Episodes

  • Episode 109: DLP Challenge - Writing for Submission
    May 21 2025

    The goblins get sluggy with it as they brainstorm ideas for story subs to write for the new literary magazine: SLUGGER. Listen in to their feral ramblings as they plan their next devious piece of fiction. Or whatever.

    Wanna join in? Check out SLUGGER here: https://sluggerfiction.com/


    Preorder Carson's upcoming collection here: https://carsonwinter.com/pre-order-portraits-of-decay/

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Episode 108: Webnovels (with Viktor Athelstan)
    May 14 2025

    This week, we sit down with author Viktor Athelstan to talk about webnovels! What are they? How are they? Who reads them?

    Find out more about everything Viktor is working on right here: https://linktr.ee/ViktorAthelstan

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Episode 107: Using Trauma to Write Horror
    May 7 2025

    This week, we delve into TRAUMA! How it shapes us as people, our perspectives, and how it always finds its way into our fiction—one way or another.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Episode 106: Managing the Waiting Game
    Apr 30 2025

    Writers have to wait. That's just a fact of life. Between submissions, queries, releases, cover art, edits, and more—it's likely you're going to find yourself waiting more often than not. This week we discuss how to practice patience and strategies to take the pain away from the process!

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Episode 105: The Horrors of Naming Your Collection
    Apr 23 2025

    PLM is back from the Planet Alimnia and that means that the Dead Languages Podcast is back at full force!


    This week we're talking about single-author collections and how you can choose to name them.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Episode 104: Mentorship (with Timaeus Bloom)
    Apr 16 2025

    PLM is still gone, but that doesn't mean Carson's going to shut up. This week, Timaeus Bloom joins the Dead Languages Podcast as co-pilot, to discuss the importance and process of mentorship in writing.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Episode 103: Writing Hot Takes (with Patrick Barb)
    Apr 9 2025

    Carson's alone again while PLM is lost in space!

    This week, author Patrick Barb joins Dead Languages to talk about horror writing hot takes. Will our white-hot opinions finally cause us to be banished from the scene? Listen and find out!

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Episode 102: I Have No Mouth and I Must Niemandswasser (with Erik McHatton)
    Apr 2 2025

    PLM is off on terrible new adventures, so Carson is home alone. So, who does he invite over? Erik McHatton, of course!

    Carson and Erik catch up on their reading by checking out two stories lauded within the horror canon.

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    1 hr and 8 mins