Category: writing workshops

Author-editor-lawyer-speaker Michael Ventrella on the Oddcast this week

  By anthology, editing, fantasy, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, non-fiction, on writing, publishing, story collection, teaching writing, writing workshops

On the Oddcast this week we interview Michael Ventrella: author, editor, speaker, and lawyer. His latest non-fiction book is How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative from Gray Rabbit Publications, featuring artwork from Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial cartoonist Darrin Bell. Anthologies include Baker Street Irregulars (co-edited with New York Times Bestselling Author Jonathan Maberry) and, most recently, Across the Universe, a Beatles-themed anthology (co-edited with Randee Dawn) from Fantastic Books. He also heads the Pocono Liars Club. Among other things, Ventrella discusses why you want to refresh yourself on the Constitution, and what it means to write books about The Monkees. With the Oddcast Irregulars: Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, Kelly Simmons, Merry Jones and Keith Strunk.

Michael Ventrella Oddcast

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

Richard Butner on The Oddcast

  By anthology, collection, editing, fantasy, fantasy fiction, Karen Joy Fowler, on writing, podcast, publishing, reading, science fiction, short stories, teaching writing, Words, writing workshops

This week on the Oddcast we talk with short-story author Richard Butner, who describes himself as a writer, occasional performer, and shipwrecked jester.  He runs the annual Sycamore Hill Writers’ Conference, an extraordinarily successful and long-running peer-to-peer workshop hidden deep in the mountains of western North Carolina. Some of his unusual fiction is available in a collection from Small Beer Press.

Richard Butner on the Oddcast