Tansy Rayner Roberts joins me to talk about Galactic Suburbia, Australian fandom, feminism, and her writing. It's an Epic Australian Extravaganza! For complete show notes including links to everything we talk about, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/937.

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Jennifer Pelland comes to my house to talk about her novel, Machine, and to play with my cats! We have a great conversation, which merits an explicit tag. For complete show notes including links to Jen's work, and a picture of her making a rude gesture at a unicorn, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/923.

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Jennifer Pelland, Shira Lipkin, Gillian Daniels, and Lawrence Schimel talk about QUILTBAG spec fic at Boskone in Boston, Massachusetts. Lots of interesting conversation and book recommendations in this one. Full show notes, including links to all the recommended works are at http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/922.

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The "Queer SF&F" panel from Arisia is our episode for this month. JoSelle Vanderhooft, Meredith Schwartz, and Don Sakers joined me for an excellent discussion and book recommendation free for all. Raven Kaldera was unable to attend, but sent some suggestions via e-mail, which I read out after the recording ends. For complete show notes including links to all the recommendations from the panel, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/913.

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Conni Covington and Natania Barron join me to talk about ConTemporal (a steampunk convention), Pilgrim of the Sky (Natania's steampunk book), and the meaning, origins, and appeal of steampunk. After the interviews, I read an excerpt of A Spell of Passion or Fear by TC Mill. We're also giving away two signed copies of Natania's book! To enter, leave a comment on the official shownotes post here: http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/907.

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Zen Cho, Shveta Thakrar, and Patty Templeton join me to discuss (and read excerpts from) their stories in SteamPowered II. This podcast has an explicit tag because of some salty language in Patty's excerpt, which comes at the very end. The rest of the podcast is unsalted. For complete show notes, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/900.

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It's our birthday! To celebrate one year of OA Podcasting, we're giving away free books! Sarah Monette joins me to talk about one of them! We discuss The Bone Key (now in its second edition), Victorian ghost stories, the writing process, and more. Then she reads an excerpt. Copies of Vintage by Steve Berman and Hollowstone by Dennis Upkins are also up for grabs. For complete show notes, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/894. .

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Lynne M. Thomas joins me to talk about her shiny new Hugo, fashion, fandom, feminism, and editing (among other things). She's the co-editor of Chicks Dig Time Lords, Whedonistas, and the forthcoming Chicks Dig Comics, she'll be taking over as editor of Apex Magazine in November, and she moderates the SF Squeecast. At the end we also have some reading recommendations from OA members. For complete show notes, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/888.

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Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond of The Writer and the Critic join me to discuss Horn and Bleed by Peter M. Ball, "The Behold of the Eye" by Hal Duncan, and "Nightship" by Kim Westwood. For complete show notes, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/875.

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Ellen Klages talks about her writing, queer history, and other awesome stuff. For complete show notes, visit http://blog.outeralliance.org/archives/865.

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