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And with this, I am FINALLY caught up on my podcasts. Tomorrow, I'll share my 2024 Year in Review I've been posting to my website.

Los Angeles native Jeri Westerson writes a Tudor series, the King’s Fool Mysteries, and a Sherlockian pastiche called An Irregular Detective Mystery. She wrote fifteen Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Mysteries, a multi-nominated series. She also wrote several paranormal series and standalone historicals. She has served as president of the SoCal chapter of Mystery Writers of America, president and vice president for two chapters of Sisters in Crime (Orange County and Los Angeles), is a member of the LA Sherlockian scion of the Baker Street Irregulars, and a founding member of the SoCal chapter of the Historical Novel Society.

an older white woman with white hair and glasses, wearing a dark black top, standing in a garden

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

On April 25, 2024, the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, California, was the home of the 40th Writers of the Future Awards and 35th Illustrators of the Future Awards. I wrote up the event for The Geekiary, but there were some interviews that didn’t quite make the final cut. So, consider this a ‘behind the scenes’ extra for the Awards.

The contestants of this year's Writers & Illustrators of the Future awards. Photo by Angie Fiedler Sutton.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

J. Caroline Toy (she/her) is Learning Experience Manager in the Center for Learning & Teaching at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, and Adjunct Professor in the College’s humanities Core. Her research and teaching focus on religion, popular media, and fan cultures, specializing in how fans use types of ritual and narrative practices that are traditionally associated with religion. Trained as a scholar of folklore and religion, she is also interested in religion in public space and protest in the United States, and changing rural and urban experiences of place.

She has published in venues including The Journal of Fandom Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, Understanding Religion and Popular Culture (2nd ed.), and the Humanities Commons, and has appeared on the Mugglenet podcast Reading, Writing, Rowling (now Potterversity). Caroline is a huge (HUGE!) Doctor Who fan and a lifelong Trekker, has an “It’s complicated” relationship with Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and will try basically any mystery novel. When not geeking out, she paddles dragon boats and spoils her cat, St. Alia of the Eighteen Knives. You can find samples of her work at Academia.edu.

We met online in 2019, and I was an interviewee for her Fan Pilgrimage Project.

a white woman with red hair and glasses, wearing a grey long sleeve shirt and teal scarf, stands next to a Dalek made out of LEGO.

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This episode’s guest is Andrea Davis. Her background is in the film & television industry where she’s worked on both television series & movies, from creating/designing costumes & specialty wardrobe, building sets & displays, and making props. Additionally, she has crafted numerous costumes, accessories, props, and set pieces for commission work. She has a degree in Fashion Design and is a La Cordon Bleu-trained chef.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

This episode’s guest is Michaela Weissburg, an LA native. Mickie and I worked briefly together at a media organization in the YouTube space.

After working in the field for 6 years, Michaela’s experience in VFX production management has given her depth as well as breadth of knowledge. From zombies, to vampires, to aliens, to dragons, there has been no shortage of cool stuff for her to work on.

And while not all of it is exciting, she takes pride in her small efforts to create a product that ends up being greater than the sum of its parts. It all starts with a story, a lot of teamwork, and a little bit of magic.

a young white woman with long blonde hair and wearing a red top

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This episode’s guest is Myke Dodge Weiskopf. I met Myke through KCRW’s Independent Producer program, as he’s the senior producer in the Music Department. He’s been publicly writing, thinking, and obsessing about music since age 13, when he published his first fanzine on a hand-me-down Apple IIe and a dot-matrix printer.

He is the founding producer of KCRW’s Lost Notes (which I reviewed on my website), and — as he writes on his website — makes beautiful and atmospheric audio stories. A love of sound is the fundamental through-line in his life and work. When he’s not producing audio, he’s an avid outdoorsman, and has worked as a fire lookout under the US Forest Service and volunteered on backcountry trail restoration projects deep in Los Padres National Forest.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

This is one of the interviews I did on June 21, 2022, when I participated in the Alzheimer’s fundraiser “The Longest Day”. This was also the second to last one, so I’m a little punchy and the audio is a bit sketchy. I have trouble with her name, because my brain had completely forgotten how she said to pronounce it. Additionally, while we did the lightning round questions, the audio didn’t capture it so I couldn’t include it.

Josephine Green Zhang is a storyteller who aspires to empower characters to rise above their circumstances and create their own happy endings – with a special focus on misfits and flawed, funny women. Josephine has been a tv writer on Season 2 of Hulu’s Dollface and on Seasons 2 and 3 of First Wives Club on BET+. She has also developed an unproduced, animated action kung-fu fantasy for Netflix and written two unproduced feature films for Universal. She is a rotating podcast host for WGA’s Third and Fairfax — interviewing other TV and feature screenwriters about their journeys and work behind the scenes. And when she’s not geeking out on story, she is otherwise chilling with her dog, cat, and husband near Pasadena, California.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

This is one of the interviews I did on June 21, 2022, when I participated in the Alzheimer’s fundraiser “The Longest Day”, although we had to do a redo because the audio was unsalvageable.

Chivaun Oldes is a 30-something wife and mother of two. She is a craft enthusiast, dabbling artist and pet lover. A self-identified ‘ball of anxiety,’ she is a mental health awareness advocate and creates children’s stories to help bring understanding of mental health disorders and diagnoses to young minds.

a drawing of an anxiety monster (purple spikey hair with green horns and three eyes). text reads 'This is my Anxiety Monster. She follows me around.'

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

This is one of the interviews I did on June 21, 2022, when I participated in the Alzheimer’s fundraiser “The Longest Day”.

Jennifer Shiman is best known for being behind the hilarious 30-Second Bunnies Theatre, a Flash animated series of shorts that … well, re-enact movies (and some TV episodes) in 30 seconds, but with bunnies. When COVID hit, she stopped that and started work on a middle school graphic novel called World’s End Detective Agency.

We talk about both projects, how the pandemic changed how she does things, and how she approaches her work.

the bed scene from the Exorcist, but with bunnies

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

On June 21, 2022, I participated in the Alzheimer’s fundraiser “The Longest Day”. This had me live streaming interviews (with the goal of them winding up podcast episodes) from 6 am to 9 pm. I interviewed all sorts of fun people, and got a lot of good content out of it.

One of the interviews was with Sean Cawelti, the artistic director of the Rogue Artists Ensemble in Los Angeles. We talk about what being an artistic director is like for him, his work as a puppeteer and designer, and how he (and the industry) pivoted when COVID struck.

a photo of a wooden puppet in front of someone with a clown head on

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

I was going through my blog, and noticed I had stopped posting links to my podcast back in 2020. So, am posting them now to catch up.

Episode 50: Author Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye is a fantasy and science fiction writer that has been active since 1987. I met her thanks to the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, where she’s been a judge since 2016. She has over 40 books and 120 short stories published, and is still going strong.

We talk about the contest, her writing inspirations, and more.

Jody Lynn Nye in an orange jacket and purple dress, in front of an image of a robot in the water
Photo by Angie Fiedler Sutton

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

An Intro to Me

Name: Kylara Ingress is my AO3 pseudonym, but am fine with being 'publicly known' as Angie Fiedler Sutton.

Age: just turned 50 in May

Location: Los Angeles now, but was born and raised in the Midwest
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(This was also posted on my website.)

Thursday, June 20, 2024, is the Summer Solstice. From 7 am to 7 pm Pacific, I’ll be raising funds and livestreaming interviews with geeky people for my podcast, Contents May Vary, for the Alzheimer’s Association.

I did this two years ago, and so you can read why I do this in the article I wrote for that one here.

One in three seniors die with Alzheimer’s or other dementia, and more than six million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. You can help by tuning in on June 20 (angiefsutton.com/tld for info on how) and donate either before the fundraiser or during. Over the next few days, I’ll be posting information about the people I’ll be interviewing. We’ve got artists, scientists, actors, and even other journalists.

Alzheimer’s disease has touched so many lives, maybe even yours. But you can help. With your donation families can receive support on their Alzheimer’s journey, promising research can advance toward a future without Alzheimer’s and lives can — and will — be changed. Fight the darkness of Alzheimer’s on The Longest Day — the day with the most light — by joining me.

Episode 49: Another Well Kept Secret Exposed

I first was introduced to the artwork of the artist known as Another Well Kept Secret thanks to Tumblr and Sherlock. Her artwork shows a stylized humanity with very animated features – and she has a romantic flair that shows that love is indeed at the heart of everything she does.

Her real name is Kelley and she’s from Tennessee. She’s been on my list to interview for a while, but got bumped up partially because she’s been upping her commissions to help offset the current economic downturn the virus has caused so many. We talk about her art, her being open about her asexuality, and her interest in Sherlock Holmes and Good Omens. Full disclosure: I am a Patreon of her, and have had artwork commissioned in the past. So yeah, I’m a bit of a fan.

Another Well Kept Secret self portrait — Artwork courtesy AnotherWellKeptSecret.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

Episode 48: Alex De Vore is a Fibber

Alex DeVore is a culture editor for the Santa Fe Reporter. Additionally, Alex is the guitarist for the punk band Fibber: he’s played music for over 20 years, but Fibber is a relatively new creation. We talk about his writing, why he plays (and plays punk specifically), and gaming as a medium and art form.

Image by Anson Stevens-Bollen.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

Episode 47: Sav Rodgers Chases ‘Chasing Amy’

While living in Kansas City, I volunteered with the all-volunteer performing arts magazine KC Stage. We covered not only theatre, but any of the performing arts — which included the surprisingly strong independent film scene (partially thanks to the, and faculty member Kevin Wilmott).

Additionally, I also (unsurprisingly) participated in a lot of geeky and sci fi activities and helped out with the all-volunteer website SciFi4Me.

So, when I heard Kansas City native Sav Rodgers had made a documentary in connection to a TED Talk about the movie Chasing Amy, I was understandably confused as to whether I knew him thanks to KC Stage or SciFi4Me. The thing is: I don’t think we ever actually met in person prior to this interview.

I interview him about his TED Talk, being a queer filmmaker, and connecting to Kevin Smith. Head’s up: there is some minor cursing in this episode.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

Sorry for the radio silence on the podcast. I’ve been going through some stuff that I go into a bit more in the audio, but the important part is that I’m back — albeit back to a monthly schedule.

Back in February, I attended my second Gallifrey One convention here in Los Angeles. While there, I managed to snag 30 minutes of time with animator and artist Alisa Stern, the woman behind the YouTube web series Doctor Puppet. We talk about what got her into animation, why she chose to do a Doctor Who-based series, and what’s next on her plate now that she’s decided to wrap it all up.

Head’s up that I interviewed her in the lobby early Sunday morning, so the background noise is a bit crowded — and it only gets worse as the interview progresses.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

This is the third episode in my ongoing series where I interview women in the geek community about what their experiences were like, and their history as a fangirl. Cerberusia is one of the women I had originally interviewed back in 2014, when I was visiting London. Obviously, time has passed since that interview, and so when I decided to get back to doing these, we agreed to redo the interview. We have a great discussion about what it means to be a geek, how she fangirls, and the future of geek culture.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

I've attended the Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards several times now. In fact, Episode 22 of this podcast was covering the 2017 ceremony. Attending this awards ceremony is always fun, and this year was no different. This was the 35th annual awards ceremony, and the theme was Retro Robotics.

Sci-Fi Stomp and Body Percussion Dance featuring ROV-E, a Mars Rover Robot Prototype from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and dancers from EM Cirque

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

Marsia Powers is a Los Angeles real estate agent by day, Whedon fan by ... well, by all free time? She not only helps manage the con, but she also helps run the fan sites Whedonopolis and Fandomopolis, which you may have noticed I've written for occasionally in the past year. I sat down with Marsia and talked about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon, being a fan, and WhedonCon.

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

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Contents May Vary Episode 63: Writing is a ‘Mystery’ for Author Jeri Westerson

Contents May Vary Episode 62: 2024 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards

Contents May Vary Episode 61: Academic J. Caroline Troy Takes a Fan Pilgrimage

Contents May Vary Episode 60: Costumer and Propmaker Andrea Davis

Contents May Vary Episode 59: VFX Artist Michaela Weissburg

Contents May Vary Episode 57: Audio Producer Myke Dodge Weiskopf Talks Podcasts and Music

Contents May Vary Episode 56: Screenwriter Josephine Green Zhang

Contents May Vary Episode 55: Author Chivaun Oldes and Her Anxiety Monster

Contents May Vary Episode 54: Animator and Artist Jennifer Shiman

Contents May Vary Episode 53: Sean Cawelti, Artistic Director of Rogue Artists Ensemble

G33K Out Episode 50: Author Jody Lynn Nye

Getting to Know You - Fandom Edition of 'About Me'

Podcasting for The Longest Day Alzheimer’s Fundraiser 2024 Edition

G33K Out Episode 49: Another Well Kept Secret Exposed

Episode 49: Another Well Kept Secret Exposed

G33K Out Episode 48: Alex De Vore is a Fibber

Episode 48: Alex De Vore is a Fibber

G33K Out Episode 47: Sav Rodgers Chases ‘Chasing Amy’

Episode 47: Sav Rodgers Chases ‘Chasing Amy’

G33K Out Episode 46: Alisa Stern of ‘Doctor Puppet’

G33K Out Episode 45: Geek Girls Part 3 – Grace (aka Cerberusia)

G33K Out Episode 44: Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards 2019

G33K Out Episode 43: Marsia Powers and WhedonCon

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