Podcast/Audio Interviews Archive

Below you’ll find a list of all the podcasts and radio shows I’ve appeared on, and links to the audio if they’re available. The newest interviews will be on the top of the list.

  • Bookshop Chats
    Host Victoria and I are back at it! This time we talk about my decision to publish my next book independently, cover design, and worldbuilding. (Coming soon).
  • Spread Your Wingspan
    Hosts Jennie and Sara review Nine-Tenths, and then we talk about the inspiration for the story, Laura Secord, and the fun of creating alternate histories. (December 2025) Listen to the Review episode here, and the Interview episode here (coming soon).
  • SFF RomCast
    Hosts Emma and Jess host a lively and very thoughtful roundtable on science fiction romance, the history of the genre and the future of these sorts of stories. Interview with me, Brendan Deneen, Lisa Edmonds, and Jessie Mihalik (November 2025). Listen Here.
  • Shhh We’re Reading Dirty Books
    I join Calina and Saylet to talk about Nine-Tenths, titles, worldbuilding, and how all reading is political. (October 2025) Listen here.
  • Creativity Worth Expressing
    Ryan Anthony and I talk about the joy of telling stories and creating for creation’s sake. (August 2025). Listen and watch here.
  • WriteNow! 
    Kauffman and I talk Time and Tide, publishing, finding the right agent, and how fanfiction can teach writers how to approach characterization and narrative structure in new and challenging ways (April 2025). Listen and Watch here.
  • AMI Audiobook Reviews – Worldbuilding Through Culture
    Jacob and I talk about my wordlbuilding text book, the audition process for my forthcoming audiobook adaptation of Time and Tide, and what I think makes a strong secondary world (April 2025). Listen and Watch here.
  • Book Shop Chat
    I sit down with editor Victoria Jane to discuss persistence and patience in publishing, and the nearly two decade journey from idea to the New York Times Best Romances of the Year list for Time and Tide (April 2025.) Listen Here.
  • Brewing Fiction
    Fellow Canadian author Keith M. Leonard about my journey from writing fan fiction to becoming a published author, the importance of character in writing, my experiences writing under a pseudonym (March 2025). Listen and Watch here.
  • Write in the Head
    Screenwriting professor Jon Spurling and I discuss how reading and writing fanfiction can help making you a better television writer. (March 2025). Listen and Watch here.
  • WROTE Podcast
    Speaking with Vance from WROTE about Time and Tide (January 2025) Listen here.
  • Instagram Interview with BookieBuffy 
    General questions about writing, and who I would date among my characters. Read here. (October 2024)
  • In Conversation with Kacey Sophia
    Instagram live interview. Kacey Sophia (@authorkaceysophia) and I talk reviews, the inspiration behind “Time and Tide” and “Nine-Tenths”, trying to find an agent in the middle of the post-pandemic chaos that is publishing, figuring out your own marketing, and the benefits of publishing to Wattpad. Watch Here. (July 2024)
  • Contents May Vary
    We talk writing tips and tricks, writers block and burnout, fanfiction and Mary Sues, screenwriting and acting exercises, and much, much more! Listen Here. (January 2024)
  • So… I’m Writing a Novel
    I have an indepth and frank discussion about the economics and realities of being a published author with Oliver Brackenbury. Listen Here (October 2021).
  • Just Joshing
    I talk about the “Pit of Grief” I’ve been living in since late 2019, and ponder whether it’s time to maybe stop writing. Listen Here.
  • Beyond the Trope
    I have a hilarious conversation withe Emily, Michelle and Giles of Beyond the Trope about The Accidental Turn Series. Listen here. (August 2017)
  • AMI
    Anthony McLachlan sits down with author JM Frey in the ATW studio to discuss her new novel, The Forgotten Tale. Watch Here (December 2016)
  • Hysterical Podcast
    I chat about pseudonyms, why fan fiction is important, and Fifty Shades of Grey with the Hysterical Podcast (because being a woman is messy!) Listen here.
  • Paranormal Radio
    ~I was invited to chat all things that go Bump In The Night with Paranormal Radio hostess Arial Burnz. Listen here. (June 2014)
  • Accessible Media Inc.
    Joe and I sit down for a bit of a chat about writing, my vision and hearing problems, and being an author (December 2013)
    I talk a bit about Reversed Polarity here (November 2013)
  • Reversed Polarity Podcast
    Episode 8: Dinner with J.M. Frey, a “living swiss-army-knife of talent.” (October 2013)
    Episode 9: The Friends of Merrill Collection 50th Anniversary discussion panel (October 2013)
  • Page of Reviews
    Page of Reviews’ Third “Doctor Who” discussion podcast. Topics under discussion include, Doctor Who season six, non-linear storytelling in Doctor Who and a look at what happens when characters reach their expiration date before the actors do.
  • Page of Reviews’ Second “Doctor Who” discussion podcast. We talk overarching themes, links to classical mythology, and prove that JM is a huuuuuuge geek.
  • G33KN3RDD0RK
    GeekNerdDork – a weekly podcast about movies, comics, video games, TV shows, the internet, books, and anything else that we think is geeky and cool this week. It is hosted by Dorkshelf’s Jeff Brown, and comedian Gavin Stephens from NERDGASM Comedy. I appear in the first 12 episodes. Listen here.
  • Hardcorenerdity.com Presents: Geek University, hosted by J.M. Frey
    GeekU Episode One: Sexuality in Sci Fi TV
    GeekU Episode Two: Mary Sue
    GeekU Episode Three: Whoniversal Appeal Wrap Up
    GeekU Episode Four: Youth and the Remake
    GeekU Episode Five: Cosplay
    GeekU Episode Six: Liana K. and Feminist Geekery
    GeekU Episode Seven: Time Travel
    GeekU Episode Eight: Why I Can’t Give Joss an A+
    GeekU Episode Nine: The Bad Boys of SciFi and Fantasy
    GeekU Episode Ten: SciFi in the Mainstream
    GeekU Episode Eleven: The Pros and Cons of Fancrafting
  • Other
    Master costumer Kenneth Shelley talks about Triptych on Get Your Geek On!
    The Watchtower Episode 79: The FemComFanPan
    The Joe Shuster Awards 2009
  • HardcoreNerdity.com Podcast
    Hardcore Nerdity Podcast Episode 53: JM Frey interviews James Strong (Doctor Who)
    Hardcore Nerdity Podcast Episode 51: JM Frey interviews Colin Teague (Doctor Who)
    Hardcore Nerdity Podcast Episode 50: The New HCN
    Hardocre Nerdity Podcast Episode 29: JM Frey interviews Gareth David Lloyd
    Hardcore Nerdity Podcast Episode 28: Twilight and Chickens in Doctor Who
    Hardcore Nerdity Podcast Episode 24: Who’s on First?
JM FreyPodcast/Audio Interviews Archive