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The Dead Robots' Society — 298 episodes
Publishing Industry News...Now With AI!
How Do You Climax?
Sciency-Solutions and Technobabble
Slimmin' Down and Toe-Taggin'
The Lesson of John Wick
John Wick Is Boring
Love, Lust, and Sex
Repeat The Plot?
Space Opera With Dinosaurs!
Topic? What Topic?
Happy New Year! Now Get To Work!
2026 Approaches...
Karmic Monsters
Websites, Social Media, and Stores--What Do You Need?
Influence and Reimagination
Author Nation Autopsy
Going Solo
What's Going On?
Zero Drafts and Lovecraft
Sea Turtles and Deadlines
We're Gonna Need A Bigger Starship!
Audible 2 Scamaloo and Going Wide
Alien:Earth and Worldbuilding
Audible Is Destroying Livelihoods!
Pruning Season
Sticking To It
What's Up, Doc?
Art In Darkness
Good Writing Neighbors
The Public Domain Is Your Playground
Tropeic Topics
Author/Genre/Reader Expectations
Squirrel!
A Lesson On Audiobooks
ACTION!
Audio Tags and Dark Romance
The Title Problem
Indies vs Traditional Publishing
Don't Sidequest Your Plot!
Keepin' It Real
RPGs and Plot
Binge Writing, Recovery, and Creativity
Amazon Shenanigans -- We Own Nothing
Provocateur Writing and Attraction Marketing
Monkey Dances For Art & Money
Social Muckery, Recycling, And Fluffy
I Are Not An Editro
Rifts and Horrors - Brainstorming with Antowan
What The **** Is that?
Episodes, Sagas, and Standalones
Creativity and the Holiday Hustle
So You Wanna Start A Patreon...
Attack of the Pitch Deck! We Mean It!
You're Busy! Now What?
Life, Loss, Art
Reviews, Comments, and Criticisms
Five Senses, Infinite Words
What is "Punk?"
Dreams, Nightmares, and Fantasies
Titles, Names, and Genres
Websites, Recycling, and Devastating Feedback
Attack of the Pitch Deck!
Who Am I?
Failure To Release
Outline? What Outline?
Plot Bunnies Ate My Lettuce!
Wrap It Up!
The Slog
Is It Bad?
Charlie Brown Gives Dirty Magick
Star Travel and Hand-Wavium
What's My Brand?
Maps, Wikis, And Renderings -- what do you actually need?
Dystopia! Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About The Present
Getting Back On Track
Illicit Futures
Reset!
The Genre Bunny Left Me Eggs
Design The Race and Run It
Guard Your Rights
How Do You Measure Success?
The Book Is Published...Now What?
Rights Grabs - When Distribution Networks Go Bad
Scum and Villainy!
Multipass!
2024 - The Unexpected Mess
Nanites, Stasis, and Printing Meat
A DRS Holiday Diatribe
Abusing Your Betas
PLANS!
20Books Hangover
Just Say November
Editors, Covers, and Audio -- What to do when the book is finished
Plotications!
Myopic Productivity
"Ask Me Anything"
That's A Bad Influence! - Episode 654
Alternate Worlds With James Peet
James Carpio Gives Good RPG
Don't Be Candide
Space Western Stormin'
Your Best Is Just Good Enough - DRS Episode 648
Cadence and Promises - DRS Episode 647
Backstory Hell - DRS Episode 646
Organizing Reality - DRS Episode 645
Some Things Don't Stay in Vegas - DRS Episode 649
Prepare, Prepress, Publish
Firsts With Rick Shaw - DRS Episode 643
Deus Ex Whatkahina? - DRS Episode 642
Pitch Deck Returns! - DRS Episode 641
Instead of Pitch Deck, Here's Us! - DRS Episode 640
Patreon, BMAC, and Kofi - DRS Episode 639
AI Seances, Bad Haircuts, and Surprises
Advice For Paul - Episode 637
Science! Story Bibles! Newsletters? - DRS Episode 636
Sidekicks, Overlords, and Too Damned Many Words - DRS Episode 635
Expectations - DRS Episode 634
Frazzlement and Hospitals - DRS Episode 633
In All Seriousness... - DRS Episode 632
Off the Rails - DRS Episode 631
Character Complexity
Planning, Goals, and FAILURE
Plot This!
Space Bacon!
Cow Tipping And Historical Inaccuracies
Monkeys With Typewriters
Process? What's a Process?
Agency with Character
"Read" Vs Perform - AI In Audiobooks
V Joins DRS
Robert Jeschonek Gives Good Story
What is Reality?
Process, Plot, and Cats
Drafts And Cliffhangers
Goodbyes, Inspiration, Reader Expectations, Culture Drift
Epiphanies, Plans, and WTFs
Stations, Names, and Cats
Character, Story Expansion, and Plot
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Audio Plans, Genre Hell, and Duds
Change, Aliens, and Story
Kickstarters, Hard Sci-Fi, Social Evolution
Covers, Cats, Pacing, and Memes
Length, Girth, And Other Writing "Tips"
DRS Live! 2022-01-15
Bah
Rants, Edits, Dune
Edits, Deadlines, and Oceania
M2, Porno, and Others
Paul Said "F*** ACX!"
Schedules, Audiobooks, and F*** ACX
EPISODE 600!
Questions With Few Answers
A Heinlein Journey with J Daniel Sawyer
Magic Systems for Writers/GMs with C.R. Rowenson
Starbarian Hordes! with Robert Jeschonek
Cornycopia
Driving and Narrating
More Serial Madness
Serials and Vella with Kevin McLaughlin
Tech Refresh
F1v390
Surmise the Demise
Time For A Tech Refresh?
Fiv390
Deus Ex Mababble
Building Blocks of Character
Humanity Divided
Super Tights
Supes
Robert Jeschonek and Space Opera
Jake Bible Gives Good Horror
Revenge!
F*** Starships! (REDUX)
Out of Context, and Out of Our Minds
F*** Starships!
Cornucopia of Insanity
Technosocial Hazards
Space:1975 with Robert Jeschonek
Mixology
Lessons Learned
DRS Live! A Conversation With David Wood
DRS Live! A Conversation with Veronica Giguerre
We Promise Babble and Snark, Not Virii
Subtlety Like A Sledgehammer
Interview With Author Chris Fox - Bonus Episode
Gods and Monsters
Pick Your Battles!
Dystopia!
From Word To Series
More than a few words with Yudha!
Words! Meanings! Ideas! - DRS Episode 567
Cultural Mirrors and Amish Porn - DRS Episode 566
DRS Episode 565 - Networking and Social Anxiety
DRS Episode 564 - Revising Our Revisions!
DRS Episode 563 - Pacing, Action Beats, Adventure!
DRS Episode 562 - SEQUELS!?!!
DRS Episode 561 - Paul on pain meds
DRS Episode 560 - Catching Up
DRS Episode 559 - Catching Up
DRS Episode 558 - Universal Squirrels
DRS Episode 557 - And...more tech support hell
DRS Episode 556 - More than a few words with Glynn Stewart
DRS Episode 555 - Just Call Tech Support
DRS Episode 554 – Interview With Charles E "Chuck" Gannon
DRS Episode 553 - Babbling Amidst A Sea of Characters
DRS Episode 552 - Incorporation? LLC? WTF? Interview With Joe Solari
DRS Episode 551 - Sex Robots, Ethics, Drivelings, and Brain Bleach
DRS Episode 550 - Common Sense Characters
DRS Episode 549 - Malorie Cooper Sees The Future
DRS Episode 548 - Sick and Stupid
DRS Episode 547 - Who Owns The Content? (GoT)
DRS Episode 546 - Revenge of Archivos!
DRS Episode 545 - Do Androids Dream Of Fleshy Humans?
DRS Episode 544 - Klingons Make Everything Better!
DRS Episode 543 - Own Your Content!
DRS Episode 542 - Arcs and Squirrels
DRS Episode 541 - A Cornucopia of Crazy
DRS Episode 540 - Leah Lederman and "Cafe Macabre"
DRS Episode 539 -PoV, Histories, and Choose Your Own Bad Ending
DRS Episode 538 - Work, Life, SQUIRREL!
DRS Episode 537 - How Dare You Write That!
DRS Episode 536 - Transitory Intransigence
DRS Episode 535 - F*** Your Adverbs!
DRS Episode 534 - Writersplainin' Editorsplainin'
DRS Episode 533 - Indie Publishing Topics
DRS Episode 532 - What's In A Name?
DRS Episode 531 - Q&A
DRS Episode 530 - Setting The Stage
DRS Episode 529 - Conversation With Author Ian J Malone
DRS Episode 528 - Expanding the Universe
DRS Episode 527 - When To Cut
DRS Episode 526 – REBOOT!
DRS Episode 525 – How To Hook
DRS Episode 524 - Friction!
DRS Episode 523 - "How does this start again?"
DRS Episode 522 - "In A World..."
DRS Episode 521 - The Multiplot Problem
DRS Episode 520 - Find The Topic!
DRS Episode 519 - Subplots! (fix)
DRS Episode 519 - Subplots!
DRS Episode 518 - Mind the Bridge
DRS Episode 517 - Whirlwind of Crazy
DRS Episode 516 - The Last Word
DRS Episode 515 – The First Word
DRS Episode 514 - The Swampy Middle
DRS Episode 513 - Truth To Character
DRS Episode 512 - Characters and Plots and Short Stories
DRS Episode 511 - To Scene, Or Not To Scene!
DRS Episode 510 - Exclusivity versus Going Wide
DRS Episode 509 - More Questions, Some Answers
DRS Episode 508 - F*** The Comments
DRS Episode 507 - Heinlein's Rules Revisited
DRS Episode 506 - Starla Huchton
DRS Episode 505 - Plot Complications
DRS Episode 504 - LitRPG and GameLit
DRS Episode 503 - Interview With Michael J Sullivan
DRS Episode 502 - FEAR!
DRS Episode 501 - Your Questions, Our Denials
DRS Episode 500 - A Live Celebration
DRS Episode 499 - 5 Things
DRS Episode 498 - AIs and Madness
DRS Episode 497 - SFWA and Nebulas
DRS Episode 496 - Story Structure and Aquanaught Internet
DRS Episode 495 - Team Building
DRS Episode 494 -Genre Mashing with Kacey Ezell
DRS Episode 493 - Vamp City Brown Style
DRS Episode 492 - Lab Rats And Brain Storms
DRS Episode 491 -Betas and Side Trips
DRS Episode 490 - Stereotypes and Archetypes
DRS Episode 489 - Archivos and Storytelling
DRS Episode 488 - Foreshadowing and Other Crazy
DRS Episode 487 - Musin'
DRS Episode 486 - Why's My Line?
DRS Episode 485 - I'm not mental!
DRS Episode 484 - A Funny Happened On The Way To The Bookstore
DRS Episode 483 – Plot Bunnies and Loose Threads
DRS Episode 482 - Mech Madness with Chris Kennedy
DRS Special - Justin Macumber Tribute
DRS Episode 481 - EXPANSION!
DRS Episode 480 - The Exposition!
DRS Episode 479 - Thieves!
DRS Episode 478 - Inventing Language
DRS Episode 477 - You've Got Science In My Fantasy!
DRS Episode 476 - Carl Hiaasen's "Native Tongue"
DRS Episode 475 - Cliff Hangerin' Bastards
DRS Episode 474 - Josh Hayes
DRS Episode 473 - LEVELING UP!
DRS Episode 472 - 5 Impediments
DRS Episode 471 - COMPLETION!
DRS Episode 470 - Jake Bible Talks Potato Soup
DRS Episode 469 - Can you hear me now?
DRS Episode 468 - Plot Knots!
DRS Episode 467 - DISTRACTION!
DRS Episode 466 - Craig Martelle Doesn't Freeze
DRS Episode 465 - Verisimilitude!
DRS Episode 464 - Your Questions, Our Denials pt2
DRS Episode 463 - Your Questions, Our Denials pt1