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Rod Carley is the award-winning Author of 4 books: A Master of Will, Kinmount, Grin Reaping, and his newest book, Ruff, which was long-listed for the Leacock Medal of Humour and the silver medal winner for best European fiction from and Independent Publisher. Today’s discussion focusses on Ruff, which is a retelling of a period in William Shakespeare’s life, and some of the events going on around him. Rod is also on the organizing ...

Hannah Manders is a lover of fantasy, a writer of books, and (in her words) a mighty fine cook. She also identifies as a slow reader and tea lover. In her free time she enjoys playing video games, reading, gardening, drawing, doing yoga and NPCing at a LARP in southern Ontario. She aspires to be at least one person’s favourite author and become local folklore in her city. She is excited to publish more of her series, and watch how ...

Matthew Gabrielson is author of the book Small Town Chaos and Host of the Matt’s Indie Book Club Youtube channel.

Small Town Chaos: https://books2read.com/u/b60l0A

YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MattsIndieBookClub

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mattsrandomramblings

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Today I'm talking with Isaac Fernandes. Isaac is a brand new author who just published his first novel in February of this year. It's called Beneath Nevada, and is a western thriller about a man following an ancient map to potential treasure out in the Nevada desert. We talk about Isaac's book, the process of writing it, and how he's finding life as an author. Isaac also gives us a little preview of his next book, which, with luck,...

Michael Parkes is the author of Cheryl and Gnomes and Knights, as well as some short stories, which wediscuss in the second half of the episode. Michael is also on the board of the organizing committee for the St Lawrence Writers’ Festival, an annual convention in Brockville, Ontario every September, and we spend the first part of the episode discussing the festival, how its organized, and why you should attend.

Michael's websit...

Allen Steele is a three-time Hugo Award-winning who has been publishing since the 80s. He’s well-known for his Near Space Series, the revival of Edmond Hamilton’s Captain Future series, numerous standalones (including one of my favourites, Chronospace, now named Time Loves a Hero), and, what we’re talking about today, his Coyote series. An intergenerational series following rebels who hijack an interstellar ship and colonize the ha...

Matthew Gabrielson, host of the Youtube channel Matt's Indie Book Club, had me on his channel for an interview, which aired March 1st. We discuss Tiger Blues, my writing journey, and my cats.

Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yF62ucl4RI&t=2s

Jason Shannon is an indie Canadian author of science fiction and more. His seventh novel, Tiger Blues, is available now: “A plucky crew of mercenaries must keep a d...

RW Duder and Damian Richard have teamed up for the Guns and Gatesseries, an alt-history urban fantasy/western. Trapped Souls in theintroductory novella, a sort of Book 0.5, acting as an origin storyfor the antagonist. We discuss the book, co-authoring, making thejump to fantasy, and more.

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Episode 69--yes, I'm juvenile enough to say "noice". Of course, I cannot miss the opportunity to capitalize on this moment. There will never be another 69th episode of this podcast.

And so today, you, my valued listener, are getting an all new story, one salacious enough to be worthy of this episode. 

I first had this idea about 5 weeks ago, and thought how I could best honour this episode. Olive already has their own s...

Brian Klingborg is the author of the Lu Fei mystery series. Today we are mostly speaking about Book 2 in that series, Wild Prey, wherein detective Lu Fei investigates wildlife trafficking, eventually landing him in Myanmar. There, he meets a half-Chinese warlady who, in my reading, bears a startling resemblance to the 1950s Golden Triangle opium kingpin Olive Yang.

Brian’s website: https://www.brianklingborg.com/

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Ryan David Gerard is the author of 8 novels, includingthe Baptist trilogy and the Born Again trilogy, as well as thestandalones Wildmen and The Things that are Not. We talk about his writing, his journey as an author, questions of staying in your lane with regards to genre, and the struggles of trying to marketing in an online space—Ryan produces these hilarious Instagram reels satirizing the AI-generated marketing messages he gets...

Robert Hough is the author of eight novels, including The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, The Culprits, and The Marriage of Rose Camilleri. Today we are discussing his newest book, Anarchists in Love, an historical novel about the relationship between well-known anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander ‘Sasha’ Berkmann. We discuss the novel, his inspiration, process, and Goldman and Berkmann’sinfluence on anarchism.

Robert premiered t...

In debt to some Thai gangsters, crossdressing Burmese "princess" tries to run a ruby smuggling scheme just after the end of World War 2, at a ping pong club in Pattaya, Thailand.

The Pattaya Gambit was developed as a short story within my Yang-Yoshiko universe, a prequel to my 2025 novel Tiger Blues. It has since expanded beyond the bounds of a short story, into a novella. Today we are previewing the first three chapte...

In 2019, I took a 4-country tour of Southeast Asia, a trip which would ultimately influence the development of my Yang-Yoshiko series in 2025. Part of that trip included a visit to a ping pong show at a go-go bar named Suzie Wong, in Soi Cowboy, Bangkok.

I must be doing something right (?) with SEO, because the travelogue I wrote afterwards is consistently the second most popular page on my website. Now I have put that travelogue to...

Stalin's a Whore is a 2021 short story which satirizes Stalin's legacy, and communism in general, through the lens of a gay gangbang. Stalin's a Whore was released back in episode 11, but it is now being folded into my Yang-Yoshiko universe, and has been rerecorded for this episode.

Episode is explicit.

Read the story: www.jasonmshannon.com

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I am blown away. As I record this, I have just finished my lastbookshows of the year, in Smiths Falls and Brockville. While there may be some online sales that still come through, I can for the most part finalize my bookkeeping and look at the numbers. For many years now-in fact I think this has always been the case-The Zimmer Insurgency and the Hounds of Harujin have been my number 1 and 2 bestsellers. Well,Tiger Blues, my newest ...

Colin Searle is the author of the recently released military sci-fi / dystopian book The Call of Abaddon, which has been described as a blend of Dune, Firestarter, and the Expanse. We discuss Colin’s journey, his process, inspiration, and what it was like writing such an epic with no previous novel experience.

Colin has also produced The Call of Abaddon audiobook, available on Audible, which he recorded himself. The first 5 hours of...

Trial of the Century is a short story set within my Mongolian Book of the Sky universe, which also contains the epic novel The Hounds of Harujin, and the novellas The Conquest of Qongqor Caine, The Pirate's Lass, One Night in Ikh Khulan, The Moon Panther, and The Rise and Fall of Chaz Oregano. Trial of the Century is the earliest chronologically, taking place before the apocalyptic events that gave way to the new Mongol Empire,...

ES Raye is the author of the newly released space western book Gas Giant Gambit. We chat about how the book came to be, his writing process, inspiration, and some of his short stories.

Reading from Gas Giant Gambit at timestamp 51:30

ES’s website: https://esraye.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/e.s.raye/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ESRaye42

Mastadon:https://mastodon.social/@esraye

Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/esraye.bsk...