Suit Up! With Terrance Layhew
Talking stories and storytellers with swashbuckling host, Terrance Layhew. James Bond, noir, pulp, and more!
Episodes
Gene Koon joins the show to talk about his debut thriller Another Try.
Wine and bullets. Another Try is a sharp political thriller, intertwining hidden agendas and looming danger as Garris Kelley navigates through a vineyard of trouble that entangles both a covert plot and political echelons.
On this episode, we discuss Gene’s experiences in The Hague, writing Another Try, prose styles, avi...
Give characters a mountain. A goal of imposing breadth and magnitude to loom over the course of the story. This ambition gives readers and characters a direction.
The way characters choose to respond tells you about them. Are they excited or avoidant? The mountain remains.
By desire or dire necessity, at the base of the mountain the character is forced to climb.
The climb takes effort. Pushing the character to their limits. Testin...
Welcome to Cottonmouth, the town of misfit spies.
What does the US government do with spies and special operators when they pass their expiration date? They retire them to a small town deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas, where they’re certain to cause no trouble.
A collection of broken spies, former double agents, and retired operators lives in secrecy, under the watchful eye of the government in the small, deep-woods town of Co...
Someone you think you can trust, is just, another way to die.
On the Lighting The Pipes Podcast, when the hosts review James Bond stories, they have a category for Allies and Adversaries. Depending on the story, they are frequently one and the same.
Spy work is all a matter of relationships. It's why networking is a part of the vocabulary. It's why trusting the wrong person can lead to disaster.
The Bond stories are full of strong ...
Ryan Pote joins the show to talk about his debut novel Blood and Treasure. We'll discuss how Ryan's background, his writing habits, creating Ethan Cain, Blood and Treasure and much more!
The winner of The Great Circle Giveaway will also be announced at the end of the episode!
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Plan and execute. A simple combination?
Most do one or the other, but rarely succeed at balancing the needs of both. My favorite dynamic to create a character is to lean on one idea versus the other.
Too much time planning and execution may be delayed to dangerous consequences.
Rushing to execute may leave too little time to know what to do. Leaping into a situation without having a sound strategy.
Just like planning the perfect he...
Renegade Immortality is a tactical adventure.
Following the deaths of his wife and daughter, special ops agent Cody Willis struggles to cope with his overwhelming grief. But when his sister is kidnapped and forced to lead a top-secret job as the head of a research team in Peru, Cody will race across the world in order to save one of the last people he thinks he has left.
Christopher Clay joins the show to talk about writing Renegad...
Heroes are made for conflict. Conflict makes heroes.
Avoid stupid conflicts. Avoid the things which take time and attention, but don't bring good or glory.
Stories only work with conflict. The better the conflict, the better the hero who faces them. It forces the character of a protagonist to the surface.
Weak conflicts create weak stories. Boring. Dull. Do not finish.
Crafting the perfect conflict to bring the best from your story...
With Rob Hart and The Medusa Protocol
On today's episode, we are joined by best selling author, Rob Hart to talk about The Medusa Protocol the much anticipated follow up to Assassins Anonymous.
We'll discuss:
- Kung Fu and Musicals
- Writing action scenes
- Establishing authority with the reader
- Using social media
- And much more!
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Order my pulp treasure hunt novel, O...
Race. Rest. Suit Up! #suitupphilosophy
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." Kipling's admonition is why we race.
We run against the ticking clock. Trying to avoid being crushed beneath the weight of time. Going the distance in our field of play. We extend all our efforts to accomplish our goals within the limited time we are given each day.
It's foolish and impossible to maintain that m...
We sit down with Jonathan Rogers, the director of The Mirror of Amun-Ra a short pulp-adventure film introducing a new hero: Cleopatra Pryce.
On this episode, we talk:
- The challenges of filmmaking
- Creating Cleopatra Pryce
- Choosing an artifact
- Where Jonathan got his awesome fedora
- Intial thoughts on Dial of Destiny
- and much more!
Watch The Mirror of Amun-Ra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECqILeZK-Mo&t=1s
Ord...
Thriller. Hero. Suit Up!
Ever read an empty thriller? The events and excitement are only so interesting without a dynamic hero at the center of the story. We resonate with characters, not plots. No matter how good a plot, without a strong protagonist to hold it together it becomes flat and lifeless.
I find Forever and a Death by Donald Westlake fascinating, but because it was originally a Bond script and turned into a novel without...
Suit Up! With Martin Rooney's debut thriller: Blood Feud
When terminal cancer pushes Cain to the brink, an assassination attempt thrusts him back into a life of violence. But this isn’t a random hit—someone wants Cain silenced after he stumbles on a devastating secret: the billionaires profiting from cancer are also hiding its cure.
On today's episode we talk with Martin about his background in athletics, the backstory to writing B...
Justin Scott makes his Suit Up! debut to discuss The Fountain of Youth, the new release you didn't stay home to see. We discuss the screenplay, actors, Guy Ritchie, and the decline of Adventure cinema.
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Suit Up! With Luke Goozdich and his latest book Fire in the Tall Grass. Under the guise of helping a woman find her husband and a son reunite with his father, Redford plunges into the darkest part of the Congo... soon he realizes that there is more to the story.
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Suit Up! With Mark ONeill and To Catch A Spy, his debut novel! Estate approved sequel to the novel To Catch a Thief by David Dodge and 1955 Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitc...
Suit Up! With Nathanael Hummel and Treasure Is My Trade, his debut novel! We talk about the origins of Nate Colt, alternatives titles which never were, the mechanism for adventure, the Atlantis Excursion and much more!
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Suit Up! With Jim Towns, indie filmmaker and author. We'll be diving into his action film Killer Ex, writing Braddock's Falls, martial arts, the beginners mindset and much more!
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Suit Up! With Skip Heller and Mojave After Dark
Today we discuss Skip's new album, record parties, CS Lewis, desert Exotica and much more.
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Suit Up! With J.C Albaugh and The Legend of Yamashita's Treasure, the first of his Raider series. Jack Carter finds himself out of the Marines and protecting a group of archeologists as a private contractor. There, he learns about a dark mystery which needs to be protected from a conspiracy seeking it's power.
On today's episode we interview JC about writing an ensemble cast...
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