An Evening with Travis Baldree

Some friends and I went to the Rio to see Travis Baldree talk about his new book, Brigands & Breadknives. As you can guess from the name, he’s the guy who wrote Legends & Lattes, a book I enjoyed with reservations.

He started off with a speech about his professional history. He originally was a games developer, then got into narrating audiobooks as a side gig. He transitioned into full-time narration, then decided to try writing a book after several failed attempts when he was younger. He talked about his books, including some background for the new one.

Then he read a chapter. I gotta say, it has a tonne of potential (mostly because there’s a magical talking sword named Nigel). Fern seems like a more interesting protagonist than Viv, too.

He finished with a Q&A. I’d expect a software developer and author to be less than adept at handling a crowd, but he was great. The audience had some good questions, from the series to writing to audiobooks to publishing. His answers were interesting and humble.

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Aside: I should be reading a completely different book for book club on Sunday. Err. Doom!

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PS: I poked around his website, and he posted a long article about the process of writing Legends & Lattes. It’s worth a look. I recently commissioned some art, so the back and forth on the cover art was particularly interesting to me.