Happy New Year

The Coode Street Podcast is a truly international effort, with Gary in Chicago and Jonathan in Perth, and listeners the world over.  2014 was great year for the podcast. Our audience was up more than 30%, which is gratifying, and we managed to get 40 (of a possible 52!) episodes out.  We recorded our 200th episode live in London with Stan Robinson, Bob Silverberg and Jo Walton, and then backed it up with only our second ever live podcast from World Fantasy with Caitlin Kiernan and Peter Straub.

We were desperately lucky to get to speak to all sorts of interesting people, and hopefully we interested, informed and possibly made you think a little about the genre during the year. We also announced we’d be joining Tor.com, which is pretty exciting.  We’re both sure 2015 should be an even better year here on the Street.
In the meantime, we hope you’re safe, healthy and having fun during the holidays, and that we’ll get the chance to talk to you during the year ahead. Happy New Year!

Episode 214: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Live in DC!


The third of our short series of podcasts recorded at the World Fantasy Convention in Washington DC, this one features a particularly laughter-filled conversation with award-winning writers and editors, and long-time friends and collaborators, Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. While it’s been long enough since the podcast was recorded that we’re not sure any of it made sense, we do know it was a lot of fun to record. We hope it’s a lot of fun to listen to.

As always, our sincere thanks to Jack and Gardner for making the time to talk to us, and our thanks to you for listening.  We hope you’re all either enjoying a well-earned holiday over the Festive Season, or finding a way to enjoy yourself if you have to work through it, and that we see you safe and well when we’re back recording live in a couple weeks.  Next week: Guy Gavriel Kay.

Season’s Greetings

Australian Christmas

It has been a huge year here on the the Street. So many amazing and so many sad things that I’m not going to summarise them all right now.

For the moment, just a quick wish from the Antipodes that you and your loved ones have a happy, safe and healthy holiday season, and that the year ahead is the best ever!

Time to go listen to the greatest Christmas song of all time. See you on the other side!

Episode 212: James Bradley and the Year in Review

For the final episode before our Christmas hiatus, Jonathan and Gary are joined by award-winning writer and critic James Bradley to discuss the best books of 2014. Any lists are going to be incomplete, but we make an attempt to talk about a lot of what we thought was worthwhile from the year just coming to a close.

We also briefly mention our big new announcement about Coode St becoming a Tor.com podcast, something we are very happy about. We would like to thank James for joining us on this episode, and all of our guests throughout the year who made time to talk to us.

We’d also like to thank all of you, our listeners, for spending some time with us in 2014. It’s been a great year, and one we’re proud of being able to bring to you. We hope you, your families, and all of your loved ones have safe and happy holidays and that we’ll see you back here in January!

Note: We will be issuing new podcasts recorded at World Fantasy Convention during our hiatus, so do tune in here next week for another new Coode St.