So I'm Writing a Novel...
The show where you join me, Oliver Brackenbury, on the journey of writing my next novel, from first ideas all the way to publication & promotion. In this unique, one-man-reality show I'll share you with you my ever evolving thoughts and feelings on how I write, being a writer, and everything that entails at each stage of the process. I'll also answer listener questions and, sometimes, interview people who write fiction. If you're the kind of person who likes to learn how things are made, and get to know the people making them, then this is the show for you.
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Ep 76 – Shatter the Sun with Dave Ring
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Dave Ring of Neon Hemlock Press joins us to discuss his upcoming queer Sword & Sorcery anthology.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davering/shatter-the-sun-queer-tales-of-untold-adventurehttps://www.neonhemlock.com
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
NESS Book Club #3 – The Dark Eidolon
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Sunday Nov 17, 2024
Valerie Valdes, Molly Tanzer, Prashanth Srivatsa and JM Clarke for a discussion of Clark Ashton Smith's classic story The Dark Eidolon. You can read the story here: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/212/the-dark-eidolon Valerie Valdes: https://candleinsunshine.com Molly Tanzer: https://mollytanzer.com Prashanth Srivatsa: https://prashanthsrivatsa.com JM Clarke: https://www.facebook.com/J.M.ClarkeAuthor/
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Ep77 - Interview with Graham Thomas Wilcox
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Oliver speaks with Old Moon Quarterly editor about his Gothic Fantasy novella, Contra Amatores Mundi, that grew out from a story he published in the magazine.
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Ep78 – The Final Act
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
THE NOVEL RETURNS! Yes, in this episode we provide a refresher on the novel and its contents so far, then do an overview of what the final act is about, and what Oliver needed to figure out before drilling down into its individual stories that will tell a tale of cosmic horror and Voe's indebted servitude to a mysterious entity...
Sunday Dec 15, 2024
Ep79 – Inner Sea
Sunday Dec 15, 2024
Sunday Dec 15, 2024
"How do you create a warning which will outlast your own language?" is the question at the heart of this first tale in Voe's final act, the story which introduces us to her new life of cosmic debt slavery by taking her deep, deep underground in an irradiated world to search for a cure to a virulent poison running through her veins...
Sunday Dec 22, 2024
Ep80 – Love Letter to a Sailor
Sunday Dec 22, 2024
Sunday Dec 22, 2024
In which Oliver writes a love letter/homage to Sailing to the Future, the first third of Michael Moorcock's most excellent Sailor on the Seas of Fate starring Elric of Melniboné. In this way Voe finds herself to encountering multiverse fatigue, an Eternal Champion labour union, a nihilist scientist, and more!
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Ep81 – An Imported God
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Sword & Planet time! In which Voe fends off cosmic callousness as she rides strange beasts through a blend of colorful high adventure with grim thematic underpinnings.
5 days ago
Ep82 – The Eyrie
5 days ago
5 days ago
THE PENULTIMATE STORY OUTLINETHE LAST STORY OUTLINE EPISODE FOR...PROBABLY QUITE A WHILEVoe and Oliver dive into The Weird by way of a "Zone Story", as both seek a way for Voe to escape cosmic debt slavery to a still-mysterious entity! What does all that mean? Listen to find out!
About
So I'm Writing a Novel... is the podcast where you join me, Oliver Brackenbury, on the journey of writing my next novel, from first ideas all the way to publication & promotion.
In this one-man reality show I'll share with you my ever evolving thoughts and feelings on how I write, being a writer, and everything that entails at each stage of the process. I'll also answer listener questions
and, sometimes, interview special guests.
If you're the kind of person who likes to learn how things are made, and get to know the people making them, then this is the show for you!
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