{"id":4510,"date":"2024-03-01T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/?post_type=sf-podcast&#038;p=4510"},"modified":"2024-02-29T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:15:51","slug":"episode-48-the-sea-woman-by-michael-burke","status":"publish","type":"sf-podcast","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/sf-podcast\/episode-48-the-sea-woman-by-michael-burke\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 48 &#8220;The Sea Woman&#8221; by Michael Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-create-block-libsyn-podcasting-block\"><div class=\"libsyn-shortcode\" style=\"display:block\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Host: <a href=\"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/about-us\/#bio\">R. B. Wood<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Burke<\/strong> is a lifelong fan of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, propelled into these realms at a tender age when he discovered his father&#8217;s cache of pulp novels. A passion for comic books soon followed. In 2000, Michael co-founded the Eisner-award-winning comic and collectible store, Comicazi, in Somerville, MA.<br>When not sorting the comic stacks at work, Michael can be found at home, releasing the hobgoblins of his mind into story form. He has been published in\u00a0<em>Whetstone:Amateur Magazine of Pulp Sword and Sorcery, The Horror Zine, Witch House, Northern Frights<\/em>,\u00a0<em>ResAliens<\/em>, and the 80s-themed anthology,\u00a0<em>Totally Tubular Terrors.\u00a0<\/em>Healsohas stories in Dan Brereton&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Swordplay<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Contact 2:Blood and Steel<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Monster Fight at the O.K. Corral<\/em>, and a weird western novella in Crystal Lake&#8217;s\u00a0Dark Tide series<em>.\u00a0<\/em>A sword and sorcery collection<em>, Fragments of a Greater Darkness,\u00a0<\/em>was recently released from Tule Fog Press<em>.<br><\/em>Michael lives outside of Boston, MA with his wife, more books than he can possibly read, and continues writing every chance he gets. His inner 11-year-old thinks middle age isn&#8217;t all that bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: R. B. 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