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Interview

SFF Addicts Ep. 133: Adrian Tchaikovsky talks Alien Clay, Days of Shattered Faith, TTRPGs & More

December 3, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky about his new novels Days of Shattered Faith and Alien Clay, growing up on Doctor Who, how TTRPGs inspire him, ideation and the strangeness of nature, empathizing with aliens and non-human characters, creativity and limitations, authoritarianism and bureaucracy in The Tyrant Philosophers series, experimenting with multiple POVs and vignettes, colonialism, symbiosis and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien clay, City of Last Chances, Days of Shattered Faith, Head of Zeus, M. J. Kuhn, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, The Tyrant Philosophers, Tor Books

SFF Addicts Ep. 132: Writing for IP with Peter F. Hamilton, Mike Chen & James L. Sutter (Masterclass Panel)

November 26, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn for a masterclass panel on Writing for IP, featuring authors Peter F. Hamilton, Mike Chen and James L. Sutter. During the panel, Peter, Mike and James explore the intricacies of writing for intellectual properties, including how to get involved in IP, deadlines and contracts, the pressures of writing in an established universe, love of the IP vs. the realities of earnings, editors and author freedom, translating visual IPs to prose and vice versa, catering to existing fanbases, author voice, IP attachment and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Exodus, James L. Sutter, M. J. Kuhn, Marvel, Masterclass, Mike Chen, Pathfinder, Peter F. Hamilton, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starfinder

SFF Addicts Ep. 131: Writing Multiple POVs with Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Mini-Masterclass)

November 19, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join host Adrian M. Gibson as he delves into a mini-masterclass on Writing Multiple POVs with author Lavanya Lakshminarayan. During the episode, Lavanya unmasks the many faces of multiple points-of-view, including why you would write multiple POVs, how to choose the right POV characters and tenses, making character voices unique, connecting with characters (as readers and writers), structure and pacing in a multi-POV story, viewing the same scene from different perspectives and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Interstellar MegaChef, Interview, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, M. J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Solaris, Solaris Books

SFF Addicts Ep. 130: Lavanya Lakshminarayan talks Interstellar MegaChef, Food, Video Games & More

November 12, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join host Adrian M. Gibson as he chats with author Lavanya Lakshminarayan about her new novel Interstellar MegaChef, The Ten Percent Thief, working in the video game industry, storytelling and worldbuilding, cultural identity and imagined futures, VR and future technologies, blending culinary arts with space opera, food as cultural exchange and history, cooking TV shows, contrasting characters and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Interstellar MegaChef, Interview, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, M. J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Solaris, Solaris Books, The Ten Percent Thief

SFF Addicts Ep. 129: Fictional Family Dynamics with Tasha Suri (Mini-Masterclass)

November 5, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Fictional Family Dynamics with award-winning author Tasha Suri. During the episode, Tasha unpacks the complexities of family, exploring what makes family dynamics compelling, the role of family in her work, the key to successful fictional families, types of family dynamics, conveying individual and group character growth, external forces that can shape a family, romantic partnerships, marriage, found family and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Interview, M. J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Orbit Books, Podcast, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Tasha Suri, The Burning Kingdoms, The Jasmine Throne, The Lotus Empire, The Oleander Sword

Author Chat: Nick Cutter on “The Queen”

October 29, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Nick Cutter, author of horror books such as “The Troop,” “The Deep,” “Little Heaven,” “The Handyman Method,” and new from Gallery Books, “The Queen,” is one of the first contemporary horror writers I came across. To say I wouldn’t be where I am without his work is no understatement, considering “The Troop,” was the first […]

Filed Under: Author Chat, Blog Posts, Book Tube, Fear Articles, Interview Tagged With: Arcadia, Craig Davidson, Gallery Books, Hachette, Nick Cutter, Simon and Schuster, The Queen

SFF Addicts Ep. 128: Tasha Suri talks The Lotus Empire, Sapphic Fantasy, Anime & More

October 29, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author Tasha Suri about her new novel The Lotus Empire, completing The Burning Kingdoms trilogy, her love for anime, sapphic fantasy and the romantasy boom, South Asian/historical inspirations in her work, writing messy characters and multiple POVs, piquing readers’ curiosity, the shortcomings of academia, Dev Patel, knights and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Interview, M. J. Kuhn, Orbit Books, Podcast, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Tasha Suri, The Burning Kingdoms, The Jasmine Throne, The Lotus Empire, The Oleander Sword

SFF Addicts Ep. 127: Convincing Details & Descriptions with Nghi Vo (Mini-Masterclass)

October 22, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join Adrian M. Gibson and guest co-host Greta Kelly as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Convincing Details & Descriptions with award-winning author Nghi Vo. During the episode, Nghi gets into the nitty gritty of details, exploring what details/descriptions can do for readers, how to approach details in your writing, delivering effective details, setting expectations for your descriptive style, description in short vs. long form fiction, surface detail vs. hyper detail, describing characters, character actions, world details, plausibility and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Greta Kelly, Interview, M. J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Nghi Vo, Podcast, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, The City in Glass, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Tor Books

SFF Addicts Ep. 126: Nghi Vo talks The City in Glass, Love, The Great Gatsby & More

October 15, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join Adrian M. Gibson and guest co-host Greta Kelly as they chat with award-winning author Nghi Vo about her new novel The City in Glass, The Singing Hills Cycle (The Empress of Salt and Fortune and its sequels), Siren Queen and Hollywood history, The Chosen and the Beautiful and reimagining The Great Gatsby, cities and evocative settings, vibes vs. plot, angels, demons and love, change, character growth and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Greta Kelly, Interview, M. J. Kuhn, Nghi Vo, Podcast, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, The City in Glass, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Tor Books

SFF Addicts Ep. 125: Omniscient Narration & POV with Cat Rambo (Mini-Masterclass)

October 8, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Omniscient Narration & POV with award-winning author Cat Rambo. During the episode, Cat lays out all there is to know about omniscient narration, exploring what it is and when to use it, the benefits and challenges of an omniscient POV, finding a narrative voice, how to transition between characters, internal vs. external characterization, experimenting with POV styles, the viability of omniscient stories with agents/editors and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Cat Rambo, Devil's Gun, Disco Space Opera, Interview, M. J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Podcast, Rumor Has It, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Tor Books, You Sexy Thing

SFF Addicts Ep. 124: Cat Rambo talks Disco Space Opera, SFWA, Teaching & More

October 1, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author Cat Rambo about their new novel Rumor Has It, the Disco Space Opera series, writing in different formats and genres, working as an editor, teaching and paying it forward, SFWA and the SFF community, found family, subverting tropes, writing a long series, cooking, foodie culture (in space!) and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Cat Rambo, Devil's Gun, Disco Space Opera, Interview, M. J. Kuhn, Podcast, Rumor Has It, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, Tor Books, You Sexy Thing

SFF Addicts Ep. 123: Modernity & Building Believable Futures with T. R. Napper (Mini-Masterclass)

September 24, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Modernity & Building Believable Futures with award-winning author T. R. Napper. During the episode, Tim unpacks the complexities of modernity, exploring what modernity is, its relationships with hardboiled fiction and cyberpunk, confronting modernity in real life, relevancy and genre expectations, worldbuilding and crafting believable futures, thematic resonance, historical context fact vs. fiction and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: 36 Streets, Adrian M. Gibson, Cyberpunk, Ghost of the Neon God, Interview, M. J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, T. R. Napper, The Escher Man, Titan Books

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