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A Podcast of Australian Author Interviews
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Friday Dec 12, 2014
Friday Dec 12, 2014
This week David chats with award winning author and blogger Kameron Hurley. Kameron has been nominated for the Nebula, Clarke and the BSFA, selected for the Tiptree honour list and this year won the Hugo for Best Fan Writer. Additionally, her essay "'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative" also won the Hugo for Best Related Work.
Please enjoy their chat where they talk about the influences on her most famous trilogy( including a dodgy rental apartment with bugs), when authors should speak out on issues of poor or disadvantageous contracts and what's next on Hurley's agenda.
You can find Kameron at her website
Friday Nov 28, 2014
Friday Nov 28, 2014
This week David chats with author and assistant editor at StarShipSofa, Jeremy Szal. They talk about sourcing stories for narration, what sort of stories Jeremy likes to feature on the podcast and Jeremy's own writing career.
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Friday Oct 31, 2014
Friday Oct 31, 2014
In this week's episode David interviews Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Ken Liu. They talk about the short story form, the difficulty in translating from Chinese to English, Ken's translation of the Chinese sci-fi masterpiece The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin and Ken's own epic fantasy"Silkpunk" series called The Grace of Kings.
The blog post they reference in the cast is http://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2014/8/want-to-be-a-successful-writer-avoid-short-stories
You can find Ken at his website.
Credits
Interviewer: David McDonald
Guest: Ken Liu
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post Production: Sean Wright
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Friday Oct 17, 2014
Friday Oct 17, 2014
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Friday Oct 03, 2014
Friday Oct 03, 2014
This week Galactic Chat reporter Helen Stubbs chats with Sue Wright of Tiny Owl Workshop. Tiny Owl Workshop are the new small press outfit from Brisbane responsible for a number of quirky and popular projects such as Napkin Stories, Krampus Crackers and Pillow Fight.
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Friday Sep 19, 2014
Friday Sep 19, 2014
In this episode Mark Skypes in Alex Adsett, agent extraordinaire, and talks about (amongst other things) the making of an agent, what to look out for when signing a contract and the rise of small/independent press as taste setters and filters in an age of overwhelming content availability.
You can also hear why Alex makes the brave marketing move of advising authors why they don't always need an agent!
The excellent Alex Adsett Publishing Services website, http://alexadsett.com.au/, is mentioned at the end of the podcast as an excellent source of news and information about literary contracts.
Interviewee Website: http://alexadsett.com.au
Interviewee Twitter: @alexadsett
Credits
Interviewer: Mark Webb
Guest: Alex Adsett
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Sep 05, 2014
Friday Sep 05, 2014
In this interview recorded by Alexandra Pierce, Angela Slatter talks about mosaic novels, PhDs, collaboration and being collected. Angela's forthcoming books include The Female Factory (with Lisa L Hannett), The Bitterwood Bible, and Black-Winged Angels.
Credits
Interviewer: Alexandra Pierce
Guest: Angela Slatter
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Aug 22, 2014
Friday Aug 22, 2014
In this episode we Skype in Ion "Nuke" Newcombe, publisher of the evergreen Antipodean SF online speculative fiction magazine, which Nuke started back in 1998 when most people were still learning to spell Internet.
In the interview we delve into what exactly is flash fiction, what makes good flash fiction and what kind of flash fiction Nuke likes. We also talk about Nuke's plans for the upcoming 200th edition of Antipodean SF and exactly how a speculative fiction specialist came to have the name Ion.
At the very end of the podcast, Nuke has included an excerpt from his radio program/podcast, where recent Ditmar award winner Zena Shapter reads her flash fiction piece Shy.
The excellent Antipodean SF website, http://www.antisf.com/, is mentioned at the end of the podcast, as is the site where Nuke's podcasts are stored (http://antisf.libsyn.com). Through the interview, Nuke mentions that people are welcome to submit flash fiction. If you want to do that, go to the contact page here http://www.antisf.com.au/contact.
Interviewee Website: http://www.antisf.com.au
Interviewee Twitter: @antipodeansf
Credits
Interviewer: Mark Webb
Guest: Ion "Nuke" Newcombe
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Aug 08, 2014
Friday Aug 08, 2014
In this interview recorded by Alexandra Pierce, Rosaleen Love talks about her experiences of publishing over the last thirty or so years, of being a feminist science fiction writer, and the use of the word 'slut'. Rosaleen's new collection is Secret Lives of Books.
Credits
Interviewer: Alexandra Pierce
Guest: Rosaleen Love
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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