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GQB’s ’The Questcast’
Public Group active 2 months, 2 weeks agoThis is the official group for Grail Quest Books’ weekly live show, “The Questcast”, which takes place each Wednesday night from 8pm to 9:30pm EST.
This show will be discussing all of GQB’s publishing projects, but also (and especially!) the art of storytelling within the contexts of these various projects.
Since GQB’s projects range from novels to audio dramas to comic books, guests on the show will include many of the creatives that GQB works with to make their projects a reality: authors, artists, voice actors, music composers, sound engineers, graphic designers, video compositors, and more!
Discussion of these topics after the show, and questions from the show or for GQB in general, can be posted here
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 2 months, 4 weeks agoWe continue with “topic of the month” on Questcast for February: Romances… as in quests for sacred relics, songs for paladins, contentions with other-wordly challengers, waxing nostalgic for classical courts, and its modern re-envisioning through monsters and the macabre.
Last week we looked at one of the key attributes of knights errant,…[Read more]
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 3 months, 1 week agoThe “topic of the month” on Questcast for February will be: Romances… as in quests for sacred relics, songs for paladins, contentions with other-wordly challengers, waxing nostalgic for classical courts, and its re-envisioning through monsters and the macabre. The adventure back to the period of heroic champions, tested faith, chivalric…[Read more]
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 3 months, 2 weeks agoWe finish up ’Tolkien Month’ by looking at our favorite Tolkien stories, essays, quotes, etc.
Come celebrate Tolkien and his legacy with us on Questcast, which records its shows live on Wednesdays (tonight!) on the Middle-earth Network — or in about 15 minutes!
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 3 months, 3 weeks ago(((ON AIR))) Broadcasting LIVE on the Middle Earth Network.
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 3 months, 3 weeks agoWe continue with ‘Tolkien Month’ by looking at one more selection from his famous “On Fairy Stories” essay. Here is the selection we will be discussing specifically tonight, which deals with the relationship (some would say adversaries) between fantasy and reason… :-)
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Fantasy is a natural human activity.…[Read more]
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 4 months agoWe continue with ’Tolkien Month’ by looking at another selection from his famous ”On Fairy Stories” essay. Here is the selection we will be discussing specifically tonight, which deals with how story enriches our lives and the world around us, and also how stories can be a kind of risky adventure as they may reveal aspects of ourselves that we may…[Read more]
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 4 months, 1 week agoChildren are capable, of course, of literary belief, when the story-maker’s art is good enough to produce it. That state of mind has been called “willing suspension of disbelief.” But this does not seem to me a good description of what happens.
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful “sub-creator.” He makes a Secondary…[Read more]
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 4 months, 3 weeks agoVery honoured for WARS: The Battle of Phobos Vol.1 be among so much great fantasy and sci-fi from one of the best indie authors/editors in publishing!! We had Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Questcast this year too and hopefully we can have him on again :-)
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 5 months agoSpeaking of media bias: it was completely left out of tonight’s show that the TIME’s Person of the Year’s final selection is always made by the magazine’s editors and that the polling that was mentioned was merely done to see where the nominated people placed in the rankings. The Pakistani girl came in second to President Obama, by the way,…[Read more]
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 5 months, 1 week agoThis week and next, Questcast is going to reflect on the year in publishing, not just our products but a few of the major news items that are of interest to us :-)
Join us LIVE in about 25 minutes…!
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 5 months, 3 weeks agoOn Questcast tonight we’re going to be talking about genres, sub-genres (more accurately “types”), and voices/narratives in story. There’s lots to cover and lots of room for discussion: As a reader what is your favorite type of story? As an author, what is the best type of story to write and which voice/narrative is the best to choose? Join us…[Read more]
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 6 months, 1 week agoQuestcast tonight is going to be starting a series on writingcraft and storycraft, and we’ll be using C.S. Lewis’s ”A Preface to Paradise Lost” as something of a textbook to guide the discussion.
First show will be about the importance of choosing the right form, genre, and voice of a story. GQB projects will be used as examples of this process,…[Read more]
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 6 months, 3 weeks agoWe’ll be talking about the role of horror in story on the Questcast.. now Live!
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 7 months agoNext segment starting in a few minutes is about GQB’s WARS: The Battle of Phobos series! Great opportunity to learn more about this trilogy!
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 7 months agoShould be another fun Questcast tonight. Last week we counted down #s 15 thru 11 of ”The Greatest Fiction Characters of All Time” (based on someone else’s list)–and these were Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Captain James T. Kirk, James Bond, and Dracula. What will #s 10 thru 6 be? Join us when we go LIVE at the attached link in one hour to find out!
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GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 8 months, 2 weeks agothank you
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Josh 'Red 84' Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 9 months, 2 weeks ago“Contrary to what writers learn in MFA programs, writing is not an easy profession, one in which a writer should be “encouraged.” Writing is hard work. Writers who want to put in the hours, who have a good work ethic, will survive in this profession while the “talented” will get eaten alive.
The university programs and that workshop attitude…[Read more]
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Josh ‘Red 84′ Radke posted an update in the group
GQB’s ’The Questcast’ 9 months, 4 weeks agoBrilliant article for authors who are Christian to keep in mind :-)
http://thechippermuse.blogspot.com/2012/07/shoehorning-god-by-scott-roche-religion.html
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We didn’t really have time to explore the point I was working towards unfortunately but I think this is an excellent example of it. One of the primary forms of “bias” in media is the fact that these subjects are so complex that BOOKS are written arguing single aspects of any given story. A news reporter has to compress this down using experts…[Read more]