In this episode of our infrequent but well-loved (at least by us) podcast, we talk about the questions related to marketability and quality, interview Drew Hayes who ended his Superpowereds series recently, and then talk about the revolving door of death. Also, we'd like to draw your attention to the fact that the Pen and Cape Society's [...]

Throwing the Gun--Superheroes in All Media

Episode 15: Writing Books–Marketability vs. Quality, Interview: Drew Hayes (Superpowereds), Revolving Door of Death

In the most recent episode of Throwing the Gun, we talk about ending series since Drew Hayes is ending Superpowereds, Christopher (CB) Wright is ending Curveball, and Cheyanne Young has ended City of Legends. Also, an inadvertent comment about writer's block starts a Nerdfight--which probably also counts as a trope discussion as well. Finally, I [...]

Episode 14: Ending Series, Nerdfight: Writer’s Block! Interview: Ian Healy (The Just Cause Universe)

And now, another episode of "Throwing the Gun," and only a week after the last one. Well, sort of. It's not quite another episode. It's an interview. Normally we have multiple segments in our episodes, but this has only one. Also, we don't have the whole group. Here's what happened: Chris arranged the interview and I [...]

Episode 13.5: Interviewing Eric (An Interview with Eric Burns-White)

And the Pen and Cape Society's podcast returns again! This time we're talking shop about what it's like to be writers at various levels of success, how book sales are doing and what we're doing to promote ourselves. We also talk about Wonder Woman because at that point it was new and current. In addition, [...]

Episode 13: Writer Shop Talk, Wonder Woman, Keeping Secrets

Coming back from a five month hiatus, we've got a new Throwing the Gun episode... This time we talk about crossovers, Jim interviews Scott Story, and we discuss the Captain Ersatz trope. Want to subscribe? You'll know the moment new episodes so are released on: Stitcher Apple's iTunes Our RSS Feed

Episode 12: Crossovers, Scott Story Interview, Captain Ersatz

In this episode we talk about series versus standalone books both in the commercial and artistic sense as well as heel/face and face/heel turns in fiction and professional wrestling. Seriously. We are not joking about this--except when we're making jokes. Want to subscribe? You'll know the moment new episodes so are released on: Stitcher Apple's [...]

Episode 11: Series vs. Standalone Books, Heel/Face and Face/Heel Turns

Are you ready to RUMBLE? In today's completely unauthorized and unasked for unepisode, Percival Constantine, author of the Vanguard series, and C.B. Wright, author of the Curveball series, will fight till the end to settle whether the movie Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice sucks or not! Why are we still talking about this three months later? [...]

Episode 10.1: Batman v. Superman! Unauthorized Expanded Nerdfight Edition!

In this episode of Throwing the Gun we talk about our different approaches to writing combat, interview Cheyenne Young about her new series, and talk about depowering as trope and what we thought of the (then) recent episode of the Flash where it was used (dammit!). Want to subscribe? You'll know the moment new episodes so [...]

Episode 10 (Writing Combat, Cheyenne Young Interview, Depowering as Trope)

Created by the Pen and Cape society, a collection of superhero fiction authors, Throwing the Gun discusses superheroes in books, comics, movies and television. We also talk about the business of being a writer.

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Throwing the Gun--Superheroes in All Media

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