Episode 008 – Jason Sanford

08/10/2024 58 min
Episode 008 – Jason Sanford

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In our eighth episode, we interview the spectacular Jason Sanford, and we talk with him about getting exposed to the genre through his grandfather, early sales, getting pulled out of the slush pile, stories in Interzone, working as a neurodivergent person, his history being an archeologist and how that influenced his fiction, “discovery writing”, working in the US Peace Corps, his well-received “Plague Bird” stories, finding the right writing process and rhythm, why it’s okay to not write every day, how our writing processes may change as we grow, his well-received Genre Grapevine blog, the Chengdu Hugo controversy, controlling the genre narrative, writing novellas, persistence after rejections, favorite conventions & much more!