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Writeopolis!

RJ Barker, Kit Power, Scott K Andrews

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What is Writeopolis? Writeopolis is a fortnightly (or, for US listeners, twice a month) conversation between writing professionals (and Kit Power). The conversation happens live every other Sunday evening via Discord, with live text chat accompanying the voice discussion (no video; RJ and Kit don't have that kind of time to sort their hair out every weekend). The resultant conversation is later released in podcast form via this feed. Who is Writeopolis? Writeopolis is BFS Award winner RJ Bar ...
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Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Podcast

Dan Jones, Christopher Bean, Peat Long, Damaris Browne, Brian Sexton

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Welcome to Chronscast! We are the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. Each episode your hosts Dan Jones, Christopher Bean, and Peat Long will take a deep dive into some classic science-fiction, fantasy, and horror with a special guest. We'll also discuss the challenges of writing and publishing SFF, and our guests' experiences. Episodes feature specialist advice on writing and publishing from our resident legal beagle Damaris Browne ...
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This time out, Scott, RJ and Kit are joined by the brilliant author Sophia McDougal. Topics covered include: The joys of Discord Often, but not always, getting Sophia's name right Sofia Loren ruining everything for everybody Watching mediocre TV for Reasons The many, many pitfalls about writing about cops in 2022 Kit and psychological breakthroughs…
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In a guest-free episode, Kit, RJ and Scott get even more off topic than usual, but do end up brainstorming their alleged co-authoring project. Gound covered includes: RJs ongoing struggles with the nature of linear time Spoiling The Responder for Scott Spoilers also for Squid Games and Mandalorian and Boba Fett The Guy Ritchie/Spielberg sweet spot …
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This time out, RJ and Scott are joined by brilliant script writer and novelist James Moran. Topics covered include: Scott in a submarine “Off topic is on brand!” Murderous kindly old ladies and giggling with glee Writing fast for TV Spooks, and Not Killing Harry The mechanics of writing for TV and around outside factors The formative power of the T…
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The boys are back in town - or, rather, back huddled behind microphones in houses and/or garages. In this guest-free first show of 2022, expect a rambling conversation taking in the following bullet points: The dreaded ‘soft relaunch’. Scott having read three whole books RJ and the swinging hot takes Some Muppet Christmas Carol controversy Dissecti…
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In what could possibly be the longest delay in releasing an episode ever, we found a lost recording! All the way back from season 1 we have the wonderful Stark Holborn discussing: - where cowboys/westerns belong in the bookstore. - Scott takes us on a deep dive on how to organise Dr Who books. - There is cautionary tale of plotter vs pantser, where…
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In a guest-free season finale, RJ, Scott and Kit get into Muppet Christmas Carol, the vague nature of time itself, Wheel Of Time controversy, RJ's Doctor Who related child cruelty, a world exclusive regarding Sniper Elite 5, and oh so much more. Enjoy.بقلم RJ Barker, Scott K Andrews, Kit Power
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This time out, RJ, Scott and Kit are joined by the brilliant Tiny Bookcase chaps. In an even-more-freewheeling-than-normal conversation, we touch upon: RJ making some shocking admissions RE Pratchett Ben being correct about Kong Transitioning from Flash fiction to novel writing People who are too talented and won’t pick a lane And much, much, much …
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This time out, RJ and Kit (but sadly not Scott) are joined by indie publishing legend Steve Shaw of Black Shuck Books. In a conversation that rambles even by our high (low?) standards, topics touched upon include: Kit almost getting the episode number right Steve nearly forgetting the name of the book he published that won a BFS award The inherent …
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We're joined once more by filmmakers Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez, the brains behind The Blair Witch Project, V/H/S, Lovely Molly, and many more. Gregg and Hale talk to us about their new podcast-based audio drama Black Velvet Fairies. It's a tour de force meta narrative that plays with the found footage medium that gave them their big break, but…
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You might be forgiven for thinking that us saying we had two of the horror genre's most distinguished filmmakers on the show would be an April Fool's joke, but you should know by now we never, ever joke about our guests (except for RJ Barker, who will forever be known as the Goth King of Leeds). Today we're joined by Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez,…
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Christopher and Dan are joined by horror writer John Langan, whose great horror novel The Fisherman finally is out now in the UK, an inexplicable seven years after being first published in most other territories. John talks to us about the health and wellbeing of Laird Barron, one of the other members of the modern horror brat pack, who suffered re…
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Ahoy ahoy! When the Beanstalker and I were drawing up our wish list for guests on the podcast, there was one name that @Phyrebrat was adamant that we try and get. That was the American author John Langan, who joins us for this episode. John is one of the masters of modern horror and whose seminal book The Fisherman, an exploration of guilt, diaspor…
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This time out, RJ, Kit, and an inexplicably American Scott are joined by the frankly brilliant Stewart Hotston. Expect a discussion of Squid Game politics, running in the wrong trousers, the curiously historical nature of antifascist TV drama, Stew breaking Kit's heart on the Dinosaur question, and... a haunted coffee frother?? Yup, that's what it …
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Peat and Dan are joined by Anne Perry, publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books. Anne talks with us about the state of the publishing market in 2023, and what authors ought to consider when positioning their book in the market. We talk about the rising prices of books, the price differential between different regions, subscription-based business mo…
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We're back after the summer break, and are joined by Anne Perry, the publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books, to talk about Naomi Novik's 2015 fantasy bestseller, Uprooted. Based upon aspects of rural Polish folklore, Uprooted follows Agnieszka, a plain village girl who is shocked to learn that she is to be taken away to live with The Dragon, a po…
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So! After a few technical hitches and delays our bumper new episode is finally up. The Big Peat and I are joined by the award-winning fantasy author RJ Barker, whose novel The Bone Ships won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2020. Together we rabbit on about Richard Adams's 1978 classic piece of children's fantasy literature, Watership Do…
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It's Coronation Day! Well, not quite. But in the UK we are steadily approaching the moment when the king, Charles III, formally takes the Oath and is crowned. This month we're tackling Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, the first book in the seminal Gormenghast series. Titus follows the birth of the titular character and the first eighteen months of his l…
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Merlin's Beard! What better topic to talk about as we enter the springtime and the regeneration of the land than Excalibur and the legend of Arthur, King of the Britons, who is prophesied to restore the land to verdance and glory and who knows much about the average velocity of unladen swallows. But we'll not be focusing on that particular cinemati…
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This time out, RJ, Scott and Kit are joined by sci-fi and fantasy author Mike Brooks. Expect discussion of The She-Ra remake, Nirvana and Nevermind documentaries, the eternal mystery of aging, and why real writers don't use the letter S - amongst many, many other things. Enjoy :) Mike Brooks: http://www.mikebrooks.co.uk/ RJ Barker: https://www.rjba…
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This time out, new intern Scott, RJ and Kit are joined by the brilliant writer Anna Stephens. Expect the introduction of new trainee Scott, discussion about writing tie-in properties, writing three books at once, differences in genre wordcount, and so, so much more. Enjoy.بقلم Anna Stephens, RJ Barker, Scott K Andrews, Kit Power
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When Chronscast was originally set up I wanted different co-host folks for different co-host strokes. I wanted my guest today, the blogger Peat Long, to contribute to the podcast particularly in the area of fantasy fiction, in all its guises and possibilities. For various reasons he couldn't commit at the start of the venture, but I'm pleased to sa…
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We're joined today by Tade Thompson, the multi award-winning author of such books as Rosewater, Making Wolf, Far From the Light of Heaven, and the Molly Southbourne novellas. He is also a self-confessed comics junkie, which he proved when he joined us last year to delve into the great WATCHMEN. This year Tade talks with us about Sandman, arguably N…
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Before the August break, RJ and Scott (but not Kit) are joined by the frankly magnificent Sam Hawke discuss, well, pretty much everything. Expect a revealing conversation about the twists and turns of the editorial process, resilience, time differences, Australian wildlife, and a thrilling split decision on the poetry/dinosaur question! Enjoy, and …
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Abandoned by co-host Scott K Andrews, due to an advanced case of Sportsballing (hey, how'd that work out?) Kit and RJ are joined this fortnight by the frankly brilliant Gavin G Smith, author and teacher. He is a delight. Expect lengthy discussion of various media, a heartfelt eulogy to the great Iain Banks, causal admissions of homicide, and an abs…
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We see in 2023 with Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey, the hosts of the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast covering genre fiction. As well podcasting, they are quite the polymath duo; Chad is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician, and Chris is a writer of books for tabletop RPGs and co-host of other podcasts such as Rachel Watches Star Trek. Ch…
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This time out, we're joined by author and Sinister Horror Company head honcho Justin Park. As you might expect, we talk writing and horror, but also music, poetry, Justin's novel Punch, and a *very* tense discussion around dinosaurs. Also, much laughter. Enjoy.بقلم RJ Barker, Kit Power, Justin Park
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In the latest episode, we are joined by Stephen Deas, and not Kit Power, to talk about writing under multiple names, the mystery of his responsibility for RJ, RJ not being able to tell the difference between the colours pink and brown, technical difficulties, and much more - in other words, it's another instant classic. Enjoy.…
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This time out we're joined by the multi award winning author Priya Sharma - one of the finest writers working in speculative fiction right now, according to Kit, who is Entirely Correct. Expect lots of catching up about shows and books, process exploration, and happy swearing. Enjoy :) Please note that tech gremlins ate episodes 8 and 9. Apologies.…
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This time out, RJ, Scott and Kit were joined by actor, writer and director Luke Arnold . Yes, THAT Luke Arnold. I know. And we got into it all; writing process, Luke's twin loves of noir and fantasy, and his reasons for colliding one into the other for his book series, the good and bad of Australia, filming Black Sails and getting to play the O.P. …
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As the nights draw in and we approach the midwinter, what better way to celebrate the season than dipping into that most macabre of festive traditions, the Christmas ghost story? While we're all familiar with Dickens's A Christmas Carol, more modern traditions include the BBC's A Ghost Story For Christmas, adaptations of typically M.R James stories…
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This time out RJ, Scott and Kit are joined by legendary screenwriter (Gothic, Ghostwatch, Midwinter Of The Spirit and more) and author (The Dark Master's Trilogy, The Parts We Play, Under A Raven's Wing, and more) Stephen Volk . Expect plenty of Ghostwatch talk, and related discussions about the impact of the internet age on TV and movie marketing,…
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This time around, RJ, Scott and Kit are joined by multi award winning playwright and TV writer Mark Catley. You can just about hear the sound of Kit's head exploding as Mark discusses writing 5 EastEnders scripts *a week*, community theatre, Call The Midwife, Mark's relationship with RJ's origin story, bringing the Sin City aesthetic to Casualty, a…
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This month we're talking about one of the all-time classics of science-fiction literature, and arguably the book that demonstrated science-fiction could be literature: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand Of Darkness, a million-selling Hugo and Nebula winner. We talk about the book's enduring legacy, its approach to worldbuilding, character, and loose…
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Welcome to the first episode of the show proper, featuring the absurdly talented Catriona Ward. Expect extensive discussion of getting recording bots working, sorting out Discord permissions, reminiscences of panels and Cons past, RJ's amazing origin story as The King Of Leeds and, you know, the creative process. Cat is a phenomenally talented writ…
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In this first episode, RJ and Kit try and walk the fine line between doing the thing while describing the thing, while Kit's new mic makes him sound like a Dalek (this is corrected going forward). In a wide-ranging and/or rambling show, ground covered includes: Fortnite and Rogue Squadrons chat Kit not understanding that talking to the text chat pe…
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This month we're joined by the author fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna, creator of several epic series including The Tales of Einarinn, The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy. Juliet talks to us about one of the very first examples of what we might term "modern fantasy" - Hope Mir…
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This month we're joined by the award-winning British-Canadian author, poet and essayist Naomi Foyle, to talk about Inish Carraig, the alien-invasion-cum-prison break thriller by our very own @Jo Zebedee. Among the topics we cover is the quintessential "Norn Irishness" of the book, conveyed without ever lapsing into cliché, but yet acknowledging the…
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We're joined by one of the kings of UK science-fiction and fantasy, the literary agent John Jarrold, to talk about Rob Holdstock's majestic 1984 novel Mythago Wood, winner of the World Fantasy Award. Over a career spanning almost fifty years John has become one of the leading lights and champions for British genre fiction, and a household name with…
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This episode we finally open that door of the Chronscast household we'd not dared to open before and plunge into the abyssal labyrinth that is Mark Danielewski's maddeningly epic debut novel, House Of Leaves. A book that defies conventional categorisation, it's been described as a horror, a literary piece, a puzzle, and even a love story. We're joi…
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On this episode of Chronscast we're joined by award-winning SF author Tade Thompson to talk about WATCHMEN, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic-book masterpiece that skewers the superhero genre using its own architecture. Tade is the author of numerous novels, including the critically acclaimed sci-fi novel Rosewater, the first in his award winning…
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Today we're joined by Stephen Cox, the author of the science-fiction drama Our Child Of The Stars, and the newly-published sequel, Our Child Of Two Worlds, both published by Jo Fletcher Books. Stephen dives with us into Fritz Leiber's swords-and-sorcery classic, Swords And Deviltry, which introduces two of fantasy's greatest heroes, the barbarian F…
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For this episode we're joined by Richard Sheppard, host of The Constant Reader Podcast, which takes a deep dive into all things Stephen King, from his numerous novels to the equally numerous movie and TV adaptations of his work. Richard talks with us about John Landis's seminal 1981 film An American Werewolf in London, a horror comedy that is funny…
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We're joined on this episode by Jo Zebedee, author of several novels, including the Abendau space opera trilogy, the dystopian Inish Carraig and the Irish fantasy Waters And The Wild. Jo talks to us about Klara And The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's 2020 novel about a sickly young girl who purchases a robotic "Artificial Friend" called Klara. Klara sets abo…
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We were joined on this episode by Stephen Palmer, author of several genre novels including Memory Seed, Tommy Catkins, The Girl With Two Souls, and many more. His latest novel, Monique Orphan, was published in November 2021 by Infinite Press. Stephen spoke with us about Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. We discussed the novel's call to action on th…
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Dan Jones and Chris Bean introduce Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science fiction & fantasy (and horror!) community, with over 20,000 members and growing. In episode 0, we give an overview of season 1, outlining what people can expect from Chronscast, why we're doing it, and how it links back to SFF Chronicl…
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