Posted in Podcast on May 31st, 2009
Our recent and frequent guest, Philippa Ballantine, has just won New Zealand’s highest award for speculative fiction: the Sir Julius Vogel award! Our warmest congradulations to her! Send her email at pip@pjballantine.com and tell her how pleased you are for her!
The Uber Nemisis (He Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned In Conjunction With Pip, [...]
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Posted in Promotion on May 29th, 2009
Last year, author David Williams published his breakout science fiction thriller “The Mirrored Heavens,” a novel Steven Baxter said was Tom Clancy meeting Bruce Sterling. Now that story continues in William’s latest novel, “The Burning Skies.” The life that U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew is in tatters. Her mission was betrayed, her lover [...]
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Posted in Interview, Podcast on May 29th, 2009
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This is a panel that PG was part of at this year’s Balticon about creating serialized fiction. The panel was hosted by Evo Terra, and along with PG there was Nathan Lowell, Christiana Ellis, and Kimi Alexandre. Enjoy!
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Posted in Promotion on May 28th, 2009
Hey everybody, this is Justin. Listen, I know every week or so we mention that we would like for more reviews in iTunes, but I thought I’d go the extra mile and post a link here that anyone who uses iTunes could click on. It would only take a minute of your time, and it [...]
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Posted in Podcast on May 27th, 2009
Since we’re not directly recording this week …
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(this week’s word count).
End communication.
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Posted in Podcast on May 26th, 2009
Hey, everybody, Justin here. A minor medical emergency crept up this week causing us to delay this week’s episode until next week. But, PG was at BaltiCon last week, and he said he has some great panels recordings that he will try to get in your hands as soon as possible. Once we have them [...]
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Posted in Podcast on May 26th, 2009
I don’t know what episode we’re coming up on, but I’ve done them all with this piece-of-poop headset microphone. Yeah, I said it: poop. Pooptacular, even. It sounded like I was recording while leaning my head out the window of a 60’s Mustang, driving full bore across the great Canadian west. Windy. Maybe not so [...]
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Posted in Interview, Podcast on May 19th, 2009
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This week the Dead Robots add extra chairs to the table to fit all the guests, and then lower the lights, all the better to discuss writing erotica. Terry worked hard to bring together a list of speakers both long and distinguished – Nick Scipio, Helen Madden, Nobilis, and Philippa Ballantine. [...]
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Posted in Site News on May 17th, 2009
Hey, everbody, I wanted to let you know that we’ve had to get a new voice mail number. We use a free service, but it requires the line to actually be used every once in awhile, and sadly we don’t get enough calls to qualify for that. Subsequently, our old number was deactivated. But, I [...]
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Posted in Interview, Podcast on May 13th, 2009
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This week the Dead Robots (sans PG) settle in with podcaster Kimi Alexandre to chat with her about her upcoming podcast story “Guardians” while also delving into some audio production shop talk. We also discuss the genre of urban fantasy, as well as which authors are worth checking out. And then, just [...]
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