Stay ConnectedPage Break is a collection of casual conversations between epic fantasy author Brian McClellan and fellow creative professionals—like two friends sitting down over lunch to discuss career, craft, family, and hobbies. Authorhood is a quiet sort of minor fame where the person behind the words is often obscured by the works they’ve created. Brian aims to use this podcast to find out more about his friends and colleagues.
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Brian’s guest is bestselling romantic fantasy author Charlie N Holmberg. Her books include the Paper Magician, Smoke and Summons, Spellbreaker, the Will and the Wilds, and the upcoming Star Mother. In addition to her full time job as a writer she dabbles in music and podcasting. She’s been published in over twenty languages and has hit the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.
Their conversational chatter ranges all over, starting with Charlie’s interest in music and her best awful band jokes, to dealing with bad reviews, working for Amazon’s publishing imprint, and rude panelists. Brian and Charlie also talk briefly about living in the shadow of their mutual writing teacher, Brandon Sanderson.
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Brian’s guest is science fiction author Wesley Chu. Wes is the author of the Lives of Tao and Time Salvager. In addition to his own work, he’s written tie-in fiction for both the Walking Dead and Cassandra Claire’s Mortal Instruments. Wes and Brian have been friends since their debut novels came out in the same month back in 2013, and they dive right in to talk about their respective careers and lurking professional anxieties. They also cover tie-in writing, intellectual property, and the holy grail of novel writing: the coveted TV and film deals.
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Brian's guest is epic fantasy author Peter V Brett. Pete is the creator of the best-selling Demon Cycle, a five-book series he finished in 2017. The first book in a new series set in the same world is coming in August 2021, just two months from this recording. Brian and Pete talk about Pete's love of comics, his background in pharmaceutical marketing, fan art, and writing at length in a single universe.
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Brian's guest is podcaster, host, and all around media personality, Veronica Belmont. Reading listeners will know Veronica from her from her book club podcasts Sword and Laser and Vaginal Fantasy, while the more tech savvy will know her as the speaker, host, and presenter of a number of shows for CNET, Gizmodo, Sony, and more. Brian spoke with Veronica about her career, her love of books, emotional burnout, motherhood, and of course the pandemic.
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Brian's first guest is writer and producer Joseph Mallozzi. Joe is known for his long stint with Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate Universe, as well as Dark Matter and Utopia Falls. Joe is also working with the production company that purchased the Powder Mage TV rights and he gives us a little insight into what that process looks like. Joe and Brian also talk about his start in children’s TV, navigating creative control inside Hollywood, and what it’s like to write collaboratively for the small screen.
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Find Brian at his website, on Twitter and Instagram, or find his books on Amazon.
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Fantasy author Brian McClellan is launching a podcast! Join him June 22nd, 2021 as he begins a series of casual conversations between himself and fellow creative professionals.
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