Page Break with Brian McClellan

Brian’s guest is author and podcaster Mallory O’Meara. Mallory wrote the bestselling nonfiction book The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick. Her upcoming Girly Drinks, a feminist history of women and alcohol, is out just a week from broadcast of this episode. Mallory is also the co-host of the literary podcast Reading Glasses.

Mallory and Brian talk about how authors are bound to social media and the frustration that brings; how her career took a left turn into non-fiction; and the way Covid disrupted the fragile social lives of creative professionals. Enjoy Brian's conversation with Mallory O’Meara.

Find Mallory on Twitter, her website, or her podcast, Reading Glasses. Pick up her new book, Girly Drinks, on Amazon or from your favorite bookseller!

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Brian's guest is novelist and comedy writer Robert Brockway. Robert got his start during what many listeners will think of as the golden age of Cracked.com, editing and writing funny articles that were read by hundreds of thousands of people every week. Robert’s comedy chops have since moved on to co-found 1900HotDog.com. Robert is also the author of the post-apocalyptic horror novel Carrier Wave and the Vicious Circuit, an urban fantasy series from Tor Books.

Robert discussed his early days at Cracked.com; the responsibility of making people laugh; the difficulty of managing mental and physical health while creating, and the horrors of being thrown into the deep end of public speaking as a new author.

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Brian’s guest is multi-genre novelist and comic writer Delilah S. Dawson. Delilah is known for her widespread work with tie-in fiction including Star Wars, Spiderman, Rick and Morty, Hellboy, and Firefly. She writes fantasy under the name Lila Bowen with the Shadow series, and comedy fantasy in partnership with Kevin Hearne on the Tales of Pell series. Her next book—a middle grade horror novel called Mine—is out on August 10th, 2021.

Delilah and Brian talk about exercise as a form of creative inspiration, the grueling schedule of a comic writer, and Delilah’s experience working on Star Wars.

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Brian’s guest is horror and science fiction writer, Dan Wells. Dan is the author of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed I am Not a Serial Killer, which was turned into a major motion picture in 2016. He’s also written the Partials Sequence, the Mirador series, the Audible Original Zero G, and a number of other novellas, short stories, and stand-alone novels.

Brian talks with Dan about authorial branding; supporting his family during the pandemic as a professional game master; some of the ins and outs of their business, and about Dan's current collaboration with their mutual friend Brandon Sanderson.

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Brian’s guest is the venerable science fiction and fantasy author Maggie Ogden – better known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm. Robin is best known to fantasy readers for her multiple series set in the Realm of the Elderlings. These include, but are not limited to, the Farseer Trilogy and the Liveship Traders Trilogy.

Brian and Robin discuss her long career, starting in children’s literature and all the way up to the recent announcement that she would be receiving the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. They talk about her use of pen names, her farm and grandkids, and her current writing habits.

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