Chrisafer abandoned us and the pod gods were not pleased. We casted our pod anyway. Author A. Lee Martinez joined us this week for a chaotic episode that was so good we recorded it twice!

Guest Chat:

- A. Lee Martinez's Brilliant Book Titles: Gil's All Fright Diner, A Nameless Witch, the Automatic Detective, In the Company of Ogres

- That time Lee almost gave up writing to pursue juggling

- Hollywood Smallshot

- Movie Options

- Lee's writing process

- Lee's advice for newbs

News:

- Simon and Schuster SOLD

- Reading and Our Brains

- Pirates. Arrrggg!

AI News:

- Somebody uploaded a bunch of crappy books and pretended they were written by Jane Friedman. Strangely, she wasn't happy about it.

- Authors mad at a Prosecraft

- Dungeons & Dragons fans ain't havin' no stinkin AI

- AI written Travel Guides, what could possibly go wrong?

Tools:

- Wix for your Author Website

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

- Lee gives us his villain origin story and we talk about the importance of building a network