Tales from the Trunk
2021-05
Episodes
Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
This time around, my guest is friend and co-host of the podcast, We Make Books, R. J. Theodore (@bittybittyzap)! Rekka reads an excerpt from the third book of her Peridot Shift series, Cast Off, which leads us into a great conversation about what can happen when your publisher closes its doors, murderboarding for fun and profit, and the things that we love so dearly about steampunk.
Things we mention in this episode:
Parvus Press
Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian
Steampunk
Space elves discourse (I believe the discourse came from this)
Ever Given
Sarah Pinsker
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
Jennifer "Macey" Mace's Murderboard Method, on We Make Books
C. J. Cherryh
Mistborn series, by Brandon Sanderson
Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin
Scrivener (software)
Epistolary fiction
Gail Carriger
The Brass Goggles forum
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly
Jules Verne
The Kingston Cycle, by C. L. Polk
Guillotine
The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
Star Trek Pocket Books
Wesley Crusher
Livejournal
"The Coven of Taos-9," by R. J. Theodore, in Unfettered Hexes
Episodes 48 and 51 of We Make Books, featuring Hilary B. Bisenieks
Join us next month, when Jen Karner and dave ring will be our guests!
Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
This time around, we're joined by my friend, Sarah Loch (@sloch), whose new book, Blue Line, written as Ariel Bishop, just released! After hearing an excerpt from the book, we talk about about fake dating, representation, and self-publishing. Also, Sarah took a moment to tell us about her friend, F. A. Ray's new m/m soccer (football, to our listeners outside of North America) romance, Yellow Card, which is also available in early access on Gumroad.
Things we mention in this episode:
The Tripping series, by Ariel Bishop
BDSM (link contains NSFW content)
Switch (link contains NSFW content)
Demiromantic
Aromantic
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Haikyu!!
Join us next episode, when I'll be talking with R. J. Theodore!