ABOUT

Hi! I'm Tina. I write books, co-host Escape Pod, and run the intermittent, idiosyncratic, speculative flash fiction podcast Toasted Cake. I started Toasted Cake as a 2012 flash fiction project, vowing to podcast one new story every week for a year...and I fell in love with it. It happens.

Toasted Cake is/was...

One new flash story every Monday, picked by me to be the sort of thing I would like to read for you.  (In the outro I tend to talk a little about the story...or about totally random things...so if you like that sort of thing, stick around.)  (And I did talk about actual cake-toasting on Episode 32, The Hungry Child. Because you should have some.)

Also, the excellent fiddle intro/outro is courtesy of my multi-talented sister, Amy Connolly. <3

We ran 261 mini-episodes over 8 years from a whole BUNCH of amazing people. (And, were nominated for five Parsec Awards and won one - the 2012 Award for Best New SF Podcast!) I loved every minute* of working on this project with the writers and guest narrators, and sharing the stories with so many wonderful listeners. (* Okay, I've never grown to love audio editing. NGL. :D )

I hope you enjoy the archives! Super tasty, often gooey, delightfully odd. This is Toasted Cake.