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In this episode Mark interviews Angeline Trevena, an author of dystopian urban fantasy and post-apocalyptic fiction, a podcaster, an events manager, and the author of a number of phenomenal books about world-building.
Prior to the main content, Mark shares a short personal update, including the fact one of his patrons will win a copy of Angeline’s latest edition of 30 Days of Worldbuilding, a coupon code to get $100 off registration for Superstars Writing Seminars 2023 (STARKSSWS2023) and a word about this episode’s sponsor.
You can learn more about how you can get your work distributed to retailers and library systems around the world at starkreflections.ca/Findaway.
During their conversation, Mark and Angeline talk about:
- The release of the 2nd edition of her book 30 Days of World-Building
- How Angeline has always loved fantasy, and choose-your-own-adventure books
- The way reading The Chronicles of Narnia was one of the factors that led to her love and passion for world-building
- The original 30 Days of World-Building starting as an 30 day Instagram challenge, that became a worksheet, that eventually became a book
- How to Destroy the World, the 2nd world-building book in the same series that Angeline released
- The original 30 days of world-building prompts that takes you from scratch, all the way up to creating a world ready to drop your characters into
- Angeline’s three rules for world-building: Revealing character, pushing the plot forward, and exploring the themes of your novel
- Being a panster and an avid world-builder at the same time
- Destroying a world or creating a dystopian or post-apocalyptic setting
- How dystopian stories can often be filled with a lot of hope
- Food within world-building, including all the rituals and festivals that have been created around food
- How food can be a massive part of religion and magic
- Some of the other writing that Angeline has done
- Involving her 9 year old in the writing/early critique process of her middle grade books
- And more…
After the interview, Mark reflects on the use of food in culture, religion, society, in rituals, as well as a way to help demonstrate or establish character and conflict in a scene.
Links of Interest:
- Angeline Trevena’s Website
- Superstars Writing Seminars
- Buy Mark a Coffee
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- The Relaxed Author
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
- An Author’s Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
- Wide for the Win
- Mark’s Canadian Werewolf Books
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0