78. YA Author Jane Yolen / Swordfights (with Kat Howard)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2013

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Guest Geek: Kat Howard

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0:00.0	Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
0:13.0	And here are your hosts.
0:16.0	John Joseph Adams and David Barr-Kirtley.
0:19.0	Hi, this is Dave.
0:22.0	And this is Dave. And this is John.
0:24.0	And welcome to episode 78 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
0:28.0	Our guest today is Jane Yallin, author of more than 300 books for children and adults.
0:33.0	One of her newest projects is a pair of graphic novels called Foyled and Curses Foyled again.
0:38.0	About a teenage girl who discovers that her magic fencing gear lets her see and do battle
0:42.0	with the invisible fairy
0:43.7	creatures that haunt New York. Then stick around after the interview as
0:47.4	author and fencer Cat Howard joins us to discuss sword fighting. All right so let's get
0:52.3	to our interview. All right, so let's get to our interview.
0:54.0	All right, so we're here with Jane Yolan.
0:56.0	Welcome to the show.
0:57.0	Thank you.
0:58.0	Glad to be here.
0:59.0	Okay, so one of your new projects is a pair of graphic novels called Foyled and Curses Foyled again.
1:04.7	So just how did those first come about?
1:07.0	Years and years ago I was a college fencer and I had a fencing foil that after I graduated from college I had with me, you know, I took with me to my apartment in New York City.
1:20.0	And I had a date in Grand Central Station with someone carrying my fencing foil and lost it in
1:29.1	Grand Central Station.
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