Latest Powder mage Podcast Episodes
Ep 70 - Becky Chambers - Science Fiction Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - May 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is author Becky Chambers! Becky is known for her breakout science fiction Wayfarers series, which began in 2015 with A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Wayfarers books have been nominated for a whole bunch of awards, and won the Hugo for best series in 2019. Becky is also th...
Ep 69 - Beth Cato - Author and Poet
Page Break with Brian McClellan - May 16, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is author Beth Cato! Beth is known for her Clockwork Dagger series and Blood of Earth Trilogy, and is a widely-published science fiction and fantasy poet and short story writer. Beth also runs a wonderful recipe blog called Bready or Not. She has a new swashbuckling fantasy no...
Ep 68 - Travis Baldree - Author and Narrator
Page Break with Brian McClellan - May 09, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is audio narrator and bestselling author Travis Baldree. Travis is a former video game developer, having worked on well-known games like Torchlight and Torchlight II, and has built himself a new career narrating science fiction and fantasy–in particular Will Wight’s bestsellin...
Ep 67 - Michael Stackpole - Science Fiction Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - April 11, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is author Michael Stackpole. Michael has a long and fantastic career highlighted, among many things, by his work on the Star Wars X-wing books in the 90’s. He’s written in both his own original worlds and for intellectual properties, including Star Wars, Battletech, and World ...
Ep 66 - Bookborn - Youtuber and Reviewer
Page Break with Brian McClellan - April 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is the youtuber and instragramer known as Bookborn. Bookborn is a video essayist and reviewer primarily of science fiction and fantasy, engaging in deep dives on tropes, philosophical questions, community, authors, and more. She’s also one of the judges for the popular Self Pu...
Ep 65 - Ken Liu - SFF Author and Futurist
Page Break with Brian McClellan - March 28, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest today is science fiction and fantasy author Ken Liu! Ken is known for his wonderful silkpunk epic fantasy series the Dandelion Dynasty and has written numerous award-winning short stories and novellas. He also speaks and consults all over the world on many different topics. Ken and I c...
Ep 64 - Aaryn Flynn - Game Developer
Page Break with Brian McClellan - March 14, 2023 15:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is game developer Aaryn Flynn! Aaryn is the CEO of Inflexion Games, whose first title, Nightingale, will hit early release on Steam sometime this year. Aaryn spent much of his career at Bioware, where he worked his way up from tools programmer to Studio General Manager. He had...
Ep 63 - Django Wexler - Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - March 07, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is author Django Wexler. Django is probably best known to my fans as a fellow progenitor of the current flintlock fantasy subgenre with his Shadow Campaigns series. He’s written the young adult Forbidden Library series and the Wells of Sorcery. Django’s newest book, Emperor of...
Ep 62 - Max Gladstone - Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - February 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is author Max Gladstone! Max is best known to fantasy readers for his wonderful Craft Sequence. He’s written extensive serialized fiction with the Book Burners and the Witch Who Came in from the Cold, and has a huge backlist of short fiction published on Tor.com and in various...
Ep 61 - Grace P. Fong - Author, Artist, and Game Designer
Page Break with Brian McClellan - February 14, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is artist, writer, and narrative designer Grace P. Fong! Grace has created art content for speculative fiction publications and promotional material for authors - including designing the weapons for my very own Powder Mage RPG - and has exhibited regularly at conventions. She’...
Ep 60 - Piper J Drake - Romantic Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - February 07, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is author Piper J Drake. Piper is a prolific romance author who puts the saucy into all of our favorite SFF subgenres. She’s written a pair of suspense series in True Heroes and Safeguard, the science fiction Triton Experiment series, the paranormal London Shifters series, and...
Ep 59 - R.R. Virdi - Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - January 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is author RR Virdi. Ronnie has written the urban fantasies Grave Report and Books of Winter, LitRPG Monster Slayer Online, and space western Shepherd of Light. He’s probably best known to epic fantasy fans for his new Tales of Tremaine duology, starting with the First Binding ...
Ep 58 - Seanbaby - Comedy Writer and Podcaster
Page Break with Brian McClellan - December 13, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is comedy writer and podcaster Sean “Seanbaby” Reiley. Seanbaby is an old-school Cracked alumni known for his work with fellow Page Break guest Robert Brockway on 1900hotdog.com and its podcast, Dogg Zzone 9000. Seanbaby has also written and performed for Attack of the Show, A...
Ep 57 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Science Fiction and Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - December 06, 2022 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is the prolific, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Adrian Tchaikovsky. Adrian is known for his early epic fantasy, Shadows of the Apt, and for his lauded Children of Time series, the third book of which should be out by the time this podcast airs. He’s also got ...
Ep 56 - Robison Wells - SFF Author and Wargame Blogger
Page Break with Brian McClellan - November 29, 2022 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is New York Times bestselling author and wargame blogger Robison Wells! Rob is known for his breakout young adult suspense novel Variant and it’s sequel Feedback, as well as a number of other science fiction and fantasy novels. He also co-wrote The Warning with James Patterson...
Ep 55 - Nicholas Eames - Epic Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - November 15, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is epic fantasy author Nicholas Eames! Nick is known for his breakout King of the Wyld and its sequel, the Bloody Rose. We chat about his forthcoming third book and the themes of the series, as well as our habits as writers—getting bogged down in details, leaning into the fant...
November 2022 Special Bulletin
Page Break with Brian McClellan - November 08, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsHey everyone! Check out the Kickstarter for my new Glass Immortals novella, Montego! The Kickstarter will go from today, November 8th, through December 8th. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 54 - Amie Kaufman - Science Fiction and Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - November 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is international bestseller Amie Kaufman! An author of science fiction and fantasy for young adults, Amie is known for her Starbound Trilogy and Unearthed series, which she co-wrote with Meagan Spooner; the Illuminae Files and Aurora Cycle, which she co-wrote with Jay Kristoff...
Ep 53 - Nichameleon - Cosplayer
Page Break with Brian McClellan - October 25, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is Australian cosplayer Nichameleon! Nic is known for her massive presence on Twitter and Instagram, where she puts a sexy spin on favorite characters from pop culture around the globe. She also streams on Twitch and TikTok and designs her own clothing line with the Lonely Kid...
Ep 52 - Ursula Vernon - Writer, Artist, and Illustrator
Page Break with Brian McClellan - October 18, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is writer, artist and illustrator Ursula Vernon! Ursula and I talk about talk about gardening, Ursula’s love of anthropomorphic animals, and writing the books we want to read. We discuss just how weird early science fiction and fantasy could be and what happens when a beloved ...
Ep 51 - Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz - Video Game Narrative Designer
Page Break with Brian McClellan - September 27, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guest this week is video game narrative designer Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz! Mat is best known for his twelve years with CD Projekt Red where he worked as a quest designer and principal narrative designer on the Witcher 2, the Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077. He has recently moved over to Riot Games...
Ep 50 - Howard and Sandra Tayler - Comic Artist, Podcaster, Authors
Page Break with Brian McClellan - September 20, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMy guests this week are Howard and Sandra Tayler! Howard is best known as the writer and artist of the massively popular Schlock Mercenary webcomic, as well as one of the founding hosts of the Writing Excuses podcast. His wife Sandra has been his long-running partner, acting as editor, business ...
Ep 49 - Ty Franck - Science Fiction Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - September 13, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsWe kick off season two with my guest science fiction author Ty Franck. Ty is best known as one half of the writing partnership James SA Corey, creators of the wonderful Expanse books and producers and writers for the TV show of the same name. Ty also worked as a personal assistant for George RR ...
Ep 48 - Shanna Germain - Author, Editor, Game Designer
Page Break with Brian McClellan - July 19, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsBrian's guest this week is author, editor, and game designer Shanna Germain! Shanna is best known as the co-founder, co-owner, and managing editor of Monte Cook Games. Over her career she’s published everything from poems and articles to short stories and novels, as well as taught classes on pub...
Ep 47 - Bradley Beaulieu - Epic Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - July 05, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsBrian's guest this week is epic fantasy author Bradley Beaulieu! Brad is known for the Lays of Anuskaya, the Song of the Shattered Sands, and his scifi debut Absynthe under the pseudonym of Brenden P. Bellecourt. Brad and Brian talk about his early career, how characters change and develop duri...
Ep 46 - Stephen Blackmoore - Urban Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - June 28, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsBrian's guest this week is urban fantasy author Stephen Blackmoore. Stephen is best known for his acclaimed Eric Carter series about a necromancer in modern day LA. He's also written tie-in fiction for video games and TV shows, numerous short stories, and was the creative director for the Fate o...
Ep 45 - Brian McClellan - Epic Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - June 21, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsGuest host Dan Wells jumps in to make this week's episode all about Brian to celebrate the launch of his new book! Brian is best known for his Powder Mage Universe that spans six novels as well as numerous novellas and short stories. He's also written the ongoing Valkyrie Collections urban fant...
Ep 44 - Scott Lynch - Epic Fantasy Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - June 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsBrian's guest this week is epic fantasy author Scott Lynch! Scott is the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Lies of Locke Lamora and the follow-ups Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves. Scott and Brian talk about the double-edged nature of being a writer during ...
Ep 43 - Tim Hickson - YouTuber
Page Break with Brian McClellan - June 07, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsBrian's guest this week is Youtuber Tim Hickson. Tim is the owner, writer, and performer of the wildly popular Hello Future Me channel, where he breaks down plot, characters, and worldbuilding. He’s also the author of two books on the subject: On Writing and Worldbuilding Volumes I and II. Tim ...
Ep 42 - Cherie Priest - Horror and Steampunk Author
Page Break with Brian McClellan - May 24, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsBrian's guest this week is author Cherie Priest. Cherie is known for work that dips toes in a number of different genres, including horror, science fiction, southern gothic, fantasy, and steampunk. She’s best known for her Clockwork Century Universe that started with Boneshaker, and has also wri...
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