Category: short stories

Howard A. Rodman Wows the Oddcast

  By editing, fantasy, historical fiction, motion pictures, non-fiction, novelist, on writing, publishing, reading, science fiction, screenwriting, short stories

This week’s Oddcast presents an amazing and fascinating interview with award-winning screenwriter (Savage Grace, Joe Gould’s Secret), novelist, journalist and educator Howard A. Rodman about writing novels and screenplays, adapting novels to screenplays, and leading the WGA, not to mention the true, secret history of how a small bookshop in Paris led him to write his new novel, The Great Eastern, wherein Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo battles Melville’s Captain Ahab. Join cohosts Jon McGoran, Gregory Frost, Kelly Simmons, Keith Strunk and Merry Jones.

Howard Rodman on the Oddcast

Q&A Authors’ Roundtable at Towne Book Center

  By children's books, editing, illustration, Images, literary agents, novelist, on writing, picture books, publishing, reading, science fiction, short stories, teaching writing, Words, worldbuilding

Authors' Roundtable

A special live authors’ roundtable is driven by questions from publishing execs and writers — about idea theft, the dangers of creating characters from real people, the perils of writing near-future sci-fi, and more! Recorded live at the Towne Book Center and Wine Bar. Legendary children’s book author Judy Schachner even shows up with a question or two for Oddcast cohosts Kelly Simmons, Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk.

Martha Wells and her Murderbot Diaries Join the Oddcast

  By fantasy, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, novelist, on writing, publishing, science fiction, short stories, teaching writing, Words, writing workshops

This week on the Oddcast, award-winning fantasy and science fiction author Martha Wells. Her latest work is a series of four novellas collectively titled The Murderbot Diaries. The first, All Systems Red, has already won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. She explores writing without an outline, the value of workshops, and the creation of a “first-person omniscient” voice in her conversation with cohosts Gregory Frost, Merry Jones, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk.

Martha Wells on the Oddcasst