Worldbuilders Weekly Podcast

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John Gwynne talked about Norse mythology, reenactment, worldbuilding, and family.

Jesper & Autumn from the AmWritingFantasy podcast talked about their course on world building, the importance of a good map, and using cover art to bring readers in.

Martha Wells talks about her Nebula-award-winning new Murderbot book "Fugitive Telemetry", how Covid impacted writing/publishing/fan interaction, the role perspective plays in telling a story, and the positive power of fandom.

Called "A perfect military fantasy: brutal, complex, human and impossible to put down," C.L. Clark's debut novel is an amazing combination of intrigue, action, and social issues in a fantasy setting both familiar and surprising. Cherae talks about the process of writing this book, how fight scenes are plotted out and why anti-colonialism and P-90X are both important!

What does the future of personal privacy, connection, personhood, and work mean as technology changes? S.B. Divya touches all of that in her new book "Machinehood", and in this podcast she talks with Worldbuilders about the process of writing it during a pandemic and why it was an important story for her to tell.

You can check out the ways that Worldbuilders yearly fundraisers for Heifer International have helped make a better world by visiting our Impact Map. They also wrote more about the most recent fundraiser on their blog.Worldbuilders continues to support Heifer & other charities, and you can be part of it!You can donate directly to Worldbuilders to help support their work, or help support geeky creators and authors by checking out all the nerdy goodness at Worldbuilders Market.To learn more about Worldbuilders, follow us on social media:Twitter * Facebook * Instagram * Pinterest * Twitch

Progress, change, science fiction, and self-care: last year authors S.B. Divya, Nghi Vo, Nandi Taylor, and Vida Cruz talked about all of this and more as part of our "Something to Look Forward to" fundraiser. They called it "Spooling Up Your Hope Engines," and it was just the kind of resilient battle cry we needed from these amazing creators.

Here is a transcript of this podcast - please let us know how you like it, either in the comments below or on our social media:twitter.com/worldbuildersinstagram.com/worldbuildersincfacebook.com/WorldbuildersInc And if you'd like to see more of this kind of content, please do subscribe! The video of the entire Worldbuilders Weekly episode is also available  on our YouTube Channel here. transcript follows: