This week, Beau Nelson and Alex Ballar, the filmmakers behind the indie comedy horror movie Zombie Drugs, join The Genre Traveler to chat about the film and its commentary on drug culture. The conversation also touches upon using zombies as a metaphor, working with zombies on set (they’re tough), zombies vs. vampires, the potential for […]
No one knows who started Tooth Fairy Day, or when it was started, but it is pretty obvious that it celebrates the American tradition of the Tooth Fairy. The idea that a fairy visits children who have lost their baby teeth and gives them money in exchange, although American, has European and superstitious roots. People […]
Host Carma Spence chats with Thunderbirds novelist Joan Marie Verba about how she became a fiction writer and got involved in the series of media tie-in novels based on the 1960s British marionette TV show, Thunderbirds. The conversation also touches on her first book, which covered the discoveries made by Voyager, her first novel, Autumn […]
In which Carma Spence chats with Canadian author Joseph Picard about his unusual trilogy of novels that take place on a slightly altered Earth (it has an additional continent) and feature nanite-driven zombies: Lifehack, Watching Yute and Echoes of Erebus. The conversation twists and turns around a variety of topics, including break-dancing zombies, made up […]
In which Carma Spence, The Genre Traveler, converses with author Ed Morawski. A U.S. Air Force veteran, serving eight years in locations as diverse as California and Vietnam, Ed is an expert in electronic security with more than 35 years experience in the industry. The conversation covers his books — View, A Paranormal Romance; Avenue […]
Listen to an interview of Marion Kerr, director of Golden Earrings, in The Genre Traveler Podcast, Episode 19.