, Stitcher, and most other podcast outlets including our website.

I’m really excited about our upcoming guests which include N. K. Jemisin, Scott Andrews, and Mercurio D. Rivera.

In addition to co-hosting a podcast, I have also appeared a few times recently on the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Most recently I joined Dave Kirtley, Sara Lynn Michener, and Chris Cevasco to discuss the indie SF film Prospect starring Pedro Pascal (of Narcos and Game of Thrones).

Earlier this year, I also joined Dave, Sara, and Matthew Kressel to discuss Series 11 of Doctor Who (with Jodie Whittaker).

And late last year, on the same podcast, I discussed the Netflix miniseries, Maniac, with Dave, Chandler Klang Smith, and Matthew Kressel as well.

So, if you feel the need to hear my voice, you have plenty of options to choose from.

I haven’t seen it, but I got word this weekend that Wired magazine featured Lightspeed Magazine’s podcast as the Staff Pick for science fiction podcasts in their July issue. As part of that they picked a standout episode and the one they picked was my story, “Second Hand.” Lightspeed publishes so many great stories that I’m really chuffed that Wired singled out my story. Thanks to the folks at Brilliance Audio for putting together the narration. If you’d like to check out the podcast, you can listen to the narration here. 

I guess I really should get to work on more stories in that universe, shouldn’t I…

It’s a new year and yet I was remiss in not posting about some things that happened last year, particularly related to Falling Sky:

• I appeared on the Functional Nerds podcast with John Anealio and Patrick Hester in December. If you missed it, check it out here. We talk a bit about holiday movies, but hopefully that won’t bother you seeing as it’s after the holidays.
• I also read at the KGB Bar in December as part of the KGB Fantastic Fiction Reading Series along with Steven Gould. Pictures can be seen here and an audio recording of the evening is available on the Fantastic Fiction website. I’ve been attending KGB readings for about 10 years now and it was a dream come true to read there myself.
• A little further back, in October, I was a guest on (brilliant author) Fran Wilde’s podcast, Cooking the Books. We talk a bit about Falling Sky and Twinkies and the website includes a recipe that might exist in the world of the novel.

I love podcasts and hope to appear on more of them in the future. What’s better than talking with smart, talented, and interesting people? If you have any that you love and would recommend, leave them in the comments.

I apologize if I’ve been overloading on the self-promotion lately, but I wanted to mention that I recently had the opportunity to sit in on a discussion on The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. TGGttG is one of the best SpecFic podcasts around and I always enjoy talking to hosts David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams. This time the topic was Weird Westerns, a subject near and dear to my heart. Because we had so much to cover, we mostly focused on film and television for this one. But we plan to do one covering books and comics in the near future. The episode also includes an interview with Melissa Marr. If you’re so inclined, please give it a listen:

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 90 

In recent news, I sold two reprints this month. The first was to Escape Pod, who is taking my story, “Flowing Shapes.” The story originally appeared in the first issue of Basement Stories and I’m thrilled that it’s going to be heard by Escape Pod’s audience.

The second sale was to their sister podcast, Pseudopod. They will be podcasting my story, “Pumpkinhead”, which appeared in Shadows of the Emerald City.

I’ve narrated podcasts for all three of the Escape Artists sites – Podcastle, Escape Pod, and Pseudopod – now, so it’s also really cool to have stories of mine appear in all three.

I’ll post links when they go live.