Sci-fi Saturday Night

This episode brings us Five Timers Club member Rob Smales who converses with us about a swarm of horrifying items. Rob got to talk about his involvement in My Peculiar Family 2 as an author and as an editor. We got a rare glimpse of that the role of a good editor is and does. […]

Our guest in this episode is returning author V.S. Holmes here to talk about some new interconnected projects of hers at Amphibian Press. First is her inclusion in a Science fiction short story anthology ‘Beamed Up.’ Joining with fellow “Amphibian” writers Cameron J. Quinn, Ariele Sieling and Cullen McHael, V.S.’ contribution is a story called […]

In this episode we are joined by author Vlad Vaslyn and artist, writer and coloratura soprano Karen Gosselin to talk about their contributions to My Peculiar Family 2, currently on Kickstarter. Karen gets the chance to talk about how she has been with this project since the beginning and why she felt it was important […]

  In this podcast, Dale Phillips, who certainly has some stuff to talk about, joins us once again. We get a chance to talk about his newest works as well as his time as a student when Stephen King was his teacher, his time as a mall Santa, his upcoming trip to The Killer Nashville […]

  In a wide-ranging conversation we spoke with David Dewane. He is an architect, entrepreneur, publisher, journalist, and educator. He is also the co-founder and president of Mouse Books. We talked about the concept of publishing in an electronic world, what Mouse Books has to offer  and the scope Mouse Books has. From theory to Kickstarter, […]

A few months back, friend of SFSN Josh Dahl and I spoke at Plastic City Comic Con and he was super psyched to show me his newest comic collaboration, “Skies Over Superior”, a story about Merilee Fite, a young girl facing ghosts and monsters on the icy shores of Lake Superior. At the time I found […]

On this episode, we are joined by multi faceted human Mike French who comes by to talk with us about book two in his series dealing with the coming devaluation of humans ‘Fictional Alignment’. While this is the second book in the series, it does function quite well as a stand-alone (I know this only […]

In this edition, we get a chance to talk again with Cameron J. Quinn, Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur from Amphibian Press. Ostensibly, Cameron is here to talk about her story In Amphibians’ newest anthology, Beamed Up (faithful listeners of the podcast will remember Ariele Sielings recent appearance to discuss her story in the book, ‘The Stalk’). […]

This TalkCast is a case study in what happens when one of our favorite writers asks to come on the show to talk about her newest stuff and you’re expecting really nice fantasy with inventive quirky universes and instead get a review copy for a post apocalyptic dystopia with poisonous monsters and icky gooey deaths. […]

In this episode we talk with the Ayesha DeRaville and her twin sister and collaborator Sonise Lumbaca about their  most recent re-collaboration, Space Aliens, Bad Mothers and Guns: Volume 2. These sisters are articulate, intelligent talented writers and artists an have come up with a refreshing twist on the idea of a novel. In fact, […]

This episode is all about how a hobby becomes an obsession and morphs into, of all things, a museum. Our guest for this episode is James Azrael of The HSPPA (Horror & Science Fiction Prop Preservation Association). Musician/producer/actor James leads the HSPPA as Head Curator at all events and is accompanied by an incredible team of […]

Continuing with our on again off again theme, what’s so funny about science fiction, on this episode our guest is C.T. Phipps, author of, among many other things, The Rules of Supervillainy series that features the unlikely anti-hero Gary Karkofsky. The discussion is a typical author interview, talking about bizarre pop culture references, the use […]

  In this episode we spend time talking with science futurist and science fiction writer Alex Jablokov. We spent the show talking about various facets of his life; how and why he found his love for science fiction, when he began writing, why he stopped writing and why he restarted his writing career. It’s a […]

It’s another two-guest episode. An actress, a show runner, a voice actor and a comic book writer all walk into a podcast. Well tonight that’s one person, the multi talented writer of Darby Pop Publishing’s Bruce Lee comic, Nicole Dubuc. We get a chance to talk about all of her past and current roles and […]

In this episode we have a discussion with three people with unique responsibilities in the production of My Peculiar Family II: Co-Editor Stacey Longo, Co-Editor and Story Contributor Rob Smales, And Cover Illustrator and Artist Karen Gosselin. Each talks about their introduction to the project and what, in their mind, makes this volume unique. Enjoy […]

Have you ever read a book and said to yourself, “Self, I would love to talk to the guy who wrote this stuff.” Well, in this episode I get that chance. I first found a copy of The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant in a books store a few years […]

In this episode we are joined by Keith Gleason to talk about Plastic City Comic Con 2018. It’s being held at the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg Ma. again this year on Saturday April 21st from10am to 6pm. One of the best of the new breed of Micro-Cons, Plastic City is now 3 years old […]

It all started with a book. For our guest, in 2012, the book was Valis. The author of the book was Philip Kindred Dick. Our guest on this episode is the mind behind The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival in New York City, Dan Abella. We got to talk with Dan on a […]

Our guests for this episode are Rick and Julia Ingham creators of the Mad Max Minute Podcast.  This is a podcast dedicated to watching every Mad Max movie one minute at a time and dissecting it in excruciating detail. We get some history on this genre, from its beginnings, as a podcast about an examination […]

It’s always delightful to catch up with an old friend. As our Queen of Paranormal Romance, every Valentines Day H.P. Mallory has had a standing invitation to join us. This year she accepted and we couldn’t have been more pleased. It seems that as the years have gone on, she has become more prolific than […]