Untold Legends: The Podcast

Welcome back to the UNTOLD LEGENDS podcast hosted by Natalie C. Parker & Zoraida Córdova. We've had a little bit of a rebrand, so if you remember VAMPIRES NEVER GET OLD, we are still the same editors and writers, we've just expanded.

Join our dynamic duo as they're joined this time by the wonderful Darcie Little Badger. Together they discuss some fun (and deadly) marine facts along with what inspired her story in the anthology from the perspective of a horror and fantasy lover.

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a Ph.D. in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.

She can be found on Instagram @dr.littlebadger.

We also found Darcie's magical octopus! The Octopus Squid has bioluminescent arms and can drop one as a distraction as it escapes predators. Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium website for more on this critter.

Additional media mentioned: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), The Lighthouse (2019), Dagon (2001), The Shape of Water (2017), and Love, Death + Robots "Jibaro" (2022).

Follow Zoraida Córdova @zoraidasolo and Natalie C. Parker @ncparker on Instagram.

Welcome back to the UNTOLD LEGENDS podcast hosted by Natalie C. Parker & Zoraida Córdova. We've had a little bit of a rebrand, so if you remember VAMPIRES NEVER GET OLD, we are still the same editors and writers, we've just expanded.

This time around we dive into an empathically poignant conversation about the radical transformation that comes with the exploration of gender and what happens to us when we face storms both physical and emotional.

Katherine Locke lives and writes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with their feline overlords and their addiction to chai lattes. They are the author of the critically acclaimed This Rebel Heart, The Girl with the Red Balloon, a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book and 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, as well as The Spy with the Red Balloon. They are the co-editor and contributor to This is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them and Us, which had three starred reviews and made Kirkus Review’s Best Middle Grade of 2021 list, as well as It's A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes and Other Jewish Stories. They also contributed to Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens and Out Now: Queer We Go Again. They are the author of picture books Bedtime for Superheroes, What Are Your Words? A Book About Pronouns, and Being Friends with Dragons.

They can be found online at KatherineLockeBooks.com and @bibliogato on Twitter and Instagram.

Additional books mentioned: The Seafarer's Kiss by Julia Ember

Follow Zoraida Córdova @zoraidasolo and Natalie C. Parker @ncparker on Instagram.

Welcome back to the UNTOLD LEGENDS podcast hosted by Natalie C. Parker & Zoraida Córdova. We've had a little bit of a rebrand, so if you remember VAMPIRES NEVER GET OLD, we are still the same editors and writers, we've just expanded.

For our third episode, we're joined by Rebecca Coffindaffer and Julian Winters! Get to know the authors and their tales on asexuality and acceptance in MERMAIDS NEVER DROWN: TALES TO DIVE FOR as we dive into a discussion of Splash following a recent rewatch. We'll chat about its nuances and whether it aged well... or not.

Follow Zoraida Córdova (@zoraidasolo) and Natalie C. Parker (@ncparker) on Instagram.

It's our last episode of VAMPIRES NEVER GET OLD: THE PODCAST and we are joined by New York Times bestselling author, Rebecca Roanhorse! We talk old favorites and new loves and Rebecca reveals her ultimate vampire inspiration for the enigmatic cowboy vampires that ride into town after being summoned by a young man's jukebox song.
Thank you for listening to VNGO, and be sure to pair each episode with your favorite short story and contributors!
Also in this podcast:

• Vampires Never Get Old ed. by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Lost Boys
• Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice
• The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden
• Murder by Death - "Lost River"
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All vampires are problematic faves, and Spike is no different. We do a deep dive into his character's introduction in season 2 and his journey from monster to ensouled through the series. Samira Ahmed gives us some insight into the writing process for her short story "A Guidebook for the Newly Sired Desi Vampire" only available in Vampires Never Get Old.
CW: mention of sexual assault from season 6.
Also in this episode

• Mad Bad & Dangerous To Know by Samira Ahmed
• Vampires Never Get Old pre-order campaign
• Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell