A podcast by three fantasy authors who love to overcomplicate their writing lives and want to help you do the same.
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
We've finally done it--we're talking about food! Buffets of food description are a fantasy trope, but why is food so important to worldbuilding, anyway?
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Bodies may not be technically required in fantasy, but most of our characters have 'em...what medicine and concept of physical health and self do they have?
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
On this week's episode we're joined by the fabulous romance author Cat Sebastian while we do some SEXY worldbuilding. With, like, slow jazz and shit. Saxophones. Rose petals on the bed. The whole thing. Get cozy!
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
On today's episode, we're doing a deep-dive and building up that Thirteen Families culture that we mentioned a little while back! From the ground up, here we go!
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
On this week's episode, we're talking about the wonders of the world, both natural and man-made, and how they can enrich your settings!
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thank you to our wonderful scribes!!
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
This week, we're joined by S.A. Chakraborty, author of the Daevabad trilogy (The City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copper and, forthcoming, The Empire of Gold) while we talk about the loooooong game: Not just recent local history, but thousands or tens of thousands of years of world history.
The transcript for this episode is available here. Throw a bouquet of roses to your local scribes!!
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
On this week's episode, we're talking politics. Yeah, yeah, we know, but we're gonna try to make it fun. Like, why does fantasy fixate so hard on monarchies, anyway??
The transcript of this episode is available here.
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Listeners have sent us questions, and we spend the episode answering them, and each of these questions was juicy enough to make a whole episode out of alone. So you get to hear random morsels of joy that you would only get with a Listener Questions: about travelogue plots and caraco jackets and crownball, whatever that is.
Transcript for the episode is here. Thank you to our wonderful scribes!
Wednesday Dec 25, 2019
Wednesday Dec 25, 2019
Happy Holidays, dear listeners! This week, we're talking about worldbuilding holidays, and we giggle pretty much the entire time!
Transcript is available here. Blessings upon the heads of our wonderful scribes!
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
On this week's episode, we're joined by our glamorous guest, Tasha Suri, author of EMPIRE OF SAND and REALM OF ASH to talk about worldbuilding religions!