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EPISODE 414 - Jack Ori - Fiction With A Purpose - transgender author who writes LGBTQ+ mysteries starring trauma survivorsI've been writing stories ever since my grandmother gifted me a typewriter when I was six. My first story was a two-page Nancy Drew fanfiction—to my young mind, it made sense for her to find the bad guy hiding under the bed!As a kid, I loved mysteries. My favorite series was The Three Investigators, which is sadly out of print today. I was especially fascinated by all the secret codes the protagonists used and how Jupiter Jones (what a name!) would use his acting skills to pretend he was stupid when he needed to get information. And of course, there would always be a scene near the end where the bad guys kidnapped one or more of the boys to try to keep their secrets hidden.Although I read and write stories for teens and adults now, I still love a good kidnapping scene. I also love writing powerful villains who will do anything to keep their secrets hidden, falsely accused people (sometimes framed by their enemies!) who must race against time to clear their names before they end up in jail, and underdog heroes who are determined to find and expose horrifying truths despite the potential consequences.Many of my darkest stories come from my devastating personal experiences with trauma, drug addiction and abuse. I had a fairly normal childhood. But when I grew up I lived and loved a drug addict and was lucky to escape with my life. He was not—he died of an overdose two days after I moved across the country. It was another five years before I learned I was both autistic and transgender, which shattered my worldview in some ways even though it made everything that came before make sense.I had many careers while I was trying to figure it all out, most recently as a licensed master social worker. I've worked with traumatized people, drug or alcohol addicts, and people impacted by the criminal justice system.One summer I worked at an alternative court system in New York City. It opened my eyes to the ways racism and homo/transphobia, trauma, and drug use often intersect to create a “justice” system that is stacked against certain groups of people. For all these reasons, I write mystery/thrillers that not only keep people guessing but also inspire and empower trauma survivors. All of my characters have experienced traumatic violence but don't let that stop them from fighting for justice.I love it when readers tell me that my books helped them heal. I also tell the stories I do to advocate for real-world change to the criminal justice system.https://authorjackori.com/Support the show___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/

In this week's episode, I take a look back at my SILENT ORDER science fiction series, and answer twelve of the most common questions from readers about the books. TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 205 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is June the 14th, 2024 and today we are doing a question and answer session on my Silent Order science fiction series. Before we get to that, we will have an update on my current writing progress and then Question of the Week. My main project right now is Shield of Darkness, a sequel to Shield of Storms and the second book in the Shield War series. Progress has not been as quick as I would like, but there still has been progress and as of this recording, I am about 84,000 words into the rough draft. It really helped that I had a 10,000 word day on June 12th. That really propelled things forward. I'm not entirely sure how long the rough draft is going to be. I think it's probably going to end up around 120,000 words, maybe 115,000 words. We'll see when get there. But I'm still hoping to have it out in July, sometime after the 4th of July. After that is done, my next project will be Half-Orc Paladin, the third book in the Rivah series, and I'm currently 24,000 words into that and I think that one will be around 75,000 words (give or take) once it's done. I'm also 9,000 words into Ghost in the Tombs, but that will come out later in the year. In audiobook news, I'm pleased to report that the collection Tales of the Shield Knight, which contains sixteen stories from the Sevenfold Sword and the Dragontiarna series, is now out in audiobook, as excellently narrated by Brad Wills. You can get that at Audible, Amazon, and Apple Books at the moment, and should gradually be making its way onto the other audiobook stores as it gets through processing. Be sure to subscribe to my new release newsletter because sometimes I will give away individual audio short stories for free from that collection in my newsletter. 00:01:50 Question of the Week Now let's move on to Question of the Week. Our Question of the Week segment is designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's question: if you read mystery novels, what was the first mystery novel you ever read? No, wrong answers obviously, and as you'd expect, we had quite a few different responses. Justin says: A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I was 12. I had chicken pox and was confined to my room. I begged my father for something to read, and he handed me a massive book, The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Two days later, I asked for other books by him. I'm still not a fan of mysteries, but Doyle was a great author. Our next comment is from Ray, who says: Hardy Boys, also Sherlock Holmes for school. As an adult, the first I recall by choice were the Father Blackie Mysteries by Andrew Greeley. Our next comment is from Jake who says: can't remember. It had to be back in the late ‘70s, early ‘80s. But I agree with you, it's great to diversify in reading. Someone gifted me a copy of Water for Elephants. I would never have read that by choice, but I'm glad I did. Our next comment is from Jeff, who says: Tom Swift books and Hound of the Baskervilles. Tom Swift was even science fiction-ish with their far-out inventions. Our next comment is from Jonathan (not me), who says: the Hardy Boys Hunting for Hidden Gold. The reprinted Flashlight edition was my first mystery read for me by my mom when I was about 8. This would have also been my first mystery that I read independently. When I was 10 through 11, I read the original Hardy Boys While the Clock Ticked. I was too young to know about the different editions of novels until much later, but I was always dissatisfied with the Flashlight version because it lacked the ending that I remembered. It was years later that I discovered the history of the series, which led to me finding and purchasing all or most of the original novels. Our next comment is from Becca, who says: Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys in early grade school. No idea which one, but I had quite a few of them. First adult mystery series was probably middle school and was The Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton and the Joe Grey series by Murphy. My mom really encouraged me to read pretty much anything and everything. Wish you would write more mystery books. They're so great. Thanks, Becca. I am glad you liked the mystery books, so I don't think too many other people did, which is why I have not written more of them. Our next comment is from Justin who says: first mystery novel was The Hardy Boys in grade school. Michael says: not my first, but I really like the Pendergast series by Lincoln and Child. Worth the read if folks haven't tried. John says: The Three Investigators series by Alfred Hitchcock. I don't know where I got the first one. My mom probably got it at a yard sale or something, but I was hooked. Was able to check out the others in the series for my school's library. I was probably in 3rd or 4th grade. Juana says: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Our next comment is from Ann-Marie, who says: Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and The Boxcar Children. Jeremiah says: Sherlock Holmes. Andrew says: As a young'un in grade school, I read The Mystery of the Green Ghost. It has stuck with me all these years. As a little more mature reader, I got a hold of The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Quite entertaining indeed. My own answer to this was I think it was Tell No One by Harlan Coben. This was way back in 2001 and I had a long car ride coming up. At the time I didn't read anything except fantasy and science fiction, but I got Tell No One as a present and I didn't have anything else to read while in the car. So I started reading Tell No One during the ride. The book is about an ER physician whose wife was murdered eight years ago. Then one day out of the blue, the physician gets a message that could only have come from her. Suddenly people show up to kill the physician and he finds himself on the run from the agents of a sinister billionaire. I was definitely hooked, and I've read mysteries and thrillers on and off since. I think this was good for me long term since I ended up a writer and it's good for writers to read widely in different genres. You always tell what a science fiction novel, for example, was written by someone who has never heard anything but science fiction. Additionally, when I wrote out the Question of the Week, I did not have Hardy Boys in mind because I was thinking of them as you know, books for children and I was thinking about adult books, but I did indeed read a bunch of The Hardy Boys books when I was a kid, but it was that was long enough going out that I can't clearly recall the plots of any of them, I'm afraid. 00:06:04 Main Topic: Silent Order Question and Answer Time (Note: Some Spoilers for the series in this section) Now on to our main topic of the week, Silent Order question and answer time. Why talk about this now, about a year after I finished the Silent Order science fiction series? Well, the reason for that is Silent Order Omnibus One had a very successful Bookbub feature deal at the end of May. Silent Order Omnibus One was briefly the number 2 free ebook on Amazon US and the number 1 free ebook on Amazon UK. So thanks for that, everyone. As you can imagine, this resulted in a lot of new eyes on the series, which inspired many reader questions, which is funny because I've been getting most of the same questions about the series and its particular idiosyncrasies for about seven years now. So let's have some answers below. First, some basic facts about the series. I published the first five books in September and October of 2017. It ended up at about 14 books, and I published the 14th and final book in September of 2023. All books are available on all ebook platforms. I've dabbled with Kindle Unlimited for it in the past, but not anymore. It's available wide and will remain so. There are also six tie-in short stories to the series that I've given away for free to my newsletter subscribers at various times. Now, with the basic facts out of the way, let's proceed to the most common questions from the last seven years of Silent Order. Question #1: Why do the characters still use kinetic, chemically propelled firearms 100,000 years in the future? By this question, people are usually wondering why at times the characters in the Silent Order are using, you know, traditional guns that fire metal bullets as opposed to like blasters or lasers or plasma cannons or whatever. And the answer is, not to be flippant, but why wouldn't they? People forget that firearms technology has been used for military applications, at least in the West, for at least nearly 700 years. Cannons were used in the 100 Years War and the 100 Years War started in 1337. Firearms technology has been refined and improved considerably since then, and no doubt it will continue to receive refinements and improvements in the future. Additionally, chemically propelled firearms offer many advantages over more advanced weaponry like lasers, rail guns, blasters, or particle weapons, especially for handheld levels of weaponry. A chemically propelled firearm doesn't require electricity or a power source and can't be disabled by an EMP. It's also more durable and rugged than a more advanced weapon, which would almost certainly require delicate electronic components. In fact, some models of firearm can famously be exposed to harsh conditions and continue to function. There's just no way you could do the same thing with a laser. Some devices, some machines are just the apex of their technological niche. Despite all the advanced weaponry available in the 21st century, soldiers still carry combat knives because in a situation where you need a knife, it is the best tool for the job. I suspect chemically propelled firearms dominate their niche in the same way. Question #2: Why isn't the technology in Silent Order as advanced as I think it should be? Well, they do have faster than light travel, artificial gravity, inertial absorption, anti-gravity lifts, shields, plasma weaponry, and ion thrusters. You can't exactly order any of that stuff off Amazon today. Medical technology is rather more advanced as well. The average human lifespan in Calaskar and other “developed” worlds at this time period is about 160 years due to advances in genetic engineering and better understanding of mitochondrial DNA. Cloned replacement limbs and organs are common medical procedures. When a replacement limb can't be cloned, installing a cybernetic one is typically a one day medical procedure. In the back story of the series, there are five very large Terran empires that rose and collapsed before the start of the series, which is about, as I've said, 100,000 years into the future. Those Terran empires each tended to have more advanced technology in certain areas than is common at the start of the series. One was a lot better at genetic engineering, another built super advanced sentient AI (more on that later) and so forth. When the particular empire fell or disintegrated into smaller successor states, there was some technological backsliding, and some of the more super advanced technology was lost. Question #3: The protagonist Jack March has the same initials as the author, Jonathan Moeller. Was that deliberate? Oh no, it wasn't. One of the original inspirations for the series were the James Bond books, so I chose a name that was the opposite of James Bond. After all, March is kind of the opposite of Bond in the sense of movement versus stasis and stagnation. In the original books, James Bond was always a sort of self-destructive alcoholic who gets somewhat worse as the series goes along and he doesn't have much in the way of character development. By contrast, I wanted March to have much more character change and growth. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that gave Jack March the same initials as me until three or four years into writing the series. The obvious is only obvious in hindsight, alas. Occasionally people say March is an authorial self-insert, but I guarantee you that he is not. If he were, he'd be a cranky middle aged former IT worker who doesn't like to go out very much. Question #4: Why doesn't March sleep with any of the beautiful women he meets in the first four books? Because he didn't want to. Like I said, he's sort of the opposite of James Bond and doesn't like unprofessionalism like that on the job. Also, by the time the series starts, he's old enough that casual flings no longer interest him and ultimately, he would really rather be on his own. It isn't until he meets a woman who truly understands him that this starts to change and the woman understands him because she hates the Final Consciousness just as much as he does. Question #5: Why do the characters still use phones? Well, they're not “cellular telephones” in the way that we think of them. They're more like personal handheld telecommunication and computing devices that are significantly more powerful than anything available today. That said, words sometimes long outlast the original purpose. The word mile originally came from the Latin language and described the distance a Roman soldier could cover with 1,000 steps. There is no longer a Roman Empire or Roman legionaries, but the term remains in use. There's a good chance that the word phone will outlast our current civilization and continue to refer to a telecommunications device just as miles still refers to a unit of distance, even though it doesn't have anything to do with marching soldiers or the Roman Empire. Additionally, phone was the simplest word available and using a sci-fi ish term like a mobile data pad or personal communicator or handheld computer just seemed a bit try hard. I used the metric system for distance in the series because the majority of Earth's population uses it today, so I assume it will eventually win out over time by pure weight of numbers. Question #6: Why does March work for repressive government like Calaskar? Whether or not Caesar is repressive depends on one's perspective. I expect someone from the 1850s or even the 1950s United States would find the Calaskaran government rather liberal and shockingly egalitarian. But many people from 2024 America would probably find it repressive. That said, I think Calaskar is better described as conformist. If you don't criticize the king or the official doctrines of the Royal Calaskaran church, you can say pretty much anything you want, and Calaskar doesn't have anything like the social problems of the 21st century United States, though that is partly because dissidents are eventually encouraged to leave and seek their fortunes elsewhere. Some of Calaskar's neighbors like Rustaril and the Falcon Republic were originally Calaskaran worlds that split off due to ideological differences. Rustaril opted for a form of socialism that led to its stagnation and ongoing decline, while the Falcon Republic is more hyper-capitalistic and libertarian and therefore very unstable, albeit with a cloned army that steps in and takes over when things get out of hand. Calaskar claims that its government combines the best aspects of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, though opinions differ among the characters in the books whether or not this is actually true. However, the series is mostly written from the perspective of Jack March, and he doesn't much care about everything we just discussed in the previous paragraph. He primarily works for the Silent Order, which is a Calaskaran intelligence agency that answers only to its own leaders and the King. The ultimate mission of the Silent Order is to monitor the elite and upper classes of Calaskaran society, whether political, business, or entertainment elites. If they start acting in a destructive way that will harm Calaskar and civilization, the Silent Order either discredits them, sabotages their careers, or arranges an accident (depending on how severe the particular elite's brand of corruption is). Obviously, many people would have severe moral qualms about arranging the fatal extrajudicial accident of a corrupt government or judicial official. Since March's own home world of Calixtus was betrayed to the Final Consciousness by its elite classes, he has no problem doing this kind of work. For March's perspective, Calaskar opposes the Final Consciousness and has been the primary rival to the Final Consciousness for some time, which is good enough for him. The fact that life on Calaskar is vastly better than anywhere ruled by the Final Consciousness just reinforces his decision. Question #7: Was this series inspired by the computer game Starfield? I have to admit I LOLed at this question. I started writing Silent Order on New Year's Eve in 2016 and the final book in the series came out in early September 2023. In fact, if I remember it, Starfield came out like two or three days after I published the final Silent Order book. So I can confidently say that the series wasn't inspired by Starfield in any way. That said, I would say that the video games which did help shape my thinking about the books were Wing Commander: Privateer, TIE Fighter, and Master of Orion 1 and 2. All those games were from the 1990s, of course, so I suppose I'm dating myself. Question #8: What actually did inspire the Silent Order series? The video games I mentioned above, for one. Also, the original James Bond books. When I started thinking about writing a science fiction series, I decided that I wanted to do a spy thriller, but in space. The Final Consciousness was sort of the idea of cybernetic space totalitarians. James Bond originally went up against SMERSH and then SPECTRE in the books, but March would go up against the covert agents of the sinister cybernetic Final Consciousness. There are also Lovecraftian themes in the books, as is gradually revealed throughout the series, that the Final Consciousness is in fact controlled by cosmic horrors from another universe. Believe it or not, the various malfunctions of ChatGPT also helped inspire some of the later books. I had established way back in Silent Order: Iron Hand that a true AI always goes homicidally insane. So when I actually did have to run an AI supercomputer character from one of the later books, I based its behavior on some ChatGPT and Bing Chat's more hilarious public meltdowns, though if I had waited a little longer and based it on Google's AI, the AI supercomputer character could have suggested that the protagonist add glue to their pizza cheese or perhaps eats are real small rocks a day for minerals. The day I wrote this paragraph (which was June 10th, 2024), Apple announced they're adding a bunch of AI stuff to both the iPad and iPhone, and no doubt more AI will soon reach meme status on the Internet. Needless to say, my opinion of generative AI in general is quite low. Question #9: Have the covers for the series changed? They look different on Goodreads. Not only have the covers changed over the last seven years, they have changed a lot. The covers went through five different iterations. At first I did them myself in GIMP and then I tried a couple different variations. During COVID I took a Photoshop class which I admit leveled up my cover design skills significantly, so I tried some character-based covers but they never had the results I was hoping to see in terms of sales. Then in 2022, I saw a Penny Arcade comic that made a joke about how science fiction readers want to see book covers that show spaceships and planets in close proximity. And while this was a joke, I realized it was nonetheless true, so I redid the covers to the current look that features spaceships in close proximity to planets, and the series has sold the best overall with the new set of covers. Science fiction writers take heed: the readers want to see planets and spaceships in close proximity on their covers. Question #10: Why aren't there audiobooks for the series? In all honesty, it would just be too expensive. At a rough back of the envelope calculation, I think it would take about $30,000 U.S. dollars to bring the entire series into audio, and it would take years to see that money back. Plus, I think the series would end up at about 85 hours long, give or take, and that's like 2 full work weeks just to listen to the audiobook for proofing. So to sum up, it would cost too much and I don't want to take on another project of that magnitude at this time. Question #11: What is your favorite book in the series? Silent Order: Eclipse Hand, for reasons unrelated to the plot. I read an article in 2017 saying that the iPad was a better productivity computer than a Linux desktop, and I thought that was just nonsense for a variety of reasons. So I wrote, edited, and did the entire cover on a Ubuntu Linux desktop for Silent Order: Eclipse Hand just to prove a point. I work less with Linux now than I did back in 2017, though given how bad Windows 11 has gotten with all the AI integration, I might go back to writing on a Linux desktop at some point. Even though it's my favorite book for reasons other than plot, I do quite like the plot of Eclipse Hand as well. The basic idea was something that's been knocking around inside my head for a while, so I was glad I was finally able to get to write it down. And now our 12th and final question: Weren't they originally only supposed to be nine books in the series? Why are there fourteen? Yes, I had planned to stop at nine because the Silent Order books never sold quite as well as I had hoped. However, there were enough dangling plot threads, specifically the mystery around the Pulse weapon of the Final Consciousness, that I was persuaded to continue and bring the series to a more epic ending than it had in book nine. I started working on book 10 in late 2019, but then COVID happened and derailed things for a while. At the end of 2021, I was able to pick it up again and in 2023 I decided would be my “summer of finishing things” and I pushed on to the final book in the Silent Order series. Hopefully it was a suitably epic ending. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who read through to the end of the series, encouraging me to continue with it. The years 2020 through 2023 were frustrating ones for a variety of reasons (and I'm sure everyone listened to this had their own frustrations in those years as well) and one of the ways I tried to reduce those frustrations was to put Silent Order on the side for a while, but I'm glad I persevered and continued on with the series, even if it took me a while. Now that it is finished, I can look back on it with a sense of pride for all the hard work that went into it. But mostly what I feel when I look back at it is gratitude for all the readers who read the books and enjoyed them. So that's it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A remind you that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com, often with transcripts (note: transcripts are for Episodes 140 to the present episode). If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

In this week's episode, we take a look at seven popular movies about writing & writers and take a look at what they got wrong. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of DRAGONSKULL: CURSE OF THE ORCS (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store: SPRINGORCS The coupon code is valid through May 20th, 2024. So if you need a new audiobook for spring, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello everyone. Welcome to Episode 198 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is April 26th, 2024 and today we were talking about seven of the most inaccurate movies about writers. Before we do that, we will have writing updates, Coupon of the Week, and a Question of the Week. So let's start with Coupon of the Week. First up, let's do Coupon of the Week. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Curse of the Orc (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store. That coupon code is SPRINGORCS and that's SPRINGORCS. As always, that coupon code will be in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through May 20th, 2024. So if you need a new audiobook for spring, we have got you covered. Now an update on my current writing projects and audiobook projects. I'm currently on Chapter 16 of Cloak of Titans. I'm not sure how many chapters it's going to end up being. My number keeps changing, but I think right now it's 25. I am over halfway through the book and I'm hoping to be past the 70,000 word point by the end of the day, if all goes well. I'm hoping to still have that out before the end of May. I am also 5,000 words into Half-Orc Paladin, which should come out this summer. After Cloak of Titans is out, my next main project will be Shield of Darkness, which I know many people have been asking about, so hopefully it will not be too much longer until I start on Shield of Darkness. In audiobook news, Hollis McCarthy is almost done recording Ghost in the Veils, and we should hopefully have that available to listen to sometime in May. Brad Wills is currently recording the anthology Tales of the Shield Knight, which will contain over 15 of the Shield Knight short stories that I wrote for the Sevenfold Sword and Dragontiarna series, and that should also hopefully be out sometimes toward the end of May or possibly June. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and audiobook projects. 00:01:58 Question of the Week/Update on Starfield from Previous Question of the Week Next up is Question of the Week, which is designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's question: what is the first fantasy novel you remember reading? After all, if you're hanging around the website of Jonathan Moeller, Pulp Writer, there's a non-zero chance that you enjoy fantasy books. So it seems like a reasonable question, and it was indeed a reasonable question because we got a lot of responses. Our first response is from Justin, who says: believe it or not, the first fantasy novel I read was The Hobbit. My older sisters had pooled their money to buy the paper version of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I saw them reading it, and since my sisters were for once not being nasty to each other and reading together, it had to be good. After they finished The Hobbit, I asked to borrow it. It was allowed to read it as long as I didn't leave the room and wash my hands first. I was eight. Our next response is from Mary, who says: I remember my first reading of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It was by no stretch of the imagination my first fantasy novel. Our next comment is from Stuart, who says: Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings. When I was younger/preteens, I loved adventure books like Hardy Boys and The Three Investigators. I didn't really read much in the coming years, until one day it was raining outside and being bored, I made a nuisance of myself when my older brother was trying to watch TV. He finally snapped, told me to shut up, threw Pawn of Prophecy at me, and told me to read that. The rest, as they say, is history. I went from adding Eddings to Feist and Gemmel and then on to Jordan, etcetera. I will always have a soft spot for David Eddings books, though. So it seems the common themes here will be a sibling rivalry inspiring love of fantasy literature. Our next response is from Grace, who says: does the Magic Treehouse series count? If not, Chronicles of Narnia. Leanne says Dragonriders of Pern. Boy, did I want a dragon! Melinda says Piers Anthony's Night Mare. I was in 6th grade and my friend gave it to me for my birthday. Cheryl says: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. From then on, it was full steam ahead, Feist, Eddings, Tolkien, Irvine, and now most of the fantasy/sci-fi authors that are currently publishing on Kindle. David says: probably The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Kevin says: many, many moons ago it was the Earthsea trilogy by Ursula Le Guin. Then I wandered into TV and films in the sci-fi genre for a number of years, forsaking the written word. My imagination was recaptured more recently, about a decade ago, a decade ago, when a friend lent me a copy of Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Alan says: I've been through most of these mentioned so far though the years but my first introduction to once he was Edgar Rice Burroughs, like Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Pellucidar, etcetera. Then on to Tolkien. Randy says: for me it was The Hobbit.  Went on a family vacation with my uncle and his family. I was introduced to The Hobbit. My uncle will read just about every night to my cousins, and as we're all sharing the same room, my sister and I began hearing the story. We got home. I asked my dad if I could read his copy. 50 some odd years later, I'm still devouring as many books as I can. Mike says: I am not sure which one it was, but I believe it was either The Hobbit or The Sword of Shannara. Diana says: The Gunslinger. I said what I said. Venus says: A Wrinkle in Time or Dragonsong. I know that the Pern books are actually science fiction, but I don't recall any of the science stuff that first time I read it. It was the first Pern book I read. The first epic fantasy I recall reading was Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Gary says: I couldn't give you a title or author, but I definitely remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books in the fantasy genre as a young reader. Tom said: Not 100% sure, but this is my best guess. It would be The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Ah, the Chronicles of Narnia. What a series. Juana says: I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Catriona says: The Hobbit after listening to the BBC Radio play adaptation in the ‘70s. Pippa says: Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I've reread them lots too and I've never tired of them. Perry says: Do the Iliad, Odyssey, and Beowulf count? For modern fantasy, would be a toss-up between The Hobbit and The Belgariad. Joy says: the Thomas Covenant series. My boyfriend at the time was into sci-fi and fantasy novels, so I borrowed it and was hooked. A different Glenn says: either Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey or the Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip. I love them both in the same summer while visiting my dad and cannot remember which one came first, but I got hooked on fantasy fiction that summer. Mandy says: The first time I remember reading the left an impression was the Dragonlance Legends series. My favorite fantasy series is Discworld. Gary (a different Gary) says: First one I remember is the Elfstones of Shannara. Also, the Dragonriders of Pern and Crystal Singer series. John says: Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. I was nine years old. It created a lifelong love of fantasy for me. Darla says: A Wrinkle in Time, The Faraway Lurs, and The Runaway Robot were some of the books I read as a kid. Later it was Lord of the Rings and The Dragonriders of Pern and I continue reading to this day. Andy says first ever was the Deverry series by Katherine Kerr. It was a very intense read for 14 year old on an 8 hour drive on a family trip. Sue says David Eddings- all his series, and Anne McCaffrey, Dragonrider series. Brock says Lord of the Rings. Susan says: probably Lord of the Rings, but it's over 50 years ago. I can't really remember. Edward says The Legend of Huma by Richard A. Knaak. Michael says. Now there's a question! Probably The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or one of the other Narnia books, all of which are obviously epic. And finally, Judy says the White Mountains by John Christopher or anything by Dr. Seuss. So I think we can see it's safe to say that if you have a small children between the ages of eight and 10 and you want to get them into fantasy literature, the best places to start would be either The Hobbit, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, or perhaps the Dragonriders of Pern. For myself, the very first fantasy novel I ever read was Magician Master by Raymond E. Feist. What got me into that book was The Betrayal at Krondor computer game, which of course was a classic. After I finished the game, I did some reading. Remember this was way before the Internet, so you couldn't find out anything you wanted whenever you wanted and I was astonished to realize that Krondor was in fact based off an actual novel series. So I got Magician Master and started reading it. Fun fact, years later I realized that Magician Master was in fact the sequel to Magician Apprentice and went back to read the first book. So that was this week's Question of the Week. You may remember that last week's Question of the Week was what new Xbox game I should try. Many people had excellent suggestions. I think I'm going to go with Starfield from all the suggestions last week. The reason for this is that Starfield reminds me a great deal of Wing Commander Privateer from the ‘90s. If you remember, the Wing Commander series of PC games, they're basically Top Gun but in space. Privateer took the basic flight gameplay mechanic but changed it so you're an independent privateer captain and you had to make your way through the Gemini sector as a mercenary, a merchant, a pirate, a bounty hunter, or some combination of them. You had to buy your own equipment and weapons and find a way to turn a profit in your jobs, since you had to pay for everything. If you played the main plots, you got involved in conspiracy involving a lost alien relic, but you don't have to do any main plot at all. You just fly around the galaxy making credits, fighting pirates, and trading. Starfield basically feels like someone took Wing Commander Privateer, and then added on a Skyrim-esque role-playing experience for when your character is on the ground. I know it got middling reviews, but I'm enjoying the game so far. Perhaps because, at least to my eye, it feels like a massively updated version of Wing Commander Privateer. 00:09:43 Main Topic: Seven of the Most Inaccurate Movies About Writers Now we're 10 minutes into the show and still haven't gotten to our main topic, so I think it's time we should finally do that, which is Seven of the Most Inaccurate Movies About Writers. I decided to do this because I noticed that whenever a novelist or a writer of fiction turns up in a movie, the depiction of it tends to be grossly inaccurate. That's hardly unique to writers. The joke among the military officers, former military officers, and law enforcement officers is that whenever the military or law enforcement turns up on TV, you can have a good drinking game by counting all the inaccuracies and things that they get wrong. So why should writing be any different? I think the difference might be that writing is kind of a more aspirational career, where it's the sort of career that people tend to daydream about, like going off and becoming a writer and so they tend to get a lot of things wrong about that. So with the help of my transcriptionist, we pulled together a list of seven of the most inaccurate movies about writing. There's actually a couple of Hallmark movies on here, and this isn't to bash on Hallmark movies. I think Hallmark movies tend to be about the fantasy of romance in the way that a show like Law and Order is about the fantasy of law enforcement and criminal justice, or a movie like John Wick is about the fantasy of violence or a game like SimCity is about the fantasy of managing a large city. The reality is of none of these things are nothing like the way they're portrayed in fiction, but instead, Law and Order is about the fantasy of what we would like the criminal justice system to be like and John Wick is kind of like, you know, a revenge fantasy of what we imagine we would do if someone actually shot our dog. So with that in mind, let's look at seven of the most inaccurate movies we found about writing. The first one is called Winter Love Story from Hallmark in 2019. It kind of deserves the 22% it got in the Rotten Tomatometer. The plot is a debut writer who wrote a memoir is appearing on a book tour of a famous fantasy author in order to boost her sales. They travel around visiting charming bed and breakfasts with plenty of time to talk about their feelings. The fantasy writer has a dog that he really loves a lot. The movie really revolves more around the dog more than the books. Now, why is this a bad movie about writing? For one thing, it has an unrealistic view of book tours, namely that a debut writer who is writing a memoir (which is a notoriously hard to sell genre) would be given such a lavish book tour paired with an author outside her genre. Cross-genre of sales promotions here in the real world tend not to work terribly well, because someone who wants to buy an 800 page fantasy novel about dragons is probably not going to be super interested in picking up a new writer's memoir are about her failed dating life. The movie also has an unrealistic view of book marketing and the involvement level and commitment of traditional publishing staff. If traditional publishing marketing staff is marketing 50 plus other writers, they're not going to follow your whimsical book tour and give tons of advice and coaching along the way. Book tours really don't sell very many books in general, to the point where Brandon Sanderson, who is probably the top selling fantasy author in the world right now, stopped doing book tours in 2020 when COVID came along (because you know, everyone had to stop doing book tours). But after all the various restrictions lifted, he found that he really wasn't interested in resuming it because of the physical drain of traveling and it turned out it had no impact on sales whatsoever. Finally, the movie touts the very false belief that the skill of giving heartfelt, heavily autobiographical speeches is the essential skill in marketing your work. Honestly, if you want to sell books, you would have better luck learning how to use Amazon ads or Facebook ads effectively, but I expect that would not make for a very good Hallmark movie. The second movie we're going to talk about is Lost City from 2022, which I actually saw shortly after it came out because it turned up on streaming (I think it was on Prime). I thought it was actually pretty funny, but it was not terribly accurate about the business of writing. The plot is that a romance author is struggling to finish her book. While she's on tour with her famous cover model, she gets kidnapped and the cover model must turn into an action hero and rescue her. The plot very heavily borrows from the 1980s movie Romancing the Stone, which is also about a writer. The scenery in the movie is fantastic and Daniel Radcliffe plays the villain, this insane billionaire who kidnapped Sandra Bullock's character to help find lost treasure and their reactions were pretty funny. It's not a great movie about writing. Even the romance and romantasy (which is a combination of romance and fantasy) authors topping the best seller list right now (as of April 2024) do not have press tours that are more like a fan convention with a budget for sparkly jumpsuits and lighting effects, etcetera. Cover models do not get a lot (or even any) of promotion, attention, or respect from publishers. The cover model is given top billing on the tour along with the author, which just doesn't happen. One side note, what is probably realistic is the publisher trying to discourage tangents in full academic jargon by the author on her history related research interests. You will often find if you're reading a book that involved a lot of research on the part of the author, that the author is going to put that research into the book (whether the reader likes it or not). Our third movie is called Alex and Emma, which came out in 2003. The plot of this movie is that an author with writer's block has debts to a loan shark he must pay in 30 days or else the loan shark is going to get nasty. He hires a stenographer to help him church out a book and since it's a romantic comedy, you can probably guess what happens next. This movie was apparently very loosely inspired by the story of Dostoyevsky writing The Gambler/meeting his wife but is also apparently heavily inspired by the movie Paris When it Sizzles. Even with multiple sources of inspiration, it still received terrible reviews for an incoherent, unsatisfying plot. And why is this a bad movie about writing? For one thing, it treats writing a book draft in 30 days as a near impossible feat. Not to toot my own horn, so to speak, but I'm going to write the rough draft of Cloak of Titans in under 30 days. If all goes well, it will be well over 100,000 words. There's also once again the cliche that writing already must be autobiographical and reflect what's currently happening in your life in order to be good. If that were true, all my books would be about the adventures of a middle-aged IT guy, which would be kind of boring compared to epic fantasy novels. And another thing that's unrealistic is that the struggling writer gets a $125,000 advance from the publisher, but the publisher won't help him replace a computer when it gets destroyed by a loan shark's posse. Computers were, of course, quite a bit more expensive in 2003 than they are now, but still they cost a lot less than $125,000. So that part definitely didn't make sense. Our 4th movie is Not Another Happy Ending, which came out in 2013. A writer becomes successful but has writer's block when she's happy. Her publisher has to figure out how to make her unhappy so she can write again but falls in love with her in the process. And why is this a bad movie about writing? If following around most the successful writers in order to inspire them was the actual job of publishers, a few certain well known fantasy series might have at least one more book by now than they actually do. So we'll just move on from there. The fifth one is a movie that gets made fun of a lot and rather deservedly so: Eat, Pray, Love, which came out in 2010. The plot of this, obviously, is that a reader gets divorced and goes on a journey to Italy, India, and Bali in order to “find herself” and gain writing inspiration. Why is this a bad movie about writing? So many reasons! First, there's a sort of a cliche in poor taste that writers can't be great unless they leave their spouses, that their marriage is preventing someone from devoting themselves to great writing. Although the one thing you say for Eat, Pray, Love is that it's a gender flip as opposed to the way these things usually are in movies where it's the male writer who is being held back by his wife. The reality is that people with stable home lives are more likely to be productive than people without them, and this is true across all fields of endeavor, and not just writing. Another bad cliche is the idea that you need to bankroll a year of travel to luxury destinations in order to find inspiration to write isn't realistic or accurate, and in truth very, very, very, very, very few writers can actually afford this luxury. This type of thinking leads people to believe they need to go on expensive retreats in order to be a “real writer”, when in reality many famous writers rarely traveled. Examples: Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, I think J.R.R. Tolkien spent most of his post-war life entirely in England, etcetera. For myself, I do most of my writing either on my couch or while sitting in a $40 office chair I bought off Amazon Basics. That is definitely a cliche that you do not need to travel in order to write. In fact, travel can get in the way of getting writing done, which was one of the Brandon Sanderson's stated reasons for why he doesn't go on book tours too often anymore. Our 6th movie is As Good as It Gets, which came out in 1997. The premise of this movie is that a crabby, ill-behaved writer with some mental health challenges has a series of unexpected interactions that inspire him to become a better person. And why is this an inaccurate move about writing? First, there's a cliche that writers need to use a typewriter because a computer isn't as artistic or special. I know there are writers who insist on writing things longhand and or insist on using the typewriter and they have their reasons, but it's my belief that that is in fact very inefficient, and you should probably write on whatever method is most efficient or easy for you. And if you are writing for publication and profit, that means writing on a computer. If you don't like to type, you can dictate. There's also the idea I don't like that the idea that the reading public/critics will forgive terrible behavior or prejudice because of how brilliant you are. This is a fallacy you see across many professions where a brilliant doctor, a brilliant scientist, a brilliant politician, a brilliant writer, or whatever feels they have a license to act like a total jerk because they're so good at what they do. In reality, that often causes a lot of problems and ends up destroying the person's career. So that is a bad cliche, and one that if you're listening to this, I urge you not to put into practice in your daily life. Our seventh and final movie is another Hallmark one called A Novel Romance, which came out in 2015. In this story, a male romance writer who uses a pen name meets a female book reviewer who is unaware of his true identity even as they grow closer. Will pressure from his publisher to reveal his true identity hurt their budding romance? What did this movie get wrong about writing? First, there's the idea that pen names are somehow deceptive or shocking, especially in the romance genre where it's very common for a single writer to have multiple pen names. A professional book critic would consider it a very strong possibility that someone is writing under a pen name, which makes you wonder how competent the book critic is as a book critic. Publishers do not send limos to the airport for writers traveling to their personal vacation homes. If a writer is rich enough to have a limo and a personal vacation home, the writer is probably paying for it him or herself. The publisher is not. Most writing is not done on a legal pad while staring out onto the water next to your very expensive boat. Your agent, even a very nice agent (if such a thing exists) will not fly across the country multiple times in order to give you romantic advice. And finally, an author's pen name reveal would not be front page tabloid news. So those are just some of the things that movie got wrong about writing. So there those are 7 movies that are very inaccurate about what being a writer is like, and the point of that was not to pick on those movies (with the possible exception of Eat, Pray, Love, which deserves to be picked on) but to point out that the way they referenced what being a writer was like was often quite inaccurate, even if the movies themselves may or may not have been enjoyable for their intended audience. So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found it useful and a word of thanks to my transcriptionist help me to pull this list together because she's definitely seen more Hallmark movies than I have. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

He's been an important force in shaping legal policy over the last decade. He's written an essential book on our constitution. He's worked closely with government -- but done so with a sense of public purpose. Arghya Sengupta joins Amit Varma in episode 366 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about  his life, his work and his learnings.  (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Arghya Sengupta on Twitter, LinkedIn, Times of India and Vidhi Center for Legal Policy. 2. The Colonial Constitution -- Arghya Sengupta. 3. Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. 4. Insiders and Outsiders -- Amit Varma. 5. The Ideas of Our Constitution — Episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhav Khosla). 6. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 7. Murali Neelakantan Looks at the World -- Episode 329 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Rahul Matthan Seeks the Protocol -- Episode 360 of The Seen and the Unseen. 9. Apar Gupta Fights the Good Fight -- Episode 353 of The Seen and the Unseen. 10.  The Life and Times of KP Krishnan -- Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen. 11. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State -- Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 12. The Right to Property -- Episode 26 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 13. Shruti Rajagopalan on our constitutional amendments. 14. 'कोस-कोस पर बदले पानी, चार कोस पर वाणी।' 15. Devangshu Datta Traded His Corduroy Pants -- Episode 348 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. Ao. 17. Enid Blyton, Five Find-Outers, The Famous Five, Billy Bunter, Just William, Hardy Boys, Three Investigators and Jeffrey Archer. 18. Kane and Abel -- Jeffrey Archer. 19. Bimbo -- Jim Reeves. 20. Chandril Bhattacharya interviewed at Kolkata Literary Meet 2016. (Listen to him 5:40 onwards). 21. Chandrabindoo on Spotify and YouTube. 22. Rabindra Sangeet. 23. The Complete Adventures of Feluda — Satyajit Ray. 24. Chander Pahar (Bengali) -- Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. 25. Sonar Kella -- Satyajit Ray. 26. Donoghue v Stevenson. 27. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein. 28. Law, Legislation and Liberty -- Friedrich Hayek. 29. Nationalist Thought in a Colonial World -- Partha Chatterjee. 30. The Truth Pill -- Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy. 31. Taxi No 9211 -- Milan Luthria. 32. Kashmir and Article 370 — Episode 134 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Srinath Raghavan). 33. The Overton Window. 34. From Addict to Convict -- Neha Singhal, Arpita Mitra and Kaushiki Sanyal. (Scroll down on the page for Punjabi version.) 35. Punjab's drug menace: Secrecy renders women substance abusers 'invisible' -- Neha Singhal & Sumathi Chandrashekaran. 36. End of Life Care in India: A Model Legal Framework 2.0 -- Dhvani Mehta and Akshat Agarwal. 37. Gyan Prakash on the Emergency — Episode 103 of The Seen and the Unseen. 38. The Collected Writings and Speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. 39. Annihilation of Caste -- BR Ambedkar. 40. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad -- Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 41. Where Have All The Leaders Gone? — Amit Varma. 42. The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. 43. Marching For Salt (2015) -- Amit Varma. 44. Two Concepts of Liberty -- Isaiah Berlin. 45. Why Freedom Matters -- Episode 10 of Everything is Everything. 46. Sandipto Dasgupta on the Anxious Administrator. 47. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 48. Hind Swaraj — MK Gandhi. 49. Understanding Gandhi. Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 50. Understanding Gandhi. Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 51. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back -- Subhashish Bhadra. 52. Of Gods and Men -- Xavier Beauvois. 53. Devi -- Satyajit Ray. 54. Jalsaghar -- Satyajit Ray. 55. Advaita on YouTube Music, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram and Twitter. 56. Junoon and Coke Studio Pakistan. 57. Now and Then -- The Beatles. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘'The Engine Room of Law” by Simahina.

Wir blicken selbst nicht mehr durch, wann genau die allererste Folge "Die Zentrale2 veröffentlicht wurde. Bei Spotify & Co. steht der 7. Januar 2019 als Veröffentlichungsdatum, woanders ist die Rede vom 26.1.19 und im Kopf unseres Podcasters Thomas hat sich der 27.1.19 manifestiert. Jetzt ist es eigentlich auch egal, wir sind eh zu spät dran, aber wir nutzen den Anlass für unser 5-jähriges, nochmal gemeinsam mit den drei ??? ins Gespensterschloss zurück zu kehren. Diese mal hat Thomas Olli an seiner Seite und zusammen gruseln sie sich vor dem Blauen Phantom, den kalten Nebelschwaden und der Frau im Spiegel, die das Gespensterschloss zu den tiefen Tönen der Orgel auffährt. Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 0178 134 5227

Rapid ReadsShow NotesFor our first Rapid Reads episode we gave short reviews of six different books:Militia House by John Milas“This is a beautiful horror story told masterfully and elegantly. It is a brilliant, different kind of warnovel, one that reveals the insidious ways the violences of war can tear people apart from the insideout. “Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead“a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where twooutcasts―the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks―hold the key touncovering the truth. “Murder with Chocolate Tea by Karen Rose SmithTea shop owner and bride-to-be Daisy Swanson must solve a murder before she can say “I do”in the latest Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery set in Pennsylvania's Amish country...What Wild Women Do by Karma BrownTwo women's lives unexpectedly collide at a camp in the Adirondacks in this fascinating dual-timeline novel full of ambition, secrets, betrayal, mystery, intrigue, nature, inspiration, and a journey ofself-discovery.Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen“This is a nice take on retirement—five old spooks whose bones may ache but whose mindsremain sharp. You can expect mystery, action, and bloodshed in this exciting thriller launched straightfrom the peaceful shores of Maine.”TRIVIALast week's question was:Which mystery author used the pseudonym Mark Sadler, John Crowe, Carl Dekker and William Arden?a. Dan Brownb. John Grishamc. Mickey Spillaned. Michael CollinsThe answer is d. Michael Collins but the name Michael Collins is actually a pseudonym for Dennis Lynds.Beginning in 1968 with The Mystery of the Moaning Cave and ending in 1989 with Hot Wheels, Lynds wrotefourteen novels under the pen name William Arden for the juvenile detective series The Three Investigators,which was originated by Robert Arthur, Jr. Under this same name, he also wrote five novels featuring privateeye Kane Jackson, a former military policeman who has become an industrial security specialist after leavingthe military. The first Jackson novel, A Dark Power, appeared in 1968.Prolific, explaining that he had more ideas than he knew what to do with, in addition to his Collins name, hecreated additional series under the pseudonyms Mark Sadler, John Crowe, and Carl Dekker. For a few years,he published under three of these pseudonyms at the same time at three different publishing housesThis week's question is::Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker. He became famous in April 2011 forwhat?a. He used a fictional murderer as a guideline for the crimeb. He pulled off the biggest jewel heist in historyc. He murdered his wife and 6 childrend. He murdered a man and filmed the murder

Es ist vollbracht! Was vor knapp 4 Jahren begann, haben Olli und Thomas nun zu Ende geführt: Die Besprechung aller dreiTag-Folgen. Mit "Der Fluch der Sheldon Street" endet eine Ära von Frieden, Harmonie und Respekt, den die beiden sich gegenseitig zollten, während sie dieses Special der drei ??? auseinander nahmen. Wie es in Zukunft weiter geht und ob Olli & Thomas nochmal alleine ohne ihren Kasper ein drei ??? Hörspiel begutachten, erfahrt ihr am Ende dieser Folge. Gleichzeitig verabschieden wir uns mit dieser Folge auch in die Sommerpause! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder schreibt uns über WhatsApp Tel.: 0178 134 5227

Gayle Lynds along with her prolific and talented multi-genre husband Dennis Lynds have been long time supporters and members of the Santa Barabra Writers Conference for many years.Dennis has passed on and is sorely missed, but Gayle continues being an inspiration to the SBWC family.Gayle is an American former journalist, editor and author and is known as the Queen of Espionage Fiction for her spy fiction or spy thrillers novels. She is also the co-founder of International Thriller Writers. She began her writing career as a newspaper journalist for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona and was an editor at a government think tank, where she also acquired a Top Secret security clearance.Her fiction career began with literary short stories published under her own name and several pulp fiction novels under male pseudonyms such as G.H. Stone, Gayle Stone, Nick Carter, and Don Pendleton.In 1996, her first novel Masquerade was published. She also wrote three novels in The Three Investigators, a YA mystery novel series. With Robert Ludlum, she created the Covert-One series and wrote three of the books.The Hades Factor, which she co-wrote with Robert Ludlum, was a CBS television miniseries in April 2006.You can find out more about Gayle and her works here:https://gaylelynds.com/

Eine weitere Episode nur mit den Allstars Benjamin und Thomas. Das liegt daran, dass Olli zu doof - äh, Ollis Internet nicht soooooo gut ist und er sich nicht online dazu schalten kann, da Thomas immer noch in Amerika verweilt. Zum Glück ist Benjamin da mehr auf Drahr und hat nicht nur diese Folge geschnitten, sondern auch das Skript vorbereitet. Apropos Benjmain: Dieser hatte sich ja über unsere letzte lange Besprechung beschwert, da er "Schüsse aus dem Dunkel" als sehr kompliziert empfand. Wie es ihm mit der Folge "Feuerturm" geht und ob er da ähnluch denkt, erfahrt ihr nur, wenn ihr endlich auf Play drückt! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder schreibt uns über WhatsApp Tel.: 0178 134 5227

Abermillionen Tonträger der legendären Hörspielreihe "Die drei Fragezeichen" wurden seit fast 45 Jahren verkauft - erst als Musik-Cassette, später als CDs. Heute hören die Hörspiele unter der Regie von Heikedine Körting monatlich fast 1 Million Menschen bei Spotify - längst auch viele Erwachsene, die mit den Geschichten von Justus, Peter und Bob groß geworden sind. Die Produzentin verrät, wie sie sich in der ersten Folge mit dem Superpapagei akustisch verewigt hat... Autorin: Sabine Jäger Von Sabine Jäger.

Ursprünglich wollten wir diese Folgenbesprechung gar nicht veröffentlichen, da sie als reines Special auf Twitch gut funktioniert hat. Wie ihr ja sicherlich wisst, haben wir auf unserer Patreonseite eine Stufe, bei der HörerInnen sich eine Folge wünschen können (Katsching!) und wer viiiiiel Zeit und Geduld mitbringt, bekommt auch irgendwann seine Wunschfolge. Hier war es ein bisschen anders, da es die gewünschte Folge nur als Buch gibt, bis heute warten Fans vergeblich auf eine Hörspielumsetzung. Da es nicht besonders spannend wäre, nur das Buch durchzukauen, haben sich Benjamin und Thomas in Schale geworfen und eine visuelle Buchklubausgabe daraus gemacht. Auch Olli war natürlich dabei, fungierte aber mehr hinter der Kamera, moderierte den Chat und warf in regelmässigen Abständen Kommentare aus dem Off ein. Live hat das ganze gut funktioniert, als reiner Podcast ist es wieder etwas schwieriger. Da uns aber inzwischen zahlreiche Anfragen erreicht haben (3!), haben wir uns doch dazu entschlossen, die Folge als Podcast zu veröffentlichen, weisen aber darauf hin, dass manchmal die Tonqualität (speziell bei Olli) zu wünschen übrig lässt. Und nun viel Spaß mit dieser Sonderfolge!

Gayle Lynds along with her prolific and talented multi-genre husband Dennis Lynds have been long time supporters and members of the Santa Barabra Writers Conference for many years.Dennis has passed on and is sorely missed, but Gayle continues being an inspiration to the SBWC family.Gayle is an American former journalist, editor and author and is known as the Queen of Espionage Fiction for her spy fiction or spy thrillers novels. She is also the co-founder of International Thriller Writers. She began her writing career as a newspaper journalist for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona and was an editor at a government think tank, where she also acquired a Top Secret security clearance.Her fiction career began with literary short stories published under her own name and several pulp fiction novels under male pseudonyms such as G.H. Stone, Gayle Stone, Nick Carter, and Don Pendleton.In 1996, her first novel Masquerade was published. She also wrote three novels in The Three Investigators, a YA mystery novel series. With Robert Ludlum, she created the Covert-One series and wrote three of the books.The Hades Factor, which she co-wrote with Robert Ludlum, was a CBS television miniseries in April 2006.You can find out more about Gayle and her works here:https://gaylelynds.com/

Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Erica * The Real John B Topics: * The Nancy Drew Point and Click adventure series * Advances in garbage food technology * The mysterious grunting voice playing over the American Airlines intercom * https://waxy.org/2022/09/a-mysterious-voice-is-haunting-american-airlines-in-flight-announcements-and-nobody-knows-how/ * A poem I found: "The Cow" by Oliver Herford * https://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSo/status/1053873522823446528 * Klik, freeware and indie games in the late 90s and early 2000s * http://freegames.org/GameHippo Microtopics: * Other topic podcasts biting Jim's steeze. * Spending the next hour blushing. * Holding a Bark Mitzvah to watch your Good Boy become a mensch. * Releasing a director's cut from beyond the grave. * Bad games that you can't get enough of. * Adventure games that make you feel like when grandma would visit and bring you donuts. * Secret Fandoms. * The new Nancy Drew series where Nancy Drew is an airhead and nobody likes her. * A 70 year old woman playing a teenager. * Whether game designers play anything other than World of Warcraft. * Why the Nancy Drew adventure games are not on phones. * Putting Nancy Drew in Fortnite. * Friend of the show, Dropsy. * You don't have to be an American to eat a garbage diet, but it sure helps. * Food color technology over time. * When Froot Loops added the fourth color. * Speaking truth to power about the little silver disc that you microwave pizza on. * The starchy packet that helps the noodles cook. * A job that requires the skill sets of both a chef and a materials engineer. * Things that come out of boxes nowadays. * Watching meat substitutes grow up. * Plastic golems living in your body. * Getting your first reading glasses at your Old Mitzvah and giving a speech starting with "now I am an old." * The second person this hour who has admitted to the pharmacist that they need reading glasses. * The baby technology section at Walmart. * Snot removers that'd also be great for insect collection. * A sock that measures blood oxygenation. * Earwitness accounts. * Working on the American Airlines announcement system and adding strange grunting noises to the playlist. * Electrical noise that is being interpreted by a system intended to transmit the human voice. * The guy who does all the grunt voices. * A sound that is like audio from a music album. * An incredible technical smartass who got annoyed at luggage fees. * A fridge full of snacks in the middle of the plane. * Every passenger getting up and going to the snack pit. * Wrestling for Cheez-Its. * All the folks who are into weird pranks and technical glitches making a pilgrimage to the American Airlines flight with the weird grunting. * Nancy-likes. * The Three Investigators, presented by Alfred Hitchcock. * Joining the discord for more on the ukulele plane. * Back in 1901 when they worried about Peak Cow. * Milk punch. * Eggless egg nog. * Celebrating all the positive ways cows influence our lives, and also we eat them. * Whether scientists knew extinctions were possible in 1901. * Looking for free games on the internet in 1999. * Letting the Game Hippo domain lapse and a domain squatter picks it up and the rest is history. * Dink Smallwood. * A multidirectional shooter with a cool perspective trick. * All the search engines they had before google. * The Williams College MUD that you could log in to and visit Williams College in the MUD. * Graal Online. * Receiving a box of shareware from your mom's coworker. * PC games from before developers realized that computers would get faster. * Typing swim fast enough that you don't drown. * Please Copy That Floppy!

Es ist soweit! Heute begehen wir unsere 50. Folgenbesprechung! Töööörööööö! Zu diesem Anlass haben wir uns Verstärkung geholt. Kein geringerer als Starautor C. R. Rodenwald hat unsere heiligen Hallen besucht und mit uns zusammen einen weiteren Klassiker von den drei ??? mit uns besprochen! Es gibt nicht nur Statistiken und nackte Zahlen aus 50 Folgen Zentrale, es wird auch geschmatzt, gekaut, übersteuert, gekalauert und ziemlich niveaulos an manchen Stellen. Also eigentlich alles wie immer! Und jetzt Bühne frei! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 0178 134 5227

Heute besprechen wir mal wieder eine Folge, die sich eine Hörerin von uns gewünscht hat! Wir widmen uns dem Kultklassiker "Der seltsame Wecker". Wir wünschen viel Vergnügen!

This week we have “The Accusing Corpse,” the April 16, 1944, episode of The Mysterious Traveler as it aired over the Mutual Broadcasting System. The series aired more than 350 episodes from 1943 to 1952, although most of those episodes no longer exist. The series was written and directed by Robert Arthur and David Kogan. Arthur, for his part, wrote dozens of stories for the pulps. He was also a prolific writer for many radio series and scripted several episodes of television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He also wrote mystery books for a young adult audience, most notably the Three Investigators series and was the editor of many of the short story collections credited to Hitchcock in the 1960s. Find more on the Best of Thrilling Detective at https://brickpicklemedia.com/the-best-of-thrilling-detective-vol-2/

Da haben sie es doch endlich im Kasten! Nachdem die erste Aufnahme zum Feuerteufel in den Straßen von Berlin verloren gegangen ist, hat sich Olljamin nochmals hingesetzt und die Folge "Die drei ??? - Der Feuerteufel" unter die Lupe genommen. Und das ganze auch noch live auf Twitch! Herausgekommen sind dabei fast 4 Stunden pures Gold an (gähn) Unterhaltung! Wir wünschen gute Unterhaltung! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Wieder einmal besprechen wir einen Klassiker aus der Hörspielserie "Die drei ???" und wieder einmal ist es eine ABSOLUTE LIEBLINGSFOLGE von Thomas! Benjamin und Thomas haben sich mal wieder zusammengestzt, alleine sind sie trotzdem nicht. Da unser Olli der Meinung war, lieber Geld durch reguläre Arbeit zu verdienen, haben wir uns den lieben Olli von "He-Man´s Machtschädel" und "Die Rechte und die Linke Hand des Podcasts" dazu geholt. Wer also schon immer mal hören wollte, wie ein Außenstehender Podcaster in unsere Folgenbesprechungen einfügt und wie lange er es mit Benjamins provozierenden Mistfragen aushält, sollte heute unbedingt reinhören! Ach ja, Thomas war übrigens schon 2 mal zu Gast bei "He-Man2s Machtschädel", der jüngste Auftritt ist grade erst erschienen und das ganze kann man hier nachhören! https://machtschaedl.podigee.io/37-31-die-pyramide-der-unsterblichkeit-mit-thomas-von-die-zentrale Wir wünschen euch wie immer gute Unterhaltung!

This week we have “Stranger in the House,” the May 6, 1945, episode of The Sealed Book. The Sealed Book aired 26 episodes from March 18 to September 9, 1945. This episode was written by Robert Arthur, who wrote dozens of stories for the pulps. He was also a prolific writer for many radio series and scripted several episodes of television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He also wrote mystery books for a young adult audience, most notably the Three Investigators series and was the editor of many of the short story collections credited to Hitchcock in the 1960s. Find more on The Best of Thrilling Detective Volume 2 at https://brickpicklemedia.com/the-best-of-thrilling-detective-vol-2/

Die erste Folgenbesprechung 2022 liegt vor euch! Begleitet Olli und Thomas zusammen ins Wildparkgehege und findet gemeinsam heraus, warum der Löwe George so nervös ist. Aber Vorsicht: Löwe spritz Urin durchs Gitter! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Heute ist Nikolaus! Habt ihr uns was schönes in unsere Stiefel gesteckt? Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Folgende Besonderheiten sind für diese Folgenbesprechung festzuhalten: Diese Episode hat sich ein Hörer von uns gewünscht. So dringlingst, dass er sogar bereit war, eine hohe Summe zu investieren. Daher ist er auf unsere Patreonseite https://www.patreon.com/rotzundwasser gegangen und hat dort den Höchstbetrag 150 Euro gespendet. So hatten wir also keine andere Wahl und haben eine seiner absoluten Lieblingsfolgen besprochen. Diese Folge wurde schon vor etwa 8 Wochen aufgenommen, daher werdet ihr sicherlich Informationen und Aussagen vernehmen zu zukünftigen Aufnahmenplänen von uns, die so nicht mehr ganz aktuell sind. Ansonsten wünschen wir euch wie immer viel Spass beim hören! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Ja ist denn die Sommerpause schon vorbei oder was ist da los? Eine neue Folge "Die Zentrale" steht an und dann auch noch in einer absoluten Traumbesetzung! Benjamin und Thomas haben es geschafft, endlich mal wieder gemeinsam ohne den nervigen Olli aufzunehmen. Als wäre es 2019! Und dann kommen sie auch noch mit einer echten Knallerfolge um die Ecke! Die drei ??? und die Musikpiraten beschäftigen unsere Podcasthelden dieses mal. Wir wünschen wie immer gute Unterhaltung! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/ Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

In dieser Folge sprechen Olli und Thomas über die Kurzgeschichte "Dunkle Vergangenheit", die ihr in dem Hörspiel "Die drei ??? und die Geisterlampe" finden könnt. Da die Story aber nicht viel herzugeben scheint, weichen die beiden gehörig vom Thema ab und reden auch unter anderem über ein mögliches Ende der Hörspielserie. Wir wünschen gute Unterhaltung! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Strap yourselves in for Randomoids VI - Revenge of the Selectortron, where we dive into a randomly selected Big Finish audio and give it a review in less than 30 minutes. This time it's Blake's 7 - The Liberator Chronicles - The Armageddon Storm. We also delve into some recent feedback left by our audience, including some suggestion and what you, the audience would like us to review on the podcast in the future. Philip recommends the new music from ABBA. Dwayne recommends Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle & The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot. (Rainbow audio) Next time.... our special guest is Big Finish sound designer and podcaster Benji Clifford. The Sirens of Audio on YouTube Theme music by The Jackpot Golden Boys Email: sirensofaudio@gmail.com Website: sirensofaudio.com Twitter: @AudioSirens Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/sirensofaudio/ Clips and music are copyright BBC and Big Finish. No infringement is intended. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sirensofaudio/message

Today is the 122nd birthday of Alfred Hitchcock. My mother first introduced my sister and me to Alfred Hitchcock via the movies Psycho and Rear Window (we watched them after school quite often), she taught us to look for his cameos at the beginning of the films. I am not exactly sure what age, I feel like I have always known him and I went on to read a Hardy Boys type of mysteries called “Three Investigators” that Hitchcock wrote the introductions to and even loved the old reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV. I have gone on to love both of those movies and have added The Trouble with Harry, Lifeboat, North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, The Birds, Strangers on a Train, and The Man Who Knew Too Much to my list of favorite Hitchcock films. How can you not fall in love with North by Northwest? The color of the film, the cut of the clothes, the architecture, train travel. The Trouble with Harry is so absurdly clever and Shirley MacLaine is absolute perfection. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://waldina.com/2021/08/13/happy-122nd-birthday-alfred-hitchcock/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waldina/message

Heute gibt es im Rahmen unseres Ferienprogramms eine kleine Specialfolge. Auf unserer Patreonseite "rotzundwasser" besprechen wir exklusiv für unsere Patronen die Kurzgeschichten der drei ???. Damit ihr mal einen kleinen Eindruck bekommt, wie sie sich so eine Sonderfolge anhört, präsentieren wir euch unsere erste Folge, die wir für Patreon aufgenommen haben. Für alle, die jetzt auf den Geschmack gekommen sind, empfehlen wir einen Besuch auf unserer Patreonseite https://www.patreon.com/rotzundwasser Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Heute begeben sich Thomas & Olli gemeinsam mit den drei ??? auf die Suche nach Hairy Potter. Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Heute besprechen Olli und Thomas eine weitere Folge aus dem Special "DIe drei ??? und der dreiTag". Kaum sind anderthalb Jahre um, da widmen wir uns der Folge "Im Zeichen der Ritter". Natürlich mussten wir uns auch nochmal auf unsere Besprechung zu "Fremder Freund" rückbesinnen, deswegen werdet ihr vermutlich die eine oder andere Anekdote ein weiteres mal hören, die wir schon Ende 2019 zum dreiTag vom Stapel gelassen haben, aber in Podcastjahren ist das einfach mal eine gefühlte Ewigkeit her! Olli und Thomas springen thematisch in dieser Folge sehr hin und her, was für Ollis Verhältnisse schon echt etwas besonderes ist! So in Laberlaune habt ihr unseren dritten Podcaster noch nie erlebt! Was Dagobert Duck mit der ganzen Sache zu tun hat, wollen wir an dieser Stelle noch nicht verraten. Wir wünschen euch vergnügliche Stunden beim hören! Ihr habt Fragen, Feedback oder Kritik? Dann meldet euch doch einfach bei uns über Twitter: @zentrale_die @friday5782 @Kasperwelten oder über unseren Instagramaccount die_zentrale rotzundwasserpodcast oder sprecht uns was auf unseren Anrufbeantworter Tel.: 015202409308 Besucht uns doch mal auf unserer Webseite http://rotzundwasser-podcast.de/

Vicky Warren joins me to discuss the pursuit of unity in the church. In this age when we’re exposed to so many voices and opinions, she urges us, first, to pray, then to lay down our rights, to seek peace in knowing who the Lord is, and to ask for reconciliation with Him. Her words are gentle and kind, yet strong and authoritative. I pray you are refreshed by her time on the podcast today! A little bit about the guest: CEO of MissionNext, Vicky Warren and her husband have actively served in the local church for over 30 years. Vicky spent 33 years working in innovative and creative environments from multimillion dollar technology deployments, alliances with technical luminaries such as Steve Jobs, Nicholas Negroponte’s MIT media lab, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and The Walt Disney Studios to entrepreneurial startup businesses. Her primary focus in these organizations included leadership and business development, strategic planning, research and development, innovation and creativity. Now she is committed full time to using these experiences to serve along church planters in Asia and Africa to extend the reach of the Gospel through Pioneer Business Planting. Her passion for Pioneer Business Planting has led her to focusing on mobilizing the body of Christ to this endeavor worldwide through speaking, teaching, equipping, and advocacy of viable and profitable business for God’s glory. Support the podcast through Patreon Join our mailing list Check out our website Resources: MissionNext Vicky is reading Safely Home by Randy Alcorn, Hastening: No Place Left by Steve Smith, and The Three Investigators by Alfred Hitchcock. She is being refreshed by walking in the forest near her home, talking to the Lord, and watching the cows graze. Noteworthy quotes: “If you can keep your eyes open and you can watch and you can see in the midst of the sorrow, and the loss, and the difficulties, God is working. ” - 11:21 “It really is about listening to the Lord, being obedient-- even when you’re not quite sure what it is He’s calling you to- and following His direction.” - 15:51 “Do we recognize and understand that He is God?” - 20:46 “Really, as a peacemaker, our call is to reconcile people to God” - 29:51 “If you have it memorized, if you know God’s Word, no one can take that away from you.” - 41:38 Questions for consideration: In what ways does fear of man overpower the fear of the Lord in your life? Will you pray and ask the Lord to help you to lay down your rights? Would you ask the Holy Spirit to help you speak out in love? Where do you attempt to find your peace apart from the Lord? Would you ask the Lord for true peace through reconciliation to Him? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/waterwithlemon/support

Welcome to the 2020 Christmas Special, Advent Calendar During this X-mas season we will be opening together a new Podcast door every day from the 1. December - 24. December. A new guest that is presenting a book that has some special meaning to her or him.  You'll learn about: Why this book is important What this book is about For whom the book could be On what media the guest is consuming books When and where the guest is reading and other fun facts. I am sure that there will be a lot of fun time for us and lots of inspiration on what next book to read during this advent time.  For today I present you: The book series I got to know as an Audio Book Story. "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators" written by Robert Arthur Jr. in 1964. I found it as a "Höhrspiel", audio story in German when I was 8-10 years old. And I loved the series especially  "The 3 Investigators in Secret of Terror Castle" episode. I present this book series as those where the first books that I read without being asked to read a book. So it brings me back to my teenage years.  Subscribe to my Podcast: Listen to the Podcast “The Oliver Schirach Show” and this episode in Audio on your favourite podcast provider: Anchor.fm/schirach Apple Podcast Spotify Sticher, Podbean and many more if you can't find it send me a note and I'll add it. and YouTube in video version You can also send me an audio message on www.anchor.fm/schirach or send a message to oschirach@gmail.com. My blog www.oliverschirach.jimdofree.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/schirach/message

Mark Pryor's sharply plotted Hugo Marston mysteries combine the gritty reality of underworld crime with gorgeous Paris settings that revel in French life old and new. Hi there, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler and today Mark talks about reader expectations, the importance of craft, and his recent addition to Hugo's American embassy network, a transgender security agent. Six things you'll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode: Why adding an alligator made for a more interesting story How Hugo Marston came to be The secret reason his mysteries are set in gorgeous cities Why he never worries about 'writer's block.' The writers he admires most What he'd do differently second time around Where to find Mark Pryor:  Website:  http://www.markpryorbooks.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mark-Pryor-Author-101633349962415/  Twitter: @MarkPryorBooks What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions. Jenny:  Hello there Mark, and welcome to the show.  It's great to have you with us. Mark:  Nice to be on.  Thank you so much for having me. Mark Pryor - Mystery author Jenny:  Beginning at the beginning as I always like to do - was there a “Once Upon A Time” moment when you decided you wanted to write fiction, and if so, was there some sort of catalyst for it? Mark:  Yes actually.  It was when I was in primary school in England.   I remember that my teacher, Mrs Garwood, had two notebooks she had us write in.  One was for things that actually happened to us, news, and the other was for stories, fictional stories, things we just invented.  And at the beginning of one term, after the summer holidays, she asked us to write in the 'News' book about some stuff we had done and so I did. I wrote about a haystack I'd played on on the family farm with my best friend and about how we'd been attacked by alligators and we'd had to fight them off with sticks, and I wrote all this in my 'News' book, not my fiction book.   And you know what she said?  She said absolutely nothing about it and she gave me a gold star, so I always think of that as a great moment of encouragement for me and I look back at that and I remember.  That would be a kick-off point for me, I think. Jenny:  Did you realise at that point that you were writing fiction in a news book?  Did you actually know the difference? Mark:  I think probably what happened was I started to write something true, because we did play on the haystack, but then realised that that was kind of boring and a couple of alligators would make this a lot more interesting. Jenny:  That's lovely.  I can see that on your website sometime.  A couple of alligators would make this more interesting!  They could turn up in the Seine! So why did you choose the mystery genre? And why contemporary Paris as your setting? The magical Seine - but some weird things have turned up in its waters Mark:  I think mysteries because those are the books that I always read.  I grew up on Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes.  Before that the Hardy Boys, the Three Investigators.  I just was always drawn to reading mysteries and so it was a natural thing for me, when I decided to write, to write a mystery novel.  As for why Paris, I do get asked that question and I usually answer it by saying I have a friend who sets his novels in a run-down town in rural New York and another friend who sets her books in East Texas and guess who has the most fun doing research!  I have been to Paris probably knocking on twenty times and I try to go every single year to do research for the fresh book and I love the city, I love everything about it, and setting a novel there, or a series, makes perfect sense to me, because it means I have to go every year. Jenny:  Yes, and I think there definitely is quite a big genre which is actually French mysteries now, or mysteries based in France but written in English. Mark:  Yes,

Debbi Mack interviews crime fiction author Art Taylor. The transcript is below, if you'd like to read it. Or download the PDF copy and read it later. Debbi: Hi everyone. This is the Crime Cafe. Your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I'm your host, Debbi Mack. Before I bring on my guest, I'll just remind you that the Crime Cafe Nine Book Set and Crime Cafe Short Story Anthology are available for sale on my website, debbimack.com. Go there and click on “Crime Cafe” and you'll find the buy links. So, now that that's been said, it's truly a pleasure to introduce my guest, the awesome Art Taylor. Art, it's really great to have you on the show today. Thanks for coming on. Art: It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for inviting me. Debbi: I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed reading Del and Louise's adventures on the road. But the first thing I wanted to ask you before I got to that was, you've seemed to have made a career out of writing short stories. Now was that intentional, or are you just drawn to the short story format? Art: Well, two things. Number one I think it's tough to make a career from short stories. There's a lot of great markets out there, both anthologies and mystery magazines and, of course, online. But, you know, in terms of actually making a career of it, I don't think you reach as wide a readership as you might with a novel. Which is one of the reasons why I was very pleased to have On The Road with Del & Louise come out—to have a book out there as well. But the short story form is one that I particularly appreciate. You know, I started reading Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine way back when I was in late elementary school and middle school. In fact it was one of these fundraising drives that the school did where you go door to door to sell magazine subscriptions to raise money for the school. I ended up, don't remember if I sold any magazine subscriptions, but I bought one myself to Ellery Queen's and that's where I first started reading, you know, short stories, mystery short stories at an adult level; building off of having read Nancy Drew and The Three Investigators and that sort of thing. So, the short story, I was always a big fan from the very beginning. And, of course, having been in writing classes both in high school and in college and then went on to graduate school, the short story is sort of the focus for a number of reasons of a workshop setting. Something that people can bring in, can be discussed in full, as opposed to like a novel portion, which I think is harder to workshop. And so, for a couple of reasons, both as a reader and as a writer, I have kind of both fallen in love with the form and then fallen into the form as a writer. I enjoy it. I admire it and then I admire people who can write book-length pieces as well. Debbi: Well, I have to say that I admire anybody who can master the short story form because I think it is the toughest. Art: It's a, you know, it can be a challenge. I've heard, in fact, one of my writing professors (speaking about grad school) who has published, gosh twenty novels, told me once, she said, “I've never been able to write a short story.” It is too different for her. And so we hear short story writers like me who are saying that, you know, we wish we could write at the novel length more naturally. It's more of a chore for us. I hear it in the other direction. A good short story, it is a different approach. People think of it maybe sometimes as an apprenticeship. I'm going to start writing short stories as an apprenticeship toward writing a novel. But they really are two different things. You've got to write with great efficiency, have to streamline things, and every little detail not only has to count, but it also has to do a lot of work. The right detail. The right line of dialogue. The right little bit of action. So, I think there is a different kind of challenge there than with a novel which in many cases wo...