Tag: Reality Break

Daily life

For those who are interested in the Big Life of the Writer, here is my day today:

  • Tidy the house
  • Finish the laundry
  • Drop off the dry cleaning
  • Shop for groceries
  • Put gas in the car and air in the tires
  • Pay bills (oooh, my favorite part, because it reminds me that cash flow for writers can sometimes really suck!)
  • Clean up my office
  • And any other fun chores that come along!

And so the internets will just have to get along without me for the day. Be well, be happy. And if you need more, go listen to the Reality Break interview, in which I sincerely hope I sound more interesting than this post.

Reality Break podcast interview

Head on over to Reality Break and listen to my 2007 interview with my good friend Dave Slusher. Our lengthy (47 minute) conversation ranges from the power of performance to competence in characters to the origins of the story Dangerous Space… I enjoyed doing it, and I hope you’ll enjoy hearing it.

I talk in the interview about how special it was for me to put together the collection and have the chance to consider years of work in a contained way. It turns out the same thing is true for me with this interview. Dave gave me the chance to talk about things I’ve been thinking about for a while, and to string together a number of different ideas and perspectives about my work into a single conversation. Very fun for me, and illuminating in ways I didn’t expect. Kind of like writing that way (grin).

Dave, thanks so much for the chance to be part of Reality Break. It was a genuine pleasure.

Check out Reality Break

I met my friend Dave Slusher back in the early 90’s in Atlanta, when he interviewed Nicola for his radio show Reality Break — a very very cool program that was also nationally syndicated on NPR for a couple of years. Those of you who have been in sf for a while may well remember it, and may well have been interviewed by Dave.

And the good news is that Dave has recently revived Reality Break as a podcast that will feature a mix of archived shows and new interviews — including, in a month or so, an interview with me done about a year ago, after the release of Dangerous Space. I’ll post a link as soon as the show is available.

In the meantime, go listen to Dave’s interviews with Will Eisner and Cory Doctorow. Dave’s a great interviewer — he knows speculative fiction, comics, and internet culture inside out, reads thoughtfully and widely, asks good questions, makes a real conversation out of it. He’s in love with writing and writers, novels and comics, deep questions and far-flung ideas…

And P.S., I love Cory Doctorow’s notions about how the internet makes us all weirder!