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When I turned twenty-one in 1994, I embarked on a 500 mile solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail across the state of Washington.  The Tread of My Soul is a memoir-meets-travelogue written from the trail.  Originally self published and shared with only a handful of family and friends, I recently dusted off the manuscript with the intention of sharing it with a new generation, on the 30th anniversary of its completion. Among black bears, ravens and Indian paintbrush, I grappled with the meaning of life while traversing the spine of the Cascade range with a handful of pocket edition classics in tow. Quotes from sacred texts, poets, and naturalists punctuate a coming of age tale contemplated in the wilderness.What follows is Part 1 of the book, squared off into four long Substack posts. For this first post, I'm also exclusively including Pacific Crest Trail Soundwalk, featuring a binaural field recording captured while hiking the first few miles on the Pacific Crest Trail up out of the Columbia Gorge in Washington. (If you haven't already, feel free to tap that play button at the top of the post.) The 26-minute composition cycles a triad of parts inspired by the letters PCT: part one in Phrygian mode (in E), part two in the key of C, and part three with Tritone substitutions. The instrumentation is outlined with Pianet electric piano, and colored in with synthesizer and intriguing pads built with a vaguely Appalachian mood in mind. It's on the quieter side, in terms of wildlife, but all in all, I think it compliments the reading. It concludes with a pretty frog chorus so, like the book, I'm making it unrestricted, in the hope of enticing some readers to stick with it to the end. If you prefer, you can find The Tread of My Soul in ebook format available for free right now on Apple Books or Amazon Kindle Store (free with Kindle Unlimited, points, or $2.99). If you read it and like it, please feel free to leave a review to help others find it. Thank you. So, without further ado, here we go:The Tread of My SoulComing of Age on the Pacific Crest Trailby Chad CrouchACT 1(AT RISE we see TEACHER and STUDENTS in an art studio. It is fall term; the sun is just beginning to set when class begins. Warm light washes the profiles of eight classmates. The wood floors are splashed with technicolor constellations of paint.)TEACHERHello. Welcome to class. I find role taking a tiresome practice so we'll skip over that and get to the assignment. Here I have a two-inch square of paper for you. I would like you to put your soul on it. The assignment is due in five minutes. No further explanations will be given.STUDENT #1(makes eye contact with a STUDENT #4, a young woman. She wears a perplexed smile on her face.)TEACHERHere you go.                                    (hands out squares of paper.)(People begin to work. Restlessness gives way to an almost reverence, except STUDENT #5 is scribbling to no end. The Students' awareness of others fades imperceptibly inward.  Five minutes pass quickly.)TEACHERTeacher: Are you ready? I'm interested to see what you've come up with.                                    (scuffle of some stools; the sound of a classroom reclaiming itself.)TEACHERWhat have you got there?STUDENT #1Well, I used half of the time just thinking. I was looking at my pencil and I thought…                                    (taps pencil on his knee, you see it is a mechanical model)this will never do the trick. The idea of soul seemed too intense to be grasped with only graphite. So 1 poked a pin sized hole in the paper and wrote:                                    (reading voice)“Hold paper up to sun, look into hole for soul.” That's all the further I got.TEACHER                                    (looking at student #2)And you?STUDENT #2                                    (smiles)Um, I didn't know what to do so all I have is a few specks where I was tapping my pen while I was thinking. This one…                                    (she points to a dot)is all, um, all fuzzy because I was ready to draw something and I hesitated so the ink just ran…(Students nod sympathetically. Attention goes to STUDENT #3)STUDENT #3I couldn't deal with just one little blank square.                                    (holds paper up and flaps it around, listlessly)So I started dividing.                                    (steadies and turns paper to reveal a graph.)Now, I have lots of squares in which to put my soul in. I think of a soul as being multifaceted.TEACHEROkay.  Thank you.  Next…                                    (looking at student #4)STUDENT #4                                    (without hesitation)I just stepped on it.(holds paper up to reveal the tread of a shoe sole in a multicolor print.)The tread of my soul.•     •     •            The writing that follows seems to have many of the same attributes as the students' responses to the problem posed in the preceding scene. While I have a lot more paper to work with, the problem remains the same: how do I express myself?  How do I express the intangible and essential part of me that people call a soul?  What is it wrapped up in?  What doctrines, ideologies and memories help give it a shape?            I guess I identify mostly with Student #4. Her shoe-print “Tread of My Soul” alludes to my own process: walking over 500 miles on The Pacific Crest Trail from Oregon To Canada in the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington. In trying to describe my soul I found that useful to be literal. Where my narrative dips into memoir or philosophy I tried not to hesitate or overthink things.  I tried to lay it all out.            Student #1's solution was evident in my own problem solving in how I constantly had to look elsewhere; into nature, into literature, and into symbology to even begin to bring out the depth of what I was thinking and feeling. Often the words of spiritual classics and of poetry are seen through my writing as if looking through a hole. I can only claim originality in where I poke the holes.            As for Student #2, I am afraid that my own problem solving doesn't evoke enough of her charm. For as much as I wanted to be thoughtful, I wanted also to be open and unstudied, tapping my pen. What I see has emerged, however, is at times argumentative. In retrospect I see that I had no recourse, really. My thoughts on God and Jesus were molded in a throng of letters, dialogues, experiences, and personal studies prior to writing this.Finally, in the winter of my twenty-first year, as I set down to transcribe this book, I realize how necessary it was to hike. Student #3 had the same problem. The soul is complex and cannot fit into a box. Hiking gave me a cadence to begin to answer the question what is my soul? The trail made me mindful. There was the unceasing metaphor of the journey: I could only reach my goal incrementally. This tamed my writing sometimes. It wandered sometimes and I was at ease to let it. I had more than five minutes and a scrap of paper. I had each step.•     •     •            The Bridge of the Gods looks like a behemoth Erector set project over the Columbia River spanning the natural border of Washington and Oregon. My question: what sort of Gods use Erector sets?  Its namesake actually descends from an event in space and time; a landslide. The regional natives likely witnessed, in the last millennium, a landslide that temporarily dammed the Columbia effectually creating a bridge—The Bridge of the Gods. I just finished reading about why geologists think landslides are frequent in the gorge. Didn't say anything about Gods. How we name things, as humankind, has something to do with space and time doesn't it? Where once we call something The Bridge of the Gods it has been contemporarily reduced to landslide. We have new Gods now, and they compel us to do the work with erector sets. Or perhaps I mistook the name: It doesn't necessarily mean Gods made it. Perhaps Gods dwell there or frequent it. Or maybe it is a passageway that goes where the Gods go. It seems to me that if the Gods wanted to migrate from, say, Mt. Rainier in Washington to Mt. Hood in Oregon, they would probably follow the Cascade Ridge down to the Bridge of the Gods and cross there.            If so, I think I should like to see one, or maybe a whole herd of them like the caribou I saw in Alaska earlier this summer, strewn across the snow field like mahogany tables. Gods, I tend to think are more likely to be seen in the high places or thereabouts, after all,The patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament behold the Lord face to face in the high places. For Moses it was Mount Sinai and Mount Nebo; in the New Testament it is the Mount of Olives and Golgotha. I went so far as to discover this ancient symbol of the mountain in the pyramid constructions of Egypt and Chaldea. Turning to the Aryans, I recalled those obscure legends of the Vedas in which the Soma—the 'nectar' that is in the 'seed of immortality' is said to reside in its luminous and subtle form 'within the mountain.' In India the Himalayas are the dwelling place of the Siva, of his spouse 'the Daughter of the Mountain,' and the 'Mothers' of all worlds, just as in Greece the king of the gods held court on Mt Olympus.- Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue            These days Gods don't go around making landslides every time they want to cross a river, much less perform a Jesus walking on the water miracle. That would be far too suspicious. Gods like to conceal themselves. A popular saying is "God helps those who help themselves." I think if Moses were alive today, Jehovah would have him build a bridge rather than part the waters.            Someone said, "Miracles take a lot of hard work." This is true.•     •     •Day 1.Bridge of the Gods.Exhausted, I pitch my tent on the side of the trail in the hot afternoon and crawl into to take a nap to avoid the annoying bugs.My sweat leaves a dead person stamp on the taffeta floor.Heavy pack.  A vertical climb of 3200 ft.Twelve miles. I heaved dry tears and wanted to vomit.Dinner and camp on a saddle.Food hard to stomach.View of Adams and gorge.            Perhaps I am a naive pilgrim as I cross over that bridge embarking on what I suppose will be a forty day and night journey on the Pacific Crest Trail with the terminus in Canada. My mother gave me a box of animal crackers before my departure so I could leave “a trail of crumbs to return by.” The familiar classic Barnum's red, yellow and blue box dangles from a carabineer of my expedition backpack            As I cross over the bridge I feel small, the pack bearing down on my hips, legs, knees, feet. I look past my feet, beyond the steel grid decking of the bridge, at the water below.  Its green surface swirls. I wonder how many gallons are framed in each metal square and how many flow by in the instant I look?How does the sea become the king of all streams?Because it is lower than they!Hence it is the king of all streams.-Lao-tzu, Tao Teh Ching            On the Bridge of the Gods I begin my quest, gazing at my feet superimposed on the Columbia's waters flowing toward the ocean. Our paths are divergent. Why is it that the water knows without a doubt where to go; to its humble Ocean King that embraces our planet in blue? I know no such path of least resistance to and feel at one with humankind. To the contrary, when we follow our paths of least resistance—following our family trees of religion, learning cultural norms—we end up worshipping different Gods. It is much easier for an Indian to revere Brahman than it is for I. It is much easier for me to worship Christ than it is for an Indian. These paths are determined geographically and socially.             It's not without trepidation that I begin my journey. I want to turn from society and turn to what I believe to be impartial: the sweeping landscape.            With me I bring a small collection of pocket books representing different ideas of the soul. (Dhammapada, Duino Elegies, Tao Teh Ching, Song of Myself, Walden, Mount Analogue, and the Bible.) It isn't that I want to renounce my faith.  I turn to the wilderness, to see if I can't make sense of it all.            I hike north. This is a fitting metaphor. The sun rises in the east and arcs over the south to the west. To the north is darkness. To the north my shadow is cast. Instinctively I want to probe this.•     •     •Day 2.Hiked fourteen miles.Three miles on a ridge and five descending brought me to Rock Creek.I bathed in the pool. Shelves of fern on a wet rock wall.Swaths of sunlight penetrating the leafy canopy.Met one person.Read and wrote and slept on a bed of moss.Little appetite.Began another ascent.Fatigued, I cried and cursed out at the forest.I saw a black bear descending through the brushBefore reaching a dark campsite.            I am setting records of fatigue for myself. I am a novice at hiking. Here is the situation: I have 150 miles to walk. Simple arithmetic agrees that if I average 15 miles a day it will take me 10 days to get to the post office in White Pass where I have mailed myself more food. I think I am carrying a sufficient amount of food to sustain my journey, although I'm uncertain because I have never backpacked for more than three consecutive days. The greatest contingency, it seems, is my strength: can I actually walk 15 miles a day with 60 pounds on my back in the mountains? Moreover, can I continue to rise and fall as much as I have? I have climbed a vertical distance of over 6000 feet in the first two days.            I begin to quantify my movement in terms of Sears Towers. I reason that if the Sears Tower is 1000 feet, I walked the stairs of it up and down almost 5 times. I am developing a language of abstract symbols to articulate my pain.            I dwell on my condition. I ask myself, are these thoughts intensified by my weakness or am I feeding my weakness with my thoughts?            I begin to think about God. Many saints believed by impoverishing their physical self, often by fasting, their spiritual self would increase as a result. Will my spirit awake as my body suffers?            I feet the lactic acid burning my muscle tissue. I begin to moan aloud. I do this for some time until, like a thunderclap, I unleash voice in the forest.            I say, "I CAN'T do this,” and "I CAN do this," in turn. I curse and call out "Where are you God? I've come to find you." Then I see the futility of my words. Scanning the forest: all is lush, verdant, solemn, still. My complaint is not registered here.And all things conspire to keep silent about us, half out of shame perhaps, half as unutterable hope.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies            I unstrap my pack and collapse into heap on the trail floor, curled up. I want to be still like the forest.            The forest makes a noise: Crack, crack, crack.            I think a deer must be traversing through the brush. I turn slowly to look in the direction of the sound. It's close. Not twenty yards off judging from the noise.            I pick myself up to view the creature, and look breathlessly. It's just below me in the ravine. Its shadowy black body dilates subtly as it breathes. What light falls on it seems to be soaked up, like a hole cut in the forest in the shape of an animal. It turns and looks at me with glassy eyes. It claims all my senses—I see, hear, feel, smell, taste nothing else--as I focus on the bear.And so I hold myself back to swallow the call note of my dark sobbing.Ah, whom can we ever turn to in our need?Not angels, not humans and already the knowing animals are aware that we are really not at home in our interpreted world.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies            Remembering what I read to do when encountering a bear, I raise my arms, making myself bigger. "Hello bear," I say, "Go away!"            With the rhythm of cracking branches, it does.•     •     •Day 3.Hiked thirteen miles.Descended to Trout Creek, thirsty.Met a couple en route to Lake Tahoe.Bathed in Panther Creek.Saw the wind brushing the lower canopy of leaves on a hillside.A fly landed on the hairs of my forearm and I,Complacent,Dreamt.            I awake in an unusual bed: a stream bed. A trickle of clear water ran over stones beneath me, down my center, as if to bisect me. And yet I was not wet. What, I wonder, is the significance of this dream?            The August sun had been relentless thus far on my journey. The heat combined with the effort involved in getting from one source of water to the next makes an arrival quite thrilling. If the water is deep enough for my body, even more so:I undress... hurry me out of sight of land, cushion me soft... rock me in billowy drowse Dash me with amorous wet...- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself            There is something electrifying and intensely renewing about swimming naked in a cold creek pool or mountain lake.I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect; "renew thyself completely each day; do it again and again and forever again."- Henry David Thoreau, Walden            Is bathing, then, a spiritual exercise?            When I was baptized on June 15, 1985 in the tiled pool of our chapel in the Portland suburbs, I thought surely as I was submerged something extraordinary would happen, such as the face of Jesus would appear to me in the water. And I did do it—I opened my eyes under water— but saw only the blur of my pastor's white torso and the hanging ferns that framed the pool. I wondered: shouldn't a ceremony as significant as this feel more than just wet? I'm guessing that most children with exposure to religion often keep their eyes open for some sort of spectacular encounter with God, be it to punish or affirm them. (As a child, I remember sitting in front of the television thinking God could put a commercial on for heaven if he wanted to.)            Now, only ten years after I was baptized, I still keep my eyes open for God, though not contextually the same, not within a religion, not literally.            And when I swim in a clear creek pool, I feel communion, pure and alive. The small rounded stones are reminders of the ceaseless touch of water. Their blurry shapes embrace me in a way that the symbols and rites of the church fail to.I hear and behold God in every objectYet I understand God not in the least.-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself            And unlike the doctrines and precepts of organized religion, I have never doubted my intrinsic bond to water.And more-For greater than all the joysOf heaven and earthGreater still than dominionOver all worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.- Dhammapada, Sayings of the Buddha•     •     •Day 4.Hiked fourteen miles. Climbed to a beautiful ridge.Signs, yellow and black posted every 50 feet: "Experimental Forest"Wound down to a campground where I met three peopleAs I stopped for lunch."Where does this trail go to?" he says. "Mexico," I say."Ha Ha," says he.Camped at small Green Lake.            My body continues to evolve. My hair and fingernails grow and grow, and right now I've got four new teeth trying to find a seat in my mouth.            I turned twenty-one on August sixth. On August sixth, 1945 a bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The world lost more people than it made that day. When I was born, I suspect we gained a few.            I'm an adult now, and I'm not sure where it happened or why. I wonder if someone had to stamp something somewhere because of it? A big red stamp that says "ADULT".  It was a blind passage for me—just like those persons who evaporated at ground zero on August sixth, 49 years ago.            I do feel like I just evaporated into adulthood. I am aware of the traditional ceremony of turning twenty-one. Drinking. Contemporary society commemorates becoming an adult with this token privilege. Do you have any idea how fast alcohol evaporates? I am suggesting this: One's response to this rite rarely affords any resolution or insight into growth. Our society commemorates the passage from child to adult with a fermented beverage.            I wanted to more deliberate about becoming an adult. Hence the second reason (behind a spiritual search) for this sojourn into the wilderness. I took my lead from the scriptures:And he was in the desert forty days... He was with the wild animal and the angels attended him.- Mark 1:13            Something about those forty days prepared Jesus for what we know of his adult life.I also took my lead from Native Americans. Their rite of passage is called a vision quest, wherein the youth goes alone into the depth of nature for a few days to receive some sort of insight into being.            I look around me. I am alone here in the woods a few days after my birthday. Why? To discover those parts of me that want to be liberated. To draw the fragrant air into my lungs. To feel my place in nature.…beneath each footfall with resolution.I want to own every atom of myself in the present and be able to say:Look I am living. On what? NeitherChildhood nor future grows any smaller....Superabundant being wells up in my heart.- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies•     •     •Day 5.Hiked to Bear Lake and swam.Saw over a dozen people. Eighteen miles.Watched raven fly from tree and listened.Found frogs as little as my thumbnail.Left Indian Heaven.            Surprise.  My body is becoming acclimated to long distance hiking. I know because when I rest it is a luxury rather than a necessity.            The light is warmer and comes through the forest canopy at an acute angle from the west, illuminating the trunks of this relatively sparse old growth stand. I am laying on my back watching a raven at his common perch aloft in a dead Douglas fir.            It leaps into its court and flap its wings slowly, effortlessly navigating through the old wood pillars. The most spectacular sense of this, however, is the sound: a loud, slow, hollow thrum: Whoosh whoosh, whoosh....  It's as if the interstices between each pulse are too long, too vacant to keep the creature airborne. Unlike its kind, this raven does not speak: there are no loud guttural croaks to be heard.            Northwest coastal tribes such as the Kwakiutl thought the croaks of a raven were prophetic and whoever could interpret them was a seer. Indeed, the mythic perception of ravens to be invested with knowledge and power is somewhat universal.           My raven is silent. And this is apt, for I tend to think the most authentic prophecies are silent, or near to it.Great sound is silent.- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching            The contour of that sound and silence leaves a sublime impression on me.•     •     •Day 6.Hiked twelve miles.Many uphill, but not most.Met several people.One group looked like they were enjoying themselves—two families.I spent the afternoon reading my natural history book on a bridge.Voles (forest mice) relentlessly made efforts to infiltrate my food bag during the night.            I am reading about how to call a tree a “Pacific Silver Fir” or an “Engelmann Spruce” or “Western Larch” and so on. If something arouses my curiosity on my walk, I look in my natural history book to see if it has anything to say.            Jung said, "Sometimes a tree can teach you more than a book can."            Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha was enlightened beneath a fig tree.            I read that a 316-year-old Ponderosa Pine east of Mt. Jefferson bears scars from 18 forest fires. Surely that tree taught us one thing a book couldn't.  All things are clues. Everything is part of a complex tapestry of causality.            The grand design behind these mountains has something to do with plate tectonics. Beneath me the oceanic plate is diving beneath the continental at twenty to sixty degrees putting it well under the coastline to where it partially melts and forms magma. This has been happening for millions of years. Every once and a while this magma channels its way up to the surface, cools and turns into igneous rock. Again and again, this happens. Again and again, and yet again until a mountain is made; a stratovolcano.            Meanwhile, on top, water, glaciers, wind, and sun are trying to carry the mountains away grain by grain. Geologic time is as incomprehensible as it would be to imagine someone's life by looking at his or her gravestone. These mountains are gravestones.            Plants fight to keep the hillsides together. Plants and trees do. But every summer some of those trees, somewhere, are going to burn. Nature will not tolerate too much fuel. New trees will grow to replace those lost. Again and again. Eighteen times over and there we find our tree, a scarred Ponderosa Pine in the tapestry.            And every summer the flowers will bloom. The bees will come to pollinate them and cross-pollinate them: next year a new color will emerge.            And every summer the mammals named homo-sapiens-sapiens will come to the mountains to cut down trees, hike trails, and to put up yellow and black signs that read Boundary Experimental Forest U.S.F.S. placed evenly 100 yards apart so hikers are kept excessively informed about boundaries.            Here I am in the midst of this slow-motion interplay of nature. I walk by thousands of trees daily. Sometimes I see just one, sometimes the blur of thousands. It is not so much that a tree teaches me more than a book; rather it conjures up in me the copious leagues of books unwritten. And, I know somewhere inside that I participate. What more hope could a tree offer?  What more hope could you find in a gravestone?•     •     •Day 7.Hiked twenty miles in Alpine country near Mt Adams.More flowers—fields of them. Saw owl. Saw elk.Wrote near cascading creek.Enjoyed walking. Appetite is robust.Camped at Lave Spring.Saw six to ten folks.Didn't talk too much.            Before I was baptized, during the announcements, there was a tremendous screech culminating in a loud cumbf! This is a sound which can be translated here as metal and glass crumpling and shattering in an instant to absorb the forces of automobiles colliding.            In the subsequent prayer, the pastor made mention of the crash, which happened on the very same corner of the chapel, and prayed to God that He might spare those people of injury.            As it turns the peculiarly memorable sound was that of our family automobile folding into itself, and it was either through prayer or her seat belt that no harm came to my sister who was driving it.            Poor thing. She just was going to get some donuts. Do you know why? Because I missed my appointment with baptism. There is time in most church services when people go to the front to (1.) confess their sin, (2.) confess their faith in Christ as their only personal savior, and (3.) to receive Him. This is what is known as the “Altar Call”. To the embarrassment of my parents (for I recall the plan was for one of them to escort me to the front) the Alter Call cue—a specific prayer and hymn—was missed and I sat expectant till the service end. The solution was to attend the subsequent service and try harder.            I don't recall my entire understanding of God and Jesus then, at age eleven, but I do remember arriving at a version of Pascal's reductive decision tree that there are four possibilities regarding my death and salvation:1. Jesus is truly the savior of mankind and I claim him and I go to heaven, or2. Jesus is truly the savior of mankind and I don't claim him and I end up in hell, or3. Jesus isn't the savior of mankind and I die having lived a somewhat virtuous life in trying to model myself after him, or4. Jesus isn't the savior of mankind and I didn't believe it anyhow.            My sister, fresh with an Oregon drivers license, thought one dose of church was enough for her and, being hungry, went out for donuts and failed to yield.Cumbf!            Someone came into the chapel to inform us. We all went out to the accident. The cars were smashed and askew, and my sister was a bawling, rocking little lump on the side of the street. We attended to her, calmed her, and realized there was yet time for me to get baptized. We went into the church and waited patiently for the hymn we had mentally earmarked and then I was baptized. I look back on the calamities of that day affectionately.Prize calamities as your own body.- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching            Those events that surrounded the ritual decry a ceremony so commonplace one often misses the extraordinariness of it; of humanity; the embarrassment of my parents; the frustration and impetuous flight of my sister; and the sympathy and furrowed brow of our pastor. These events unwind in my head like a black and white silent film of Keystone Cops with a church organ revival hymn for the soundtrack.  There was something almost slapstick about how that morning unfolded, and once the dust had settled and the family was relating the story to my grandmother later that day, we began to find the humor in it. Hitting things and missing things and this is sacred. All of it.Because our body is the very source of our calamities,If we have no body, what calamities can we have?- Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching            Most religions see the body as temporal and the soul as eternal. Hence, 13th century monks cloistered themselves up denying their bodies space and interaction that their souls might be enhanced.            I see it this way: No one denies their bodily existence, do they? Look, your own hand holds this book. Why do you exist? You exist right now, inherently, to hold a book, and to feel the manifold sensations of the moment.            If this isn't enough of a reason, adjust.            I've heard it said, "Stop living in the way of the world, live in the way of God."            My reply: "Before I was baptized, I heard a cumbf, and it was in the world and I couldn't ignore it.  I'm not convinced we would have a world if we weren't supposed to live in the way of it."Thanks for reading Soundwalk! This is Part One of my 1994 travelogue-meets-memoir The Tread of My Soul. This post is public so feel free to share it.Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Or find the eBook at Apple Books or Amazon Kindle Store. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chadcrouch.substack.com/subscribe

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Author JK Ellem shares why he chose to start indy and go exclusive on Amazon, and his strategy for pursuing traditional publishing deals and wider distribution. He discusses how he found the sweet spot in his release schedule and his pricing model. And he emphasizes why it should be your readers who should be driving the direction of your writing, including whether or not a standalone novel becomes a series.   For a transcript of this interview and links to more information, go to https://www.theindyauthor.com/podcast.html.   Did you find the information in this video useful? Please consider supporting my work at The Indy Author via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/theindyauthor) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattydalrymple).   JK Ellem is an Amazon Charts US and UK #1 Bestselling thriller author. In 2020, his independently published crime thriller, MILL POINT ROAD, climbed to #1 globally in the Amazon Kindle Store in the categories of Crime Fiction, Thriller Fiction, Financial Thrillers, Heist Crime, Kidnapping Crime Fiction, and Noir. This was achieved with no agent, no publicist, and no publishing company behind him. Just him and his wife Jennifer, who looks after his marketing and social media.Jack splits his time between the US, the UK and Australia.

Elianor Marissa, better known as Elianor M.A., is an American-Lebanese novelist and screenwriter. Her debut novel, Transcendent is available on the Amazon Kindle Store, published on December 1, 2018. Her first screenplay, Just Like Old Times was honored at the Los Angeles Film Awards in September 2019 and the International New York Film Festival in June 2020. Her TV pilot, Halves and Quarters, made it to the Quarterfinalist round of the Screencraft Pilot Launch Competition. Her memoir Dealing with Dramedies is set to be released in December 2020. In today's episode, Elianor shares her journey from her diagnosis, to writing her new book, Dealing with Dramedies. Elianor felt herself drowning in the drama of her health crisis, but she didn't want her drama to define her. Instead, she chose to define it. Elianor realized she didn't need to wait to be the hero of her story. Instead of focusing on what was going wrong in her life, Elianor focused on what she was doing right, and following her passion for storytelling. As Elianor shares, no matter who you are, or where you come from, or how different your circumstances may be from those around you, drama will find you! But it's up to you to use it as your driving your force, instead of your deterrent. There is no set way to deal with your dramedy. To learn more about Elianor and her new book at elianormarissa@gmail.com and Twitter @elianorma Instagram @elianor_ma or through her personal website elianorma.com Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, click here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sydney-weiss/message

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It is the BEGINNING OF THE END. A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK has been spread via planes leaving JFK airport, New York and now humanity has a FIGHT TO SAVE ITSELF. Listen to a first person account of the END OF TIMES, live the END OF DAYS, and the END OF MAN. Join the ride and watch civilisation CRASH AND BURN.Welcome to Episode 6, Season 2 of Apocalypse. A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production, written and narrated by Robert Knight. Apocalypse Book One covering Apocalypse Season One is now available on the Amazon Kindle Store.NOW WATCH, READ AND LISTEN ON YOUTUBE WITH FULL CAPTION TEXT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9hdzR6eCsatw_h4qvUlcfBEJqLD7gCMyREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON WATTPAD https://www.wattpad.com/story/206761387-apocalypseREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON ROYALROAD https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28528/apocalypseSUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26917120AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1HOME WEBSITE https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.co/STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474043&refid=stprLUMINARY https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/robert-knight/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/7531c80b-c2a2-4e19-b716-cffa3c9a41c9SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/0Nho9kQE1zhfsgVN5rwWPEITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/id1483662157Twitter: @LabStrangeSupport Apocalypse: A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasuresFind out more at https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It is the BEGINNING OF THE END. A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK has been spread via planes leaving JFK airport, New York and now humanity has a FIGHT TO SAVE ITSELF. Listen to a first person account of the END OF TIMES, live the END OF DAYS, and the END OF MAN. Join the ride and watch civilisation CRASH AND BURN.Welcome to Episode 5, Season 2 of Apocalypse. A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production, written and narrated by Robert Knight. Apocalypse Book One covering Apocalypse Season One is now available on the Amazon Kindle Store.NOW WATCH, READ AND LISTEN ON YOUTUBE WITH FULL CAPTION TEXT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9hdzR6eCsatw_h4qvUlcfBEJqLD7gCMyREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON WATTPAD https://www.wattpad.com/story/206761387-apocalypseREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON ROYALROAD https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28528/apocalypseSUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26917120AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1HOME WEBSITE https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.co/STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474043&refid=stprLUMINARY https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/robert-knight/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/7531c80b-c2a2-4e19-b716-cffa3c9a41c9SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/0Nho9kQE1zhfsgVN5rwWPEITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/id1483662157Twitter: @LabStrangeSupport Apocalypse: A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasuresFind out more at https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It is the BEGINNING OF THE END. A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK has been spread via planes leaving JFK airport, New York and now humanity has a FIGHT TO SAVE ITSELF. Listen to a first person account of the END OF TIMES, live the END OF DAYS, and the END OF MAN. Join the ride and watch civilisation CRASH AND BURN.Welcome to Episode 4, Season 2 of Apocalypse. A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production, written and narrated by Robert Knight. Apocalypse Book One covering Apocalypse Season One is now available on the Amazon Kindle Store.NOW WATCH, READ AND LISTEN ON YOUTUBE WITH FULL CAPTION TEXT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9hdzR6eCsatw_h4qvUlcfBEJqLD7gCMyREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON WATTPAD https://www.wattpad.com/story/206761387-apocalypseREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON ROYALROAD https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28528/apocalypseSUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26917120AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1HOME WEBSITE https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.co/STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474043&refid=stprLUMINARY https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/robert-knight/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/7531c80b-c2a2-4e19-b716-cffa3c9a41c9SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/0Nho9kQE1zhfsgVN5rwWPEITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/id1483662157Twitter: @LabStrangeSupport Apocalypse: A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasuresFind out more at https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It is the BEGINNING OF THE END. A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK has been spread via planes leaving JFK airport, New York and now humanity has a FIGHT TO SAVE ITSELF. Listen to a first person account of the END OF TIMES, live the END OF DAYS, and the END OF MAN. Join the ride and watch civilisation CRASH AND BURN.Welcome to Episode 3, Season 2 of Apocalypse. A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production, written and narrated by Robert Knight. Apocalypse Book One covering Apocalypse Season One is now available on the Amazon Kindle Store.NOW WATCH, READ AND LISTEN ON YOUTUBE WITH FULL CAPTION TEXT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9hdzR6eCsatw_h4qvUlcfBEJqLD7gCMyREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON WATTPAD https://www.wattpad.com/story/206761387-apocalypseREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON ROYALROAD https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28528/apocalypseSUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26917120AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1HOME WEBSITE https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.co/STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474043&refid=stprLUMINARY https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/robert-knight/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/7531c80b-c2a2-4e19-b716-cffa3c9a41c9SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/0Nho9kQE1zhfsgVN5rwWPEITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/id1483662157Twitter: @LabStrangeSupport Apocalypse: A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasuresFind out more at https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

The Kindle Quotes (#kindlequotes) feature that's available in the Kindle app for iOS can help you easily share beautifully formatted quotes from your self published books on social media. (Sorry, it doesn't appear to be available for Android devices just yet.) I share a step-by-step mini tutorial with screenshots in the YouTube video to show you just how easy it is and the results you can achieve. YouTube video: https://youtu.be/nbDDWkKnB3Y Timestamp show notes (click on timestamp to view segment on YouTube): 0:11 Introducing Kindle Quotes feature with step-by-step screenshots 2:15 How to use this feature for your Kindle eBooks 3:51 #kindlequotes hashtag and sharing quotes on social media Learn more about Kindle Quotes from the Amazon Kindle Store: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=19530372011  

It is the BEGINNING OF THE END. A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK has been spread via planes leaving JFK airport, New York and now humanity has a FIGHT TO SAVE ITSELF. Listen to a first person account of the END OF TIMES, live the END OF DAYS, and the END OF MAN. Join the ride and watch civilisation CRASH AND BURN.Welcome to Episode 2, Season 2 of Apocalypse. A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production, written and narrated by Robert Knight. Apocalypse Book One covering Apocalypse Season One is now available on the Amazon Kindle Store.NOW WATCH, READ AND LISTEN ON YOUTUBE WITH FULL CAPTION TEXT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9hdzR6eCsatw_h4qvUlcfBEJqLD7gCMyREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON WATTPAD https://www.wattpad.com/story/206761387-apocalypseREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON ROYALROAD https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28528/apocalypseSUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26917120AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1HOME WEBSITE https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.co/STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474043&refid=stprLUMINARY https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/robert-knight/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/7531c80b-c2a2-4e19-b716-cffa3c9a41c9SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/0Nho9kQE1zhfsgVN5rwWPEITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/id1483662157Twitter: @LabStrangeSupport Apocalypse: A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasuresFind out more at https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

It is the BEGINNING OF THE END. A ZOMBIE OUTBREAK has been spread via planes leaving JFK airport, New York and now humanity has a FIGHT TO SAVE ITSELF. Listen to a first person account of the END OF TIMES, live the END OF DAYS, and the END OF MAN. Join the ride and watch civilisation CRASH AND BURN.Welcome to Episode 1, Season 2 of Apocalypse. A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production, written and narrated by Robert Knight. Apocalypse Book One covering Apocalypse Season One is now available on the Amazon Kindle Store.NOW WATCH, READ AND LISTEN ON YOUTUBE WITH FULL CAPTION TEXT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9hdzR6eCsatw_h4qvUlcfBEJqLD7gCMyREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON WATTPAD https://www.wattpad.com/story/206761387-apocalypseREAD THIS STORY FOR FREE ON ROYALROAD https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28528/apocalypseSUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26917120AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1HOME WEBSITE https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.co/STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474043&refid=stprLUMINARY https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/robert-knight/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/7531c80b-c2a2-4e19-b716-cffa3c9a41c9SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/0Nho9kQE1zhfsgVN5rwWPEITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures-radio-lab-production/id1483662157Twitter: @LabStrangeSupport Apocalypse: A Strange Pleasures Radio Lab production by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/apocalypse-a-strange-pleasuresFind out more at https://apocalypse-a-strange-pleasures.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-Eight of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Two of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-Seven of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part One of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-Six of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Ten the conclusion of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-Five of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Nine Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-Four of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Eight Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-Three of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Seven Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-Two of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Six Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty-One of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Five Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twenty of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Four Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Nineteen of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Three Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wqchZzHfwHTUdfnc5s6ggSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Eighteen of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Part Two Of The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://youtu.be/9gwuSXroVvkSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Seventeen of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Lair Of The White Worm Part One by Bram StokerYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: gaming channel with new content daily https://youtu.be/9gwuSXroVvkSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Sixteen of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Shooting Of Dan McGrew by Robert W. ServiceYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: https://youtu.be/9gwuSXroVvkSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Fifteen of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Cremation Of Sam McGee by Robert W. ServiceYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: https://youtu.be/9gwuSXroVvkSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Fourteen of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: https://youtu.be/9gwuSXroVvkSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Thirteen of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Nyarlathotep by HP Lovecraft.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251STRANGE PLEASURES VIDEO LAB: https://youtu.be/9gwuSXroVvkSupport Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Twelve of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating August Heat by WF Harvey.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Eleven of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating Memory by HP Lovecraft.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Ten of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Masque Of The Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Nine of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Eight of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Seven of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast available through iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Diary Of A Madman by Guy De Maupassant.YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MoqBN8-vdAsaoYBZX32OA?viewas=subscriber?subconfirmation=1HOME WEBSITE https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.co/SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/6x2VOcohjOKeJ8ZIJpvi8rAMAZON AUTHOR PAGE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robert-Knight/e/B07WH3QCML/ref=dpbylinecontpopebooks_1ITUNES https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strange-pleasures-radiolab/id1476208251Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Six of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast. Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Burial Of The Rats by Bram Stoker.Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Five of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast. Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson.Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Four of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast. Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Death Of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce.Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Three of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast. Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Room In The Tower by EF Benson.Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode Two of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast. Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.Support Strange Pleasures Radiolab by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/strange-pleasures-radiolabFind out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Welcome to Episode One of Strange Pleasures Radio Lab. Your daily audio story podcast. Each day I will narrate a well known story in it's entirety. As a writer I will also include some narration of my own books that can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store, or through the Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited subscription program.Today I will be narrating The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft.My new book Firelight and Fireflies is now available through the Kindle Store. A dark brooding tale of being hunted by forces of darkness beyond the imagination, and where the only safety to be found is within the glow of firelight and the glow of the fireflies.Firelight and Fireflies by Robert Knight. Available now.Find out more at https://strange-pleasures-radiolab.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” was the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books... thanks to the love and support of our fans all over the world! You can purchase your copy at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) “This Week in Blues History” aims the spotlight on important recordings, artists, and events from the golden era of the blues. This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival. “This Week in Blues History” is available commercial free to our bandcamp subscribers! More info -- including how to get instant access to more than 170 episodes of Blues Unlimited -- that’s over 340 hours worth of entertainment -- is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe NEW FEATURE! - You Tube playlist of songs featured on this segment of "This Week in Blues History" -- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ryca_CqlibyYXiebVwFRHjrgdidLTs_ (note: “Looking Good” starts at 4:24 into the video)

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is STILL the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale now at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) The Imperial Record label, founded in 1948 in Los Angeles, is well known as the home of Fats Domino and other great New Orleans artists, as well as Texas guitar hero T-Bone Walker. On this episode of Blues Unlimited, however, we focus on some of the fantastic Country and Down Home Blues that Imperial held in their catalog over the years, from Lightnin' Hopkins, Clifton Chenier, Papa Lightfoot, and many more. Pictured: The distinctive cover art for "Rural Blues, Vol. 1." Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is STILL the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale now at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) The Imperial Record label, founded in 1948 in Los Angeles, is well known as the home of Fats Domino and other great New Orleans artists, as well as Texas guitar hero T-Bone Walker. On this episode of Blues Unlimited, however, we focus on some of the fantastic Country and Down Home Blues that Imperial held in their catalog over the years, from Lightnin' Hopkins, Clifton Chenier, Papa Lightfoot, Lil' Son Jackson, BooZoo Chavis, Snooks Eaglin, and many more. Partly inspired by a series of three LPs that came out more than 50 years ago, simply entitled "Rural Blues," we'll hear lots of rarities and classic sides from Imperial, as well as associated labels (such as Aladdin, which Imperial bought in 1961) and a few other operations that were on Imperial's radar as well. The three LPs -- the material for which was notably selected by Bob "The Bear" Hite and Henry Vestine of Canned Heat fame -- were originally subtitled "Goin' Up The Country" (Volume 1); "Saturday Night Function" (Volume 2); and "Down Home Stomp," and have long been considered to be classics of the genre. Pictured: The distinctive cover art for "Rural Blues, Vol. 1." Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is STILL the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books... thanks to the love and support of our fans all over the world! You can purchase your copy at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) “This Week in Blues History” aims the spotlight on important recordings, artists, and events from the golden era of the blues. This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career. “This Week in Blues History” is available commercial free to our bandcamp subscribers! More info -- including how to get instant access to more than 170 episodes of Blues Unlimited -- that’s over 340 hours worth of entertainment -- is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe NEW FEATURE! - You Tube playlist of songs featured on this segment of "This Week in Blues History" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT6zse-ndLk&list=PL3ryca_CqliYdovBi1Raxcp_324GKLRlI

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale now at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) As a special treat to our listeners, here’s another blast from the archives that’s sure to be a crowd pleaser. Enjoy! —SBH. On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we take a look at some of the great harmonica wizards that were a mainstay of the Chicago Blues scene. Beginning with 'The Chairman of the Board' – John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, who was pretty much responsible for putting the harmonica on the Windy City Blues map in the first place – and continuing on up through the early recordings of Little Walter, Snooky Pryor, Junior Wells, and Big Walter Horton, it's a veritable feast of Harmonica Blues, as we pull out some of the finest waxings the Windy City had to offer, including some rare gems and a look at some of the 'lesser knowns' who were a part of the scene as well. Pictured: Little Walter, the King of Chicago Blues Harmonica. Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale NOW at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) “This Week in Blues History” aims the spotlight on important recordings, artists, and events from the golden era of the blues. This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952. “This Week in Blues History” is available commercial free to our bandcamp subscribers! More info -- including how to get instant access to more than 170 episodes of Blues Unlimited -- that’s over 340 hours worth of entertainment -- is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” was the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale now at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) The first Hammond Organ -- the Model A -- was introduced in the United States in 1935 by inventor Laurens Hammond. He originally intended it for use in radio broadcasting, as a replacement for the piano in middle class homes, and as an affordable substitute for the pipe organ in churches. In the mid 1950s, the B3 model was introduced, and it quickly found a home in blues, gospel, and jazz music circles -- becoming one of their most popular sellers. On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we'll hear Hammond B3 rarities from Saint Louis-based keyboardist Sam Lazar (Jazz guitar legend Grant Green was an early member of the group) as well as J.C. Davis (his 45 for Chess, "Feznecky"), plus all time classics from Bill Doggett, Booker T. & the MG's, Jimmy McGriff, James Booker, and a special treat from Jazz keyboard legend Jimmy Smith. Although the original Hammond B3 was officially discontinued in 1974, we’re pleased to say that Suzuki -- who now owns Hammond -- recently came out with an updated tribute model, which is said to duplicate every single aspect of the original. Whether on a vintage Hammond B3 or the newly redesigned one, we look forward to more fine music being made on the Hammond B3 in years to come. Pictured: Hit maker for Stax Records, Booker T. Jones. Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” was the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale now at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we're movin' and groovin' to the sounds of the Hammond B3 organ. Popular in Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, and Gospel, we'll celebrate the history of this hit making instrument over the years, with rarities from Sam Lazar and J.C. Davis, plus all time classics from Bill Doggett, Booker T. & the MG's, Jimmy McGriff, and more. Pictured: Hit maker for Stax Records, Booker T. Jones. Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” was the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale now at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) “This Week in Blues History” aims the spotlight on important recordings, artists, and events from the golden era of the blues. This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era. “This Week in Blues History” is available commercial free to our bandcamp subscribers! More info -- including how to get instant access to more than 170 episodes of Blues Unlimited -- that’s over 340 hours worth of entertainment -- is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is the #1 New Release at the Amazon Kindle Store for Blues Books. On sale now at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) As a special treat to our listeners, here’s another blast from the archives that’s sure to be a crowd pleaser. Enjoy! —SBH. On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we take a look at some of the great harmonica wizards that were a mainstay of the Chicago Blues scene. Beginning with 'The Chairman of the Board' – John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, who was pretty much responsible for putting the harmonica on the Windy City Blues map in the first place – and continuing on up through the early recordings of Little Walter, Snooky Pryor, Junior Wells, and Big Walter Horton, it's a veritable feast of Harmonica Blues, as we pull out some of the finest waxings the Windy City had to offer, including some rare gems and a look at some of the 'lesser knowns' who were a part of the scene as well. Pictured: Little Walter, the King of Chicago Blues Harmonica. Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The eBook version of “The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is now on sale! Available from the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 and from Apple Books at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 NOTE: As a special service to our listeners, we are making some of the older episodes from our archive available for the first time in many years. Please note that — as time allows — we will be redoing almost all the episodes from our “first season” (this one included). In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this “blast from the past!” And, as always, thanks for listening! On this episode of Blues Unlimited — our fourth and last installment paying tribute to the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals — we take a look at some of the fantastic Blues, R&B, and Gospel that was recorded live on stage at the iconic Newport, Rhode Island festival between the years of 1958 through 1960. We'll hear great, rare and classic performances from Ray Charles, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mahalia Jackson, Big Joe Turner, and more. Pictured: Program for the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, which included performances by John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The eBook version of “The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” is now on sale! Available from the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 and from Apple Books at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 NOTE: As a special service to our listeners, we are making some of the older episodes from our archive available for the first time in many years. Please note that — as time allows — we will be redoing almost all the episodes from our “first season” (this one included). In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this “blast from the past!” And, as always, thanks for listening! On this episode of Blues Unlimited — our fourth and last installment paying tribute to the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals — we take a look at some of the fantastic Blues, R&B, and Gospel that was recorded live on stage at the iconic Newport, Rhode Island festival between the years of 1958 through 1960. We'll hear great, rare and classic performances from Ray Charles, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mahalia Jackson, Big Joe Turner, and more. Pictured: Program for the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, which included performances by John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” was the #2 New Release and the #5 Best Seller in the Amazon Kindle Store last week in Blues Books. On sale NOW at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 (Amazon) and at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 (Apple Books) “This Week in Blues History” aims the spotlight on important recordings, artists, and events from the golden era of the blues. This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960. “This Week in Blues History” is available commercial free to our bandcamp subscribers! More info -- including how to get instant access to more than 170 episodes of Blues Unlimited -- that’s over 340 hours worth of entertainment -- is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The eBook version of “The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” will officially be released July 1st, 2019. Available from the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 and from Apple Books at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 We’re pleased to say that all three volumes of Blues Unlimited: The Complete Radio Show Transcripts have now been published as eBooks! They’re available from Apple Books at https://tinyurl.com/y4rceu7b - Barnes & Noble at https://tinyurl.com/yxkvx6rl - and also available in the Kindle Store from Amazon at https://tinyurl.com/yyuwxbla (And please keep in mind that every dollar from every purchase will help keep an independent voice in blues radio alive and well! And we thank you!) In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustrator and cartoonist R. Crumb, and text by noted researcher and author Stephen Calt. They've long been favorites with Blues fans, and on this program we finish up our exploration of "The Heroes of the Blues" with music from Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Peetie Wheatstraw, Memphis Minnie, and more. Pictured: One of the "Heroes of the Blues" featured on this episode. Illustration by R. Crumb. Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The eBook version of “The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” will officially be released July 1st, 2019. Available from the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 and from Apple Books at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustrator and cartoonist R. Crumb, and text by noted researcher and author Stephen Calt. They've long been favorites with Blues fans, and on this program we finish up our exploration of "The Heroes of the Blues" with music from Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Peetie Wheatstraw, Memphis Minnie, and more. Pictured: One of the "Heroes of the Blues" featured on this episode. Illustration by R. Crumb. Sleepy Boy Hawkins - in the flesh! - will be making an appearance at the first ever Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s Mojo Rhythm & Blues Festival! All the details you need to know, right here: https://tinyurl.com/yx9k9sbs Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The eBook version of “The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” will officially be released July 1st, 2019. Available from the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 and from Apple Books at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 “This Week in Blues History” aims the spotlight on important recordings, artists, and events from the golden era of the blues. This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar. “This Week in Blues History” is available commercial free to our bandcamp subscribers! More info -- including how to get instant access to more than 170 episodes of Blues Unlimited -- that’s over 340 hours worth of entertainment -- is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The eBook version of “The Amazing Secret History of Elmore James” will officially be released July 1st, 2019. Available from the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/yy6vlsv3 and from Apple Books at https://tinyurl.com/y4ql53s2 In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustrator and cartoonist R. Crumb, and text by noted researcher and author Stephen Calt. They've long been favorites with Blues fans, and on this program (the second of three) we continue our exploration of "The Heroes of the Blues." Among the featured artists on this program are Furry Lewis, Big Bill Broonzy, The Rev. Gary Davis, Cannon's Jug Stompers, the Memphis Jug Band, Skip James, and many more. Pictured: One of the "Heroes of the Blues" featured on this episode. Illustration by R. Crumb. Are you looking for ways to promote your band’s latest release, product, business, or service? Advertise on the podcast that’s been downloaded over one million times, and reach a global audience of blues lovers! Contact us at bluesunlimited at gmail dot com for more details! This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“Blues Unlimited: The Complete Radio Show Transcripts, Volume 3” was the #2 new release at Amazon for Music Reference and was a top ten new release in Music History & Criticism this past weekend! Now available in the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/y4pwwr2f and from Barnes & Noble at https://tinyurl.com/y64jdbrp While the name Johnny Otis is certainly synonymous with West Coast R&B, and borders on what many people would call a household name, his one-time guitar player, Pete Lewis, is a virtual unknown whose life is shrouded in mystery. Apparently, Johnny Otis "discovered" Pete Lewis at his Barrelhouse Club, in 1947, during one of the regular Thursday night talent shows. He went on to hire Lewis to be a part of his band, in what would mark an almost ten year relationship. Legend has it that Lewis came to California by way of his birthplace, now thought to be Oklahoma City, in the year 1913 (previously it was thought to be Louisiana, which we now know to be in error). What Pete Lewis did prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, was that he was a guitar player like no other. A disciple of T-Bone Walker, he took the electric guitar to new heights, offering sophisticated turns of phrase that bordered on jazz-inflected, to low-down gut bucket riffs that were unceremoniously wrenched out of his instrument — sometimes, all in the same song, or if need be, in the short space of a twelve-bar solo. His playing is at once, crisp, precise, and gritty — not to mention endlessly inventive — the perfect compliment to Otis' rocking big band. From what we can gather, Lewis must have been something of a character. One anecdote, related in the book “Midnight at the Barrelhouse,” is that during a time of incessant touring, he arbitrarily one day decided to stop talking to his boss, Johnny Otis. After about a year had passed, he suddenly resumed talking to him, as if nothing had ever happened. One member of the Otis band — a legend in his own right, tenor sax icon Ben Webster — admired Pete's playing, and the story goes that the two of them roomed together while out on the road (Be sure to listen for a couple of inspired duets between the two of them near the end of the first hour). Although reports vary to the exact date, sometime around 1956, Johnny Otis and Pete Lewis parted company for good. Rumor has it that it was Lewis' problems with alcohol that lead to Otis seeking a replacement, which he found with yet another young and inspired talent, Jimmy Nolen. Thanks to cracker-jack research detective Rob Ford, we happen to know that Pete Lewis was still playing guitar in the clubs of Los Angeles as late as 1962. After that, details start to get murky. According Johnny Otis, the last time he saw Pete Lewis, it was shortly after the L.A. riots of 1966. In the intervening years since he’d last seen him, Lewis had become a wino, apparently living on the streets. Lewis died a short time later, in 1970, at the age of 57. A sad and ironic end to a man whose guitar playing took no prisoners, and had few equals. Photo of Pete "Guitar" Lewis courtesy of Ace Records/Johnny Otis Collection. This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

“Blues Unlimited: The Complete Radio Show Transcripts, Volume 3” was the #2 new release at Amazon for Music Reference and was a top ten new release in Music History & Criticism this past weekend! Now available in the Amazon Kindle Store at https://tinyurl.com/y4pwwr2f and from Barnes & Noble at https://tinyurl.com/y64jdbrp If you were going to make a list of all the West Coast guitar players, the name of Pete Lewis might very well be at the top. Joining up with Johnny Otis, his fiery fretwork sparked dozens of sides by Otis, and a host of others, from the late 1940s through the mid 1950s. A tribute to Pete "Guitar" Lewis, on this episode of Blues Unlimited. Photo of Pete "Guitar" Lewis courtesy of Ace Records/Johnny Otis Collection. This episode is available commercial free and in its original full-fidelity high quality audio exclusively to our subscribers at Bandcamp. Your annual subscription of $27 a year will go directly to support this radio show, and you’ll gain INSTANT DOWNLOAD ACCESS to this and more than 170 other episodes from our extensive archive as well. More info is at http://bluesunlimited.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Author Jane Healey, whose new novel, The Beantown Girls, hit #1 in the Amazon Kindle Store, joins Eileen for her second visit.

Kyle Larson is the author of The Kelvin Voyages and a Writer for Star Wars News Net. The first book in The Kelvin Kelvin Voyages, The Pirates of Mercury, is available on Amazin in both eBook and paperback. The second book, The Gravity Warriors of Venus, is available for pre-order in the Amazon Kindle Store.

This week Petro wanted to talk about something a bit more positive than our last few episodes. So we decided to share some of our favourite non-business tools which we think give us an added edge in business. Here's our top 3's. Sophia's: My Kindle, which I use to read many business books including Networking Like A Pro and How to Win Friends and Influence People (which is $0.73 in the Amazon Kindle Store). I'm also currently reading Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain For Life. My Apple TV, which I use to watch Netflix... And also host in-person photo viewings and print consultations. I can use the Apple TV to use my TV as a second monitor, so I can show my clients their photos on a large screen. My Bluetooth Eye Mask which I use to block out light and sound. This is especially helpful when I'm travelling and want to get a good sleep. You know how I like my sleep, and as someone who grew up in the country with very little light polution and unexpected sounds, staying in a hotel in a busy city might mean that I don't sleep so well, but blocking everything out with one of my favourite podcasts helps me get a better sleep and feel more together in the morning. Petro's List: Audible and audio books, because sometimes you just don't have the time to sit down and read, but you really want to get through that business book. Some books are even offered on Kindle and Audible, and you can switch from reading to listening when you need to. I listen to audio books when I'm driving. Apple products. This might sound an awful lot like Sophia's Apple TV, but I'm a particular fan of the Apple HomePod, and how all of my devices sync and make my life easier. Rigid work lights! I've talked about these things on previous episodes. I've replaced my strobes with Rigid work lights because not only can I use them with my existing light stands and accessories like umbrellas and softboxes, but they are constant lights, light weight, and durrable. They run on rechargable batteries. And all of this put together makes them super easy to transport. You can find them at your local hardware store, and they cost a fraction of the cost of strobes and come with a lifetime waranty, so no need to replace expensive bulbs. Catch the podcast in video form! Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Share your thoughts in our Facebook community Double Exposure Show Group. Use code DELAUNCH to receive a free tshirt of your choosing with the purchase of a bag at our new shop F8 STYLE! If you're looking for a new CRM for your new or growing creative business, we have a special treat for you! Get an extra 30 days with your free trial when you sign up with Táve! That's a total of 60 days free! Click this link to sign up with our favourite CRM for creatives. Thanks to Benjamin Edward for our artwork and Bensound for our theme music.

In this episode I talk again to Alex Newton of K-Lytics about what is happening in the Amazon Kindle Store in terms of what categories are doing well and badly. You can find full show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/latest-kindle-store

Community member 'Ozzie' Dan joins us to make this almost entirely unfestive festive episode a little less festive as we discuss anthropodermic bibliopegy, why you'd want to sell magical weapons, the Darren Vatican, waking up in Rochester, making out with the devil, Gunwoks, Tom getting a response, the famous Eastend/ Sheffield accent, and Planet Tiki. Thank you to our community contributors Captain Sickbeard & Aussie Dan for their topics. Hosts this issue are Tom, Taz, De’Ola, Andy, Daz & community guest Aussie Dan. Musical Interlude 1: Beth Ryan - No One Will Hear Listen to the track on Soundcloud - bethryanmusic.com - Instagram Musical Interlude 2: Atlas Bound - Landed On Mars Buy the track on iTunes - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram Taran’s novella on the Amazon Kindle Store! Walking Out: A Post-Urban Legend Go read more about the book and link to buy here Website: www.pottopicpodcast.com Email: emails@pottopicpodcast.com Twitter & Periscope: @pottopicpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/pottopicpodcast Tumblr: headgreebo.tumblr.com Instagram: @pottopicpodcast & why not use #pottopicpodcast & view our "Community Pics" on our site Intro & Outro Music Credit: “Meatball Parade” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See site for more details: pottopicpodcast.com

Connecting with people came naturally for Mark Sieverkropp and he realized that he could turn that into a business! Connect with Mark Sieverkropp @skropp2 Start a Conversation With Anyone, Anywhere sieverkropp.com Mark Sieverkropp is a Podcaster, blogger, author, entrepreneur, connector, leader, consultant and speaker. He is the author of Project:Success, which climbed to #3 in the Self-Help category in the Amazon Kindle Store. Mark was also co-host of the Happen To Your Career Podcast, which was a New & Noteworthy Podcast in the Career section of iTunes. Mark is passionate about connecting with others, finding ways to add value to them and helping other people do the same. Mark and his wife Lacie have two children, Brooklynn and Cash. Mark was nice enough to allow us dreamers to download his book for free! Click here to get it! Episode 186

I talk about the publication of my book into the Kindle store. Delighted to have for to the point where I could submit it. I had to make a couple of updates with readers pointing out a couple of typos. There will always be some niggles hiding. Looking forward to making an iBooks Author version of the book to send to the Apple Book Store. It will have to wait because I went with KDP Select which is a 90 day tie in. I comment about the moaning from the guy that makes the Overcast app. He says Apple software is worse now and should be better. All this wee Overcast has been crashing my iPhone. Irony overload there! Hopefully this week it will be better as he finally got an upgrade out to users.

Mark Sieverkropp is a good friend of mine. We’ve been interacting on Twitter and social media. We’ve had a blast getting to know each other. One of the things I really like about Mark is his ability for networking and follow up with people, and being proactive about his follow up strategies. I think a lot of people miss the mark in their networking or when they are meeting other people because they don’t do appropriate follow up. Mark is going to talk to us through some good ways that we can put networking and follow up into our procedures and make sure we are building on those connections we’ve made either through social media, the people we meet at networking events, or out and about. It’s a great interview, enjoy! Mark Sieverkropp is a Podcaster, blogger, author, entrepreneur, connector, leader, consultant and speaker. He is the author of Project: Success, which climbed to #3 in the Self-Help category in the Amazon Kindle Store. He is also co-host of the Happen To Your Career Podcast, which was a New & Noteworthy Podcast in the Career section of iTunes. Mark is passionate about connecting with others, finding ways to add value to them and helping other people do the same.

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