{"id":25121,"date":"2018-07-20T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=25121"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:57:00","slug":"ellen-klages-in-episode-72-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/20\/ellen-klages-in-episode-72-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to taste Toad in the Hole with Ellen Klages in Episode 72 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to return to Pittsburgh for the penultimate episode of Eating the Fantastic recorded during the recent Nebula Awards weekend. If you want to experience that weekend as I did, check out my two dinners with Kelly Robson<\/a> and Matthew Kressel<\/a>, lunch with Alyx Dellamonica<\/a>, and the chaotic but hopefully entertaining lightning-round Donut Jamboree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And then move on to this<\/em> episode’s guest, Ellen Klages, who won the Nebula Award in 2005 for her novelette, \u201cBasement Magic.\u201d Her novella, \u201cWakulla Springs\u201d (co-authored with previous guest of the show Andy Duncan<\/a>), was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards and won the World Fantasy Award in 2014. <\/p>\n

She won the Scott O\u2019Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the Lopez Award for Children\u2019s Literature, and the New Mexico State Book Award for Young Adult Literature for her first novel, The Green Glass Sea<\/em>. She has served for twenty years on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award. Her novella \u201cPassing Strange\u201d was one of the finalists for this year’s Nebula award. <\/p>\n

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Our venue for this episode was the relatively new Whitfield at Ace Hotel<\/a>. This was certainly the most picturesque setting for a meal I experienced in Pittsburgh, because the building which housed both hotel and restaurant was a century-old former YMCA. <\/p>\n

We discussed why it took 40 years from the time she wrote the first sentence of her Nebula Award-nominated story \u201cPassing Strange\u201d to finish the tale, what a truck filled with zebras taught her about the difference between storytelling and real life, how cosplaying helped give birth to her characters, what she finds so fascinating about creating historical science fiction, why revising is her favorite part of writing, the reason she’s the best auctioneer I’ve seen in my lifetime of con-going, what she teaches students is the worst mistake a writer can make, how her collaboration with Andy Duncan gave birth to an award-winning novella, whether she still feels like \u201ca round peg in genre\u2019s polyhedral hole\u201d as she wrote in the afterword to her first short story collection, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can taste some of that Toad in a Hole with us—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe over at the iTunes store<\/a>, where you’ll also be able to peruse all 71 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Listen to the episode via the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on any device of your choosing.<\/p>\n

3) Or simple listen using the embed below.<\/p>\n