Re-Creative: A podcast about inspiration and creativity

Joe and Mark are joined by the super successful and super-fun science fiction writer, John Scalzi. It's an entertaining conversation about science fiction, the egotistical nature of writing, and John's hobby, which is music. In addition to having a terrible case of G.A.S. (guitar acquisition syndrome), John loves creat

Mark and Joe chat with the Canadian poet and science fiction doyenne, Candas Jane Dorsey. Candas is well-known in Canadian science fiction circles for her work as a novelist (Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth) and editor-in-chief of The Books Collective, which included River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books. The conversat

Ben Fox is founder of the amazing book discovery site Shepherd.  Joe and Mark talk to Ben about a book that had a huge impact on him. Native Son, by Richard Wright, was assigned to Ben as a senior in high school. "I hated it from the depths of my soul, but now this book is strongly in my DNA," Ben says. He doesn't hate

Joe and Mark reflect on the Re-Creative journey so far, after two complete seasons, and over forty episodes.  For more information, check out the show notes for this episode.  Re-Creative is produced by Donovan Street Press Inc. in association with MonkeyJoy Press.  Contact us at joemahoney@donovanstreetpress.com

"If you could write – and consume – only one of these genres of science fiction, what would you pick? Space opera. Post-Apocalyptic. Or Cyberpunk?" This is the diabolical question that Mark poses to Joe and their guest, renowned Canadian science fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer.  Everyone has an answer and it connects

Joe and Mark are joined by a veritable Swiss Army Knife of writers, Mark Leiren-Young. Mark has written in multiple genres and formats, including television, animation, journalism, comedy, theater, and film. And he loves him some Spider-Man. Oh, and Kurt Vonnegut too, so you know that Mark LY gets along with both the l