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A Podcast of Australian Author Interviews
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Friday Mar 07, 2014
Friday Mar 07, 2014
In this our first show for 2014 David McDonald chats with Kaaron Warren about the early years of her writing, her growing recognition outside of Australia and some of her recent works including The Gate Theory from Cohesion Press and her inclusion in the upcoming Datlow anthology Fearful Symmetries.
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Friday Dec 13, 2013
Credits
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Dirk Flinthart
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Dec 06, 2013
Friday Dec 06, 2013
This week Alex chats to Dr Andrew Macrae about his debut novel Trucksong from Twelfth Planet Press - A dystopian science fiction novel about lost love, AI trucks and the search for meaning in a post-apocalyptic Australia.
They talk about his PHD thesis (which is far more interesting than this sentence indicates), the soundtrack that he and his band put together for the book and the experimental version of the book written entirely in a devolved post apocalyptic language. The book has been making noise in both Specfic and Litfic circles.
Book website: http://trucksong.com.au/
Buy the book: http://www.twelfthplanetpress.
Andrew's music: http://thetelevisionsky.
Twitter: @acidic
Credits
Interviewer: Alex Pierce
Guest: Dr Andrew Macrae
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Nov 22, 2013
Friday Nov 22, 2013
This week Alex chats to Natcon 2014 Guest of Honour, Ambelin Kwaymullina. The talk about Ambelin's young adult series, The Tribe, the exuberance that teen and young adult readers bring to the genre and what we can expect from Ambelin in the near future.
Ambelin comes form the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, she is also a noted children's picture book author and illustrator. The first book of The Tribe, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, was shortlisted in both the science fiction and young adult categories of the 2013 Aurealis Awards.
Ambelin's website is http://www.thefirstwood.com.au/
Credits
Interviewer: Alex Pierce
Guest: Ambelin Kwaymullina
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Nov 15, 2013
Friday Nov 15, 2013
Helen Stubbs talks to Donna Maree Hanson about her writing career, including publication of her novel Rayessa and the Space Pirates and writing the sequels, and her YA Paranormal Romance, Bespelled. They also talk about the advantages of using a pseudonym and what Donna has enjoyed reading recently, including Untamed by Anna Cowan and A Single Girl’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse by JT Clay.
Note: The date for Conflux Writers Day is 5 April 2014 not the 15th as stated in the podcast.
Author Website: http://donnamareehanson.wordpress.com
Author Twitter: @ Donna M Hanson
Rayessa and the Space Pirates http://www.escapepublishing.com.au/product/9780857990150
Credits
Interviewer: Helen Stubbs
Guest: Donna M Hanson
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Patty Jansen
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Oct 25, 2013
Friday Oct 25, 2013
This week Sean talks with author/publisher Devin Madson who has recently released her debut novel. They talk about overcoming the self publishing stigma, the highs and lows of funding your project through crowd sourcing sites such as Pozible and sourcing publishing professionals when you don't have the commercial weight of traditional publishing behind you.
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Devin Madson
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Oct 18, 2013
Friday Oct 18, 2013
This week Sean chats to Julia Rios, fiction editor for Strange Horizons, host and producer of the Outer Alliance Podcast and one hafl of the Kaleidoscope Pozible project. In this episode they talk a little about Julia's entry into podcasting and fiction editing, consider what are the genre's issues with Diversity and finally talk about the Pozible project that Julia and Alisa Krasnostein are running
Credits
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Julia Rios
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Oct 11, 2013
Friday Oct 11, 2013
Credits
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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Friday Oct 04, 2013
Friday Oct 04, 2013
This week Sean sits down to chat with New York Times best selling novelist Sean Williams about his foray into the American market with the young adult novel Jump. They talk about the advantages of growing up in regional and rural communities, the difficulties writing for a young adult audience and reminisce about the changing face of the Australian speculative fiction community.
Credits
Interviewer: Sean Wright
Guest: Dr Sean Williams
Music & Intro: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Post-production: Sean Wright
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