Episode 262: Karen Heuler

Bite into Cheesy Pav Bhaji with Karen Heuler as we discuss how she found herself embraced far more by the science fiction community than the literary one, why she never consciously thought about craft until she had to teach it, the "dud" novels she wrote before she got to the good ones, the students in her writing classes who only wanted to learn how to write bestsellers, why Bartleby the Scrivener seems to have a superpower, the reason she ended up writing science fiction rather than any other genre, the way in which she considers her short stories to be kittens, which character took over control of her most recent novel, the influence of The Master and Margarita , our mutual dislike of writer branding, where we fall on shredding vs. saving our archives, and much more.

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Episode 262: Karen Heuler is an episode from Eating the Fantastic by Scott Edelman.

This episode is 01:20:57 long.

This episode was published on Aug 31, 2025.

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