Spec Fic for Newbies is out within a week, so Val (my co-author) and I joined Dan at the Coffee in Space podcast to nerd out about apocalyptic fiction and toilet paper, word count restrictions, the subjectivity of squicking people out, the permeability of subgenres, considering your audience and genre context, the fact that ancient humans weren't idiots, theme (which we cover in the book intro!), how our conscious and subconscious minds don't play together well, and having too many writing projects at once.
Listen in here to Coffee in Space!