Episode 44: Kate Sheeran Swed - Plastic Dinosaurs, Kickstarter revisited, and Space Westerns

Episode 44: Kate Sheeran Swed - Plastic Dinosaurs, Kickstarter revisited, and Space Westerns

In this episode, I chat with Kate Sheeran Swed about plastic dinosaurs in the workplace, her recent experiences using Kickstarter, and a love of space westerns. We also discuss transitioning from musician to author, the challenges of novelizing superhero stories, and what happens when artificial intelligences get emotions.

As usual, there's also The Lightning Round and The Big Questions.

Books of hers we discuss are: The Parse Galaxy series, The League of Independent Operatives series, and The Toccata Systems trilogy.

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