Episode 21: John Wiswell - ”Tonight at the Palindrome”

This month, we're honored to be joined by John Wiswell (@Wiswell), who reads an excerpt of his story, "Tonight at the Palindrome." After that, we talk about our experiences navigating non-genre bachelors programs as genre writers and why it's so important to be open about our rejections as well as our sales. Things that we mentioned this episode: "Tank!" by John Wiswell Ellen Datlow  Arkady Martine  A. T. Greenblatt  Uncanny Magazine  Shimmer  Julia Rios  Fireside Magazine  Worldcon 76  Bogi Takács  NaNoWriMo  Curtis C. Chen  Mary Robinette Kowal  Seanan McGuire  Warren Wilson College  Louis L'Amour  Stephen King  J. R. R. Tolkien  Ursula K. Le Guin  Richard Matheson  "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson Bennington College  The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold William Faulkner  Tor  Peter Jackson  Campbellian monomyth  Astounding  Amazing Stories  TSR (the publisher, as opposed to "TRS," as in the Tandy TRS-80, which was mistakenly name-dropped in the episode) Lois McMaster Bujold  Diana Wynne Jones  Cowboy Bebop  "Tank!" by Yoko Kanno and Seatbelts Personal Canons: Dragon Ball by John Wiswell (free to read, despite what was said on the show, but do consider subscribing anyway) Sarah Gailey's Here's the Thing  Orson Scott Card  "The Bottomless Martyr," by John Wiswell The Bathroom Monologues    Please join us again next month, on December 18th, when our guest will be Phoebe Barton!