Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast

With me today to read the novelette category for the Nebulas are Allen Dyen-Shapiro, Leigh Harlen, and Brent Lambert. Allan Dyen-Shapiro is a Ph.D. biochemist who enjoyed a 19-year research career. He now teaches in high-poverty schools in Southwest Florida and recently ramped up his union activism. He's sold short fiction to venues including Dark Matter Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, and numerous anthologies and co-edited an anthology of speculative fiction set in the Middle East. He's a member of SFWA and Codex and blogs at allandyenshapiro.com, where you'll also find links to his stories. Leigh Harlen is a queer, non-binary writer of dark leaning speculative fiction who lives and works in Seattle alongside their partner and dog. They are the author of Queens of Noise, Blood Like Garnets, A Feast For Flies, and several short stories. Their non-writing hobbies include petting strangers’ dogs, crocheting, and enthusing about how awesome bats are. Follow them on Twitter @LeighHarlen or better yet, Bluesky @leighharlen.bsky.social for updates on future publications. Brent Lambert is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the transformative power of speculative fiction across media formats. As a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, he turned that belief into action and became part of a Hugo Award winning team. He resides in San Diego but spent a lot of time moving around as a military brat. His family roots are in the Cajun country of Louisiana.Stories in this episode:"A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair", Renan Bernardo (Samovar 2/23)I Am AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave) "The Year Without Sunshine", Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23) "Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon", Angela Liu (Clarkesworld 6/23) "Saturday’s Song", Wole Talabi (Lightspeed 5/23) "Six Versions of My Brother Found Under the Bridge", Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello and welcome to Shining Moon, Episode 40. With me today are A.P. Howell, Sam W. Pisciotta, A.T. Sayre, and Risa Wolf. The voting for the Nebulas has just concluded, and we’re here to talk about the contenders on the ballot before the winners are revealed. Let’s get started with some introductions!A. P. Howell  For information on published works, links to social media accounts, and similar things, visit her website aphowell.com Sam W. Pisciotta  Connect with him at www.silo34.com and @silo34 on X and Instagram. A.T. Sayre His first short story collection, Signals in The Static, comes out May 20th from Lethe Press.  Pre-order link: https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p713/static.htmlRisa Wolf  Visit them at killerpuppytails.com.Stories discussed:"Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont", P.A. Cornell (Fantasy 10/23)  "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200", R.S.A Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23) "Window Boy", Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23) "The Sound of Children Screaming", Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23) "Better Living Through Algorithms", Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 5/23) "Bad Doors", John Wiswell (Uncanny 1-2/23) "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Zach Welhouse is a librarian and game designer who lives in the Pacific Northwest. He enjoys hot drinks and meeting dogs who look like goblins. His work has appeared in the Costume Fairy Adventures and Deadlands RPGs, and Strange Beast: A Tarot Zine. Cerebos: The Crystal City, a game about crossing a surreal desert by train, is available through Penguin King Games on itch.io and Drivethru RPG Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her fiction has appeared in Nightscript 6 and Cellar Door from Dark Peninsula Press. You can read some of her poetry in Vastarien, Utopia Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. Her first chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is available from The Quarter Press.  Cerberos is a fascinating game. The premise is simple; the execution is complex. The premise? That you’ve boarded a train for the Crystal City of Cerebos. But you can choose your journey’s tone right from the start—it might be a folk horror setting, it might be fairy tale, it might be science fiction. . . and then you’re rolling on tables for cards that detail the complications that ensue on the train, the strangeness of the stops along the route, and so on. Halfway through your journey, the game changes; one of the characters becomes the Protagonist, and the other characters become advisors who encourage them to either put aside the past and embrace the future, or embrace the past more fully. There’s a huge psychological element to play—if you want there to be, anyway. Some people might play it solely as an adventure, and that’s another entirely correct way to play."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 38.  Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about writing games, particularly roleplaying games. This is a subject dear to my heart, because I’ve spent twenty years of my life playing RPGs, mostly in written form, in play-by-post games. I am a big proponent of how they help to develop writers’ skills at worldbuilding, characterization, and plot. My guests today are Marsh Davies and Jim Rossignol of the game Teeth! Marsh Davies is a writer and illustrator who has worked in games for the better part of twenty years, first as a journalist, then as an artist and indie developer. He joined Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, as the head of creative writing, before returning to the indie scene as a narrative designer and co-authoring a collection of grotesque tabletop roleplaying games with Jim. Jim Rossignol is a writer and game designer. In the first part of his career he was best known for games-related journalism, in which he founded the PC gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Later he moved into game development, producing digital games such as Sir, You Are Being Hunted and more recently moving into tabletop games with the RPG TEETH. "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Daniel Ausema is an educator and stay-at-home dad. His poems have appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares, and many other places and have been nominated for the Rhysling Award. He is also the author of the Arcist Chronicles and the creator of the Spire City series, as well as the writer of many short stories, roughly a hundred of which have been published in places like Diabolical Plots and Strange Horizons. He lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rockies and can be found online at danielausema.com.Brian U. Garrison (he/him) catches new, old, and otherworldly jazz from the radio station KMHD in Portland, Oregon. His poetry has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, Dreams & Nightmares, and elsewhere. His chapbook Micropoetry for Microplanets (Space Cowboy Books) celebrates the smallish to medium rocks that circle our sun. He serves as Managing Editor for Eye to the Telescope. Find him online at www.bugthewriter.comD.A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals, reappearing in Hawai’i, NY, various parts of Asia and elsewhere. Her work appears in Clarkesworld, Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons and Uncanny. She’s conducted NSF-funded research in anthropology, specializing in food, environmental issues, agriculture and technology. Each of her ten fingers is equipped with a monkey and a typewriter. Through the clamoring of these near-dozen simians and some strange wondrous convergence in the universe, poetic things arise. Bogi Takács (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) is a Hungarian Jewish  author, editor, critic and scholar who's an immigrant to the US. Bogi  has won the Lambda and Hugo awards, and has been a finalist for other  awards. Eir debut poetry collection Algorithmic Shapeshifting and eir  debut short story collection The Trans Space Octopus Congregation were  both released in 2019, and eir second short story collection Power to  Yield and Other Stories came out just now. You can find Bogi on various  social media as bogiperson."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Welcome to Shining Moon Episode 36, Writing Real World Religions. Priya Chand is a California transplant living in the Midwest, where she regularly cuts down trees and sets them on fire (as a certified volunteer forest steward). When she's not reading, writing, or eating, she enjoys swimming, martial arts, and naps. Her current big project is co-editing Reckoning 9. Find her at priyachandwrites.wordpress.comR. K. Duncan is a fat queer polyamorous wizard and author of fantasy, horror, and occasional sci-fi. He writes from a few rooms of a venerable West Philadelphia row home, where he dreams of travel and the demise of capitalism. His other full-time job is keeping house for himself and his live-in partner. Before settling on writing, he studied linguistics and philosophy at Haverford college. He attended Viable Paradise 23 in 2019. His occasional musings and links to other work can be found at rkduncan-author.com Zohar Jacobs is a Jewish writer who grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in Oxford. She has a PhD in Modern History from the University of Oxford and works in cultural policy. A graduate of Viable Paradise, she has work published or forthcoming in the Sunday Morning Transport, Asimov's, Analog and Clarkesworld. You can find her on Twitter @zoharjacobsStories in this episode:Priya Chand“Optimizing the Path to Enlightenment,” June 2020, Clarkesworld. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chand_06_20/ “Demeter Seeks Persephone in the year 2210.” Little Blue Marble, 2022. https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/07/29/demeter-seeks-persephone-in-the-year-2210/Robin Duncan“A Circle of Steel and Bone,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, December 2018  https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-circle-of-steel-and-bone/“Nemesis and the Sorcerer,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2021. https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/nemesis-and-the-sorcerer/Zohar Jacobs“The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin,” Clarkesworld, February 2024: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jacobs_02_24/“For Out of Tai Shan the Torah Shall Go Forth,” Sunday Morning Transport, March 2024.   https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/for-out-of-tai-shan-the-torah-shallDavid Ebenbach “The Moon Rabbi,” Clarkesworld June 2023. https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ebenbach_06_23/"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Samantha Mills is a Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning author from Southern California. You can find her short fiction in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and others, as well as the best-of anthologies The New Voices of Science Fiction and The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2023. Her debut novel, The Wings Upon Her Back is coming out in April 2024 through Tachyon Publications. You can find more at www.samtasticbooks.com.Risa Wolf is a multi-gendered water elemental disguised as an ink-stained lycanthrope. They come from the Burned-Over District in upstate New York and they imagine houses for book-ghosts for a living. Their writing can be found in Apex, Clarkesworld, and Diabolical Plots, among others. Visit them at killerpuppytails.com.Stories and Novels in this Episode:Samantha MillsThe Wings Upon Her Back, Tachyon Press, April 2024Risa Wolf"The First Promise We Break" (https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-first-promise-we-break/ "Delicate Situations" in the anthology 99 Fleeting Fantasies. https://www.amazon.com/99-Fleeting-Fantasies-Fantasy-Anthology/dp/1950701077 "The View," https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds-1-the-view-risa-wolf/Sarah Jackson Great Mother Broth https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2023/02/15/great-mother-broth-by-sarah-jackson/ "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 34, Writing Media Tie-Ins.  With me today are Marie Brennan, Kate Heartfield, and Caitlin J. Starling. Let’s get started with some introductions!Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly leans on her academic fields for inspiration. In addition to her tie-in work for Legend of the Five Rings, she is the author of more than twenty novels, more than eighty short stories, and a grand total of three poems. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy.Kate Heartfield’s latest novel, The Valkyrie, is a retelling of old legends. Her novel The Embroidered Book was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate has written two Assassin’s Creed novels: The Magus Conspiracy and The Resurrection Plot. Her novels, novellas, short stories and games have won or been shortlisted for several major awards, including the Nebula, Aurora and World Fantasy awards. She is a former journalist who lives near Ottawa, Canada.Caitlin Starling is the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence, Last to Leave the Room, and the Bram Stoker-nominated The Luminous Dead. Her other works include Yellow Jessamine and a Vampire: The Masquerade novella, The Land of Milk and Honey (published in the collection Walk Among Us). Her nonfiction has appeared in Nightmare, Uncanny, and Tor Nightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Epsidoe 33: Food and Foodways in Fiction. With me today are Beth Cato, P.A. Cornell, Amelia Gorman, Nibedita Sen, and D.A. Xiaolin Spires. Let’s get started with some introductions!Nebula Award-nominated Beth Cato is the author of A THOUSAND RECIPES FOR REVENGE and A FEAST FOR STARVING STONE from 47North. Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.P.A. Cornell is an award-winning Chilean-Canadian author who has published over thirty original pieces of short fiction in magazines like, Lightspeed, Apex, and Fantasy. For more on the author and her work, visit pacornell.com.Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her first chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is available from The Quarter Press.Nibedita Sen is a Hugo, Nebula, and Ignyte Award-nominated queer Bengali writer from Calcutta, and a graduate of Clarion West 2015 whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Uncanny, Podcastle, Nightmare and Fireside. She accumulated a number of English degrees in India before deciding she wanted another in creative writing, and that she was going to move halfway across the world for it.D.A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals, reappearing in Hawai’i, NY, various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached. Her work appears in Clarkesworld, Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, Uncanny and elsewhere. Stories in this episode:Beth Cato"The Recipe Keeper" https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-recipe-keeper/ “How to Creatively Host Cheese Parties During and After the Apocalypse" https://hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-10-fall-2022/ Issue 10, Fall 2022 PA Cornell“How to Impress a Top Food Critic and Put your Restaurant on the Galactic Map,” Drabblecast, September 2022. https://www.drabblecast.org/2022/09/29/drabblecast-461-how-to-impress-a-top-food-critic-and-put-your-restaurant-on-the-galactic-map/ Amelia Gorman"She Makes the Deep Boil" appeared in the Sharp & Sugar Tooth anthology  from Upper Rubber Boot Books."The Lure Courses" from Zoetic Press's Heathentide Orphans collection.Nibedita Sen“Advice for Your First Time at the Faerie Market,” Fireside 2019. https://firesidefiction.com/advice-for-your-first-time-at-the-faerie-market“Never Yawn Under a Banyan Tree,” Anathema Magazine, 2017. http://www.anathemamag.com/never-yawn-under-a-banyan-treeD.A. Xiaolin Spires"Last Wishes" in Clarkesworld, October 2020. "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

 Bendi Barrett is a queer Black creator of speculative work in both fiction and interactive game narratives. His debut novella, Empire of the Feast, was a 2023 Ignyte award finalist for Best Novella. His work has appeared in Baffling Mag, PANK magazine, and several anthologies including the BSFA awards long-listed Luminescent Machinations. He also writes erotic fiction and games under the pen name Benji Bright. Nonetheless, his mother has implied she is very proud of him. |  Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist with five patents and a background in AI and Internet R&D. He has published over 50 short stories in such magazines as Nature, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His noir urban fantasy novella series consisting of The Demons of Wall Street, The Demons of the Square Mile, and The Demons of Chiyoda has just added a new volume, The Demons of Montmartre, while his standalone novel The World's Shattered Shell has also recently been published.  P.A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian graduate of the Odyssey workshop who has published over thirty original pieces of short fiction in respected genre magazines including, Lightspeed, Apex, and Fantasy. Her work has also appeared in over twenty anthologies, including Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 1, which also listed her debut science fiction novella, Lost Cargo, as one of the best of 2022. Her story, “Splits,” went on to win Canada’s 2022 Short Works Prize and most recently she was long-listed for the BSFA Awards for her story, “Things Most Meaningful.” When not writing, Cornell can be found assembling intricate Lego builds or drinking ridiculous quantities of tea. Sometimes both. For more on the author and her work, visit her website pacornell.com. Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. She is the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com. Stories in this episode:Bendi Barrett, Empire of the Feast, Neon Hemlock Press, 2023. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/empire-of-the-feast  Laurence Raphael Brothers, Pâtissier et Étranger, Brigid’s Gate Press, pending publication.P.A. Cornell, Lost Cargo Mocha Memoirs Press 2022.  https://mochamemoirspress.com/product/lost-cargo/Premee Mohamed THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST, Tordotcom Feb 27, 2024. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250881786/thebutcheroftheforest "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 31, Non-Western Fantasy! With me today are Tina Zhu, Osahon Ize-iyamu, and Liza Wemakor. Let’s get started with some introductions!We had some audio problems with Osahon's feed in places. Please be patient with the technology. Osahon Ize-Iyamu is a Nigerian writer of speculative fiction. A graduate of the Alpha and Clarion Writers Workshop, he has been published in magazines like Clarkesworld, Nightmare, The Rumpus, and Strange Horizons. You can find him online @osahon4545.Liza Wemakor is a writer and a Ph.D. student in UC Riverside's English Department. She writes and studies speculative fiction and Black American literature. Her writing has been published in Strange Horizons, Anathema Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Prismatica Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a member of the 2023 Clarion West Writers' Workshop cohort, and her debut novella (Loving Safoa) was published in February 2024.Tina S. Zhu was born in a suburb outside Tokyo to Chinese parents and mostly raised in a rotating cast of small American towns. She is currently based in New York City, where she writes from her kitchen table. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Lightspeed, Fireside, and other places. She also reviews books for Strange Horizons. You can find her at tinaszhu.com. Stories in this episode:Osahon Ize-Iyamu Last ritual of the smoke eaters Lightspeed, November 2023. Tina Zhu"One for Sorrow, Two for Mirth."  This was published as part of Strange Horizons' Wuxia and Xianxia special issue.   Liza Wemakor“Loving Safoa,” Neon Hemlock, 2024. Nghi Vo"Boiled Bones and Black Eggs" Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #275, April 11, 2019 "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Tara Campbell :  www.taracampbell.com.Kat Day writes regular flash for her blog, thefictionphial.wordpress.com.     Lindz McLeod: https://lindzmcleod.co.uk/ Suzan Palumbo:  suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com.  Sam W. Pisciotta:  www.silo34.com or @Silo34 on X and Instagram.Stories on this episodeTara Campbell“Spencer,” Speculative City #7. https://speculativecity.com/fiction/spencer/“Sasabonsam,” Strange Horizons, December 11, 2017  http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/sasabonsam/ Kat Day“When I Was Young, I Did Not Need Magic,”  PseudoPod 832 October 14, 2022 https://pseudopod.org/2022/10/14/pseudopod-832-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxiii-respect-your-elders/Lindz McLeod'Sunbathers', Cosmic Horror Monthly. Suzan Palumbo“Douen” -- https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/douen/  and https://pseudopod.org/2023/12/09/pseudopod-896-douen/ Sam W. Pisciotta“Words for the Dead,” Spirits and Ghouls Flametree Anthology.  “Blue Line on a Winter’s Night,” Factor Four, https://factorfourmag.com/blue-line-on-a-winters-night-by-sam-w-pisciotta/ J.S. Breukelaar  “Auscultation” in The Dark. https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/auscultation/ "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Note: There are some audio problems in this episode that I have been unable to correct. My apologies. David Anaxagoras is a writer and former teacher from southern California. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed and The Dread Machine. He is the creator and co-executive producer of the Amazon series Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, for which he received a WGA Award nomination. He currently lives in Texas (but not on purpose) where he's at work on his second middle-grade novel. Visit his website at davidanaxagoras.com.Alicia Hilton is an author, editor, arbitrator, professor, and former FBI Special Agent. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Creepy Podcast, Lovecraftiana, Neon, Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere. Her website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01 and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alicia.hilton.161/Nicole M. Wolverton is the author of the upcoming young adult horror novel A Misfortune of Lake Monsters (July 2024) and the adult psychological thriller The Trajectory of Dreams (2013). She served as Editor of Bodies Full of Burning (2021), an anthology of short horror fiction through the lens of menopause and is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer of short stories and creative nonfiction. Nicole’s work has been published in over forty anthologies, magazines, and podcasts.Stories covered in this Episode:David Anaxagoras “The Boy Who Ran from His Faerie Heart,” Lightspeed, August 2023 (Issue 159) https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-boy-who-ran-from-his-faerie-heart/ “We Shall Not Be Bitter at the End of the World,” Lightspeed, January 2024 (Issue 164) https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-shall-not-be-bitter-at-the-end-of-the-world/Alicia Hilton“Perfumer in Purgatory”, Dreamforge https://dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/stories/show/the-perfumer-in-purgatory“Evolution” first published in the anthology Annihilation Radiation, and will be reprinted in the AI, Robot anthology from JayHenge.Nicole M. Wolverton "From Shore to Sea" was originally published in the Autumn 2023 issue of The Colored Lens. “The North American Guide to Animal Slaughter” was originally published in the December 2020 anthology Slashertorte. Premee Mohamed “From the Journal of Sawyer L. Gibbs, Hero, Aged 13 ½," Small Wonders:   https://smallwondersmag.com/pieces/from-the-journal-of-sawyer-l-gibbs-hero/ "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon episode 28, Cozy Fantasy and Hopepunk. I’m your host, Deborah L. Davitt. This week we’ll be having a conversation with M. E. (Mary) Garber, Susan Kaye Quinn, and John Wiswell. Itinerant writer M. E. Garber currently lives halfway between the Kennedy Space Center and Disney World, an ideal place for writing speculative fiction. When not writing, she’s often sipping tea, snapping pics, or tending orchids, sometimes all at once. Visit her online at  http://megarber.net or on Mastodon @[email protected] Kaye Quinn is an environmental engineer/rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from hopepunk climate fiction to gritty cyberpunk to steampunk romance. Her short fiction can be found in DreamForge, Grist, Reckoning, and more. All her novels and short fiction can be found on her website: www.susankayequinn.com.John Wiswell is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He is a winner of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "Open House on Haunted Hill," and the Locus Award for Best Novelette for "That Story Isn't The Story." His fiction has been translated into ten languages. His debut novel, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, is forthcoming from DAW Books and Jo Fletcher Books on April 2nd, 2024. He would like to hug a kaiju. Stories featured on this episode:M.E. Garber“Two Letters Crossing Paths Through the FairyMail,” forthcoming in 99 Fleeting Fantasies anthology.“The Giveaway Box,” First published in Abyss & Apex, Oct 2015.Susan Kaye Quinn"The Joy Fund," DreamForge, https://dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/stories/show/the-joy-fund-susan-kaye-quinn John Wiswell“Open House on Haunted Hill,” Diabolical Plots #64A, June 15, 2020, https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-64a-open-house-on-haunted-hill-by-john-wiswell/ “The First Stop is always the Last” Flash Fiction Online, December 2017, https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/first-stop/ “Found Day,” By Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Daily Science Fiction, September 10th, 2015 https://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/magic-realism/jennifer-campbell-hicks/found-day “Laser Squid Goes House-Hunting,”by Douglas DiCicco Escape Pod 850 August 18, 2022. https://escapepod.org/2022/08/18/escape-pod-850-laser-squid-goes-house-hunting/ "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 27, Shared Visions: Writing with a co-author. With me today are writing partners Kathy Bailey and Kurt Pankau as well as  Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, who write together as M.A. Carrick. Let’s get started with some introductions!Kathy Bailey writes romance, poetry, science fiction, and women's kaiju. She's currently working on a series of romance novels set in national parks. Before focusing on fiction, she was a newspaper reporter at the Oakland Tribune and San Francisco Examiner. She's also written three guidebooks about exploring the outdoors on foot and by bicycle. She currently lives in the American Midwest with three kids, two dogs, and one husband. Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly leans on her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to The Game of 100 Candles and the short novel Driftwood, along with over eighty short stories. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy, beginning with The Mask of Mirrors. For more information and social media, visit linktr.ee/swan_tower.Alyc Helms prefers tea over all other beverages. They sometimes refer to their work as “critical theory fanfic,” which is a fancy way to say that they are obsessed with liminality, gender identity, and foxes (and tea!). They are the author of the Adventures of Mr. Mystic novels from Angry Robot and, as M.A. Carrick, the co-author (with Marie Brennan) of the Rook & Rose trilogy from Orbit Books.Kurt Pankau is a professional computer whisperer who also moonlights as a sci-fi author, musician, and humorist. His short stories have appeared in such venues as Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. He is the author of "High Noon on Phobos: A Blaze McGregor Adventure" and the creator of "Uncle Fluffy's Post-Apocalyptic Sing-Along." He lives in the Midwest, where he obsesses about board games and Zelda."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Amanda Helms (she/her) is a biracial Black/white fantasy, science fiction, and sometimes horror writer whose stories have appeared in FIYAH, Lightspeed, Nature: Futures, and other fine venues. She lives with her family in Colorado. Though all of them are natives, none ski or snowboard, proving that such creatures indeed exist. Find her at amandahelms.com, on Instagram @amandaghelms, or Bluesky @amandaghelms.bsky.social. Vylar Kaftan has published over fifty short stories in magazines such as Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld. Her alternate history novella “The Weight of the Sunrise” won the Nebula and Sidewise awards. Her queer psychic thriller “Her Silhouette Drawn in Water” is available through Tor.com.  Aimee Picchi is a journalist by day and Nebula-nominated science fiction and fantasy writer by night. Her short fiction has been published in Nightmare Magazine, The Deadlands, Apex and Podcastle, among other fine publications. She’s a former classical musician (viola) who graduated from University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with her family. You can find her online at aimeepicchi.com or on Twitter at @aimeepicchi. Stories in this episode:Amanda Helms“Shopping at the Soul Patch Consignment Store” Worlds of Possibility, August 2023. https://www.juliarios.com/introducing-the-august-2023-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/ “Sunnyside Daycare Employees’ Chat Log, Post Alien Takeover,” Small Wonders Magazine, 2022  https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/sunnyside-daycare-employees-chat-log-post-alien-takeover/  Vylar Kaftan“Scar Stories,” Bandersnatch  anthology, 2007. https://vylarkaftan.com/bibliography/2007-2/scar-stories/ “What President Polk Said,” Phantom, https://vylarkaftan.com/bibliography/2009-2/what-president-polk-said/ Aimee Picchi“9 Lies You Tell Yourself about Ghost Hunting” https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/9-lies-you-tell-yourself-about-ghost-hunting/ “Advanced Problems in Word Math,” Daily Science Fiction, January 3rd, 2020 https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/other-worlds-fantasy/aimee-picchi/advanced-word-problems-in-portal-math “Four Years Minus Twelve Days” by Samantha Murray , Lightspeed Mar. 2023 (Issue 154). “The Third Martian Dick Temple” by Sheila Marie Borideux, Daily Science Fiction, May 23rd, 2018 "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 25, Flash Fiction: When the Fic is Quick. I’m your host, Deborah L. Davitt. With me today are Kat Day and Michael Haynes as we’ll discuss the art of writing flash fiction—stories that are under 1,000 words in length. Let’s get started with some introductions. Kat Day is an editor and writer who lives in Oxfordshire. By day, she works as a medical editor, looks after her two children and wrangles the PseudoPod Towers tentacles into producing horror stories every week. By night she... does all the things she hasn't managed to do during the day. Her work has been published at venues including Flash Fiction Online, Cast of Wonders and Daily Science Fiction, and she writes regular flash for her blog, thefictionphial.wordpress.com.     Michael Haynes is an ardent short story reader and writer, who has had stories appear in periodicals such as Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Nature. His debut short fiction collection, AT THE INTERSECTION OF LOVE AND DEATH, is available now. He serves on the board of Rainbow Dublin, an LGBTQIA+ advocacy group, and enjoys photography, cooking, and travel. His website is http://michaelhaynes.info/ Stories discussed in this episode:Kat Day“Never Enough Pockets,” PseudoPod 798: Flash on the Borderlands LX: Words Like Violence Michael Haynes"1-800-Prophcy" Stupefying Stories, https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2023/09/1-800-prophcy-by-michael-haynes.html  “A Book in Winter,” Factor Four, https://factorfourmag.com/a-book-in-winter-by-michael-haynes/  Other folks“The Inheritance of Dust and Leather,” by Jenny Rae Rappaport., Lightspeed, September 2022.  https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-inheritance-of-dust-and-leather/ “Choose Your Own” by C.J. Lavigne, Daily Science Fiction,  https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/virtual-reality/c-j-lavigne/choose-your-own“My Summer of George,” by Sam Rebelein, PseudoPod 888: Flash on the Borderlands LXVIII: Actualization"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 24. Today we’ll return to the themes of environmental fiction, cli-fi, and solarpunk, on what will be our last episode for the year. Joining me today are Priya Chand,  Amelia Gorman, Floris Kleijne, and Tehnuka. Let’s get started with some introductions. Priya Chand is a California transplant living in the Midwest, where she regularly cuts down trees and sets them on fire (as a certified volunteer forest steward). When she's not reading, writing, or eating, she enjoys swimming, martial arts, and naps.Amelia Gorman lives on California's redwood coast, where she spends her free time removing invasive ivy from the forests, and trash and sea urchins from the beach. Her chapbook, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, from Interstellar Flight Press, won the 2022 Elgin Award. Other climate related poems of hers can be read in The Gargoylicon, Eye to the Telescope, and Parks & Points.Floris M. Kleijne  (Floor-is Kleine) juggles two writing careers while paying the bills with an unrelated day job. In English, he’s the author of some fifty speculative fiction stories, some of them award-winning. In Dutch, and without middle initial, he’s an acclaimed thriller writer. In between, he translates.Tehnuka (she/they) is a Tamil tauiwi writer and volcanologist from Aotearoa New Zealand. She was a finalist for the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest, and the winner of the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent in speculative fiction. Stories and poems and collections featured in this episode:Priya Chand“On the Destruction and Restoration of Habitats,” Reckoning, February 20, 2021. https://reckoning.press/on-the-destruction-and-restoration-of-habitats/ “Demeter Seeks Persephone in the Year 2210,” Little Blue Marble, July 29, 2022. http://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/07/29/demeter-seeks-persephone-in-the-year-2210/Amelia Gorman"Field Guide to the Invasive Species of Minnesota," https://www.interstellarflightpress.com/fieldguide.htmlhttps://www.interstellarflightpress.com/fieldguide.html Floris M. Kleijne“An Oasis of Amends,” Reckoning 2, May 2018, https://reckoning.press/an-oasis-of-amends/ “Encroachment” Little Blue Marble, May 2020, https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/05/08/encroachment/  Tehnuka“El, the Plastotrophs, and Me,” Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction contest, Sep 14, 2021. https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-el-the-plastotrophs-and-me/ “Why we Bury our Dead at Sea,” Reckoning 7, January 29, 2023. https://reckoning.press/why-we-bury-our-dead-at-sea/Mo Usavage“What it Means to Love a City,” Reckoning 7, July 2, 2023. https://r"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 23. Today we’ll be talking about mythology, folklore, and prehistoric fiction. My guests today are Robin Duncan, Jelena Dunato, Sam W. Pisciotta.  Let’s start with some introductions. R. K. Duncan is a fat queer polyamorous wizard and author of fantasy, horror, and occasional sci-fi. He writes from a few rooms of a venerable West Philadelphia row home, where he dreams of travel and the demise of capitalism. His other full-time job is keeping house for himself and his live-in partner. Before settling on writing, he studied linguistics and philosophy at Haverford college. He attended Viable Paradise 23 in 2019. His occasional musings and links to other work can be found at rkduncan-author.com Jelena Dunato  is an art historian, curator, speculative fiction writer and lover of all things ancient. She grew up in Croatia on a steady diet of adventure novels and then wandered the world for a decade, building a career in the arts.  Jelena’s stories have been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Dark, Future SF and Mermaids Monthly, among others. Her debut novel, "Dark Woods, Deep Water” is available from Ghost Orchid Press. She is a member of SFWA and Codex.Jelena lives on an island in the Adriatic with her husband, daughter and cat.Twitter - @jelenawritesBluesky - @jelenawrites.bsky.socialInsta - jelena_author  Sam W. Pisciotta holds an M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Colorado. He is a recent graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. He is a member of SFWA, HWA, and Codex Writers. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, F&SF, PodCastle, and other fine publications. His award-winning artwork has been shown throughout Colorado. Follow him at www.silo34.com.Stories featured in this episode:R.K. Duncan"Clever Jack, Heavy with Stories," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #304, May 21, 2020 https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/clever-jack-heavy-with-stories/ "Eat the World,"  Lackington’s, Issue 25, 2022. https://lackingtons.com/2022/08/03/eat-the-world-by-r-k-duncan/ Jelana Dunato"Immortelle" The Dark. https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/immortelle/ “The Collector” Cossmass Infinities #6, December 12, 2021, https://www.cossmass.com/stories/the-collector/ Sam W. Pisciotta“Song of Nyx” forthcoming in Analog, January 2024.“The Island of Dolls” Ghostlore Anthology by Alternative Stories Podcast. April 1, 2022"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 22. Today we’ll be talking about environmental science fiction, cli-fi, solarpunk, and maybe even hopepunk. My guests today are Renan Bernado, Cecile Cristofari, and Susan Kaye Quinn. Stories featured in this episode:Renan Berando:"A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity," Escape Pod #863, https://escapepod.org/2022/11/17/escape-pod-863-a-shoreline-of-oil-and-infinity/ "Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital: Solarpunk Magazine issue #8.Cecile Cristofari:'Que la grenade est touchante' (Lackington's, Issue 24 (Fall 2021)) https://lackingtons.com/2022/08/03/que-la-grenade-est-touchante-by-cecile-cristofari/ "The Fishery," (Interzone Digital). https://interzone.digital/the-fishery/ Susan Kaye Quinn:“Seven Sisters” (Grist, Imagine 2200, Oct 04, 2022)  https://grist.org/fix/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-seven-sisters/ Rewilding Indiana (Little Blue Marble,  May 26, 2023 ) https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/05/26/rewilding-indiana/  T.K. Rex :A Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone  (Grist, Oct 04, 2022)  https://grist.org/fix/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-holdout-in-the-northern-california-designated-wildcraft-zone "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 21. Today we’ll continue our series by asking what it takes to be a magazine editor in this day and age—particularly when your magazine has a message and a role to play in the world at large. We’ll discover the process that takes hold of your story from the moment you click the ‘submit’ button till the moment it’s published. And we’ll talk about the biggest challenges facing editors today. Katrina Archer is an author of science fiction, fantasy, and romance. A former software engineer, she has worked in aerospace, video games, and film, and is the publisher of speculative climate fiction magazine Little Blue Marble. She can operate almost any vehicle that can’t fly, doesn’t believe in life without books or chocolate, and with her spouse puts up with the antics of a sweet potato and a chaos goblin masquerading as cats.Story referenced in this episode: "You Are My Endling," by Julie Reeser at the Little Blue Marble Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-are-my-by-82622025 .Katrina Archer can be found at @katrinaarcher.bsky.social; the magazine can be found at https://littlebluemarble.ca"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 20. Today we’ll turn away from genre concerns to get into the nuts and bolts of independent publishing. Joining me today are science fiction writer Abby Goldsmith, and dark erotica author Cassie Alexander.Abby Goldsmith: https://AbbyGoldsmith.com/majority Cassie Alexander:  https://cassiealexander.com "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 19. With me today are Alicia Hilton, Kenneth Hite, and Dawn Vogel to discuss the topic of Lovecraftian and Weird Fiction. Do you have to be Lovecraftian to be weird? What *is* weird, and how do we go beyond the tropes that Lovecraft and his immediate successors set for us. Let’s get started with some introductions!Alicia Hilton's website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01 and Bluesky @aliciahilton.bsky.social. Kenneth Hite is available at kennethhite.bsky.social.Dawn Vogel's website is historythatneverwas.com or you can reach her at Blue Sky/Mastodon @historyneverwas.Links to stories mentioned in this episode: http://www.mirrordancefantasy.com/2018/03/tarnish.htmlhttps://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-62/issue-62-stories/dissolved-in-some-ineffable-tide "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello and welcome to Shining Moon episode Number 18. Today we’ll once again turn our attention to the topic of speculative poetry with guests Rebecca Buchannan, Alicia Hilton, Lorraine Schein. Let’s get started with some introductions. Rebecca Buchanan is the editor of the Pagan literary ezine, Eternal Haunted Summer. She has released two collections of speculative poetry, as well as several short story collections and novellas. Her work has appeared in a variety of venues, including Abyss & Apex, Corvid Queen, Enchanted Conversation, Eye to the Telescope, Faerie Magazine, Mirror Dance, Star*Line, and others. Her poem “Heliobacterium daphnephilum” was awarded the Rhysling (long form) in 2020, and her collection “Not a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea and Other Faerie Tales to Foment Revolution” tied for third place in the Elgin Awards in 2023.   Alicia Hilton is an author, editor, arbitrator, professor, and former FBI Special Agent. She believes in angels and demons, magic, and monsters. Her work has appeared in Akashic Books, Creepy Podcast, Daily Science Fiction, Mslexia, Neon, Space & Time, Unnerving, Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Her website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01 and Bluesky @aliciahilton.bsky.social. Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her stories and poems have appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Scientific American, NewMyths and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath.The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her book, The Lady Anarchist Café: Stories & Poems, is out now from Autonomedia. https://autonomedia.org/product/the-lady-anarchist-cafe/"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon, Episode 17. Today, we’re departing from genre concerns to talk about the art and craft of worldbuilding. My guests today are Marie Brennan, Beth Cato, Rachel Handley, and Kenneth Hite. For more information on Marie Brennan, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/swan_tower.For more information on Beth Cato, visit her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.Stories in this episode:Marie Brennan: “The Naming of Knots” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #388, August 10, 2023.  https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-388/ "Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya, " Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #373, January 12, 2023. https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-373/Beth Cato:Prognostiqueso , appeared in Daily Science Fiction, July 29th, 2022  https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/parapsychology/beth-cato/prognostiqueso The Recipe Keeper, Flash Fiction Online, January 2022 https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-recipe-keeper/ Rachael HandleyThe Spaceship of Theseus Full House Literary https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script/the-spaceship-of-theseus-by-rachel-handley The Sound --  Sonder magazine, April 27, 2022  https://sonderlit.com/2022/04/27/runner-up-the-sound-by-rachel-handley/Tina ConnollyThe Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, Tina Connolly, Tor.com 2018 (https://www.tor.com/2018/07/11/the-last-banquet-of-temporal-confections-tina-connolly/)"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 16. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about military science fiction and military fantasy. We’ll talk about the history of military science fiction, what it takes to write in this subgenre with authentic voice and respect. My guests today are Derrick Boden, Jonathan Brazee, and P. A. Cornell. A fourth guest was originally included in this interview, but has been edited out.Derrick Boden is at derrickboden.com and on Twitter as @derrickboden. P.A. Cornell is at pacornell.com "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 15. Today we’ll continue our series by asking what it takes to be a magazine editor in this day and age. We’ll discover the process that takes hold of your story from the moment you click the ‘submit’ button till the moment it’s published. And we’ll talk about the biggest challenges facing editors today. My guests this week are Stephen Granade and Cislyn Smith of Small Wonders! Stephen Granade is a writer, editor, and XYZZY-awarded game designer whose works have appeared in Escape Pod, Baffling Magazine, and the late, lamented sub-Q. They co-edit Small Wonders, a SFF magazine for flash fiction and poetry, direct the Science Track for Dragon Con, and organized the Interactive Fiction Competition for fifteen years.  Cislyn Smith, co-editor of Small Wonders Magazine, calls Madison Wisconsin home. She's been known to crochet tentacles, write stories at odd hours, and commit wanton acts of poetry. Cislyn's poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Diabolical Plots, and Fantasy Magazine. She spends time behind the scenes at the Dream Foundry, helping creators across the speculative arts connect with resources and level up their craft. She is also co-convention chair for Flights of Foundry. Important Links from today's podcast:https://smallwondersmag.com/https://dreamfoundry.org/con-or-bust/ "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 14. Today we’ll continue our series by asking what it takes to be a magazine editor in this day and age. We’ll discover the process that takes hold of your story from the moment you click the ‘submit’ button till the moment it’s published. And we’ll talk about the biggest challenges facing editors today. My guests this week are Eleanor R. Wood and Shingai Njeri Kagunda of the audio magazine PODCASTLE.Mentioned in today's episode: https://podcastle.org/2023/02/14/podcastle-774-yung-lich-and-the-dance-of-death/"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast Episode 13. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about speculative poetry before doing a little poetry reading, and then a holding poetry thunderdome. My guests today are Brian Hugenbruch and Dawn Vogel. Brian Hugenbruch can be found at a variety of places online, including:https://the-lettersea.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/the_lettersea/  Threads:  https://www.threads.net/@the_letterseaBluesky:  @the-lettersea.bsky.socialMastodon:  https://wandering.shop/@the_letterseaTwitter:  @BwhugenDawn Vogel can be visited at historythatneverwas.com or Blue Sky/Mastodon @historyneverwas. "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 12. Today we’ll continue our series by talking about what differentiates contemporary fantasy as a genre from urban fantasy, and more.  My guests this week are Laurence Brothers, Michael Haynes, and Sheila Massie.Find Michael Haynes at michaelhaynes.infoFind Sheila Massie at sheilamassie.comFind Deborah L. Davitt at www.edda-earth.com  Stories in today's episode:Laurence Brothers:The Demons of Wall Street, Mirror World Publishing in March 2020 "Captured by the Dragon Cult," https://short-edition.com/en/story/short-fiction/captured-by-the-dragon-cult Michael Haynes:“Carolina”  https://www.havenspec.com/carolina“Scraps” : https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/modern-fantasy/michael-haynes/scraps “Twenty-Seven Rules for Coping”  http://www.goldfishgrimm.com/back-issues/issue-3-shadow-and-stitch/twenty-seven-rules-for-coping-michael-haynes/ Sheila Massie:"Fae Magic on a Friday Night,"  https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/fae-magic-on-a-friday-night/“Combat by Chocolate,”  https://thearcanist.io/combat-by-chocolate-468fa3f530a4Kate Heartfield:"The Morning House" https://podcastle.org/2022/07/05/podcastle-742-the-morning-house/ Josh Pearce :"Play Devil" https://www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/27/play-devil-by-josh-pearce "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 11. Today we’ll continue our series by asking what it takes to write interactive fiction and visual novels. We’ll talk plotting, choices, lack of choices, and more. My guests this week are Stewart C. Baker, Alexei Collier, Tina Connolly, and Stephen Granade.Tina  Connolly is at tinaconnolly.com Alexei Collier is at alexeicollier.com. Stephen Granade is at  sgranade.itch.io."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 10. Today we’ll continue our series by asking what it takes to write Alternate History and Secret History, what the differences between those two terms are, and we’ll explore some examples of each.My guests this week are Anatoly Belilovsky, Marie Brennan, Laurence Brothers, and Kate Heartfield.  Anatoly Belilovsky  tweets occasionally at @loldoc. Marie Brennan can be found online at swantower.com, on Mastodon @[email protected], or on Patreon as swan_tower  Stories discussed:Marie Brennan:"999 Swords" – Pending publication at Interzone "This Living Hand" (published in Sunday Morning Transport)Anatoly Belilovsky:“The Perils of Bonaparte,” https://copperfieldreview.com/?p=4446 “KulturKampf” https://www.castofwonders.org/2012/02/episode-24-kulturkampf-by-anatoly-belilovsky/  "The Sound of Music," https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-sound-of-music-by-anatoly-belilovsky.html?m=1 Laurence Brothers:"Midnight at the Abbey of Shadows," https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2021/midnight-at-the-abbey-of-shadows/"With Respect to the Cat ," https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/spring-2023/with-respect-to-the-cat-by-laurence-raphael-brothers/Kate Heartsfield :“A Cut-Purse Rethinks His Ways,” Timeworn, Issue 1, October 2019."A Thousand Tongues of Silver," Lackington’s, October 2018, https://lackingtons.com/2018/10/31/a-thousand-tongues-of-silver-by-kate-heartfield/Carrie Vaughn:"The Burning Girl," https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-burning-girl/Kat Howard:"The Calendar of Saints," https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-calendar-of-saints-by-kat-howard/Mentioned in this episode:  Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous by Catherine M. Andronik Next week on Shining Moon: A discussion with Lesley Conner of Apex on editors, editing, and the challenges faced by magazines in the current era!"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 9. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about the genres of dark fantasy and dark science fiction, and where to draw the line between them and horror.  My guests this week are P.A. Cornell and Alicia Hilton. Let’s start with some introductions! P.A. Cornell is an award-winning Chilean-Canadian author whose short fiction has appeared in numerous speculative fiction publications. In 2022 she published her SF novella, Lost Cargo. When not writing, Cornell can be found assembling intricate Lego builds while drinking ridiculous quantities of tea. For more on the author and her work, visit pacornell.com. Hello, Patty, welcome to Shining Moon!Alicia Hilton is an author, editor, arbitrator, professor, and former FBI Special Agent. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Creepy Podcast, Lovecraftiana, Neon, Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere. Her website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01 and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alicia.hilton.161/."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 8. I’m your host, Deborah L. Davitt. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about the subgenre of space opera. How does it differ from Hard Science fiction, which was the focus of Episode 3? What are some of the commonalities that mark this genre? What’s the history of space opera? Who’s currently going beyond endless adaptations of Star Wars and Star Trek?  My guests today are Michael Johnston, M.V. Melcer, and Dave Walsh. Michael had some audio problems, so please refer to the transcript for his full words. Michael R. Johnston is the author of The Widening Gyre, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, and What Rough Beast. His work has been praised by Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Locus, and Analog. He lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife, daughter, and four weird cats. When not writing, he teaches high school English, works with young aspiring genre writers, and daydreams of flying starships.  M V Melcer is the author of upcoming science fiction novel Refractions (November 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSurus, Daily Science Fiction, Nature, and others. Born in Poland, she has lived in the USA, the Netherlands and Belgium before settling in the United Kingdom. When not writing, she is pursuing a degree in astronomy. You can find her on https://mvmelcer.com.Dave Walsh resides in the high desert in New Mexico with his wife and twin sons, a former combat sports and entertainment writer who focuses on the surreal and speculative instead now. Author of the two science fiction series, Trystero and Andlios, and member of both SFWA and Codex. Find him at dvewlsh.com and everywhere else, as @dvewlsh (@dvewlsh.bsky.social, @[email protected]) Next week, we’ll be taking a Walk in the Dark, in an episode featuring horror and dark fantasy writers P.A. Cornell  and Alicia Hilton. We’ll be discussing the story "His Guns Could Not Protect Him" by Sam J. Miller. Lightspeed, Issue 153, Feb. 2023. It’s available online for free to read, if you want to get a jump on our discussion. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/his-guns-could-not-protect-him/ "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 7. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about writing games, particularly roleplaying games. This is a subject dear to my heart, because I’ve spent twenty years of my life playing RPGs, mostly in written form, in play-by-post games. I am a big proponent of how they help to develop writers’ skills at worldbuilding, characterization, and plot. My guest today is Eran Aviram.  Eran's been part of the gaming industry since 2002, as a writer, editor, translator, designer, shop owner, publisher, event organizer and professional GM. Today he's part of Son of Oak's team, working on City of Mist, Queerz! and Metro:Otherscape, translates Savage Worlds into Hebrew, and self-publishes single player games on nnesk.itch.io. His main passion is turning more people into players, and then giving those players the tools that’ll help them enjoy their games more."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 6. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about translation and writing in English as your second language. We’ll find out how difficult it is to write in your second (or third) language, what the advantages of writing in another language are, how you deal with reader expectations, and how to go about getting reputable translations for your work.My guests today are Cecile Cristofari, Jelena Dunato, and Floris Kleijne. Let’s start with some introductions!Jelena Dunato: Twitter - @jelenawrites, Bluesky - @jelenawrites.bsky.social, Insta - jelena_author Floris Kleijne: Facebook at floris.kleijne, or at his website: https://www.floriskleijne.com "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 5. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about translation and writing in English as your second language. We’ll find out how difficult it is to write in your second (or third) language, what the advantages of writing in another language are, how you deal with reader expectations, and how to go about getting reputable translations for your work. My guests today are Alex Shvartsman and Anatoly Belilovsky. www.alexshvartsman.com, @AShvartsman on Twitter, @alexshvartsman.bsky.social on Bluesky,  or Alex Shvartsman on FacebookAnatoly Belilovsky can be reached at @loldoc on Twitter/X."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast Episode 4. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about speculative poetry. We’ll talk a little about the history of speculative poetry, what it takes to write genre poetry and regular poetry, and where you can find poetry in the wild. My guests today are Elgin-winning poet Amelia Gorman, Michelle Muenzler, and Lynne Sargent. Truth be told, I owe a lot of my success as a writer to Michelle getting me started with the Submission Grinder and telling me that poetry could actually be written and sold in the modern age. Contains: Interviews with three poets, and a Poetry "Thunderdome" in which the poets are given 2 minutes to write poems including three prompt words."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 3. Today we’ll continue our series by asking questions about hard science fiction. We’ll talk a little about the history of this subgenre, what it takes to write fiction that crunches between your teeth, the research required, and more. My guests today are William Ledbetter, M.V. Melcer, and A.T. Sayer. Stories discussed are:William Ledbetter, "Vigilance" (Analog) and "Broken Wings" (F&SF)M.V. Melcer, "The Falling" (Clarkesworld 2021) https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/melcer_07_21/A.T. Sayre, "I'm Not Robert" (Bewildering Stories 2017), "Across the River" (Analog, 2022), and "Giant" (Utopia Magazine 2021 ).Holly Schofield, "Maximum Efficiency" (Analog, 2022) ” http://www.analogsf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MaximumEfficiency_Schofield_ART.pdf with a reading from "Giant" by A.T. Sayre."Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode 2. Today we’ll continue our series by asking a question not about genre or craft, but about how to keep reading, when you’re a working writer. We’ll discuss the impact working as a writer has on our reading time, choices, and pleasure, and we’ll discuss several stories we all read together. My guests today are Chloe Smith and Brian Hugenbruch. Stories discussed: "A Long Spoon," Jonathan E. Howard, https://www.amazon.com/Long-Spoon-Tor-Com-Original-Johannes-ebook/dp/B00N6LRIHS “Give us the Swords” by Carlie St. George, https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/spring-2023/give-us-the-swords-by-carlie-st-george/“The Year of Rebellious Stars” by Tanvir Ahmed, https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2023/02/15/the-year-of-rebellious-stars-by-tanvir-ahmed/ "Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast, Episode One. Today we’ll begin our series by grappling with the questions of “what is literary fiction, and what is genre? And can the two ever be satisfyingly combined?” My guests for this episode are Marie Brennan, Jennifer Hudak, and A.T. Sayre.  We discuss the following stories:Jennifer Hudak's “Topography of Memory” (Fusion Fragment,  2022)  and "The Weight of it All" (Fantasy, September 2022)A.T. Sayre's 'The Angles' (Andromeda Spaceways, 2019) and 'Playtime' (Analog, 2023) Marie Brennan's "At the Heart of Each Pearl Lies a Grain of Sand" (Sunday Morning Transport, 2023) and "Oak Apple Night," (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)and  “Glass Moon Water” by Linda Niehoff in Diabolical Plots: https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-101-glass-moon-water-by-linda-niehoff/(Please also see: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/ )"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov Piano music for closureThank you for listening to Shining Moon! You can reach the host, Deborah L. Davitt, at the following social media platforms:www.facebook.com/deborah.davitt.3 Bluesky: @deborahldavitt.bsky.socialwww.deborahldavitt.com