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His Dark Materials Podcast

Last week, I posted about speaking on the Parents Just Don't Understand podcast about Philip Pullman's series, His Dark Materials. We mostly talked about the first book, and the HBO episodes that had aired up until that date. I had a blast and hope I get another chance to talk some more about one of my favorite series of books. I hope you have as much fun listening as I did talking His Dark Materials! https://soundcloud.com/parentspodcast/his-dark-materials-w-ben-udashen-karlo-yeager-rodriguez Note that when I mention reading the first few chapters of The Golden Compass (Northern Lights is the title in the UK), I'm referring to the full cast audiobook--it's quite good! ...

November 19, 2019
Fantasy, Public Appearance, Series
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Translation, Anticipation

This week, I finished something I'd been wanting to do for a while: I finished translating a story of mine into Spanish. Because of the more challenging aspects of my upcoming story This Is Not My Adventure (specifically, how it combines first-person and second-person, direct address POVs), I chose it for translation. Given that the story is not yet out, much less out of its exclusivity period, this was more of a playful challenge than anything else. Plus, I'm not sure if it's actually well-translated (I'd like to think so, but . . .) I suppose this is what happens when I'm waiting for my story to be free to read online. I'm not sure if it will be well-received, but I sure hope that's the case. I also found out my upcoming story got reviewed over at Rocket Stack Rank, which whatever their flaws, made me feel like I'd...

September 15, 2019
Fantasy, Writing
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