{"id":27877,"date":"2023-12-18T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=27877"},"modified":"2024-01-13T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:07:54","slug":"favorite-interviews-from-how-to-write-the-future-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/18\/favorite-interviews-from-how-to-write-the-future-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite interviews from How To Write The Future, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Episode-76-Blog-Post-Images.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27878 size-full\" title=\"How To Write the Future podcast, epsiode 76\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Episode-76-Blog-Post-Images.png\" alt=\"Navy background with image of Beth Barany for Blog Post Image - Favorite How To Write the Future\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Episode-76-Blog-Post-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Episode-76-Blog-Post-Images-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Favorite-How-To-Write-The-Future-interviews-part-1-2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27879 size-full\" title=\"How To Write the Future podcastm episode 76\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Favorite-How-To-Write-The-Future-interviews-part-1-2.png\" alt=\"Grey and navy blue background of quote from How To Write the Future podcastm episode 76, \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Favorite-How-To-Write-The-Future-interviews-part-1-2.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Favorite-How-To-Write-The-Future-interviews-part-1-2-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Favorite How To Write The Future interviews, part 1 &#8211; <span class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"0\">How To Write the Future podcast, episode 76<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHighlighting today five of my favorite interviews from the past of How To Write The Future.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this special episode of How To Write the Future podcast, host Beth Barany shares clips from five of her favorite interviews from past episodes featuring Keri Kruspe, Cat Tully, Susie deVille, Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer, and Melissa Clark-Reynolds. Beth also invites listeners to share their favorite episodes on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter: @ BethBarany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms The podcast is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/76-favorite-interviews-from-how-to-write-the-future-part-1\/id1641025914?i=1000638914121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMDEyMDYxLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xNDE2MzExMQ?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiopYa_95iDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/14163111-76-favorite-interviews-from-how-to-write-the-future-part-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0MjY0VQsj59RL3UMBXU1vW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/how-to-write-the-future\/episode\/168531892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/e0c2bd5e-a022-4290-9a9b-b4d068231285\/how-to-write-the-future-76-favorite-interviews-from-how-to-write-the-future-part-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zd2i-4Pb3bc?si=cShee2E7UNbd_Z7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zd2i-4Pb3bc?si=COweOY-i4xJ0EXf6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-large-player\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><b>RESOURCES<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic here:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>EPISODES MENTIONED\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Keri Kruspe<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13\/science-fiction-romance-and-ai-tools-with-keri-kruspe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13\/science-fiction-romance-and-ai-tools-with-keri-kruspe\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/22\/represent-native-peoples-accurately-in-your-fiction-with-sarah-elisabeth-sawyer-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/22\/represent-native-peoples-accurately-in-your-fiction-with-sarah-elisabeth-sawyer-part-1\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Susie deVille<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/change-your-book-marketing-mindset-interview-with-susie-deville-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/change-your-book-marketing-mindset-interview-with-susie-deville-part-1\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/06\/tips-for-writing-into-the-future-interview-with-foresight-practitioner-melissa-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/06\/tips-for-writing-into-the-future-interview-with-foresight-practitioner-melissa-clark\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Cat Tully<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/17\/15-interview-with-cat-tully-school-of-international-futures-founder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/17\/15-interview-with-cat-tully-school-of-international-futures-founder\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the How To Write the Future podcast\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The *How To Write The Future* podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers. This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do figure what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Transcript for Favorite How To Write The Future interviews, part 1<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey, everyone. Welcome to a special episode of How to Write the Future. I am your host, Beth Barany. I am a writing teacher science fiction and fantasy writer. And host of How To Write The Future, a podcast where we focus on how to write positive, optimistic futures into our stories because I believe that what we vision and what we envision we can make it so into our stories. And also that deeply impacts our readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Special Episode<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, this is a special episode. As I said, I am highlighting today five of my favorite interviews from the past of How To Write The Future. And then we have another upcoming episode right after this, that will also highlight five more favorite interviews, making for a total of 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are in no particular order. And I will introduce each one.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intro to Cat Tully<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So first off, I&#8217;m going to start with Cat Tully. She runs the School of International Futures, and I interviewed her all about what inspired her to do the work she does. All right. Let&#8217;s listen to the short excerpt with Cat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cat Tully<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the foreign office policy planning staff. And then the government changed in the UK and the space for doing long-term thinking actually shrank. And we&#8217;ve been doing amazing work from the UK like still capacity of the, of the government to do long term thinking really well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, and then I was like, well, you know, I really want to continue doing that outside of government and share what we&#8217;ve learned, but also create a space to focus on those three things that I had as an initial hypothesis, which is like, we can do so much better at teaching how to use this to create transformation impact, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-Hmm. Like, this isn&#8217;t just about using, you know, thinking about scenarios, or it&#8217;s about doing it with purpose to create change<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intro to Susie deVille<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my excerpt next with Susie deVille, it&#8217;s mostly me talking about what inspires me in a little bit of a soapbox with Susie supporting that all the way. Enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My whole quest, these last 16 plus years, is how do I make business feel like I&#8217;m in a creative act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SUSIE DEVILLE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. When I was starting my business, I even interviewed people, other creative writers, and I&#8217;m like, how do you do this business thing and make it fun?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And half the time people are giving me MBA answers that made me just<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SUSIE DEVILLE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fall over. And<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SUSIE DEVILLE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stab yourself in the eyeball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know, yeah. I&#8217;m just like, I think I&#8217;m gonna take a nap now. That was 16-plus years ago. And, and now more than ever, it&#8217;s so important that people find the joy and find the love and find the passion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the last few years, I say to myself, life&#8217;s too short. We need to do what we love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was in 2016, I was guiding myself that way. And then the pandemic, and of course all this extreme weather, although today it&#8217;s beautiful here<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s like, why are we trying to do things the old way when they clearly don&#8217;t work?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitalism has been so exploitative, and I don&#8217;t wanna exploit myself. I wanna be in the place of joy and love and the things that drive me to be a storyteller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So anyway, that&#8217;s some premise thoughts that where I&#8217;m coming from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SUSIE DEVILLE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fire all that at me. That&#8217;s perfect. That&#8217;s all perfect. Let&#8217;s go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay. Thank you for letting me totally do the soapbox thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SUSIE DEVILLE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, it&#8217;s so fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intro to Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next episode, I want to introduce to you as an excerpt with my conversation with Sarah Elizabeth Sawyer, sharing with us the important work she does in bringing an understanding of native cultures to writers. Enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would love for you to introduce yourself to our audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SARAH ELISABETH SAWYER<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Halito<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Beth and everyone, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sv hohchifo yvt,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chahta sia hoke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi, my name is Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer and I am Choctaw. I&#8217;m a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yakoke<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, thank you, Beth, for having me on the podcast. I know this is gonna be a lot of fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, I&#8217;m so glad that you&#8217;re here and you are also a writing teacher and teach on this topic, and I know you have been teaching online and in person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I thought I would start today with this wonderful question &#8212; and so thank you for the questions that you provided, and I will also have some for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I love your first question here, which is: what is the appeal to science fiction and fantasy authors to base characters or their fictional worlds on native history and culture?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SARAH ELISABETH SAWYER<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason why I put that question out to you is whenever I created my course Fiction Writing American Indians, I knew there were a lot of authors out there, native and non-native, who were looking for information, who wanted to know how to accurately and respectfully write about native people, and they didn&#8217;t have a lot of resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I taught some in-person workshops, and then I created the digital course. And what amazed me as I got it out there, started putting the word out there, is how many fantasy and sci-fi authors were attracted to the course. That was easily half of the people who were contacting me and telling me about their story, about their story worlds that they were creating, and how they wanted to include indigenous people in a way that was still accurate, even though it&#8217;s a completely fantasy world, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s fantasy people groups or sci-fi, and so it&#8217;s these completely different worlds, but they were basing &#8217;em on indigenous cultures. And so even though they&#8217;re completely fictional, they still didn&#8217;t want the stereotypes. They still didn&#8217;t want to be cheesy and be stereotyping Indigenous people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They wanted to have this real, authentic feel to their fantasy worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so I&#8217;ve had so many fantasy and sci-fi authors contact me about that. And I think it&#8217;s a challenge for any author writing about another culture, especially if it&#8217;s not their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intro to Melissa Clark Reynolds\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And this next excerpt, enjoy conversation with my friend and futurist colleague, Melissa Clark Reynolds, based in New Zealand and a little bit about the work she does. Enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We met in a futures course in the UK. And have you done this work in New Zealand primarily, or you&#8217;ve done it around the world?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MELISSA CLARK-REYNOLDS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m mostly in New Zealand though I have done quite a bit of work, in Australia and in the UK. And I got to keynote, the Ontario Sheep Farmers Conference last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, yeah. So, I mean, I have, I guess New Zealand is a, a lamb country in lots of ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">produce a, a lot of, meat and dairy are our biggest exports, and so I have a particular interest in those largely because that&#8217;s who will pay me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Right, right. That&#8217;s so great.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, and like you said, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we, we met at a training the summer School for International Futures one-week intensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And something that I really took away from that is a lot of people who were there were very eclectic, had very eclectic backgrounds, and were already quite good at cross-thinking, you know, thinking across disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re not in software today, right? You don&#8217;t work in software now, but how, how did that work, like lend itself to your work in, in future foresight?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MELISSA CLARK-REYNOLDS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve always been one of those entrepreneurs that was just a few steps ahead of the market, and sometimes that&#8217;s a virtue, and sometimes it&#8217;s a recipe for going broke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was of no great surprise to me that my orientation was to the future and I think I&#8217;ve always been like that as an entrepreneur, and software I&#8217;ve always been wanting to create things that didn&#8217;t exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intro to Keri Kruspe\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this fifth excerpt, enjoy a snippet of my conversation with Keri Kruspe, a science fiction romance author, and one of my former clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KERI KRUSPE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So welcome, Keri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You and I have known each other for a long time, and please tell us about yourself and anything else you&#8217;d like to do to introduce yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KERI KRUSPE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I&#8217;m so excited to be here with you today, Beth, I cannot tell you. Like Beth mentioned, we&#8217;ve known each other for a little while. As a matter of fact, without Beth, I would not be a published author today. I started doing this later in my life, which is fine. I started in my fifties to write and I&#8217;d always known I was gonna be a writer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wrote my first Star Trek episode when I was 11. And I still have it, believe it or not. It&#8217;s something that I just had always known in the back of my mind that I was gonna become a writer. I am an avid reader. My first love was science fiction. I got my first books when I was in my mid-teens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, everything from Isaac Asimov to Heinlein to, okay, I&#8217;m gonna throw a Piers Anthony in there. I know he&#8217;s not really science fiction, but he&#8217;s so weird. I love him anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then I found my second love in my early twenties, and that&#8217;s romance. And I loved romance. I read romance all the time. I even read romance when I was on my honeymoon, my poor husband, which we&#8217;ve been married for over 40 years, so it&#8217;s fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then when Paranormal Romance came along, I started reading a lot of that with vampires and werewolves and whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then science fiction romance was born. Oh my god. I thought, whew, life is wonderful. And so I started reading a lot of those.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of my favorites is an author called Tracy St. John. Another one is Susan Grant&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s a couple things that I kind of don&#8217;t like. I, I don&#8217;t like some of the shorter stories that are just, and I apologize if this is gonna sound snooty, but it&#8217;s like just an erotic fest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, I like erotica too, but when I&#8217;m reading a story, I wanna read a story, not just the sex scenes, which I do enjoy those as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My first book is called An Alien Exchange and what it was is I got tired of all these earth women being kidnapped and finding aliens and immediately, they all just bond and have sex everywhere and blah, blah blah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I&#8217;m like, well, that&#8217;s just kind of silly. I&#8217;m gonna make it so that these women who read science fiction romance get offered to join an Alien exchange program to where they can meet the alien mate of their dreams because everything they read about was actual in real life. And so that some of the aliens in the exchange program- if you read Science Fiction romance and she would&#8217;ve recognized them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I have to tell you though, even though I was an avid reader for decades when I first started writing, no offense, it was crap. And without Beth and the school that I was a part of for at least a couple of years, I would never have been able to get off the ground because you get arrogant and you think, well, I read all this and I know exactly what I&#8217;m doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for Listening + What&#8217;s Your Favorite Interview Episode?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for listening to this list of my top five in no particular order. Favorite interviews from How To Write The future over the last year. And stay tuned for the next episode where I go into my next top five. I hope you will like and subscribe and follow along. And also let me know: what was your favorite interview episode from this last year? Or from all of the past episodes of How To Write The Future? I&#8217;d love to hear. I will be doing another wrap up episode like this next year in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gift for You!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s it for this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone be sure to also sign up for our World-building Workbook for Fiction Writers if you would like tips on how to build your storyworld.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s it for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1701116328224.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27766 size-full\" title=\"Image of Beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1701116328224.webp\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Barany teaches science fiction and fantasy novelists how to write, edit, and publish their books as a coach, teacher, consultant, and developmental editor. She\u2019s an award-winning fantasy and science fiction novelist and runs the podcast, \u201cHow To Write The Future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Beth Barany at these sites:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaching site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/baranyschooloffiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Fiction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersfunzone.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer\u2019s Fun Zone 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