Show Notes: T. A. Pratt
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Cover to Cover #336A: Lawrence Watt-Evans
Show Notes: Lawrence Watt-Evans
Brian Richardson from What the Cast? joins Mike and Mike today, and he’s preparing Mitt Zombie’s concession speech for the 2008 presidential campaign.
They also discuss the passing of Michael Crichton, and his...
Cover to Cover #335B: Art Reflecting Life
Show Notes: Art Reflecting Life
Discussion: Mike and Mike talk about the potential impact of the 2008 US Presidential Elections on the non-fiction and fiction landscape of the next few years, based on some of the literature shifts in decades past. ...
Cover to Cover #335A: Feedback Blowout!
Show Notes: Feedback Blowout!
Voicemail: Tim Low relays some suggestions for YA books that aren’t “dumbed down”, and Darcy recommends The Secret Life of Bees, the Ember series, and a new series by R. A. Salvatore; Shane in Sydney lets...
Cover to Cover #334B: Feedback from Everyone
Show Notes: Feedback from Everyone
Voicemail: Trampas comments on the changes and expansions with Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms, changing the landscape in order to start anew in several places, and enacting time jumps in other places;...
Cover to Cover #334A: Charlie Huston
Show Notes: Charlie Huston
Voicemail: Scooter Ross lets Mike and Mike know that the B.C. comic strip isn’t being reprinted, but have new strips being drawn by his grandson, which leads to a long conversation about books, profits, and...
Cover to Cover #333A: Tor.com
Show Notes: Tor.com
Discussion: Mike and Mike field a request for opinion about Stephanie Meyer’s statement that she’s not going to publish her next novel in the Twilight series, Midnight Sun, because it’s already been leaked onto the...
Cover to Cover #332A: Edward M. Lerner
Show Notes: Edward M. Lerner
Discussion: Mike and Mike chat it up while streaming the show into Second Life, covering some updates on Mike S’ ebook sales, including the increasing numbers to iPhone and iPod Touch users, plus the evolution of book...
Cover to Cover #331B: The Growth of the Artist
Show Notes: The Growth of the Artist
Mike M has rediscovered his lost stories, and is planning to jump back into them full bore, and is newly passionate about the importance of doing regular system backups. This leads into a conversation about how an...
Cover to Cover #331A: Joe Abercrombie
Show Notes: Joe Abercrombie
Discussion: Mike Stackpole picks several huge bones about Michael Palmer’s The First Patient. Huge bones about plotting, pacing, and more… spoilers are included, but in spite of the major problems Mike S has with...
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...
Cover to Cover #329B: Listener Comments
Show 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...
Cover to Cover #329A: Jennifer Rardin
Show 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...
Cover to Cover #328B: Technology, Unplugged
Show 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,...
Cover to Cover #328A: S. M. Stirling
Show 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...
