The Once & Future Podcast
Bringing you the science fiction and fantasy books that you want to read
I’m Anton Strout, your host and curator of curious content for this grand endeavor where I’ll be talking as a working author to other working authors about writing, careers, and generally geekery. You can find more general information about the show HERE.
Click on the name of the author below whose interview you want to hear:
Ann Aguirre,Saladin Ahmed, Bradley Beaulieu, Amber Benson 1, Amber Benson 2, Book Country, Patricia Briggs, Maurice Broaddus, Matthew Cody, Myke Cole, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Lucienne Diver, Christopher Farnsworth, Laura Anne Gilman, Lev Grossman, Charlaine Harris, Haunted Halloween Special, Kevin Hearne, Jim C. Hines, Justin Gustainis, Jackie Kessler, E. E. Knight, J. F. Lewis, Colleen Lindsay, Drew Magary, Ari Marmell, Kelly McCullough, Kelly Meding, NYCC Demonic Hotspots Panel, Allison Pang, Pat Rothfuss Worldbuilders Charity, Pat Rothfuss Interview, Diana Rowland, Kevin Shinick, Jeanne Stein, Carolyn Turgeon, and Jaye Wells.
If you like the show and want to support it, please feel free to make a donation which will go towards equipment upgrades and keeping the program commercial free.
O&F Podcast, Ep. 32: Ann Aguirre
This week I talk with Ann Aguirre, author of
romantic science fiction (in her Sirantha Jax series), urban fantasy (with her
Corine Solomon series), dystopian YA (with the Razorland trilogy), the Dread Queen series, steampunk, and the
Beauty trilogy. She also writes as Ellen
Connor and Ava Gray. Hell, I’m beginning to suspect that she may even write books under the name Anton Strout, for all I know! We’ll get to the bottom of all of this and talk WAY too much about video games and my previous life as a lady T’wilek dancer in the Star Wars universe!
Played: 105 | Download | Duration: 01:06:38
O&F Podcast, Ep. 31: Keith R. A. DeCandido
If you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Farscape, Firefly, Doctor Who, D&D and Star Trek, you NEED to listen to this week’s show as I talk with author Keith R.A. DeCandido, who’s written for them all, as well as his own fantasy and scifi books. Plus I discuss what a great week it was to be a geek. So come on in… the geekery’s fine!
Played: 138 | Download | Duration: 01:05:24
O&F Podcast, Ep. 30: Justin Gustainis
This week we talk with Justin Gustainis, author of the Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation series: Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways, & Sympathy for the Devil as well as Hard Spell, the first book in his Occult Crime Unit Investigation series, with its second book, Evil Dark, just hitting shelves now.
Played: 130 | Download | Duration: 00:53:30
O&F Podcast, Ep. 29: Kevin Hearne
This week we talk with Kevin Hearne, author of
The Iron Druid Chronicles, the latest book, book four, Tricked out this very week.
We discuss why everyone hates Thor, how you haven’t really lived until you’ve
turned into a wolf, his 19 year over night success, the warm fuzzy spot in his
heart for Swedish metal, and an amazing sounding charity book he’s contributing
to along with a host of other awesome authors.Played: 227 | Download | Duration: 00:57:43
O&F Podcast, Ep. 28: Kevin Shinick
This week we talk with Kevin Shinick, the Emmy Award winning
writer and producer of Cartoon Network’s MAD,
who is also known as the Creative Director, writer and voice actor of Adult
Swim’s animated sketch show, Robot Chicken. We’ll discuss how he got those gigs, hosting
PBS’ Where In Time Is Carmen San Diego?, his Radio City Music Hall production
of Spider-man, his upcoming comic book work on The Avenging Spider-man, and his many visits to Skywalker
Ranch. Thanks to my clever audio
engineering, I’ve removed most of the jealousy from my voice throughout the
interviewing.
Played: 139 | Download | Duration: 01:02:29
O&F Podcast, Ep. 27: Christopher Farnsworth
This week we talk with paranormal
spy thriller author Christopher Farnsworth about his Nathaniel Cade series (Blood
Oath, The President’s Vampire and Red,
White and Blood) including a hardcover giveaway of your choice of them! We also talk about what a sneaky bastard he
is, our bad first novels, setting the paranormal mixed with the real world, why
I need to watch Justified, comics, and learning to let our geek flag fly
(Hint: we both got published when we
embraced what we loved)
Played: 155 | Download | Duration: 00:57:05
O&F Podcast, Ep. 26: Bradley Beaulieu
This week we talk with epic fantasist Bradley
Beaulieu about his The Lays of Anuskaya series from Night Shade books, our glory
days at Gen Con, some gaming—surprising right?, and more than usual about
writing. He’s got a lot of smart advice
for writers out there, stuff I’m sure readers will be curious to hear about
too!Played: 172 | Download | Duration: 00:56:24
O&F Podcast, Ep. 25: Carolyn Turgeon
This week we talk with magical realism author Carolyn
Turgeon about being heir apparent to the Gregory MacGuire throne, her badge of
honor as a founding member of the Dorks of the Round Table, the movie
development progress of her book Mermaid, as well as discuss her new young
adult The Next Full Moon. PLUS a chance to win one of her books!Played: 139 | Download | Duration: 00:54:04
O&F Podcast, Ep. 24: Patricia Briggs
This week we talk with New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs, whose new book Fair Game, the third in her Alpha and Omega series, is out this week. We talk about writing, sort out all of her ongoing series, which ones are intermingled, graphic novels, and how she both saved my life and then tried to take it… twice! PLUS a chance to win one of her books!
Played: 267 | Download | Duration: 01:08:40
