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Carrie Vaughn, author of the bestselling Kitty Norville series, joins us to talk about werewolves, heroines, Wild Cards, and other things.

Panel Topic: Vampires and Werewolves

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Introduction

0:00 Introduction by Tor.com

0:37 Dave and John introduce the show

Interview: Carrie Vaughn

01:49 Interview begins

02:03 Ray Bradbury and the taste of shoes

03:40 Kitty Norville’s emergence in short fiction, and how Carrie accidentally became a novelist

06:29 A werewolf named Kitty

08:02 Exploring political themes through judicious use of snark

09:00 Dr. Laura just doesn’t have the experience for this sort of thing

09:35 Guns and horses: Carrie knows one of these very well

11:14 Carrie knows what’s up: Unicorn fiction! Read her short story “A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait”

12:35 Carrie weighs in on Twilight and tells us about her new YA book Voices of Dragons

13:56 More on Voices of Dragons: dragons, rock-climbing, jet fighters and boyfriend trouble!

14:42 About the Odyssey Writers Workshop and grad school

18:04 On university creative writing courses

19:41 Working on George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series

21:47 The resemblance between Carrie and Kitty, and the art of Craig White

22:32 Carrie helps John with his werewolf troubles, and explains how Kitty became a romance character

24:31 Kitty’s future

25:35 Judging the series by the ending

26:59 Lois McMaster Bujold’s books as an example of how to do a series right

27:43 Who’s not worthy? On being blurbed by Gene Wolf

28:45 What’s coming up for Carrie: Voices of Dragons in March,Kitty Goes to War late June or early July, Discord’s Apple, a short story in the Warriors anthology from Tor, and Realms of Fantasy has her short story “Just Another Word”

30:19 End of interview

Dave and John talk about vampirism and lycanthropy

30:19 Knowing there’s something to fear

32:26 The most famous vampire of all and the red-headed Irish theater manager who created him

36:40 Different takes on the vampire mythology, and some of John and Dave’s early vampiric memories

46:11 The Impaler documentary, and what’s scarier: vampires, or people who think they are vampires?

47:56 Rules for vampires and other horrors, and the zombie vs. vampire battle over I Am Legend

49:42 Werewolves, David Wellington’s Frostbite, the great Horror Trifecta, and universes in which they’re all real

52:32 Some of Dave and John’s favorites: “Gestella” by Susan Palwick, found in the Starlight 3 anthology; George R.R. Martin’s “The Skin Trade,” and “In the Lost Lands” which will appear in John’s The Way of the Wizard anthology

54:21 The upcoming Ekatarina Sedia anthology Running With the Pack; some favorites from John’s anthology By Blood We Live, and short film Treevenge. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fictionhas “Blue Fire” by Bruce McAllister

01:01:28 Show wrap-up

Next week: Tom Rogers, author of Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Thanks for listening!

Show notes compiled by podtern Christie Yant. Friend us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.