The Creator’s Guild

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Seventy episodes is a long table. You do not have to sit in every chair. These eight will tell you what this hour is.

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Pick the chair that sounds like you

The newest · Episode 71It’s Extremicon ’26!It’s Extremicon time again. S.A. Burd and Gabrielle Miller at the table. If you write · Episodes 68, 67, 63Learning with LizThe craft chair: tension, character against plot, and feedback. If you came for the books · Episode 66A door into DuradimA page from Volume II, read out loud before it was bound. If you make a thing · Episodes 19, 62The rest of the honest tradesGlass, a convention floor, and the work of calling yourself a maker. If you just want the hour · Episodes 69, 65Two chairs with no homeworkJared and Chris, no guest, no lesson plan. Every weekThis week at the tableThe newest episode, this month’s spotlight and what’s new, on one page.

If you write

Learning with Liz

Liz Verity has become the craft chair. Start with tension and how a story actually moves. Then decide whether you want the rest of the lesson.

Episode 68 Learning With Liz — Creating False Tension When the turn does not land. Why some tension is a trick, and what to put in its place. Nov 2025 · 51 min Episode 67 Learning With Liz — Character Driven vs Plot Driven Which one you think you write, and which one is actually on the page. Nov 2025 · 68 min Episode 63 Learning With Liz — An Author’s Feedback Giving it. Taking it. Why neither is optional if the book is going to get honest. Oct 2025 · 82 min

If you came for the books

A door into Duradim

The Guild is where Jared and Chris read the next room before it is bound. Episode 66 is a look at To Bind With Blood. Episode 70 is the night we told the table it was out.

Episode 66 It’s Sneak Peak Time!! Captain Ethran’s plan is not holding. House Umari is paying for it. A page from Volume II, out loud. Oct 2025 · 47 min

To Bind With Blood is out. The books live at Duradim →

If you make a thing that is not a book

The rest of the honest trades

Glass. Photographs. A convention floor. The table was never only for novelists.

Episode 19 Push Pull Twist Blow! Trent Mall of the Laughing Dragon. Eleven-hundred-degree glass, and the work of calling yourself a maker. YouTube · 90 min Episode 62 Time For Extremicon Authors, 3D printing, horror, a wild-west gunfighter who traded the belt for a keypad. Oct 2025 · 72 min

If you just want the hour

Two chairs with no homework

Jared and Chris, no guest, no lesson plan. This is the sound of the table when it is only the two of them.

Episode 69 Everyone Has Opinions, But Mine Are Always Right CGI against practical effects. Which medium tells the story, and which one only pretends to. Nov 2025 · 34 min Episode 65 A Trip Down Movie Nostalgia Road 1986. What you were watching. What still holds. Oct 2025 · 65 min

How to be a guest

Anyone who makes a thing and is willing to talk about the making

Writers, glassblowers, photographers, editors. The table was never only for novelists.

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