A podcast by three fantasy authors who love to overcomplicate their writing lives and want to help you do the same.
Episodes
Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020
1hr 2 min
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!
Feb 19, 2020
Feb 19, 2020
1hr 1 min
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!!
Feb 5, 2020
Feb 5, 2020
1hr 3 min
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!!
Jan 22, 2020
Jan 22, 2020
1hr 1 min
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.
Jan 8, 2020
Jan 8, 2020
55 min
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!
Dec 25, 2019
Dec 25, 2019
58 min
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!
Dec 11, 2019
Dec 11, 2019
58 min
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!
Nov 27, 2019
Nov 27, 2019
1hr 3 min
We're joined this week by glamorous guest star Cass Morris, Shakespeare scholar and author of FROM UNSEEN FIRE, to talk about art and pop-culture in fantasy worldbuilding!
The transcript for this episode is here. Thank you to our excellent scribes!
Nov 13, 2019
Nov 13, 2019
57 min
Rowenna and Alex are going a bit feral this week to talk about fiber arts! Marshall Ryan Maresca asks some good smart questions!
The transcript for this episode is available here. Huge thanks to our scribes!!!
Oct 30, 2019
Oct 30, 2019
1hr 57 sec
On this very spooky episode of WFM, we're discussing the customs and practices surrounding death!
The transcript of this episode is available here. (HUGE THANKS to our wonderful scribes!!!)