Category Archives: The Kingdoms of Evil Podcast

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94 Polishing your Shmoo with Tex Thompson

  You may not be aware that my best buddy Arianne “Tex” Thompson has published her second book, Medicine for the Dead. We’re using it as an example how authors improve from one work to another. Now bear with me. The shmoo part … Continue reading

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93 Young Adult Fiction with William Campbell Powell

This week I’m talking with William Campbell Powell, author of EXPIRATION DAY, a Young-Adult Science Fiction Robot Crossover. Bill didn’t know he was writing YA until his editor at Tor told him he had. Coming of Age I’m not sure if YA … Continue reading

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92 Obsession with Ferrett Steinmetz

This week I’m talking with Ferrett Steinmetz, who’s debut novel, Flex is out now from Angry Robot. Flex has been described as “Breaking Bad meets meets Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files,” and it has a lot of themes to explore (such as body … Continue reading

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91 Book Launching with Carrie Patel

  I’m talking with Carrie Patel, author of the Buried Life, about book launches. I’ve talked with Carrie before about her steampunk-ish, noir-ish, fantasy-ish, dystopian-ish, book-ish underground thing, but that was when we thought it was coming out in summer … Continue reading

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88 Implementation Costs with Lars Doucet and James Cavin

We’re back talking with Lars Doucet and James Cavin, the owner and the head writer of Level Up Labs, creators of Defender’s Quest and Defender’s Quest II. We’re talking about telling story with games. I have an idea, but it’s going to take a month of … Continue reading

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87 Writing for Games with Lars Doucet and James Cavin

Welcome back to the Kingdoms of Evil podcast! This week we’re talking with Lars Doucet and James Cavin, the owner and the head writer of Level Up Labs, creators of Defender’s Quest and Defender’s Quest II. We’re talking about writing for games. The gun … Continue reading

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86 International Fiction with Elías Combarro and Leticia Lara

Last week I talked with Elías Combarro of Sense of Wonder and Leticia Lara of Fantástica – Ficción about Spanish sci-fi and Fantasy. This week, I’m talking with them about the international movement in science fiction and fantasy. Mañana todavía (Still Tomorrow) edited by Ricard … Continue reading

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85 Spanish SFF with Elías Combarro and Leticia Lara

  This week I’m talking with Elías Combarro of Sense of Wonder and Leticia Lara of Fantástica – Ficción about Spanish-language science fiction and fantasy. Los VerdHugos: the sci-fi and fantasy podcast of Elias and Leticia along with Miquel Codony, Josep Maria Oriol, and Pedro Roman. … Continue reading

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84 Technological Frontiers with Kim Moravec

I’m talking again with Kim Moravec about technological frontiers and the YA novel she is querying agents about. There are good reasons for anonymity on the internet. Not just to bully people you disagree with. Bahá’ís in Iran The Mars Trilogy Internet … Continue reading

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83 Digital Privacy with Kim Moravec

  I’m talking with Kim Moravec, computer scientist, prison teacher (seriously), and writer of FINNEGAN’S AWAKE. We discuss her book and search for a literary agent, as well as digital privacy, and why it’s important. Tex Thompson the DFW Writers Workshop … Continue reading

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