2020-01

On this episode, World Fantasy Award winner C. L. Polk (@clpolk) joins us to talk being an early-career writer, losing at NaNoWriMo, her early strategies for submitting stories, and why stories don't land. Cee reads to us from a trunked first draft, "Memory and a Monkey," which is a very fun sci-fi detective story. The sequel to Witchmark, Stormsong, comes out February 11th, 2020 from Tor.com books.
On this episode, we mentioned:
Witchmark, by C. L. Polk
The His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman
"Writing Begins With Forgiveness," by Daniel Jose Older
nanowrimo
SFWA qualifying market list
Shimmer Magazine
on spec magazine
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
Ideomancer
"Bullet in the Brain," by Tobias Wolff
Tor.com
Uncanny Magazine
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Diggers (my dad actually got me Truckers), The Bromeliad Trilogy, by Terry Pratchett
Stormsong, by C. L. Polk
The Midnight Bargain, by C. L. Polk
Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger
"The Air Gap," by Hilary B. Bisenieks, LampLight Magazine
 
Join us again next month, when I'm excited to announce that our guest will be novelist K. B. Wagers.