“Kate, Charlie, I’ve listened to almost all your episodes at this point. This podcast is one of my weekly must-listens. I’ve enjoyed the authors, books, and indie bookstores you’ve featured, but also the personal interactions between the two of you. One change suggestion: Please consider turning off the background theme music down once you start talking, so your voices and the music aren’t competing for our attention. Especially the intro/exit music, which I find cloyingly sweet. I’m sure many folks love it, but I find I need to fast forward through it, which means I miss some of your dialogue! Anyway, just a thought. Author suggestion: Benjamin Percy. I’m impressed with his work at the intersection of literary fiction, science fiction, horror, and more recently, comic books. He’s also written quite a bit for both Marvel and DC, including a recent foray into audio drama via podcasts. There may be a few other literary authors with such wide-ranging credits to their names (Ta-Nehisi Coates comes to mind), but probably not many. Percy’s most recent creation is a series called The Comet Cycle. In it, he’s created his own comic-book-like universe with superheroes and science fiction plot devices. And yet the first two novels in that series — ‘The Ninth Metal’ & ‘The Unfamiliar Garden’ — read like some of his past literary work with their deft characterization, smooth and clever use of metaphor, and skillful balance between brevity and completeness. But they’re also superb SF/horror! Again, please consider bringing him on to talk about, among other things, the craft of writing for all these different media he’s now got under his belt: literary short stories and novels, graphic novels, nonfiction (a book about writing thrillers, entitled ‘Thrill Me’), comic books, audio podcast dramas for Marvel, and screenplays for both TV and film. And he has this unbelievably deep, sonorous voice that makes the interview even better ;)”
RickClark via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/13/22