Author: Jamie Greene

On this episode, we talk with R.A. Salvatore about his many years playing in the Forgotten Realms sandbox, the freedom he had to develop the world and characters, returning to Drizzt with Timeless, playing EverQuest, novelizing Star Wars with Attack of the Clones, and killing Chewbacca.

This week, we turn our sights back to music and composing – television scores, to be specific. We welcome Siddhartha Khosla to the show and dive deep into his career and experiences as a musician.

This week, we’re geeking out about ‘Star Wars’ again. Big surprise, right? Joining us is Jason Fry, who’s certainly no stranger to the franchise. His in-universe bibliography is lengthy, having written everything from fiction to “nonfiction” to visual guides to RPG supplements and covering nearly every corner of the ‘Star Wars’ galaxy. His most recent foray to the galaxy far, far away is the novelization of ‘The Last Jedi.’

On this episode, we talk to Rebecca Roanhorse about balancing two completely different professional lives, writing in the first-person, crafting a story that’s both heavily rooted in Native cultures and incredibly relevant in 2018, and portraying a different side of familiar mythical characters. We also talk about Navajo tradition and what else she’s got on the horizon.

On this episode, we talk to Kris Bowers about his parents’ somewhat unusual influence on his music, learning to collaborate with a larger creative team in television, his genre-spanning music for ‘Dear White People,’ and how to write music that evokes specific colors.

On this episode, I talk to J. Harrison Ghee about how he got his start on the stage, his stint at Tokyo Disneyland, his many personal parallels with Lola and ‘Kinky Boots,’ what the show means to him personally, and what it means to “be a man.”

On this episode, we talk about Aliki Theofilopoulos’s history with Disney feature animation and ‘Phineas and Ferb,’ how she made the transition to producing and showrunning (and what she brought with her), the directive they were given with the ‘Harvey Street Kids’ legacy characters, and how she and Brendan Hay brought the characters into the 21st century without losing the core of what makes them unique.

On this episode, we talk to Jeff Russo about his musical roots, writing music for films versus television, getting the ‘Star Trek’ gig while on a camping trip, the soul of Trek music, and why he sometimes still needs to pinch himself in the morning.

On this episode, we talk to Bryan Lee O’Malley and Leslie Hung about ‘Snotgirl,’ figuring out how to collaborate and finding a new approach to their own creativity, fashion bloggers, online personas, how many of their own neuroses factor into the story, diversity, and mixed cultural heritages.

Today, we’re chatting with Dennis McCarthy, who might just be the only person to be involved in all 25 seasons of ‘Star Trek’ from ‘The Next Generation’ through ‘Enterprise.’ Certainly, no one else had the magnitude of creative output as he had during his 18 years on Trek.

On this episode, we chat with Kate Micucci about ‘DuckTales,’ how she auditioned to be a duck, stepping into the role made famous by Russi Taylor, how she parlayed a childhood dream to be a toy designer into an acting career, her musical career with Garfunkel and Oates, and why the world NEEDS a Webby/Velma team-up show.

On this episode, we talk to Jay Chattaway about his early musical career with the U.S. Navy Band, scoring documentaries and National Geographic specials, coming into Star Trek three seasons in, the massive creative restrictions he had to work within, source music and the ability to break out of the Trek mold, differences among the shows, “The Inner Light,” and so much more.

This week, we’re talking about the Cold War, surprise reveals, and alternative history with Kyle Higgins and Stephen Mooney – the creative team behind ‘The Dead Hand’ from Image Comics. If you haven’t already jumped on board with this title, what are you waiting for?