Up from the Bookwyrms vaults is a seminar recording with Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, Car Pool) about his TV and writing career and the culinary pleasures of beetroot. Robert talks to Jane Killick at this entertaining event. Record

In this edition of Bookwyrms we discuss John Scalzi's Redshirts, a Hugo award-winning novel about Star Trek starship adventures of the future (and present day). Listen to it here or download it now on the Bookwyrms podcast feed. Our next book for discus

In this first Bookwyrms for 2014 we talk about a classic tale where the lines between book and film adaptation often blur, The Princess Bride by William Goldman. How easy is it to disentangle the two media forms of this story and who is the real hero in

In this edition of Bookwyrms we discuss Broken Homes, the fourth in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Helen has read all the series to date but Paul jumps right into the middle of a magical urban fantasy. What do they (and members of the Go

Fahrenheit 451, a book about a dystopian future - or is it? Find out what the Bookwyrms have to say after reading Ray Bradury's 1953 classic about firemen... There's been a fair gap since the last show due to illness (colds don't sound very nice on audi

Now out is the Bookwyrms podcast discussion of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, our August 2013 book club pick. It meets our target of being under 42 minutes but we hope you'll forgive any lack of polish in our first episode. So do listen

Friday's come round again and time to release another one of The Bookwyrms recordings from Nine Worlds. This time, How To Help Your Book Find An Agent, a highly informative seminar/Q&A session with literary agent Juliet Mushens and Gollancz author Den P

While at the Nine Worlds convention in London, we made recordings of a number of panels held at this very busy event. This is the first (of several) that we'll be releasing over the forthcoming weeks. New House, Old Ghosts: Reinventing Mythology & the Su

This is a recording of the Small Press Stories seminar held at Eastercon 2013 in Bradford. What's it like running a small Science Fiction/Fantasy Press? Editors from local publishers share stories about their business. With Bob Neilson (Aeon Press), Pete

Another file from the archives. This time a recording of the Eastercon 2013 seminar, Advice for Writers: Characterisation. Practical Experience and observations on writing believable and interesting characters. With Sarah Ash, Jacey Bedford, Gareth Powe