For the final episode of this season, it's a Tor Nightfire spooky-season double-header! Kemi Ashing-Giwa (This World is Not Yours) and CJ Leede (American Rapture) drop in to talk about being scared, scaring others, and the power of horror to—just maybe—change the world. ** Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio Hosted by Drew Broussard Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Oct 23, 2024•43 min
Just in time for spooky season, it's a Tor Teen episode of Voyage into Genre with two thrilling authors: Terry J. Benton-Walker and Sarah Henning! They chat with host Drew Broussard about writing scary stories for young people, modeling grief for their readers, and the joys of loving world-building. Terry J. Benton-Walker: The White Guy Dies First and Blood Justice Sarah Henning: The Lies We Conjure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 09, 2024•46 min
This week: Zen Cho (The Friend Zone Experiment) and Freya Marske (Swordcrossed) talk with host Drew Broussard about the romance/romantasy boom, what 'low stakes' really means, and writing well-communicated stories about miscommunication. ** Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio Hosted by Drew Broussard Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 25, 2024•45 min
This week: O.O. Sangoyomi (Masquerade) and Rita Woods (The Last Dreamwalker) talk with host Drew Broussard about unearthing histories and making them reverberate, blurring genre distinctions, and the relationships between mothers and children in both life and fiction. ** Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio Hosted by Drew Broussard Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
Aug 28, 2024•44 min•Season 4Ep. 3
This week: Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Lost Ark Dreaming) and Brenda Peynado (Time's Agent) talk with host Drew Broussard about bleak futures, grounding stories in the present, and what it means to have hope in strange times. ** Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio Hosted by Drew Broussard Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 14, 2024•49 min•Season 4Ep. 2
The voyage continues! Another season of Voyage into Genre kicks off with a refreshed format—so make a little more room on the ship, as we welcome two authors at once! Ananda Lima (Craft: Stories I Wrote For the Devil) and L.M. Sagas (Cascade Failure + Gravity Lost) talk with host Drew Broussard about embracing genre, the political importance of genre stories, and writing some anthropomorphic but decidedly not human characters. ** Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Ra...
Jul 31, 2024•47 min•Season 4Ep. 1
The first-ever Voyage into Genre live tour is in the books—and what a tour it was! Intrepid authors Andrea Hairston, Veronica Roth, Rebecca Thorne, and Nghi Vo spent a whirlwind week traveling from Seattle to New York with stops every night along the way. We're pleased to share excerpts from their tour kick-off at Third Place Books (with TJ Klune moderating) as well as the final stop at Greenlight Books (with P. Djeli Clark moderating). And stay tuned for Season Four—new episodes will launch Jul...
Jun 12, 2024•43 min
Tor Publishing Group and Lit Hub are thrilled to present an evening of fantasy at a LIVE version of our popular Voyage Into Genre podcast. Join Andrea Hairston, Nghi Vo, Rebecca Thorne, and Veronica Roth on an epic road trip across the US beginning May 13! For tour stops, ticket information, and more, click here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 28, 2024•2 min
A little end-of-season treat: some recommendations from the Tor authors who appeared on the 2023 season of Voyage into Genre! Books, music, movies, and even a new podcast rec courtesy of the Brooklyn Public Library!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 01, 2023•26 min
It's the last week of the season and we're getting into the big Fs: feelings, fear, friendship, family. Fun! ITINERARY: Kristen Simmons (Find Him Where You Left Him Dead) discusses the difference between Eastern and Western ghosts, why teenagers deserve real fiction, and inventing a terrifying game for her characters to play. Johnny Compton (The Spite House) talks about his favorite thing in fiction, about the real-life inspirations for his spite house, and about why it isn't actually so easy to...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week, we travel to the Big Smoke! It's London across time and relative dimensions in space, with magic and monsters and the mystery of antiquarian book-selling. ITINERARY: V.E. Schwab (The Fragile Threads of Power) talks about the joy of revisiting old friends on the page, the complicated ethics of power, and why it is that London calls to her. Lina Rather (A Season of Monstrous Conceptions) takes us back to the days after the Great Fire with deep research on midwifery and Sir Christopher W...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 2 min
It's time to break out your best 1960s-Batman graphics -- because it's an action-packed episode about ACTION! ITINERARY: S. L. Huang (The Water Outlaws) explains the historical roots of Water Margin, muses on what being a stunt performer brings to writing, interrogates the ethical questions humanity has grappled with for centuries, and lets us all in on a little secret about the book... Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle (Ebony Gate) talk about how they came to write together, why they wanted to root t...
Sep 20, 2023•55 min
This week, we're getting our hands dirty -- it's a nature ep! Sort of! Featuring eldritch coming-of-age stories, first contact tales, and how we might re-envision ourselves as a part of this planet's ecosystem instead of somehow outside of it. ITINERARY: S.L. Coney (Wild Spaces) talks about the present-tense of their novella, the power of writing about nature and a good good dog, and what we learn as we grow up. Ruthanna Emrys (A Half-Built Garden) explains what she means by 'diaperpunk,' how sh...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr
Our voyage this week takes us into the waters of fundamentalism, from a space station with the last(?) vestiges of humanity to a city in a world much like ours except for the cults and the anti-gods floating around before coming back around to our world and the mystery cult around a guy called Jesus. ITINERARY: Emily Tesh (Some Desperate Glory) on preventing radicalization, lessons from history about authoritarianism, and the pleasures of in-universe non-fiction. Vajra Chandrasekera (The Saint o...
Aug 23, 2023•59 min
Looks like Team Genre is blasting off again! This season kicks off with an examination of hope, from a magical circus between the World Wars to a conversion camp in Montana to a globe-trotting optimist. No matter how down you might feel about the world these days, this episode will give you a little more pep in your step. ITINERARY: J.R. Dawson (The First Bright Thing) talks writing about performance, the root of her Sparks, and having hope even in the face of a move out of a beloved home. Chuck...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 1
What's that sound back there, in the back of your mind? Could it be... YES!Voyage into Genre is back for another trip! Episodes air every other week beginning Weds Aug 9 -- and this season's line-up is better than ever. Maybe you can even hear a couple of guests in the static... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 19, 2023•32 sec
For the last episode of this season, it's time to think about collections -- story collections! Even more specifically, multi-author anthologies of new (or new-to-the-readership) work! So let's take a trip to China, to Africa, and to Pasedena, CA for some thoughts on collection and curation. ITINERARY: Regina Kanyu Wang (The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories) talks about the collaborative process of editing The Way Spring Arrives, considering non-dualistic ways of being, and the hope that spr...
Oct 05, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 6
It's time to go long and think about epics! But actually, we're thinking about the people who make up those epics. It's the best of both worlds really: you get the big space battles and also the interpersonal conflicts, the questions of morality and justice alongside mistakes and goofs. How like life! ITINERARY: Neon Yang (The Genesis of Misery) talks wanting to write a historical epic and writing a space epic instead, about finding truth in storytelling, and about how trying to make sense of Q-...
Sep 21, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 5
It's time to go back to school, which means we're reading to figure out who we are! Let's get thinking about the books -- and the people -- that shape us and teach us and define us. ITINERARY: Sunyi Dean (The Book Eaters) talks about whether its possible to be a good person, letting go of perfection, and her book-devouring vampires. (Recorded live at the 2022 Jericho Writers Summer Festival of Writing) Olivie Blake (The Atlas Series) talks about being a reformed pantser, writing from a place of ...
Sep 07, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Today is a true journey into the unknown, for me anyway: romance fiction. In the space of two books, I go from not thinking it was for me to absolutely adoring what Alexandra Rowland dubs “fealty and feelings” novels — so let’s go, let’s get into it, let’s get our hearts messy! And we’ll think a bit about the politics of romance, too… CW: some discussion of sexual assault and depression/anxiety ITINERARY: Foz Meadows (A Strange and Stubborn Endurance) talks about finding romance through the clas...
Aug 24, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Strap on your shiny sunglasses: we’re headed to near-future Delhi, an upscale apartment block where no one touches one another, and then right back here to this most pivotal moment for humanity. ITINERARY: Samit Basu (The City Inside) talks about being told your book is a dystopia when you didn’t write it that way and what it means to be on social media in the age of scripted reality. Joma West (Face) shares how the ethics of technological child-rearing can be made even scarier with some languag...
Aug 10, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 2
It's haunted house day on our voyage -- hope you packed your flashlights... ITINERARY: Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home) explains why under the bed is the scariest place in the house, defying the pull of easy narrative, and why you should have empathy for haunted houses. T. Kingfisher (What Moves the Dead) talks about the fascinating world of fungi, historical gender fluidity, and why she loves a re-telling of a classic tale. Brett Bertolino (VP, Director of Operations for Eastern State Penitentiary...
Jul 27, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Voyage into Genre is back for season two! Host Drew Broussard welcomes a new batch of Tor authors with new books, new locations, and new surprise guests! Have your tickets ready and step right this way. New episodes every other Wednesday, starting July 27th. if you're enjoying the show, give us a review! tell your friends! and please stand clear of the closing doors! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 20, 2022•1 min
ITINERARY: Ryka Aoki talks about why Light From Uncommon Stars blends genres, about how writing poetry helps with writing food, and why Lindsey Stirling is awesome. Andrea Hairston talks about finding hope in Master of Poisons, the genius of Michael Ende, and how theater (and physics) affect her writing. Tor Books Editorial Director Claire Eddy talks about the past and the future of the genre and why a bigger tent is always better. For a full episode transcript, click here. Thank you for listeni...
Sep 22, 2021•56 min
ITINERARY: S. Qiouyi Lu talks about fast-food surveillance, writing in different genres, re-examining history, and aer mosaic novella In the Watchful City. Silvia Moreno-Garcia talks about coming back to a novel (that's coming back into print), why characters are more interesting than world-building, and how Germán Robles helped inspire Certain Dark Things. Emily Hughes, site editor for Tor Nightfire, explains why horror matters and why scaring yourself is actually an evolutionary survival trick...
Sep 08, 2021•55 min
ITINERARY: Charlie Jane Anders talks about her essay collection Never Say You Can't Survive, how to write in dark times, the retrospective opportunities offered by a story collection, and gleefully smashing the bounds of 'genre' distinctions in her new YA trilogy. Becky Chambers talks about her fridge-meal novella A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the pleasures of tea-drinking, and why she has hope. Drew reads an excerpt of Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus as a beacon against dark times. Full episod...
Aug 25, 2021•54 min
ITINERARY Nghi Vo talks about fan-fiction, how she came to write her Gatsby retelling The Chosen and the Beautiful, and how humanity is rooted in storytelling. Shelley Parker-Chan talks about retelling history in She Who Became the Sun, why she doesn't think too much about craft, and why she needed to get out of the world of diplomacy and politics. Stephanie Ybarra, artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage, talks about being an artistic leader and why we need to interrogate and redefine our i...
Aug 11, 2021•54 min
ITINERARY Bethany C. Morrow talks about how A Chorus Rises sprang from a need to correct some assumptions, writing a follow-up that isn't a sequel, how weird family can be, and re-thinking what 'world-building' actually means. TJ Klune talks about Flash Fire's teens and superheroes and teen superheroes, responding to the real world in fiction, and navigating grief in Under the Whispering Door. Naomi Wiens, LMFT talks about therapy and working with teenagers. If you or someone you love is struggl...
Jul 28, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 2
ITINERARY Edinburgh, Scotland (20xx) to talk to T. L. Huchu about The Library of the Dead, the dystopias around us, scientific magic, and making up a new music craze. Cairo, Egypt (1912) to talk to P. Djèlí Clark about A Master of Djinn, counterfactuals, returning to a world, and the writer's toolkit. New York, USA (2021) for a quick city stroll with Kamau Ware, founder of the Black Gotham Experience. Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio Hosted by Drew Broussard ...
Jul 14, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
We're going on a voyage... a VOYAGE INTO GENRE! Beginning July 14th, join host Drew Broussard for conversations with Tor Books authors about their latest work, the future, and the future of genre. Follow @torbooks / @tordotcompub / @tornightfire to make sure you don't miss a thing! Music by Evelyn Production and Engineering by Stardust House Creative Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 09, 2021•1 min
