Tales from the Trunk
Reading the stories that didn't make it
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Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
This time around, I had the pleasure of talking to Hugo-award-winning author and editor Elsa Sjunneson (@snarkbat)! Elsa reads an excerpt from her terrific currently-trunked novel, The Livelong Night, which launches us into a conversation about representation, trunking (the bad kind), disability, and her forthcoming memoir, Being Seen, which releases this October!
Things we mentioned this episode:
Worldcon 76
Burying your gays (trope)
Mad-Eye Moody
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
The Book of Eli
Daredevil
The ghost of Peter Stuyvesant
Reviews of Being Seen from Kirkus and Booklist
Scream (TV show)
“I Belong Where the People Are: Disability & The Shape of Water," by Elsa Sjunneson
Children of a Lesser God
Me Before You
"The Home Front," my 9/11 essay
"Blind Women Get Married Too," by Elsa Sjunneson
RSD - Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Ready or Not
The Invisible Man (2020)
The Chair
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Exvangelicals
Beowulf, audiobook, translated by Seamus Heaney
Join us again next month, when my guests will be Rem Wigmore and Freya Marske!
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
This time around, we're joined once again by Sarah Hollowell (@sarahhollowell) whose debut, A Dark and Starless Forest comes out September 14th! Sarah reads an excerpt of her book that leads us into a fun conversation about the terrible faces that cats make, natural disasters, and probably some stuff about the book, too.
Things we mention in this episode:
The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
Tangled
The 12 Dancing Princesses
"Crow's Eye," by Sarah Hollowell
The geology of Indiana
The Airborne Toxic Event
Duck and cover
This Poison Heart, by Kalynn Bayron
The Ones We're Meant to Find, by Joan He
Each of Us a Desert, by Mark Oshiro
Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed
Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
Sarah's insta and website
Sarah Gailey
R. K. Duncan
Kate Lechler
Join us again in two weeks with my guest, Elsa Sjunneson!
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
This time around we're joined by Leigh Harlen (@leighharlen) to talk about the new printing of their collection, Blood Like Garnets! Leigh reads to us from their pissed off, queer response to that wizard series, which leads us into a discussion on new and exciting forms of self-rejection, and why community is so important to us as writers.
Things we mention in this episode:
Studio Ghibli
Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea
"Blood Makes the Fruit Grow Sweet," by Leigh Harlen in Dark Moon Digest
The Dark
TKO (publisher)
Worldcon 76
Norwescon
Neon Hemlock
Fireside Magazine
Fiyah Literary Magazine
Premee's book launch event
Yellow Jessamine, by Caitlin Starling
Stephen King
V O I D J U N K
The Silence of the Lambs
"Prey," by Richard Matheson
The Babadook as a queer icon
This year's World Fantasy Awards finalists
Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark
Lovecraft Country
Train to Busan
Night of the Living Dead
Pseudopod
The Submission Grinder
SFWA pro rates
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 13 - "Far Beyond the Stars"
Weird Tales
A guide to Twitter Lists
Victories Greater Than Death, by Charlie Jane Anders
Elatsoe, by Darcie Littlebadger
Leigh's website
Join us again in September, when our guests will be Sarah Hollowell and Elsa Sjunneson!
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
This time around, I'm rejoined by Premee Mohamed (@premeesaurus) to talk about her amazing new novella, And What Can We Offer You Tonight, out now from Neon Hemlock! After hearing the first chapter of the book, straight from the mouth of the author, we get into all the stories that Premee still wants to tell in the world of the book, and we talk fondly of a viscerally-uncomfortable scene from the book that we both love to bits. We also take a bit of time to talk about the other three (3) books that Premee has or will have out this year, all of which are well worth your time.
Things we mention in this episode:
My very on-brand outfit for this audio recording
Neon Hemlock Press
The And What Can We Offer You Tonight launch party
Leigh Harlen
Mad Max
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
L. D. Lewis' appearance on this very show
dave ring
These Lifeless Things, by Premee Mohamed
The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed
Beneath the Rising, A Broken Darkness, and The Void Ascendant, by Premee Mohamed
Premee on We Make Books
Premee's website
Join us again later this month, when I'll be talking with Leigh Harlen!
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
After some trials and tribulations with our audio, L. D. Lewis (@Ellethevillain) joins us on this episode with her amazing climatepunk story, "The Last Stand of the E 12th St Pirates." Following the reading, we talk about how that story came about before taking some time to talk about Fiyah Literary Magazine and Fiyahcon (September 16-19, 2021).
Things we mention in this episode:
Cyberpunk
And What Can We Offer You Tonight, by Premee Mohamed
"For Every Jack," by R. K. Duncan
Geneva Bowers, nee Benton
Fiyah on Twitter
Fireside Magazine
Fire!!
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Fiyahcon
Breonna Taylor
George Floyd
Vida Cruz
Iori Kusano
Ignyte Awards
Airmeet
Norwescon
Monterey Bay Aquarium
L's Website
Slack
TikTok
LeVar Burton Reads Writing Contest
Tor.com
Diana M. Pho
Realm
Reading Rainbow
Geordi La Forge
Join us again next month, when Premee Mohamed and Leigh Harlen will be my guests!
Friday Jul 02, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
To open pride month this year, we're joined by Jen Karner (@articulatedream), whose sapphic debut, Cinders of Yesterday, releases later this month! Jen reads us a delicious excerpt of their book, and we chat about some of her favorite bits, the chaos energy of their drafting process, and why we shouldn't treat her as any kind of example for how publishing usually goes.
Things we mention in this episode:
NaNoWriMo
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
fanfiction.net
GeoCities
Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
Baltimore Pride
Boffer weapons
LARPing
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Supernatural
Teen Wolf
Pitch Wars
RevPit
Jen's insta, website, and facebook fan page
Join us again on June 18th, when our guest will be dave ring!
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!