Yang Yang Wang joins Tempest, Piper J. Drake, and Dan Wells for a discussion of language, food, and a whole raft of other cultural elements critical to crafting Chinese-American characters. [...]

Nisi Shawl and Silvia Moreno-Garcia join Tempest, Piper J. Drake, and Dan Wells to talk about how writing stories which feature people who are not like you is, in a word, difficult. [...]

Nisi Shawl joins Tempest, Piper J. Drake, and Dan Wells to talk about the numerous factors to be aware of when depicting religion whether you’re writing about a real-world religion or one you’ve created for your setting. [...]

Erin Roberts joins Tempest, Piper J. Drake, and Dongwon Song to talk about how to be an ally to members of marginalized groups. [...]

Nicola Griffith joins Tempest, Piper J. Drake, and Dan to talk about how to faithfully represent people with physical disabilities through the characters we create. [...]

If you’ve heard from agents or editors that writing books that aren’t #OwnVoices isn’t something you can do, listen to us dismantle that idea and give advice for how you can go forward. [...]

Julia Rios joins Tempest on Writing Excuses to talk about writing characters who come from one of the many Latin-American cultures or subcultures. There’s a LOT of discussion of food (yum!) [...]

In this episode Tempest joins Dan Wells and Dongwon Song to interview author TJ Berry about writing bisexual characters. [...]

Tempest joined the Writing Excuses podcast for an episode to talk about Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, and their effects on writing and writing inclusive [...]