Episode 11: C. L. Polk - "Memory and a Monkey"
Tales from the Trunk - A podcast by Tales from the Trunk - Fridays
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On this episode, World Fantasy Award winner C. L. Polk (@clpolk) joins us to talk being an early-career writer, losing at NaNoWriMo, her early strategies for submitting stories, and why stories don't land. Cee reads to us from a trunked first draft, "Memory and a Monkey," which is a very fun sci-fi detective story. The sequel to Witchmark, Stormsong, comes out February 11th, 2020 from Tor.com books. On this episode, we mentioned: Witchmark, by C. L. Polk The His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman "Writing Begins With Forgiveness," by Daniel Jose Older nanowrimo SFWA qualifying market list Shimmer Magazine on spec magazine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Ideomancer "Bullet in the Brain," by Tobias Wolff Tor.com Uncanny Magazine FIYAH Literary Magazine Diggers (my dad actually got me Truckers), The Bromeliad Trilogy, by Terry Pratchett Stormsong, by C. L. Polk The Midnight Bargain, by C. L. Polk Skies of Wonder, Skies of Danger "The Air Gap," by Hilary B. Bisenieks, LampLight Magazine Join us again next month, when I'm excited to announce that our guest will be novelist K. B. Wagers.
