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Cover to Cover #330A: Ask A Ninja
Show Notes: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine from “Ask A Ninja”
Discussion: Mike Stackpole tells us about a new Mac application he’s found, Delicious Library, available from Delicious Monster. It can catalog just about anything with a barcode: books, DVDs, action figures, and more.
Mike S loves this app, and Summer tried it out and also [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #329B: Listener CommentsShow Notes: Getting away from Being Connected
Voicemail: Trampas (Dragonlance Canticle) comments on how continuity errors can make a book or series unreadable for him. Mike, Mike and Summer chat about the various reasons why that may happen, depending on who’s sandbox is being played in and by who’s rules they are bound to play by.
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Cover to Cover #329A: Jennifer RardinShow Notes: Jennifer Rardin
Voicemail: Brad from Nashville recounts an excerpt from a Stackpole novel, which leads to much amusement.
Interview: This week, Mike and Summer talk with Jennifer Rardin about Bitten To Death, the fourth in her Jaz Parks series. She tells us about how the story and characters gelled, and how she wanted [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #328B: Technology, UnpluggedShow Notes: Getting away from Being Connected
Mike Stackpole talks about a family fishing trip, in a location that doesn’t even get cell reception. That in itself is fascinating… how do you find places to unplug? Be it for writing, drawing, painting, or whatever your passion, where do you go or what do you [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #328A: S. M. StirlingShow Notes: S. M. Stirling
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Interview: This week, Mike and Brian talk with S. M. Stirling, who made a quick stop in town on a book tour promoting The Scourge of God, the sequel to The Sunrise Lands, and latest in a 9-volume sequence.
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Cover to Cover #327B: Playing with Tor.comShow Notes: Fun stuff at the new Tor.com
Discussion: So how many of you have been playing with the new Tor.com website? The new site, launched at the same time as San Diego Comicon, is now more of a social networking media site for books than it is an informational site for a book publisher.
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Cover to Cover #327A: L. A. BanksShow Notes: L. A. Banks
Discussion: Many have complained that TV and movies are being too “dumbed down” for kids, but is the same thing happening in YA books?
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Interview: This week, Mike, Mike, Lorrie and Summer talk with urban fantasy author L. A. Banks, creator of the Vampire Huntress Legend series. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #326B: Dragon*Con ReportShow Notes: Dragon*Con Report
Discussion: Mike Stackpole delivers the promised Dragon*Con report. We hear about the Podcasting track, the Star Wars track, and the Skeptics track, and more. 4 full hotels, and more people and costumes than you can shake a light saber at!
Check out Dragon*Con TV for a small taste of some of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #326A: David BoopShow Notes: David Boop
Mike Stackpole is still recovering from Dragon*Con. Oh, the tales he has to tell!
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Interview: This week, we talk with David Boop, author of She Murdered Me With Science, a scifi detective pulp noir tale, set in an alternate 1953, with a disgraced scientist working as a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #325A: F. Paul WilsonShow Notes: F. Paul Wilson
Discussion: Opposite ends of the tech spectrum: advanced technology in Mike S’ new phone scares him, and Mike M is still lugging around ancient technology with him. Both of them reminisce over ancient computing technologies and fond tech memories.
Help us help Mike M let go of his old stuff.
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Cover to Cover #324B: Books, For YouShow Notes: Books, For You
The Library: The first Library segment in the new studio!
Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn by Michael Moorcock; Pirate Sun by Karl Schroeder; Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K. A. Bedford; Acacia by David Anthony Durham (mmpb release); Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp; Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher; Lachlei by M. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #324A: Feedback, From YouShow Notes: Feedback, From You
Voicemail: Trampas would like to know if there’s a rule of thumb on when and how to use cussing in a story; Craig in PA would like to hear more about the SF/F series that are being adapted for television and film; Elena in Las Vegas comments on the use of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #323A: Franchises, Tie-Ins, and Zombies, oh my!Show Notes: Franchies, Tie-Ins, and Zombies, oh my!
Voicemail: Tim Low adds to Laurell K. Hamilton’s comments on sex; Lejon wonders if authors can trademark themselves in order to prevent publishers from continuing stories in their universes after they’ve shuffled off this mortal coil; Jordan wonders what the difference between authors writing in a franchise and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #322A: Charles StrossShow Notes: Charles Stross
Discussion: Keeping the e-book reader debate going! Jason on the road, commends Mike Stackpole on the iPhone app books, and thinks that a cross-platform media format for ebooks isn’t a bad thing, and it isn’t.
Interview: Hugo Award nominee and winner Charles Stross is in studio to chat about his latest book, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #321B: Creating a FeelingShow Notes: Creating a Feeling
Discussion: Michael, Summer and Michael continue the chat with Tom Corwin and Craig Frazier about the creative process that went into creating Mr Fooster, Traveling on a Whim.
From a comment from Tom, about “writing in a way to let the text breathe,” we launch into a discussion about finding a certain [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #321A: Tom Corwin and Craig FrazierShow Notes: Tom Corwin and Craig Foster
Mike, Summer and Mike are joined in studio by CA Sizemore, and Chris Lester of Metamor City Podcast. Chris tells us all about his podcast, and of finishing up volume one, and preparing for the next volume.
Voicemail: Arkle wants to know more about Second Life. He’s been avoiding [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #313A: Charlaine HarrisShow Notes: Charlaine Harris
Discussion: Darcy’s Dad, Tim, comments on the anniversary of the 1948 Comic Book Scare, and that leads to a discussion about changes bringing up some people’s fear of the future, the speed of change and how technology seems to be increasing that eternally rapid pace.
What do you think?
Interview: Michael, Lorrie and Michael [...]
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Cover to Cover #312B: Listener CommentsShow Notes: Voicemail Time!
Voicemail: Indiana Jim on moving publishers and editors to places besides New York City; David from Manhasset on needing an economic way to test drive a Kindle, or having it do text to speech; a slippery slope on providing free and inexpensive materials driving the publishers out of business?; Indiana Jim on [...]
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Cover to Cover #312A: Tim LebbonShow Notes: Tim Lebbon
Discussion: Fantasy author Michelle M. Welch sends in a comment about authors also needing to get used to the idea of e-books, both from the product and marketing perspective, which leads to a chat about ideas for authors to do their own marketing and promotion, advances.
Interview: Michael and Michael talk with Tim [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #311A: Gail Z. MartinShow Notes: Gail Z. Martin
Voicemail: Trampas has a question regarding the use of technology in fiction, and whether or not it’s better to stick to know tech in the past, or put the setting in the current day and not worry about future real world advances making the story dated.
Trampas tells us about his meeting [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
7th Son: Obsidian Posters7th Son: Obsidian is Coming
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Cover to Cover #310A: L. E. Modesitt, JrShow Notes: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Discussion: Mark from Kentucky comments on DRM in PDF e-books, and different levels of DRM, which leads to a discussion between Mike and Mike about the uses behind the consumption of digital media vs. hardcopy media, and collectible vs. not collectible.
Random comment: Trampas agrees with Schmoo’s approval of Piers Anthony’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #309A: Isamu FukuiShow Notes: Isamu Fukui
Listener Feedback: Jason has a question for Mike Stackpole about non-linear writing, as for games and choose-your-adventure stories, leading to an explanation on flowcharting paths and branches for those types of stories, and possibilities with newer technologies.
Interview: Mike, Summer and Mike talk to 17-year-old Isamu Fukui about his first SF novel, Truancy. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #308A: Tracy HickmanShow Notes: Tracy Hickman
Interview: Michael and Michael are bored because Summer isn’t around. So they decided to call up Tracy Hickman and cause a ruckus.
“The Lost Chronicles” is the final series in the vast expanse that is the Dragonlance sequence that Tracy is writing with Margaret Weis. While the second book in this [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #307B: How Much Do You ReadShow Notes: Reading Everything in Sight
Michael, Michael and Lorrie chat about reading frequently, since Lorrie seems to go through at least 10 books a week. They talk about following stories and series, about how rereading books may or may not change previous impressions, and more.
Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #307A: Jim ButcherShow Notes: Jim Butcher
Interview: Just about every FarPoint Media member who’s local to Phoenix dropped by for this one, because Jim Butcher came into town for a book signing. A very well-attended book signing at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, since he was delayed there an extra hour signing books for folks.
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Cover to Cover #306B: Inspiration and CopyrightsShow Notes: Inspiration and Copyrights
Voicemail: Lejon sheds some background on the book Tales Before Narnia, and Stackpole expands with some more reading he’d done about the collection. And that leads to a discussion about the use and meaning of “inspired by”.
Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #306A: World Fantasy 2008
Show Notes: Ryah Deines and Kurt Armbruster
Interview: Michael Stackpole and Summer talk with WFC 2008 committee members Ryah Dienes and Kurt Armbruster about all that goes into organizing a professional convention, and still have fun doing it.
WFC 2008’s theme is “Mystery in Fantasy and Horror”, and this year’s guests are David Morrell, Barbara Hambly, Tom [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #305B: Justin GustainisShow Notes: Interview with Justin Gustainis
Michael, Brian and Michael roll with the flow from this week’s extra-long A-show, and in avoiding any final comments (for now) on the e-book discussion, they touch on the interaction between authors and their readers.
Interview: This week, Justin Gustainis joins us to chat about his new dark fantasy novel Black [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #305A: Discussing E-BooksShow Notes: People want E-Books, and want them Now
Discussion: Jason from West Oz lends his thoughts on why e-books haven’t yet been “profitable”, and steps that might be taken to remedy that situation. Michael, Michael and Brian discuss. A lot.
Listener Review: Web Genii gives us a review of Kage Baker’s Gods and Pawns, a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #304B: Technology, Science and FictionShow Notes: Technology, Science and Fiction
Tim Low wonders which science fiction writers out there are the visionaries we should be reading now that Arthur C. Clarke has passed. That’s a tougher question than it looks, because science and technology are advancing faster now than 40-50 years ago, and sometimes a technology that’s proposed in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #304A: James A. OwenShow Notes: Interview with James A. Owen
Mike M takes a moment to reminisce about Joe Murphy, his contributions to The Dragon Page and to Wingin’ It, and Mike S recounts a Dragon*Con experience with Joe. Mason Rocket is still missed.
Joe Murphy Review: Listen to Joe’s review of both the book and the movie “Ella [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #303B: B is for Books, mostlyShow Notes: B is for Books, mostly
Today’s topic: Trampas asks a question about the “Left Behind” series, mostly about the quality of the writing, and why are so many people still rushing to read them all?
Mike and Mike posit that it’s the apparent lack of modern Christian-based or Christian-themed fiction out in the marketplace, and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #303A: Scott SiglerShow Notes: Scott Sigler
Mike Stackpole has an asteroid named after him… Asteroid 165612, discovered in 2001, joining Phil Plait and a handful of other skeptics with asteroids as namesakes.
Proof we are starstuff after all?
Interview: New Media Rockstar Scott Sigler joins Mike, Summer and Mike to chat about his newest hardcover release, INFECTED. He talks about [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #302B: The B Show is Back!Show Notes: The B Show is Back!
Michael Stackpole talks a bit about Space Vulture, and how possibly the marketing campaign behind it might have missed the mark. It’s 50s style aimed at a seasoned 21st century audience, and as a result he has a bone to pick about the “SciFi Essential” label being thrown [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #302A: Kenneth JohnsonShow Notes: Kenneth Johnson
Michael and Michael reflect on the passing of Arthur C. Clarke, remembering his influence on science fiction over the decades.
Voicemail: Western Fantasy recommendations for Trampas from Jack Jaffee: The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, and “Down the Road” over at 12-Volt Theater; Sandy from MD recomments “Territory” by Emma Bull, and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #301A: Leslie DavisShow Notes: Leslie Davis
The writing talk touches on how the characters tend to reflect the writers, in terms of aging, experiences, and life situations, and the differences between reading about certain experiences and actually living through them.
Gather ’round the hearth and be regaled by the stories from the “old” guys.
Interview: First time author Leslie Davis [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #300A: John Joseph AdamsShow Notes: THIS IS SPAR, ER, DRAGON PAGE!!
Michael S and Summer help Michael M celebrate Episode 300. That’s a lot of podcasts to record and edit. Get your “300″ jokes out of your system now. Go ahead, we’ll wait.
Michael S has a demo of a new shareware application that will convert PDFs [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #299B: Feedback and BooksShow Notes:
Voicemail: Arkle wonders about the validity of “Books That Make You Dumb”, and the correlation between test scores and required reading. Stackpole suggests that neuroplasticity is affected by encouraged reading but not by required reading. Lejon compares The Dragon Page to bardic traditions; Wade in San Diego wonders about the past; Jason [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #299A: David KeckShow Notes: Literature and Fiction
Michael, Summer and Michael talk about Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference at Arizona State University, where Mike Stackpole talked on panels again this year, and discuss the differences between literary and speculative writers, and their vastly differing approaches to writing novels, reading novels, and interpreting story.
I wish I’d attended just [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #298A: ReviewsShow Notes:
Michael and Michael kind of run amok. ‘Nuff said.
Listener Review: Web Genii gives us a review of the “Queen of the Orcs” series, consisting of King’s Property, Clan Daughter and Royal Destiny by Morgan Howell.
Listener Review: Natalie gives us a review of Dragonharper by Anne and Todd McCaffrey.
Submitting Listener comments: If you have any [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #297A: Nina MunteneauShow Notes: Interview with Nina Munteneau
Michael and Michael discuss “The Technologist” column from the Feb 18th issue of Newsweek. Stackpole pitches a fit about the lack of tech savvy by this supposed expert pundit on this column, with very good reason. You have to wonder if the technology pundit knows enough about Google to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #296B: Books and FeedbackShow Notes: Feedback and Reviews
Voicemail: Tosis from Germany doesn’t think an LCD screen is the ideal device for reading a book; Mick from the Gold Coast enjoyed Tad Williams’ War of the Flowers and wants to know about our take on it; Tim gave Darcy the hardcover HEROES comic collection for Christmas; Eric the Blind [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #296A: Jason EberlShow Notes: Interview with Jason Eberl
Voicemail: Trucker Overdrive wants to kick off Black History Month by finding out who some Black scifi authors are, and the list begins with Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Steven Barnes, Nalo Hopkinson, and more links can be found from the old Black to the Future Black Science Fiction Festival [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #295B: Listener ContributionsShow Notes: Six-Year Anniversary continues
Voicemail: ADD Todd weighs on e-readers (he got rid of his books!); Stackpole had a Mac Newton! Mike Wills wonders if e-book purchases via iTunes might be possible soon to take advantage of the iPod Touch; Marisa from RI asks for advice on when not to write and how to overcome [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #295A: Six Year AnniversaryShow Notes: Six Years!
Michael and Michael discuss covering books, and how author communications have changed over the years, even during the six years that Mike M has been doing Cover to Cover, and the changes he’s experienced during that time.
Interview: A blast from the past. An interview that Michael and Evo did with Robert [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #294A: Matt WallaceShow Notes: Interview with Matt Wallace
Voicemail: a comment on writing with dyslexia leads to a discussion on tools for helping writers on their draft read-throughs.
Interview: Matt Wallace, award-winning writer for Variant Frequencies joins Michael, Summer and Michael to talk about his first print foray, a short story collection titled “The Next Fix” coming out from [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #293B: Commentary and FeedbackShow Notes: More Listener Commentary… Lots More
Voicemail: Chris from Metamor City corrects Summer’s pronunciation of “sidhe”; Doc from Des Moines on Terry Pratchett’s Alzheimer’s announcement; Doc from Des Moines on Jewish holiday stories; comments on modeling an e-book rental service off Netflix’s model; Mike W comments on the Kindle and alternate PDF sources; Tim in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cover to Cover #293A: Anthony Lappe and Dan GoldmanShow Notes: Interview with Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman
Voicemail: We start out with a lot of feedback. Luis comments on Mike S’ comments about the Jefferson Bible, and Mike and Summer clarify their views on the philosophy behind Jefferson’s intent (and it ain’t censorship); Indiana Jim rails about a long copyright voicemails, and give [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
