Looking for a bit of listening for the weekend? Then I have just the thing for you. Head on over to Speculate, where Greg and I recently sat down with Wheel of Time author, Brandon Sanderson. This is one of our longer interviews, but when you have someone who can talk so easily and interestingly [...]
I first met Eugene (E.C.) Myers at Starry Heaven, a peer-to-peer novel writing workshop. I was introduced to an as-yet-unpublished novel, but I have to say, I was smitten by his work. As I mention below, I think Eugene really nails the feeling that kids have in that age, that age where you’re still [...]
Greg and I were lucky enough have a virtual sit down with Todd Lockwood, the artist who created the gorgeous cover art for my second book, The Straits of Galahesh. We talked about a range of topics, from his creative process, being known as “the dragon guy,” and his painting of Stephen Colbert as a paladin. [...]
Friend and fellow writer, Paul Genesse, has just released the third book in his Iron Dragon Series. Paul and I “came up” together as writers. Both of us attended the GenCon Writers Symposium for a number of years and struck up a friendship there, and it’s been cool as both of us leveled up and [...]
Stefan Raets was kind enough to invite Steve and I over to his brand new review site, Far Beyond Reality, to talk about Strata, how we collaborated, and why we decided against publishing through traditional channels. It was a fun back-and-forth interview. It was interesting for me to not only share some of my own [...]
This week on Speculate, Greg and I discuss Mark Hodder’s The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, a wonderfully inventive stempunk novel that’s surprisingly well grounded in history. Stay tuned for our next episode, when we speak to the man himself. Our interview with Mark Hodder should be up on Speculate within a week. As [...]
Over at Speculate, Greg and I interview mountain climber, figure skater and (of course) fantasy author Courtney Schafer, who somehow finds time between climbing sheer rock faces, landing triple jumps, working a day job in electrical engineering and raising a son to write epic fantasy—including her debut from Night Shade Books, The Whitefire Crossing. We even talk a [...]
I interviewed Michael Swanwick a while back for his 2011 release of Dancing with Bears. The interview was done for the Night Shade newsletter, but they’ve kindly shared it with SFSignal. Michael was a wonderful interviewee, and he opened up on his thoughts about Russia, his post-utopian novel, and the type of writer he is. [...]
Last week, Justin Landon over at A Staffer’s Musings, reviewed The Winds of Khalakovo, and shortly after, he asked if I’d like to do an interview with him. I said sure. My blog title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the questions were definitely challenging. We talked about the themes in Winds and where they came [...]
Over at Speculate, Greg and I talk with artist Mark Winters. Mark is a wonderful artist that I came across at GenCon this past August. I bought a few of his pieces and thought it would be nice to talk to him about his process. It was fun talking to Mark, because, well, artistic types [...]
Now live on Speculate is our 29th episode (wow, 29 episodes already!), where Greg and I hash over writing technique based on our read of Night Shade’s recent The Book of Cthulhu anthology. This was a fun episode to tape, as Greg and I got to digest not just the stories that we read, but [...]
The Qwillery is having a debut author challenge this year, and they graciously invited me over to participate. The interview I did with them just went live. Here’s a brief excerpt from the interview: TQ: Without giving anything away, what is/are your favorite scene(s) in The Winds of Khalakovo? Bradley: I’ll give the fan favorite and [...]
At WorldCon in Reno (still twitching from the lights and bings and pops on the casino floors), Greg Wilson and I sat down to talk with Patrick Rothfuss about the writing life, language, and poetic magic. I tried to leg wrestle Greg for this one too (see note on our previous epic match over our [...]
Recently, Fantasy Book Critic's Robert Thompson pinged me, as well as Courtney Schafer, Teresa Frohock, and Stina Leicht, about a group interview. He'd read a dozen or so debuts this year and a full four of them were from Night Shade, and he thought it would be a cool idea to conduct a joint interview with [...]
Several weeks back at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Greg Wilson and I interviewed several of the Writers Symposium authors and editors for Speculate. This was one of the more fun parts of the convention for me, because, well, it's fun talking shop. While we were there, Greg managed to snag an interview with Ed Greenwood, [...]
I've been rather remiss in not posting my thoughts about the Wellspring Writing Workshop that I organized and ran with ten lovely writers in Lake Geneva this past June. I did post a fair bit about it before the workshop, though, including a podcast with Greg Wilson over at our podcast site, Speculate. Plus, I knew [...]
A few weeks back I taped an interview with Mike and Mike (that would be Stackpole and Mennenga) over at the Dragon Page, and it just went live. In the interview I talk about the Russian and Persian influences of The Winds of Khalakovo, and how those informed the development of character and cultural traits [...]
In which we talk about the creative process. John is the author of Servant of a Dark God. He also gives talks on the creative writing process. You can tell in his interviews, because he spends a good bit of time on the process, and his back-and-forth style of questioning make for interesting interviews, not [...]
When I was but a fledgling, I was unable (or perhaps unwilling) to find a local writing group. I was traveling for work a lot, and I didn't really think that sort of thing would work for me. Plus, I'll admit that the idea of receiving feedback face-to-face scared the bejeezus out of me. So [...]
This is just a teaser, folks, sorry. But I wanted to start spreading the news as it wasn't on our list of scheduled podcasts. Greg Wilson and I interviewed Pat Rothfuss this past week for our podcast site, Speculate. It was really a lot of fun. If you've ever spoken to Pat, you know he's full of [...]
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