Episodes

  • Episode 229 – Interview with Kristie De Garis

    Episode 229 – Interview with Kristie De Garis
    May 3 2026
    Kristie De Garis is a writer, photographer, and artist. Her premier novel, Drystone: A Life Rebuilt, is a beautiful gut-punch of a memoir that offers an unflinching view of a childhood being different and alien, dysfunctional family ties, and alcohol abuse that acts as undiagnosed neurodivergent coping skills. Everyone has a story to tell, and Kristie is here to talk about how she got it wrong but still persisted, and how her eventual fascination with stones and their visual impact helped her do course corrections to success. Kristie says write your story! Start today! … Continue...Episode 229 – Interview with Kristie De Garis
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    38 mins
  • Episode 228 – Stories from HR

    Episode 228 – Stories from HR
    Apr 6 2026
    We always say that all storytelling is important, because every story written has someone else needs to hear it. Jeannie’s old high school friend Dari DeSousa runs an HR consulting business, and she got together with other HR leads to tell stories from their own lived experiences. They turned these anecdotes into a book with warnings and advice for leaders in industry. The book, HR After Dark, looks to be the first of a series of stories and the lessons that can be learned from them. Come listen to Dari recounting how she learned about finding a cover artist, editing, and publishing as a group project! … Continue...Episode 228 – Stories from HR
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    28 mins
  • Episode 227 – LA Gangsters with Lynn Harrod

    Episode 227 – LA Gangsters with Lynn Harrod
    Mar 30 2026
    From an idea pitched to the film industry for a TV series, Lynn Harrod has created a thrilling novel based on a genius Filipino gangster making his way into the power structures of the greater Los Angeles sprawl. The Duke of Temple Street is a great thriller, outlining a neurodivergent man navigating the web of family and heritage against making money and surviving in a very real scenario of multiple gangs and undercover OCC agents. Enjoy! … Continue...Episode 227 – LA Gangsters with Lynn Harrod
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    28 mins
  • Episode 226 – Interview with Helen Hynson Vettori

    Episode 226 – Interview with Helen Hynson Vettori
    Mar 8 2026
    Come meet the author of the Black Swan Trilogy as we talk about book 2, Black Swan Shock. Helen was a Senior Medical Intelligence Analyst before the covid pandemic, specializing in planning and preparing for biological incidents. She brings that vivid, very real knowledge of how Black Swan events start and spread and “should” be contained — so the reactions of her fictional personas are true to life. In Black Swan Shock, our heroine represents as an athlete with Down’s Syndrome, who rescues people after a catastrophic earthquake. … Continue...Episode 226 – Interview with Helen Hynson Vettori
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    36 mins
  • Episode 225 – Interview with Leokadia George

    Episode 225 – Interview with Leokadia George
    Jan 30 2026
    Leokadia joins us to talk about the series of children’s books she wrote featuring Trumpet, the grey wolf. Her writing grew out of volunteering at a Wolf Conservation Center aiming to introduce kids to wolves in a new way. These children’s books explore Trumpet’s life from being the baby miracle pup through to having pups of her own, and the whole journey is beautifully illustrated by Maddy Moore. Come meet Trumpet, Wolf F1505! … Continue...Episode 225 – Interview with Leokadia George
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    32 mins
  • Episode 224 – Interview with Jendia Gammon

    Episode 224 – Interview with Jendia Gammon
    Dec 23 2025
    Jendia Gammon is involved in multiple facets within the industry, from writing that gets nominated for all the best awards to running as a writer to editing anthologies and running her own publishing house. Jendia is CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC, as well as Editor-in-Chief of its publishing imprint, Stars and Sabers. Today we chat about her collection of fairy tales that scatter across the imagination from fantasy to science fiction and tentacles, “To Wonder and Starshine.” … Continue...Episode 224 – Interview with Jendia Gammon
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    39 mins
  • Episode 223 – Chaz and the Emperor’s Kindness

    Episode 223 – Chaz and the Emperor’s Kindness
    Dec 10 2025
    Our own Chaz Brenchley has a prolific year with 4 (5?) new books published. We gathered to talk about his first in a new series, “Of The Emperor’s Kindness”. It is written within a new genre I had to go delve into learning more about, a Fantasy of Manners with only a touch of violence here and there. It is a delightful sapphic romp into a world of his own devising, of warring nations, diplomacy, and noble scheming. The romance of Ambassador Malance and her staff and Vivi (the Emperor’s… niece?) whirl their way through palace intrigues, murder plots, and politics at the highest level of the land. … Continue...Episode 223 – Chaz and the Emperor’s Kindness
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    26 mins
  • Episode 222 – Interview with Steve Schlam

    Episode 222 – Interview with Steve Schlam
    Oct 30 2025
    Never say it’s too late in your life to start writing! Steve Shlam joins us to talk about his first published novel, “The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane”. It was nominated for two prizes, and is a fascinating dive into the world of 1950’s-60’s wrestling. Haystacks, a nice Jewish boy, goes on the road with his manager into the world of scripted wrestling and discovers it’s far more dangerous than he was first informed. Told from the perspective of a man in and out of consciousness in a hospital, the hero’s journey breaks the mold from many of the strictures of the genre. … Continue...Episode 222 – Interview with Steve Schlam
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    30 mins