Episodes

Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Galactic Chat 77 Lisa Cassidy
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Galactic Chat Episode 77: Lisa Cassidy
Show Notes:
Helen Stubbs chats with Lisa Cassidy about her fantasy series, The Mage Chronicles, and the first book, Darkskull Hall, as well as being listed as a finalist in the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off competition. Lisa also talks about independent publishing and her press Tate House.
Author Website: https://tatehousebooks.com
Twitter: @LCASS_writes
Instagram: @lcasswrites
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs
Interviewer Twitter: @superleni
Guest: Lisa Cassidy
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: David McDonald
Feedback:
Twitter: @galactichat
Email: galactichat at gmail dot com

Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Galactic Chat 76 Aiki Flinthart
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Galactic Chat Episode 76: Aiki Flinthart
Show Notes:
Helen Stubbs chats with Aiki Flinthart about her historical fiction novel, Blackbirds Sing, her upcoming science fiction/fantasy shared world novel authored with Pamela Jeffs, The Zookeeper’s Tales of Interstellar Oddities, and her Fight Like A Girl non-fiction book and workshops--and The Witcher.
Author Website: https://www.aikiflinthart.com
Twitter: @aikiflinthart
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs
Interviewer Twitter: @superleni
Guest: Aiki Flinthart
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: David McDonald
Feedback:
Twitter: @galactichat
Email: galactichat at gmail dot com

Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Galactic Chat 75 Claire McKenna
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Galactic Chat Episode 75
Show Notes:
Galactic Chat returns! To mark the start of a series of exciting new interviews, Helen Stubbs chats with Claire McKenna about the upcoming launch of her book MONSTROUS HEART with Harper Voyager.
Author Website: http://www.clairemckenna.net
Twitter: @mckenna_claire
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs
Interviewer Twitter: @superleni
Guest: Claire McKenna
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: David McDonald
Feedback:
Twitter: @galactichat
Email: galactichat at gmail dot com

Friday Jul 17, 2015
Galactic Chat 69 Trent Jamieson
Friday Jul 17, 2015
Friday Jul 17, 2015

Friday Dec 13, 2013
Galactic Chat 41 Dirk Flinthart
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Credits
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Dirk Flinthart
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
Feedback:
Twitter: @galactichat
Email: galactichat at gmail dot com

Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Galactic Chat 37 - Patty Jansen
Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Patty Jansen
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
Feedback:
Twitter: @galactichat
Email: galactichat at gmail dot com

Friday Sep 06, 2013
Galactic Chat 29 - Narrelle Harris
Friday Sep 06, 2013
Friday Sep 06, 2013
This week Alex Pierce interviews the ebullient Narrelle Harris, author, app content provider and mutlimedia maverick. In this interview they talk briefly about Narelle's work on her two apps - Melbourne Literary and Melbourne Peculiar . The majority of the interview, however, covers Narrelle's latest project Kitty and Cadaver a multimedia storytelling experience featuring original music, a weekly release chapter of the novel with jewelry, art and comic to come.
Melbourne is a long way from Hungary: a long way from vampire nests and battles against the forces of darkness and the inevitable losses incurred in such battles.
That’s why the surviving members of Rome Burning have fled to this far flung city. They need to rest and recuperate, a long way from the battle they only barely won, and the people they lost while winning it.
Of course, when your job is to fight monsters with music, your work is never really done. Melbourne’s dead are going to see to that.
Kitty Carrasco is a beautician. She works at a funeral home, preparing the dead for their final farewell with family and friends.
One very unusual day, her dead clients sit up and take a bit too much interest in her. It’s unexpected, but Kitty is nothing if not accepting of life’s little foibles. Instead of panicking, she sings to them, like she usually does while working.
Luckily, the dead seem to like this, and listen instead of doing anything more aggressive. Like trying to eat her brains.
And when a couple of musicians show up with remarkably good timing, wanting to know more about her Song for the Dead and telling her they’ve got a mission for her, Kitty is more than intrigued. She’s totally on board for whatever adventures are coming next.
But this band’s last adventure ended up with two dead band members, which is why they need a new lead singer. Is Kitty going to get the hang of this singing magic before what seems to be the Zombie Apocalypse devours Melbourne? And are the band members ever going to stop fighting long enough to save the world?
Author Website: http://www.narrellemharris.com
Kitty and Cadaver: http://www.kittyandcadaver.com
Narrelle's Blog: http://narrellemharris.
Author Twitter: @daggyvamp
Credits
Interviewer: Alex Pierce
Guest: Narrelle Harris
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
Feedback:
Twitter: @galactichat
Email: galactichat at gmail dot com

Thursday Aug 29, 2013
Galactic Chat 29 - Narrelle Harris
Thursday Aug 29, 2013
Thursday Aug 29, 2013
This week Alex Pierce interviews the ebullient Narrelle Harris
Narelle's blog: http://narrellemharris.
Kitty and Cadaver: http://www.kittyandcadaver.com

Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
Galactic Chat Team
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013
Below you will find the Current members of the Galactic Chat team:
- Alexandra Pierce is a teacher, a reader, a reviewer and a podcaster. You can read her reviews at www.randomalex.net and her other podcast at galactisuburbia.podbean.com
- David McDonald is a Melbourne based writer who works for an international welfare organisation. When not on a computer or reading a book, he divides his time between helping run a local cricket club and working on his debut novel. In 2013 he won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent, and has been nominated for the William J. Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review three times. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as “The Lone Ranger Chronicles” from Moonstone Books and “Epilogue” from Fablecroft Publishing. David is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, and of the Melbourne based writers group, SuperNOVA. You can find him at his website or on twitter as @sircamaris
- Sarah Lee Parker
- Helen Stubbs
- Mark Webb is a part time writer and full time Servant of the Public. His midlife crisis took the form of writing speculative fiction at a very slow pace. While sceptical of the results, his wife maintains that it is probably a reasonable course of action considering (1) the relative low cost of the exercise and (b) the cliched alternatives. His flash fiction has been published at Antipodean SF and narrated on the Beam Me Up podcast. You can find out more about Mark's battle against the twin forces of laziness and a lack of talent at his website,www.markwebb.name, or on Twitter, @webb_ma.
- Sean Wright is a semi-retired school teacher who lives in a remote rural homestead in the South Australian outback - close to wheat fields, wildlife and the odd serial killing. He runs a Ditmar nominated Speculative Fiction review blog called Adventures of a Bookonaut.

Saturday Jun 15, 2013
Galactic Chat Team
Saturday Jun 15, 2013
Saturday Jun 15, 2013
Below you will find the Current members of the Galactic Chat team:
- Alexandra Pierce is a teacher, a reader, a reviewer and a podcaster. You can read her reviews at www.randomalex.net and her other podcast at galactisuburbia.podbean.com
- David McDonald is a Melbourne based writer who works for an international welfare organisation. When not on a computer or reading a book, he divides his time between helping run a local cricket club and working on his debut novel. In 2013 he won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent, and has been nominated for the William J. Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review three times. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as “The Lone Ranger Chronicles” from Moonstone Books and “Epilogue” from Fablecroft Publishing. David is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, and of the Melbourne based writers group, SuperNOVA. You can find him at his website or on twitter as @sircamaris
- Sarah Lee Parker
- Helen Stubbs
- Mark Webb is a part time writer and full time Servant of the Public. His midlife crisis took the form of writing speculative fiction at a very slow pace. While sceptical of the results, his wife maintains that it is probably a reasonable course of action considering (1) the relative low cost of the exercise and (b) the cliched alternatives. His flash fiction has been published at Antipodean SF and narrated on the Beam Me Up podcast. You can find out more about Mark's battle against the twin forces of laziness and a lack of talent at his website,www.markwebb.name, or on Twitter, @webb_ma.
- Sean Wright is a semi retired school teacher who lives in a remote rural homestead in the South Australian outback - close to wheat fields, wildlife and the odd serial killing. He runs a Ditmar nominated Speculative Fiction review blog called Adventures of a Bookonaut.