We’re delighted to have contemporary fantasy author K.M. (aka Kessie) Carroll on our show this week! After we discuss the heat in Arizona (where Kessie lives), and Aaron gives Liberty a really hard time, we actually get down to the business of the day.10635985_758640150860816_7609897098840956548_n

In Episode 31

  • The Spacetime Legacy, Kessie’s urban fantasy series, and her wish to see it in a Manga form.
  • The origins of her series
  • Sacrificial cars
  • Superstition Mountains (super creepy stories!)
  • Arizona Vortexes (No,  not that kind…)
  • Classic Batman show from the 1960s…and her kids’ likely reaction to watching the show. (Hilarity ensues.)
  • Kessie’s Doctor (Who)
  • Writing with 5 kids (great advice for ALL of us parents.)
  • Scrivener for iOS (Which should be out by the time you can hear this! Yay!)
  • Discussing Jim Butcher (some of it got cut…if our listeners could be flies on the walls during our intermissions!)

5128npogaulIn Episode 32

  • Overly suggestive book titles for outlining (Take Off Your Pants)
  • Dealing with writer’s block, and why it may be happening.
  • Kessie’s ideal Chai latte, as well as hot chocolate
  • How a city might respond to a zombie apocalypse.
  • E-Reader News Today & Pixel of Ink going belly up. 🙁
  • A very unusual answer to our fandom question. 🙂
  • When readers read into your books deeper than you intended. Lots of funnies.
  • You’re allowed to write crap, just keep writing.

 

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