Episodes

  • 73: Queen of Blood and Blasphemy Preview #5--Fulfilling Promises I Made 6 Years Ago
    Dec 8 2023

    Our last preview chapter of the now available fourth book in the Tidecaller Chronicles! Plus some talk afterwards about what a fool I was to promise all the things I did in the first three books, and how it went against my very nature to make good on those promises rather than just flake on it. Fun stuff.

    To read how I made good on those promises (or listen), check: https://www.books2read.com/qobb

    Or to just read/listen to a free thing, https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    22 mins
  • 72: Queen of Blood and Blasphemy Preview #4--How to Write a 3rd person book INSIDE a 1st person book
    Dec 6 2023

    Another preview chapter from our Now Available Queen of Blood and Blasphemy! Plus some talk on the very weird point-of-view I used in this book, which is not the simple first ("I crouch down") the rest of the series has been in, nor really third person ("She crouches down"), but a bizarre in-between. Hope you enjoy the listen!

    Get the book here: https://books2read.com/qobb Or get a freebie here: https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    30 mins
  • 71: Queen of Blood and Blasphemy Preview #3--When Your Characters Get Too Damaged (Or Enlightened)
    Dec 4 2023

    Another preview chapter of Queen of Blood and Blasphemy! Plus some talk afterwards about what to do with characters when they get too damaged, or too enlightened, to want to be in their heads anymore. Spoilers: the answer isn't just to kill them off.

    Except sometimes it is.

    The book is out now! You can get it here: https://books2read.com/qobb

    And for something completely free, try: https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    29 mins
  • 70: Queen of Blood and Blasphemy Preview #2--What To Do When Your Dead Body is a Dead City
    Nov 29 2023

    Another preview chapter of Queen! Plus some talk afterwards about how this whole series ended up very... mysterious.

    Find the book/audiobook here: https://books2read.com/qobb

    And a free Tidecaller audiobook here: https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    32 mins
  • 69: Queen of Blood and Blasphemy Preview #1--What Four Books Will Teach You
    Nov 27 2023

    In which we preview the first chapter of the forthcoming final audiobook in the Tidecaller Chronicles, Queen of Blood and Blasphemy, and then I talk some on the lessons I learned in the three years and four books that make up the series--plus perhaps some reflections on what I did wrong with the series that came before it, and some goals for the one that will come next.

    For Queen of Blood and Blasphemy, go to https://books2read.com/qobb

    Or for some completely free audiobooks, check out https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    26 mins
  • 68: Muses, Blocks, and Accidental Successes: author chat w/Morgan Cole
    Mar 3 2023

    In which Chrysathemere author Morgan Cole and I chat about following our creative muses, agency to forever revise our published books (or not), and accidental successes! Plus updates on our works in progress (spoiler: his is not a book!).

    Chrysatheme 1 is currently free! Get it here: https://books2read.com/u/3k2BzR

    Or for a free Tidecaller audiobook, go to https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    23 mins
  • 67: Marilia the Warlord w/author Morgan Cole
    Feb 17 2023

    In which the highly talented (see: our new No Suck Guarantee) Morgan Cole and I talk about his best-selling (and personal nemesis) book Marilia the Warlord, start of the Chrysathemere series, plus compelling characters, star wars prequels, and writing in the trenches.

    Marilia is currently free! Get it here: https://books2read.com/u/3k2BzR

    And to read that original ending, https://www.morgancolewriting.com

    Or for a free Tidecaller audiobook, go to https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    19 mins
  • 66: Systems Either Change or Die
    Feb 1 2023

    Excuse my geeky Andor quote title--I was going to do my usual soliloquoy thing this episode, where I waxed philosophical on how that wonderful Star Wars series makes us root for villains, and what that does to my heart and reader brain when they're also actively trying to hurt other people I'm rooting for... then decided to never soliloquoize again. More on that in the podcast. Plus, a No-Suck Guarantee.

    Homework for next month's podcasts: Marilia the Warlord, by Morgan Cole, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marilia-Warlord-Chrysathamere-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B082VQHLBD

    And for a free audio novella of mine, Thief of Smoke and Sorrow, go to https://www.levijacobs.com/free

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    7 mins