{"id":33342,"date":"2023-02-24T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=33342"},"modified":"2023-02-24T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T13:23:10","slug":"jennifer-r-povey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/24\/jennifer-r-povey\/","title":{"rendered":"Get crabby with writer Jennifer R. Povey in Episode 192 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended Boskone<\/a> last weekend, where I recorded three new conversations I’ll be sharing with you, but before we get to those, let’s pay a visit to the previous weekend’s Farpoint<\/a>, where I had lunch with Jennifer R. Povey<\/a> at the Ashland Cafe<\/a> in Cockeysville, Maryland, which offers excellent diner food and great pie.<\/p>\n

Povey has made numerous appearances in\u00a0Analog<\/em>, and her short fiction has also appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Daily Science Fiction<\/em>, Bards and Sages Quarterly<\/em>, Zombiality<\/em>, \u00a099 Tiny Terrors<\/em>, First Contact<\/em>, You\u2019re Not Alone<\/em>, and many others. \u00a0Her novels include the four books in the Lost\u00a0Guardians series \u2014\u00a0Falling Dusk<\/em>\u00a0(2016), Fallen Dark\u00a0<\/em>(2017), Rising Dawn<\/em>\u00a0(2017), and Risen Day<\/em>\u00a0(2018) \u2014 as well as the stand-alones\u00a0Transpecial<\/em>\u00a0(2013), Ara\u00f1a<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0The Lay of Lady Percival<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Firewing<\/em>\u00a0(2020), and\u00a0The Friar’s Tale: A Novel of Robin Hood<\/em>\u00a0(2020) She also has a number of credits in the RPG\u00a0industry, having written or co-written\u00a0supplements for Fat Goblin Games, Rite\u00a0Publishing, Dark Naga Games, Flaming Crab\u00a0Games, Avalon Game Company, and others.<\/p>\n

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We discussed how the pandemic altered the timing of her newly begun five-book science fiction series, why she once had to rethink a novel after getting 20,000 words in, the reason series detectives are rarely the true protagonists in their own stories, our differing reasons for taking issue with J. K. Rowling, her Star Trek<\/em> fan fiction origins, how to avoid sequel fatigue when writing long series, techniques for avoiding self-rejection, her unusual journey to getting published in Analog<\/em>, how 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/em> changed her life, the \u00a0Doctor Who <\/em> episode which altered her existential understanding of the universe, how her archeological training helped her fiction, what writers get wrong when depicting horses, how it’s possible for pantsers to write novels, the time she horrified a Klingon in a convention bar, the divisive nature of “ship wars,” and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 191 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

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

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n