Hear me wax poetic about Husnock, Pakleds, Ferengi, and more as I answer questions for Bruce and Dan of Literary Treks about my new Star Trek Titan novel Fortune of War.
Our hosts dig into the novel’s story, characters, and more in this deep-dive Q&A with yours truly. We yakked for over and hour and a half and left no narrative stone unturned. So go give it a listen!
Some literary philosophies hold there are only two kinds of stories, tragedies and comedies. I crafted my new Star Trek novel Section 31: Control as an unapologetic tragedy. In this podcast I explain why.
I joined Literary Treks co-hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson to talk about the inspirations and implications of my novel, the rationale for writing an entire chapter of the novel in computer code, and the rather polarized response it has garnered from fans of the Star Trek books. Also on the agenda was a conversation about the roles played in the story by androids Data and his daughter, Lal.
We conclude our discussion with some teases concerning what readers can expect from my next two Star Trek novels, Titan: Fortune of War and Discovery: Desperate Hours. I also tacked on a reminder that roughly ten months from now my new Tor Books original trilogy Dark Arts will debut with my long-awaited World War II fantasy epic The Midnight Front.
So point your browsers toward Literary Treks and check out episode 186, “Tragedy in Every Sense of the Word,” and get a peek behind the curtains that conceal my creative process.
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Now live for your listening enjoyment is Literary Treks episode #159, “The Twilight Zone,” in which I discuss the inspirations and ideas behind my latest Star Trek novel Legacies, Book 2: Best Defense.
With hosts Matthew Rushing, Dan Gunther, and Bruce Gibson I discussed what it was like for me to finally write a novel based on and featuring the original series characters and Enterprise; the creative process behind the inception of the Transfer Key and how it connects to Star Trek‘s canon; the trilogy’s story-development process; its characters’ arcs; the thinking behind the trilogy’s alternate dimension and new alien antagonists; plus a peek at the work I have coming in 2017.
Last week, I chatted with Christopher Jones and Matthew Rushing of Trek.fm podcast Literary Treks about my latest Star Trek novel, Disavowed. Today that podcast went live, and is available to subscribers via iTunes or to anyone who wants to listen online here.
Here is their concise rundown of the show’s contents, for those who might want to skip to a particular segment:
NewsJudge a Book By Its Cover: The Collectors (00:02:53)Blurb revealed for Kirsten Beyer’s Atonement (00:07:07)John Byrne bringing the Borg to TOS in New Visions (00:10:09)Review: The Q Gambit, Part 4 (00:16:11)Feature: Section 31: DisavowedDesigning the Cover (00:32:01)Crafting Disavowed and the Life of Bashir (00:40:03)Researching and Remembering the Past (00:50:17)Working in the Mirror Universe (00:57:16)Charting Bashir’s Future (01:09:28)Influencing the Spy Game (01:20:12)Section 31 Didn’t Know WHAT?! (01:23:34)Principles Betrayed and a More Interesting Conflict (01:29:59)What’s Next for David? (01:36:59)Closing (01:43:32)
As always, there’s fun behind-the-scenes bits to be gleaned from this candid chat, so check it out.
If you’ve ever thought, “I wish David Mack would participate in a live Internet radio show with a call-in option so I could bug him with an annoying question and have it and his stymied reaction recorded for posterity,” now is your chance.
I’ll be chatting =LIVE= about the new Star Trek: Seekers series with the folks at BlogTalk Radio’s Writers Alive program on Saturday, August 16, from 8pm–9pm EDT.
Point your browsers our way, and call in if you think of something sufficiently irritating to yak about.
Along with my partners in literary crime Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, I recorded a lengthy chat with Nick Minecci, Terry Lynn Shull, and Mike Medeiros of The G&T Show. That gabfest should be live very soon is now live at this link!
Next week, the entire Star Trek: Seekers team — Dayton, Kevin, myself, and artist Rob Caswell — are scheduled to record an interview with Jason Hunt for Live from the Bunker (another fine show on BlogTalk Radio), and I’ll be flying solo on a pre-recorded interview about the new books with Matthew Rushing and his always entertaining co-hosts at Literary Treks on Trek.fm.
As always, I’ll disseminate links to all those shows as soon as possible after they go live!