So I'm Writing a Novel...
The show where you join me, Oliver Brackenbury, on the journey of writing my next novel, from first ideas all the way to publication & promotion. In this unique, one-man-reality show I'll share you with you my ever evolving thoughts and feelings on how I write, being a writer, and everything that entails at each stage of the process. I'll also answer listener questions and, sometimes, interview people who write fiction.
If you're the kind of person who likes to learn how things are made, and get to know the people making them, then this is the show for you.
Latest episodes
Apr 28, 2025 • 48min
Ep84 – Interview with Curtis Ellett
Oliver sits down with the editor of the longest running, still-extant S&S magazine, Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Curtis Ellett!
https://swordsandsorcerymagazine.com
Apr 14, 2025 • 44min
Ep83 – Interview with Charles Tyra
In which Oliver sits down with a fellow publisher who is about to launch their second magazine.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crtyra/goblins-and-galaxies-magazine
https://goblinsandgalaxies.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61570266211248
Jan 6, 2025 • 1h 2min
Ep82 – The Eyrie
THE PENULTIMATE STORY OUTLINE
THE LAST STORY OUTLINE EPISODE FOR...PROBABLY QUITE A WHILE
Voe and Oliver dive into The Weird by way of a "Zone Story", as both seek a way for Voe to escape cosmic debt slavery to a still-mysterious entity! What does all that mean? Listen to find out!
Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 25min
Ep81 – An Imported God
Sword & Planet time! In which Voe fends off cosmic callousness as she rides strange beasts through a blend of colorful high adventure with grim thematic underpinnings.
Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 1min
Ep80 – Love Letter to a Sailor
In which Oliver writes a love letter/homage to Sailing to the Future, the first third of Michael Moorcock's most excellent Sailor on the Seas of Fate starring Elric of Melniboné. In this way Voe finds herself to encountering multiverse fatigue, an Eternal Champion labour union, a nihilist scientist, and more!
Dec 16, 2024 • 38min
Ep79 – Inner Sea
"How do you create a warning which will outlast your own language?" is the question at the heart of this first tale in Voe's final act, the story which introduces us to her new life of cosmic debt slavery by taking her deep, deep underground in an irradiated world to search for a cure to a virulent poison running through her veins...
Dec 9, 2024 • 37min
Ep78 – The Final Act
THE NOVEL RETURNS! Yes, in this episode we provide a refresher on the novel and its contents so far, then do an overview of what the final act is about, and what Oliver needed to figure out before drilling down into its individual stories that will tell a tale of cosmic horror and Voe's indebted servitude to a mysterious entity...
Dec 2, 2024 • 1h 6min
Ep77 - Interview with Graham Thomas Wilcox
Oliver speaks with Old Moon Quarterly editor about his Gothic Fantasy novella, Contra Amatores Mundi, that grew out from a story he published in the magazine.
Nov 17, 2024 • 1h 8min
NESS Book Club #3 – The Dark Eidolon
Valerie Valdes, Molly Tanzer, Prashanth Srivatsa and JM Clarke for a discussion of Clark Ashton Smith's classic story The Dark Eidolon.
You can read the story here: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/212/the-dark-eidolon
Valerie Valdes: https://candleinsunshine.com
Molly Tanzer: https://mollytanzer.com
Prashanth Srivatsa: https://prashanthsrivatsa.com
JM Clarke: https://www.facebook.com/J.M.ClarkeAuthor/
Oct 29, 2024 • 55min
Ep 76 – Shatter the Sun with Dave Ring
Dave Ring of Neon Hemlock Press joins us to discuss his upcoming queer Sword & Sorcery anthology.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davering/shatter-the-sun-queer-tales-of-untold-adventure
https://www.neonhemlock.com
