Episode 11: C. L. Polk - "Memory and a Monkey"

Tales from the Trunk

English - January 17, 2020 06:01 - 56 minutes - 27.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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On this episode, World Fantasy Award winner C. L. Polk (@clpolk) joins us to talk being an early-career writer, losing at NaNoWriMo, her early strategies for submitting stories, and why stories don't land. Cee reads to us from a trunked first draft, "Memory and a Monkey," which is a very fun sci-fi detective story. The sequel to Witchmark, Stormsong, comes out February 11th, 2020 from Tor.com books.

On this episode, we mentioned:

Witchmark, by C. L. Polk

The His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman

"Writing Begins With Forgiveness," by Daniel Jose Older

nanowrimo

SFWA qualifying market list

Shimmer Magazine

on spec magazine

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Ideomancer

"Bullet in the Brain," by Tobias Wolff

Tor.com