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Balticon 44 Guest of Honor, Tanya Huff joins us for a discussion about writing, writing for TV, working on a TV show, being a working writer, Zombies, and so much more.

PROMO: I Should Be Writing

SONG: Happy Birthday Baby by George Hrab off Trebuchet

Martha and Paul will be attending NASFIC to talk about podcasting and running conventions. Stop in and see us.

We will be on the following panels:

Regional Fandom – Room RCC 203 – 1pm to 2pm on Friday 8/6

What Podcasts Can Do for You -Room RCC 203 – 10:30am to noon on Sat. 8/7

Why My First Podcast Sucked – Room RCC 203 – 5pm to 6pm on Sat. 8/7

We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone in the podcasting and SF&F community. Walk up to us and say hello!

As you should know by now, Ben Bova is going to be the Guest of Honor at Balticon 45. But long before that happens he will be premiering his new webcomic at Intervention. Intervention takes place September 10-12 2010 at the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

Long time Balticon attendee Rob Balder, and Bill Holbrook will be collaborating with Dr. Bova on this new webcomic called Duel in the Somme. We’ll post more information and a link to the comic when it is available.

Thank you to all of you who checked in when the podcast stopped updating in iTunes. The problem has been fixed and the podcast will continue on with no signs of stopping.

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Read it, share it, love it. Balticon 45 will be here before you know it.

Highlights!

Guest of Honor: Dr. Ben Bova

Artist Guest of Honor: Vincent Di Fate

Music/Filk Guests of Honor: Bill and Brenda Sutton

Special Guest of Honor: Steve Geppi

Fan Ghost of Honor: Mark Owings

2010 Compton Crook Award Winner: Paolo Bacigalupi

2011 Compton Crook Award Winner: TBA

A Four Day, 24-hours-a-day Extravaganza!

 

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Howard Tayler (bio) is the creative genius behind the decade long web comic Schlock Mercenary. We talk about Baltimore, writing and doing comics full time, and much much more. Howard has some amazingly good advice for people looking to make money from their creative endeavors on the Internet.

Available from Amazon:

Schlock Mercenary: The Tub of Happiness

Schlock Mercenary: The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance

Schlock Mercenary: Under New Management

Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars

Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between

Schlock Mercenary: Resident Mad Scientist

Strohl Munitions Activity and Coloring Book

 

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Dr. Tom Holtz Jr. is the Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Geology at University of Maryland College Park. He is also one of, if not the, world’s foremost authority on the T-Rex. And we talk all things dinosaurs. Dr. Holtz is an engaging speaker and one of the best science communicators out there today. If you’ve watched just about any dinosaur special on TV, you’ve probably seen him.

Here is his picture from his own website:

His book Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages is available at Amazon. It’s from 2007, and we’ve learned so much more since then. He keeps it up to date with an online appendix on his website.

 

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Perennial New Media favorite and professional musician, George Hrab has a new album out. He has graciously allowed us to release Trebuchet to you for free.

WHAT?!?! Is he crazy? No, not at all. Well, maybe.

He hopes you like it so much you’ll buy a copy as a download or on CD. So do I. In full disclosure, George Hrab is one of my favorite musicians. Still, if you like it, please support George so he can make more music in the future.

-Paul Fischer

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Here’s all the fun you could ever fit in your pocket. The Balticon 44 Pocket Program is here. Start planning your weekend.

 

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Friend of the show, Lawrence M. Schoen and I sat down at Balticon to talk about his Hugo Award nomination, traveling, how exercise effects writing, and much much more.

 

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Hugo award nominee and friend of the show, Lawrence M. Schoen reads Sweet Potato Pie from his upcoming collection of short stories. Lawrence is nominated for the 2010 Hugo Award for his short story The Moment. His new collection will be launching at Balticon 44.

 

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This is our second interview with Gene Wolfe and I think the best interview we’ve ever published. This is due in large part to Jim Van Verth.

When we published our first interview with Gene we received the normal amount of downloads in the first few weeks that I was used to. Then something amazing happened. Our download count kicked up from the low hundreds to the mid thousands. I did some checking and discovered that Jim Van Verth mentioned our interview on a Gene Wolfe fan site. Of course I wrote Jim an email to thank him, but when I saw that Gene was returning to Balticon, I went out on a limb and asked him to help me with an interview.

I knew that with a newborn baby in the house there was little chance that I would be able to really dig into Gene’s incredible body of work in order to give his amazing career as an author the credit it was due. But Jim was already a huge fan of Gene’s and well versed in his works. I’m not sure how we’ll top this one, but it really raises the bar for me. I want to thank Jim again for the work he put into writing all the questions for this interview.

I also want to thank John Taylor Williams again for guest hosting and mastering this audio. I’ve just entered a new position with a new company and there’s lots to do. We’ve also been dealing with a string of illnesses with our child. Nothing serious, just the normal stuff that kids get when they start socializing. However normal it might be, sleepless nights and crying babies make little time for editing audio.

Finally, I would like to thank Gene for taking the time to talk openly and honestly about his career as a writer.

-Paul Fischer

Head of New Media, Balticon

Promo: Tumbler, by Brand Gamblin, also available at Podiobooks.com

Bumper: Cory Doctorow’s Craphound.com

Music: A Dark Machine

John Taylor Williams can be contacted on Twitter: @WryneckStudio

 

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A day in the life of a sought-after commercial artist. It’s almost impossible to walk through a book store, game store, or computer game store without seeing cover art from Kurt Miller. Join us as we discuss how computers have effected the life of this amazingly prolific artist.

Guest hosted and mastered by John Taylor Williams of Wyrneck Studios

• Kurt Miller’s studio - http://www.kmistudio.com/
• Cory Doctorow’s website - http://craphound.com/
• The Commandline Podcast - http://thecommandline.net/
• The City of Heros Podcast - http://cohpodcast.com/
• Ending music by John Taylor Williams - http://www.reverbnation.com/adarkmachine

 

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Scott Sigler’s Special Guest of Honor speech, The Changing Face of Content Delivery. As recorded at Balticon 43.