Joe Abercrombie

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Bestselling author Joe Abercrombie dials in from his home in Bath to talk to Rhett about his creative process, the challenges of being a full time writer, and his love for character-focused storytelling. The two discuss the importance of striking a balance between authenticity and narrative structure, pushing through procrastination, and Joe explains how his experience as a TV editor influenced his writing, particularly in terms of pacing and focus. Joe Abercrombie is the New York Times bestselling author of Half a King, Half the World, Red Country and the First Law trilogy: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings. He spent ten years as a freelance film editor, and is now a full-time writer who lives in Bath, England, with his wife, two daughters, and son. His forthcoming book, The Devils, will be published in May 2025. Follow Joe Abercrombie Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Osiris.
0:04.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life. I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off, started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God. That's when it got wheels off. Over the years on Wheels Off, I've gotten to interview some pretty incredible people,
0:29.2	some of whom I didn't know it all going in, and I was terrified to interview them.
0:36.0	None more so than Joe Abercrombie. You may not know
0:40.3	who he is because he writes fantasy books. He wrote a series called the First Law series,
0:49.3	which starts with a first law trilogy, and then three standalone novels in the series, and then the Age of Madness
0:56.8	trilogy, and then there's some short stories that go along with it. It's a long series all set in
1:02.5	the same world with characters that recur and come in and out throughout the series. It's a
1:10.2	masterpiece.
1:12.3	They're giant books,
1:14.4	and I've read all of them at least three times.
1:19.4	I'm obsessed with these books of his.
1:21.8	I've also read his young adult series,
1:23.6	The Shattered Sea series.
1:25.1	I've read his short fiction.
1:27.0	I'm a huge fan of Joe Abercrombie
1:30.7	and his books and his writing. He's really funny. He definitely walked through a door that was
1:39.0	opened by George R.R.R. Martin, author of the Game of Thrones books, the Song of Ice and Fire series.
1:46.2	But the way he approaches his fiction is so smart
1:51.4	and so funny and droll is probably the best word
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