Balticon 41.50 – Interview with Author David Drake
Author David Drake talks about writing full time, how he became a writer, how he stays sane, and his personal experiences in the Viet Nam War.
Wikipedia Quote:
David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.
- David sold his first story the year I was born
- His time in Viet Nam
- Coming “Back to the world”
- Grenade’s vs. Paperwork
- Current re-integration programs for the Iraq War
- The current government is court marshalling victims of PTSD who refuse to go back to Iraq
- PROMO: Second Life Notes
- PROMO: The Pocket and the Pendant
- Going from Lawyer to Bus Driver to Writer
- The unemployment rules of North Carolina
- Solitude and writing
- Firearms for fun – The S&W model 686 comes in 6 and 7 shot models
- PROMO: The Seanachai
- PROMO: World Fantasy Con 2008 Podcast
- Translating Latin (Don’t ask the Jewish kid from Long Island about Latin)
- The holes in the paper don’t lie
- Hammers Slammers – Selling it and the feedback
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- “You’ve got people under enormous stress and it hasn’t stopped being stressful because they’ve come back. Because part of them didn’t come back.”
May 21st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
When I try to download the Drake podcast, I get a file 0 bytes in size (right click, save target as, etc.). The other podcasts I’ve downloaded (a few newer ones) all worked without a problem.