Episode 596. Nicole Gallands D.O.D.O.
Friend of the podcast, novelist Nicole Galland (I, Iago), has co-authored (with Neal Stephenson) a wonderful sci-fi time-travel thriller-comedy called\xa0The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., which the San Francisco Chronicle calls "a\xa0high-stakes techno-farce with brains and heart!"\xa0D.O.D.O.\xa0is now out\xa0in paperback so Nicole returns to talk about the book's creation,\xa0the difficulties of describing your characters, how she met Neal Stephenson, the burden of having too many interests in too many places, the rarity of authorial rebranding, rewriting during the editing stage, how the authors' writing partnership informed the relationship between the two main characters, some tantalizing clues about the sequel, and how one transitions from an historical to a sci-fi novelist. (Length 18:53)