Ray Porter joins Edward Savio for a funny, candid conversation about storytelling, performance, and a voice listeners already know from some of the biggest audiobooks in the genre—including Project Hail Mary, the Bobiverse series, and Savio’s own League of Auld. Newly inducted into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame, Porter talks about what makes narration work, why the job is to serve the story, and how acting, writing, and audiobook performance all depend on the same thing: getting your ego out of the way. It’s a smart, human episode about craft, voice, and the strange intimacy of being the one guiding the listener through the dark.

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Liza Tully joins Edward Savio to talk pen names, mystery structure, writing process, and the pleasure of exact language. From literary fiction and dark suspense to The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant, this is a conversation about trust-your-instinct writing, reader expectation, giant handwritten notebooks, and why the best advice may be learning which advice to ignore.

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Music: “Local Forecast - Slower,” “Loopster,” “I Got a Stick Arr Bryan Teoh” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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“Patron Saint of Heists” by Bryan Teoh

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Max Barry joins Edward Savio to talk satire, persuasion, and why even the most ridiculous ideas have to feel real. From Lexicon to Jennifer Government to The 22 Murders of Madison May, which sets a serial killer loose across the multiverse with reality-bending consequences, they get into dialogue, power, and the problem of writing satire in a world that keeps outpacing it. Funny, sharp, and a little unsettling, it’s a look at how the absurd starts to feel uncomfortably real.

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Music: “Local Forecast - Slower,” “Loopster,” “I Got a Stick Arr Bryan Teoh” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

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