Writers Drinking Coffee

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Hello everyone, and welcome to Writers Drinking Coffee. This is a podcast based on writers sitting around, drinking coffee and/or occasionally wine, and talking about anything and everything.Bean Scene Café - https://www.beanscenecafe.com/Chaz Brenchley - http://www.chazbrenchley.co.uk/ or @chazbrenchleyJeannie Warner - https://www.amazon.com/Jeannie-Warner/e/B01B38QICQ @thetsmorganJohn Schmidt - @JohnRSchmidtMichael Engberg – music intro and exit – www.manyhatsmusic.comArt by Jakkal Designs – www.facebook.com/Jakkal.Designs

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Episodes 229

Episode 230 – Interview with P.A. Cornell
21d ago · 30:08
Come meet P.A. Cornell, a Chilean-Canadian speculative fiction author with a delightful collection of short stories that’s coming up in publication this fall. She keeps getting nominated for Nebulas, which ought to tell you that we, her fellow writers, think she’s fantastic. Once you hear about The Astronaut Among the Flowers, you’ll rush right out and pre-order it! … Continue...Episode 230 – Interview with P.A. Cornell
Episode 229 – Interview with Kristie De Garis
3mo ago · 37:42
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
Episode 228 – Stories from HR
4mo ago · 28:17
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
Episode 227 – LA Gangsters with Lynn Harrod
5mo ago · 28:03
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
Episode 226 – Interview with Helen Hynson Vettori
5mo ago · 35:49
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
Episode 225 – Interview with Leokadia George
7mo ago · 32:13
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
Episode 224 – Interview with Jendia Gammon
8mo ago · 39:12
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
Episode 223 – Chaz and the Emperor’s Kindness
8mo ago · 25:47
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 lan
Episode 222 – Interview with Steve Schlam
10mo ago · 29:44
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
Episode 221 – A Discussion of Progress
11mo ago · 43:44
Everyone who wants to write has a work in progress. At least one. Jeannie sits down with Andrew Walsh, a prized hockey network friend-writing crossover, to talk about making progress on writing his first novel. We hope the discussion triggers something in any listener to say, “I could try that” or “yeah, thanks for kicking my ass to get me in motion again.” Because everyone has a story - whether their own or something else in their imagination. Write it! Start right now! … Continue...Episode 221 – A Discussion of Progress
Episode 220 – Interview with M.N. Lee
1y ago · 41:22
M.N. Lee shares her first novel, Proof of Origin, which we think belongs on bookshelves right next to Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale for near future speculative literature. It follows three main perspectives from a Vietnamese politician, the caucasian wife of a conservative politician, and a mixed-race couple that faces deportation and a new life back in Vietnam together. The prose is compelling, her character building flawless, and the emotional content poignant as they each thread their way through a world of citizenship evaluation and unintended consequences. … Continue...Episode 220 – Interv
Episode 219 – Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein
1y ago · 44:48
Dr. Bernstein is a cultural historian at Harvard, teaching US Racial Formation since the early 19th century. Her latest book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, delves into the history of America’s first prisons in New York built along capitalist ideals, and how one young man violently rebelled against the unfair and abusive treatment therein. One man’s violent resistance response to injustice continues today to shape American perspectives on race, violence, and incarceration. … Continue...Episode 219 – Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein
Episode 218 – Interview with Dheepa Maturi
1y ago · 34:16
Dheepa started out as a poet, but found herself drawn into novel writing to express bigger ideas, such as the social interconnection necessary for human prosperity and the corresponding good treatment of the earth as part of our social ecosystem. Come listen as she talks about 108: An Ecothriller, which is full of vedic writing and eastern beliefs and how her characters need to overcome their family tragedies, emotions, and a zeitgeist of futility to work together for a common good. … Continue...Episode 218 – Interview with Dheepa Maturi
Episode 217 – Writing Autistic Characters
1y ago · 33:29
There is a lot of stuff floating around the internet about Autism, from ridiculous assertions about causality to silly things about what someone with Autism can do in their life. This is the first in an ongoing series where your WDC team grabs professional therapists and psychiatrists to talk about what different diagnoses mean, what they look like in terms of symptom clusters, and then armchair analyze our favorite literary and fictional characters through these lenses. Our first volunteer is Elizabeth Mueller, a marriage and family therapist and awesome goalie. … Continue...Episode 217 – Wri
Episode 216 – Somewhere in Lisa Czarina Michaud’s Hollywood
1y ago · 36:18
Lisa returns with her sequel to the first novel (Slanted and Disenchanted) with a character-driven story called Welcome to Hollywood. It’s a novel of two 20-somethings in 2004 Hollywood, battling with high rents, unsatisfying jobs, and a deep attraction to one another - problem is, they haven’t figured out how to communicate who they are, what they want, and who they are each individually becoming. They’re still a band though, even if they stopped practicing, and music has a way of making connections. … Continue...Episode 216 – Somewhere in Lisa Czarina Michaud’s Hollywood
Episode 215 – 120 Murders with Nick Mamatas
1y ago · 40:47
Nick Mamatas has newly released an anthology called 120 Murders. A nod to an old MTV show in title, the stories collectively bleed thematically deep into the alternative rock scene of the 1990s, with touches of noir here, fantasy there, and universal transgressive fiction with characters that tell the truth about life as they perceive it. … Continue...Episode 215 – 120 Murders with Nick Mamatas
Episode 214 – Interview with Jim C. Hines
1y ago · 30:06
Jim C. Hines is a Hugo-award winning author of a series of princess fairy tales reimagined. Jim has taken the whole fairy tale Princess trope to a new and darkly glorious confection, combining multiple versions into a new saga where the women band together to solve their problems. Come listen as we delve into folklore retelling and cunning new ideas. Damn the Narrativium, full speed ahead! … Continue...Episode 214 – Interview with Jim C. Hines
Episode 213 – Interview with K.M. Herkes
1y ago · 41:38
K.M. Herkes writes across multiple genres, from Science Fiction and Fantasy to straight up good contemporary literature. She started as a novelist first, oddly enough, then moved to short stories. We read and squeed over her new book "Relics from a Traveling Show", and dug gleefully through the wide variety of stories in this, her first collection. … Continue...Episode 213 – Interview with K.M. Herkes
Episode 212 – The Operative Returns – welcome back L. Douglas Garrett
1y ago · 29:51
L. Douglas Garrett takes us back to his “Remember the Trade” series of professional operatives, and we sit down with him and his editor Nicky Robinson to chat about their compilation of Remember the Dead. Join us to learn along with “Dave” as he becomes the operative we know and love through a new novella and two prequel short stories. … Continue...Episode 212 – The Operative Returns – welcome back L. Douglas Garrett
Episode 211 – Rocking Out with Richard Sparks
1y ago · 41:27
I hope you all remember Richard Sparks, author of New Rock, New Role. We’re here to squee with enthusiasm at the next in the series that just dropped in November, called New Rock, New Realm. We pick up right where the first book ended, so join us! … Continue...Episode 211 – Rocking Out with Richard Sparks
Episode 210 – Interview with Karen Nelson
1y ago · 35:29
Come meet Karen Nelson, one of the masterminds behind Writing by Writers workshops and author of The Sunken Town. It’s a story about a girl who suddenly inherits property from her birth mother, the narrative dancing gracefully between concepts of adoption, identity, and the consequences of the choices we make. Enjoy! … Continue...Episode 210 – Interview with Karen Nelson
Episode 209 – Martin Treanor’s Cat
1y ago · 33:47
We welcome back Martin Treanor to ask that most interesting of questions: what do fairies want? In his new book, Curiosity and the Cat, a girl who finds herself without much adult influence commits a crime that makes her feel guilty, but happy. But what has she unleashed? What is that cat, really? … Continue...Episode 209 – Martin Treanor’s Cat
Episode 208 – Interview with Garrett Hutson
1y ago · 29:27
Garrett Hutson writes upmarket mysteries and historical spy fiction, with a cast of characters that reflect the diversity and variety of their respective eras. We caught up with him to get his definition and ideas about what upmarket means, talk about his approach to historical fiction like in his Gray Paree, and hear more exciting things about the pre-launch of his piratical LGBT buccaneer adventure novel. … Continue...Episode 208 – Interview with Garrett Hutson
Episode 207 – The Literary Memoirs of Alma Alexander
1y ago · 37:57
We have chatted with many memoirists, but this vision of the past is new and startlingly original. Alma Alexander’s newest book takes us through her life in stages via the description of the written word that impacted her so profoundly over the years. From childhood to adult, she describes the books she was reading with a glorious review, taking the reader either back to their own experience reading the author or poet, or sending them right out to the library to find a new delight. … Continue...Episode 207 – The Literary Memoirs of Alma Alexander
Episode 206 – Indie Publisher focus – The Queen of Swords Press
1y ago · 32:25
The Queen of Swords Press is “an independent small press specializing in swashbuckling tales of derring-do, bold new adventures in time and space, mysterious stories of the occult and arcane and fantastical tales of people and lands far and near.” Which really sums up why we love all the books they’ve put out, without even mentioning their wide variety of protagonists that increase representation for all of us. But how does an indie press work? Constantly, as this interview with Catherine Lundoff demonstrates! … Continue...Episode 206 – Indie Publisher focus – The Queen of Swords Press

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Episodes 229

Episode 230 – Interview with P.A. Cornell

Episode 229 – Interview with Kristie De Garis

Episode 228 – Stories from HR

Episode 227 – LA Gangsters with Lynn Harrod

Episode 226 – Interview with Helen Hynson Vettori

Episode 225 – Interview with Leokadia George

Episode 224 – Interview with Jendia Gammon

Episode 223 – Chaz and the Emperor’s Kindness

Episode 222 – Interview with Steve Schlam

Episode 221 – A Discussion of Progress

Episode 220 – Interview with M.N. Lee

Episode 219 – Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein

Episode 218 – Interview with Dheepa Maturi

Episode 217 – Writing Autistic Characters

Episode 216 – Somewhere in Lisa Czarina Michaud’s Hollywood

Episode 215 – 120 Murders with Nick Mamatas

Episode 214 – Interview with Jim C. Hines

Episode 213 – Interview with K.M. Herkes

Episode 212 – The Operative Returns – welcome back L. Douglas Garrett

Episode 211 – Rocking Out with Richard Sparks

Episode 210 – Interview with Karen Nelson

Episode 209 – Martin Treanor’s Cat

Episode 208 – Interview with Garrett Hutson

Episode 207 – The Literary Memoirs of Alma Alexander

Episode 206 – Indie Publisher focus – The Queen of Swords Press