A Q&A Interview with David Drake posted by Travis Heermann at his Blogging the Muse site, November 14, 2009.

The 7 Question Interview with David Drake at WritingRaw.com, posted August 2009.

Rhonda Parrish interviewed Dave for Niteblade News, posted December 9, 2008

Jeremy Rickert interviewed Dave as part of a feature column on Manly Wade Wellman in the Oregon Literary Review, v.2, no.2, Summer/Fall 2007.

“Instead of Killing: A Conversation with David Drake” by Jeremy L. C. Jones, The New York Review of Science Fiction, 2007. The New York Review of Science Fiction, 19:6(222): p. 15.

Each interviewer has a thrust of his own, so these interviews aren’t auditory cookie-cutter productions, exactly….

In episode 28 of the SF Signal Podcast, Fred Kiesche and Patrick Hester chat with Dave on February 14, 2011.

A new podcast interview is up at The Dragon Page July 12, 2010.

Rick Kleffel interviewed Dave at World Fantasy Con and has posted it at his Agony Column podcast site, February 8-9, 2010.

Matthew Peterson interviewed Dave for an episode of the radio show VoiceAmerica which aired January 7, 2010. The audio and text transcript are posted at The Author Hour.

Stephen Euin Cobb posted several chunks of interviews with Dave in his podcast series “The Future and You.”

*June 1, 2006: [2] David Drake on the surprising truth of what’s holding back the popularity of e-books. He also talks about his participation in the new online science fiction and fantasy magazine from Baen Books called: Jim Baen’s Universe.
*July 1, 2006: [6] David Drake on the weakness of science fiction as prediction and the accumulation of historical errors in popular culture.
*August 1, 2006: [6] David Drake who reads and translates ancient Latin for fun and relaxation, discusses lessons from antiquity; similarities between the USA and ancient Rome; and one of the host’s (Stephen Euin Cobb’s) favorite British miniseries: I Claudius. Stephen also asks David how he thinks the USA might meet its eventual and inevitable end. After all, someday the USA, like the Roman Empire, will no longer exist.
*September 1, 2006: [8] What are the changing trends and public perceptions of Motorcycles? Author David Drake aught to know, he’s been riding motorcycles instead of cars for over 30 years.
*April 1, 2007: [4] Are SF writers really trying to predict the future? Hugo Gernsback thought he was predicting, but were H.G. Wells or Jules Verne also trying to be predictors? Many people think so but David Drake says “No” and backs it with specific examples.
*March 11, 2009: Topics include: How blatantly morality and ethics must be depicted in fiction, and which self-appointed thought-police will jump on you if you do not toe-the-line. The unknown risks of the experiment now known as the, and Jim Baen’s other efforts to innovate within the publishing industry. David Drake also talks about: Rudyard Kipling; Project Gutenberg; Samuel Johnson, and his biographer James Boswell; as well as the power and value of online Search.
*March 18, 2009: Topics include: his opinion of the Amazon Kindle; his improving opinion of the future of electronic publishing; the collapse of the Borders Books Store chain, which occurred before the economic down turn; and why he urged Jim Baen into ask Eric Flint to be the first Editor-in-Chief of what has become the widely popular online magazine called Jim Baen’s Universe. Working with Newt Gingrich is also topic.

Balticon Podcast posted an interview with Dave August 14, 2007. Dave talks about writing full time, how he became a writer, how he stays sane, and his personal experiences in the Viet Nam War.

Mur Lafferty interviewed Dave “about writing, being A Writer, and how he became a writer and deals with criticism” for her blog “I Should be Writing 2.0″ posted August 29, 2006. The unedited version is available here.

Moses Siregar III posted a YouTube video in four chunks of the panel “The Continued Viability of Epic Fantasy” recorded at the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus OH October 30, 2010. Dave is on the panel with John R. Fultz, Blake Charlton, David B. Coe, and Freda Warrington.

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In 2008  Blackfive TV did a six-part series of video interviews, sponsored by Baen Books. They are all posted on the Baen Webscription site, and at the Blackfive TV blog site.  You can also find them on YouTube.

Dave talks about his background, writers who influenced him including early SF writers, his military service in the Blackhorse in Vietnam and Cambodia, how he started writing military SF, working with Jim Baen, and generally about his writing career.  He ends with a message for the troops.