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An unearthly piano piece forces the investigators to confront feelings they have been veiling, and the cruel gaze of mirror magic brings even the best-hidden insecurities into the light. In a grey and dead dreamscape of an unfamiliar Berlin, a terrifying chase ensues.   Here's a link to buy the Berlin: The Wicked City sourcebook published by Chaosium.   Cast: Phaedra as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Lydia as Brita Lantz Tyler as Dr. Ester Rosenbaum Howl as Luise Engel Jayson as Helene Krauss   Audio Editors for this episode: Tyler, Lydia & Jayson   Excerpt of Totentanz by Franz Liszt is a derivative of Liszt's Totentanz performed by Neil O'Doan available under CC license. Title: "Neil O Doan - Totentanz" Author: Neil O'Doan Music Source: https://musopen.org/music/32872-totentanz-s-1262/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike (BY-SA) 4.0 Unported Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

Notes and Links to Sasha Vasilyuk's Work      For Episode 234, Pete welcomes Sasha Vasilyuk, and the two discuss, among other topics, her childhood in Ukraine, Russia, and then San Francisco, her experiences with multilingualism, early formative and transformative reading, seeds for Your Presence is Mandatory, including the ways in which Ukrainian Jewish grandfather's experiences informed the book, gender balances in the USSR post-WWII, humanity and the ways it's expressed in the book, connections between contemporary separatist movements and World War II, and salient themes like grief, trauma, and the ways in which secrecy affects generations.         Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of the debut novel Your Presence is Mandatory about a Ukrainian Jewish WWII soldier and his family who reckon with his lifelong secrecy, which is coming out in 2024. Sasha has written a lot about Eastern Europe, art, culture, travel and business. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, NBC, Harper's Bazaar, BBC Radio, USA Today, KQED, San Francisco Chronicle, The Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, and Narrative. She has won several writing awards, including the Solas Award for Best Travel Writing and the NATJA award. Besides writing, she has founded a leading wedding PR company, the first coworking space in San Francisco, and the first U.S. magazine for Russian-speaking emigre teens. She also spent a year traveling alone around the world. Sasha is a graduate of Lowell High School, UC Berkeley (BA in Comparative Literature and Italian Studies), and New York University (MA in Journalism). She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.   Buy Your Presence is Mandatory     Sasha's Website   Review of Your Presence is Mandatory in Los Angeles Review of Books     At about 2:55, Sasha talks about her language background, early life  At about 6:00, Sasha talks about early reading through talking about a trip to her San Francisco childhood home At about 9:00, Pete tests Sasha's British English and NorCal slang and Sasha talks about her experiences in ESL in school At about 10:40, Sasha responds to Pete's questions about if and how Russian enhances/affects her English writing At about 13:15, Sasha shares her thoughts on A Woman Warrior and other formative and transformative texts At about 16:20, Sasha highlights contemporary and not so contemporary books that challenge and inspire her, including Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate and Yaa Gaasi's Homegoing At about 19:10, Sasha shares a cool story about the origin of her cover At about 21:35, Sasha gives background on the book's seeds At about 26:20, Sasha shares how Masha and other voices are important in the book At about 27:20, Pete provides some of the book's exposition and how a famous Yevtushenko poem is related  At about 28:45, Pete wonders about atheism and its connection to the Soviet Jews and Christians featured in her book At about 32:10, Pete provides information on key characters in the book, especially Yefim and Niña, and Sasha addresses the note from the book that is a catalyst for important events in the book At about 34:00, The two discuss Baltic/Soviet Union history that informs a lot of the book's key events At about 38:45, Sasha discusses the peculiarities of gender balance (due to the massive death from the WWII-era) that inform the relationship between Yefim and Nina and so many in the book and in real-life At about 42:55, The two discuss Stalino/Donetsk, which features in the book prominently  At about 44:20, Pete reflects on how a possible extramarital affair is so suggestive of the secrecy of the post WWII Soviet Union At about 45:00, Pete's wondering about Yefim's avoiding admittance of his Jewishness and how it paralleled Sasha's grandfather; her response deals with a key question that propelled  At about 50:20, Pete compliments Sasha's fresh take on the events of history/the book  At about 51:40, Pete highlights a key and well-drawn scene that takes place within Germany, and Sasha recounts her experiences in traveling in Berlin and Germany as a whole, and how humanity and nuance come into play  At about 57:20, Pete brings up The Book Thief in praising the ways in which Sasha portrays humanity and the closeness of history  At about 59:15, Sasha discusses her “post-pub weird mental state” and future projects     You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    I am very excited about having one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review-I'm looking forward to the partnership! Look out for my interview with José Vadi sometime around May 17.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!       This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 235 with Lindsay Hunter, whose novel, DON'T KISS ME, was published by FSG Originals in 2013 and was named one of Amazon's 10 Best Books of the Year: Short Stories; her latest novel, Eat Only When You're Hungry, was a Book of the Month Club selection, a finalist for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, and a 2017 NPR Great Read. She has been a great help to me as the marvelous host of the podcast I'm a Writer But; her fifth book, 2023's Hot Springs Drive, was named one of the 12 Best Thrillers of the Year by the Washington Post.  The episode will go live on May 22.  Lastly, please go to https://ceasefiretoday.com/, which features 10+ actions to help bring about Ceasefire in Gaza.

Notes and Links to Jazmina Barrera Velázquez's Work        For Episode 233, Pete welcomes Jazmina Barrera Velásquez, and the two discuss, among other topics, her idyllic early childhood reading, her love for British, American, and Latin American authors, the ways in which Mexico City and Yucatán have informed her work, translation as an art, a craft, and a deep methods of editing, as well as salient themes from the story collection like evolving friendships, memory and tangibility, women's agency, and one's connection with her forebears and the sensitivities that come with living in a fragile world.       Jazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters and at Mexico's Fonca's Program for young writers and she's a member of the SNCA (National System of Art Creators in Mexico). She was a beneficiary of the residencies at Casa Estudio Cien años de Soledad. She has published work in various print and digital media, such as The Paris Review, El Malpensante, Words Without Borders, El País andThe New York Times. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She is the author of four books in Spanish: Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra and the children's book, Los nombres de los animales and Punto de cruz. Her books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and French. Her book of essays Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing in 2013. Cuaderno de faros (On Lighthouses) was long listed for the von Rezzori award and chosen for the Indie Next list by Indie Bound. Linea Nigra was a finalist for the National Book Critics Cricle's Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize, the CANIEM's Book of the year award and the Amazon Primera Novela (First Novel) Award. Punto de cruz (Cross-Stitch) was a finalist in the Calamo Awards and long-listed for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.      Jazmina Barrera (Ciudad de México, 1988) fue becaria de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas y beneficiaria de las residencias de la Casa Estudio Cien Años de Soledad. Fue becaria del programa de Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca y es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. Estudió la maestría en Escritura Creativa en Español en NYU con el apoyo de la beca Fullbright. Sus textos han sido publicados en revistas como The Paris Review, El País, Words Without Borders, Malpensante y The New York Times, entre otras. Es autora de Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra, Los nombres de los animales y Punto de Cruz. Su libro de ensayos Cuerpo extraño / Foreign Body ganó el premio Latin American Voices 2013. Linea nigra fue finalista del premio CANIEM al libro del año, del premio Primera Novela, del National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize y del National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize. Cuaderno de faros fue parte de la longlist del premio Von Rezzori. Punto de cruz fue finalista del premio Cálamo y parte de la longlist del premio The Republic of Consciousness. Sus libros han sido publicados en nueve países y traducidos al inglés, italiano, holandés, portugués y francés. Es socia fundadora de Ediciones Antílope. Vive en la Ciudad de México.    Buy Cross-Stitch   Jazmina's Website   Review of Cross-Stitch in The New York Times At about 3:00, Jazmina talks about her early reading and writing life, including experiential coolness and professional-style printed books At about 8:45, Jazmina's reciting of her first short story leads to her making an astute observation about the famous Ernest Hemingway quote At about 10:40, Jazmina recounts some of the books and writers that ignited her love of reading  At about 12:00, Jazmina describes Harry Potter as a gateway to learning English At about 13:05, Jazmina talks about her studying English literature at UNAM, and discovering many contemporary Latin American writers at NYU At about 15:10, The two talk about the ways in which American literature is often translated abroad, but not the other way around as much At about 17:05, Jazmina shares cool connections in her writing life to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's former writing haunts  At about 18:10, The two discuss Garcia Marquez legends about time in Mexico City At about 19:20, Jazmina highlights “so many” Latin American standout contemporaries, including Mariana Enriquez, Dolores Reyes, Marta Jimenez Serrano, and Marina Azahua, Astrid López Méndez, Isabel Zapata, César Tejeda, Irad León, Paula Abramo, Mariana Oliver, Veronica Murguia, and of course, her husband, the brilliant Alejandro Zambra At about 21:40-a cool Chilean word is introduced-”fome” At about 22:35, Jazmina reflects on the gendered language of “padre” and other expressions that seem to speak negatively about women At about 23:40, Jazmina speaks about the unique literary culture of Mexico City (en español),  At about 26:25, Jazmina discusses Ediciones Antílope as a place to publish more eccentric, daring books and poetry At about 27:30, The two discuss translation, specifically with regard to Juan Rulfo's work, and the ways in which titles are rendered At about 28:45, Jazmina responds to Pete's questions about how she sees the art of translation, and she responds through talking about “untranslatable” words, diminutive words, and the power of translators as “the closest readers” At about 33:10, Jazmina provides background information on the book's title and her experience with needlework/embroidery At about 36:10, Jazmina talks about seeds for the book  At about 37:50, The two lay out the book's exposition  At about 39:00, Jazmina responds to Pete wondering about the narrator, Mina's, frustration/anger with her friend after a tragedy At about 42:20, Jazmina describes the main character of Dalia At about 44:35, Historical and mythical ideas of rebirth and needles bringing health and connection are discussed At about 47:30, Jazmina talks about a “genealogy of women” that is connected to embroidery At about 48:50, Jazmina responds to Pete's questions about her family history with embroidery and her family connections to Yucatan and her interest in xmanikben At about 51:20, Jazmina gives background on the indigenous communities of México and their rich history around textiles At about 54:15, Jazmina gives background on the literacy program in Queretaro in the book and her real experience with it At about 57:20, Pete traces some of the final scenes of the book and asks Jazmina about Citali's world view At about 1:01:35, Discussion of “empath” leads to discussion of “emos” and a shoutout to Daniel Hernández's Down and Delirious in México City At about 1:02:40, Pete points out an uncomfortable and well-written scene that highlights traumas in Citlali's life    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    I am very excited about having one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review-I'm looking forward to the partnership!    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!       This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.        Please tune in for Episode 234 with Sasha Vasilyuk, a journalist and the author of the debut novel Your Presence is Mandatory, which came out to great acclaim on April 23 of this year. Sasha has won several writing awards, including the Solas Award for Best Travel Writing and the NATJA award.    The episode will go live on May 7.     Please go to https://ceasefiretoday.com/, which features 10+ actions to help bring about Ceasefire in Gaza.

Sales. The word that triggers some kind of emotional reaction in all of us. Whether you love the sales process or you cringe at the thought of it, this episode of the Design Your Wedding Business podcast will help you perfect it. Sam Jacobson is here to help us with the good, the bad, and the ugly of all things sales-related for wedding planners and other professionals. Sam is showing you how to stand out from the crowd, get more inquiries, and ultimately make more sales so that your wedding business can thrive. Sam Jacobson helps wedding pros book better clients at higher prices using buyer psychology and behavioral economics. Topics covered in this episode include:The biggest challenge wedding professionals face when booking clients Simplifying the sales process How to book more clients Believe it or not, I'm excited to talk about sales, so let's dive right in!I would love to connect on Facebook: www.facebook.com/DesignYourWeddingBusiness & Instagram: www.instagram.com/design_your_wedding_business!Resources Mentioned:Visit Sam's Website: www.ideactionconsulting.com Follow @ideactionconsulting on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ideactionconsulting/ Listen to the Own Your Business Podcast: https://ideactionconsulting.com/podcast Get Half Off a Website Review with Sam: https://ideactionconsulting.thrivecart.com/website-review/?coupon=HALFOFFREVIEW Show notes available at: designyourweddingbusiness.com/design-your-wedding-business-podcast/Want to find out which of the 8 CEO's your business needs you to be and the tasks that will benefit you the most? Take the 2 minute quiz and find out now: https://bit.ly/DWYBQuiz

Notes and Links to Gina Chung's Work      For Episode 227, Pete welcomes Gina Chung, and the two discuss, among other topics, The Babysitters Club's lasting impact, her early relationship with words and bilingualism, finding great storytelling in her parents' example and in folktales and animal myths, her master touch with disparate stories and characters, and salient topics from the story collection like parental/child relationships and expectations, grief and memory, and one's connection with her forebears.    Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel SEA CHANGE (Vintage, March 28, 2023; Picador, April 13, 2023 in the Commonwealth and in the UK on August 10, 2023), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, an Asian/Pacific American Award for Adult Fiction Honor, a 2023 B&N Discover Pick, and a New York Times Most Anticipated Book, and the short story collection GREEN FROG (Vintage, March 12, 2024; out in the UK/Commonwealth from Picador on June 6, 2024). A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, she is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School's Creative Writing Program and a BA in literary studies from Williams College. Her work appears or is forthcoming in One Story, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Catapult, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Idaho Review, The Rumpus, Pleiades, and F(r)iction, among others.   Buy Green Frog     Gina's Website   Review of Green Frog-Kirkus At about 2:35, Gina shouts places to buy her book, Green Frog, and about her feelings a few weeks before the book's release At about 4:25, Gina recounts what she's heard from early readers of her collection At about 6:05, Gina responds to Pete's questions about storytellers in her life and her early language and reading life At about 10:10, Gina talks about her early reading delights At about 12:10, Babysitters Club love! At about 13:15, Gina talks about her writing journey and her confidence peaks and valleys At about 16:40, Gina shouts out “amazing” contemporary writers, such as Rebecca K. Riley and Jiaming Tang  At about 18:40-21:25, Gina talks about seeds for her collection and gives background on the title story and the “Green Frog” folktale At about 21:25-22:40, Gina talks about daily and informal observation that inspired “Mantis” and other stories in the collection At about 24:40, Gina speaks to her rationale and the background in picking the Emily Jungmin Yoon-inspired epigraph At about 26:25, Pete and Gina discuss “How to Eat Your Own Heart,” the collection's first story, including profound quotes (27:10-30:20) At about 31:00, Gina speaks to ideas of regeneration in the above story and gives some background on how the story came from a Zoom “Knife Skills” course At about 34:25, The two further discuss the title story of the collection  At about 36:20, Pete asks Gina about the meanings of “here” in the title story  At about 39:30, Themes of community in “The Fruits of Sin” are discussed  At about 40:35, Belief is discussed in conjunc At about 41:15, Grief and the importance of rabbits in Korean culture and beyond are discussed in connection to a moving story from the collection At about 43:40, Pete quotes an important and universal passage as he and Gina talk about memory's throughline in the collection; the two ruminate on connections to The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind At about 50:20, Gina reflects on a moving story that deals with memory and technology At about 54:00, The two talk about mother-daughter and parent-child relationships in the collection At about 57:40, Pete quotes a poignant and skillfully crafted passage At about 59:15, Gina gives a ballpark for how long of a range the stories were written in and throughlines that she has identified in her collection  At about 1:03:00, Gina talks change in characters and its external and internal characteristics       You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    I am very excited that starting in February with Episode 220 with Neef Ekpoudom and this episode, I will have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review-I'm looking forward to the partnership!    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!       This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 228 with Jazmina Barrera Velásquez, who is a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays, Cuerpo extraño, was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013, and she is the editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope, and author of, most recently, Cross-Stitch.     The episode will air on March 19.   10+ actions to help bring about Ceasefire in Gaza    

Welcome back for the thrilling conclusion (well all right, we know they hit rewind at one point, but this is the real conclusion). The woods still abound with mysteries! Stick around for some Beyond-the-Madness style chit chat afterwards, and come back next week for a fresh adventure!   Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

While we prepare the next chapter of our campaign through Berlin: The Wicked City, join Jayson and Lydia in this two-part special playing through one of Chaosium's solitaire adventures!     Website | Review us | Support us on Patreon | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit   For the duration of our Berlin: The Wicked City campaign, 10% of our Patreon profits go to Hope Not Hate.

In this conversation, Bruce helps Nathan, a food truck owner, with his marketing and online presence. They discuss the benefits and challenges of operating a pizza trailer, optimizing the website and social media channels, and improving consistency in posting. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 00:49 Finding the Pizza Trailer 01:51 The Pizza Trailer and Its Features 02:26 Pros and Cons of the Pizza Trailer 03:08 Areas Needing Help: Consistency in Posting 04:07 Using Social Media Channels 07:11 Website Review and Optimization 08:23 Implementing Online Ordering 09:36 Using Food Delivery Platforms 10:26 Marketing Strategies for Food Trucks 11:48 Capturing High-Quality Pizza Photos 12:41 Overcoming the Fear of Reposting Content 13:49 Using ChatGPT for Captions 15:18 Optimizing Instagram Bio 16:33 Cross-Posting to Facebook 18:13 Increasing Engagement on Instagram Stories 20:14 Tracking the Impact of Instagram on Sales 21:28 Collecting Customer Information 22:31 Transitioning to a Brick-and-Mortar Location 24:08 Summary and Next Steps MY OTHER SOCIALS:

In today's podcast episode, Jack Jostes reflects on his personal and business goals for the year and shares some lessons learned. He discusses the importance of setting goals and using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to plan and track progress. Jack also highlights some of the wins and milestones achieved by his company, Ramblin Jackson, including breaking $2 million in revenue and gives a preview of what's on the horizon in 2024. Listen to the episode to hear: Why you should fire toxic clients quickly How to support your staff when key managers are outHow to bounce back from employee turnoverJack's personal goals for 2024How Ramblin Jackson is preparing to add more value for snow & landscape companies in 2024Watch the full episode + see the transcript at: https://landscapersguide.com/podcast/Tell us where to send your beef jerky: https://landscapersguide.com/toolboxRequest your free personalized Website Review at: https://ramblinjackson.com/webreviewCheck out the book: What Radical Husbands Do: 12 Steps to Win and Keep Your Wife's Heart: https://www.amazon.com/What-Radical-Husbands-Do-Steps-ebook/dp/B00KQ1X0FKCheck out Traction by Gino Wickman: https://a.co/d/3OzzFyh

The results are out! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the Stars Are Right one-page scenario-writing contest! The response has been overwhelming and the decision so very hard, but our judges made it. With big thanks again to our patron and sponsor, Drue! We were astounded by the creativity of this great community, and everyone should be super proud of their submissions!   Without further ado, here are the winners:   First place: For King and Country by Michał Pietrzak Second place: Ballad of the Lost Danava by Kevin Kreiner Third place: A Long Day's Night by Sabrina Haenze   Finally, an honourable mention for an outline that didn't quite make the cut but had such a great, creative idea behind it: Extragalactic Tea Time by Michael Fryda.   Thank you all again so much! We hope you all had as much fun writing the scenario outlines as we did reading them! We've contacted the winners to pass on their prizes, and if you want to be kept in the loop when we next do fun things like this, don't forget to follow us on social media or sign up to our email newsletter.     Website | Review us | Buy merch! Discord | Twitter | Mastodon | Facebook | Instagram | Reddit

Notes and Links to Erica Berry's Work      For Episode 201, Pete welcomes Erica Berry, and the two discuss, among other topics, her early reading and writing and generational traumas and anxieties that have colored her life and many of our lives, her move from poetry into nonfiction and an eventual embrace of many different types of writing and lenses, the “ecology of fear,” travel and confronting fears, and making storylines about seemingly disparate topics-land rights, myth, wolves, fear-into a coherent and superb book.        Erica Berry's nonfiction debut, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear, was published in February 2023 by Flatiron/Macmillan (US+Canada), and Canongate (UK+Commonwealth) in March 2023.     Her essays and journalism appear in Outside, Catapult, Wired,. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize, she has received grants and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, and Tin House.    She teaches workshops for teenagers and adults through the Attic Institute, Literary Arts, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the New York Times Student Journeys, and Oxford Academia. She was the 2019-2020 National Writers' Series Writer-in-Residence and Teaching Fellow at Front Street Writers in Traverse City, Michigan.    She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2014, and received her MFA from the University of Minnesota as a College of Liberal Arts Fellow in 2018. She now lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, where she is a Writer-in-the-Schools and an Associate Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters. Buy Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear   Erica's Website   Review of Wolfish for The Atlantic: “The Book That Teaches Us to Live With Our Fears”   "Why Do We Fear Wolves?" from LitHub, 2017     At about 2:15, Erica reps The Chills at Will swag!   At about 2:55: Erica quotes Rebecca Solnit in describing her early reading and writing and the relationships to anxiety and ease and pleasure    At about 4:20, Erica focuses in on some favorite readings and writers from growing up, including Cornelia Funke, in addition to the importance and shortcomings of journaling in her life    At about 8:55, Erica talks about her early connections to farms in her family, as well as poetry and nonfiction and her views of them as she got into high school and college   At about 13:05, Pete asks Erica about traumas and fears and how generational traumas have affected her family, her, and her writing    At about 17:15, Pete shouts out his son's soccer debut in asking Erica about confronting fears; Erica quotes a telling example from Rachel Cusk's work   At about 19:45, Erica responds to Pete's questions about the connections between travel and exploration as imperatives for writers   At about 23:00, Pete shouts out Jean Guerrero's top-notch Crux in asking Erica about her multidimensional writing style; Erica speaks about the background and rationale for her “interdisciplinary omnivorousness”    At about 26:00, Erica replies to Pete's questions about what helped her to solidify seemingly-disparate topics into Wolfish; she discusses how early iterations of the book didn't feature fear so prominently    At about 29:30, Pete sets the scene for the book's opening, the start featuring the discovery of a wolf corpse, as well as further exploration by Erica of “crying wolf” and the many permutations of Little Red Riding Hood   At about 31:20, Erica speaks of ways in investigating the wolf's effect on society's consciousness through various expressions across the world involving the wolf    At about 33:00, Erica reads from Page 6 of her book, an excerpt involving false perceptions about worldwide wolf attacks on humans   At about 35:45, Erica discusses myths and stories and cultures that don't always match up with perceptions of wolves, as well as ideas of indigenous' connections to wolves and ideas of boundaries   At about 39:10, Pete and Erica chart the journeys of OR-7 and other wolves   At about 40:15, Pete cites Oregon's horrific laws of the past involving Black people in asking Erica about how she brought together seemingly-unrelated issues and histories     At about 43:45, Erica and Pete discuss binaries and how Erica wrote against them    At about 44:45, The two discuss real-life tragedies and rational fears, and Erica discuss the implications of the “ecology of fear”   At about 49:20, Erica discusses her time at a wolf sanctuary in England and its aftereffects    At about 52:40, Erica discusses her heightened understanding of ranchers and food systems and the “stewards of the land” in eastern Oregon and beyond   At about 57:00, Erica discusses “connecting with the land” and ranchland   At about 58:15, The two discuss Erica's trip to Sicily and ideas of getting past fears/living with minimized fear   At about 1:02:20, Erica discusses exciting upcoming projects    At about 1:04:00, Pete shares two pertinent quotes paraphrased by Erica's teachers and she highlights their importance and genesis    At about 1:04:50, Broadway Books and Powell's in Portland are highlighted as indie bookstores at which to but Erica's book    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 202 with Dennis J. Sweeney, a cross-genre writer and the author of You're the Woods Too and In the Antarctic Circle, as well as four chapbooks of poetry and prose. He has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Big Other Book Award.    The episode will air on September 5.

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Episode 196 Notes and Links to Rachel Howzell Hall's Work       On Episode 196 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Rachel Howzell Hall and the two discuss, among other things, her devotion to reading throughout her life, her love of crime writing and thrillers, the draw of her favorite writers, and ideas raised and dealt with in her writing, including themes of loneliness, identity, racism, traumas both historical and individual, gentrification, and fear.      Rachel Howzell Hall''s debut novel, A Quiet Storm, was published in 2002 by Scribner to great notice, and was chosen as a “Rory's Book Club” selection, the must-read book list for fictional television character Rory Gilmore of The Gilmore Girls.    She is the critically acclaimed author and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for And Now She's Gone, which was also nominated for the Lefty-, Barry- and Anthony Awards. A New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister with James Patterson, Rachel is an Anthony-, International Thriller Writers- and Lefty Award nominee and the author of They All Fall Down, Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes and City of Saviors in the Detective Elouise Norton series as well as the author of the bestselling Audible Original, How It Ends.    Rachel is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and has been a featured writer on NPR's acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast; she has also served as a mentor in Pitch Wars and the Association of Writers Programs.    She lives in L.A. with her husband and daughter.       Buy What Never Happened   Rachel's Website   Review of What Never Happened from Kirkus Reviews  At about 1:20, Rachel talks about her mindset in the days leading up to the publication of What Never Happened on August 1, 2023; she also    At about 4:20, Rachel talks about the realism she seeks in her writing, particularly the book's ending   At about 5:30, The two discuss the book's bold opening   At about 6:15, Rachel gives background on her early reading and writing and love for LA, as well as her lifelong fascination with crime   At about 8:55, Rachel talks about the power of Stephen King's work, particularly It   At about 10:20, Rachel talks about her experience at UC Santa Cruz   At about 11:00, Rachel discusses representation in the work she read growing up, and her desire to reflect different realities in her work in her specific way   At about 13:30, Rachel cites Laura Lippman, Megan Abbott and Gillian Flynn as writers whose treatment of “complex female characters” inspires her and her own work; she also cites Dennis Lehane and his “twists”; Eric Larson (telegraphs) and Jon Krakeur, too, are nonfiction writers who have influenced her    At about 16:30, Rachel responds to Pete's question about how she sees genre and she highlights “sense of place” by Jordan Harper and Tod Goldberg   At about 19:20, Rachel talks in general and specifically about What Never Happened regarding writing the balance between plot/theme/allegory, etc.   At about 22:05, Rachel discusses the book's setting and seeds for the book, including the draw of Catalina Island for someone who grew up in Los Angeles    At about 24:15, Rachel talks about the pandemic and obituaries and their effects on the books   At about 25:15,    At about 26:40, Pete and Rachel discuss Southland and their shared love for the show, as Pete connects the show's in medias res to the book's beginning   At about 29:00, The two discuss complications in the book and important characters in Coco's life, including her spurned and threatening ex-husband   At about 31:55, Rachel talks about how the tragedies that Coco experienced affects her as a “people pleaser”   At about 33:45, Rachel and Pete give a little historical background on Catalina Island, its landscape and unique social climate; Rachel shares some interesting historical anecdotes and trivia based on her research and some of her rationale in building upon themes in the book with regard to the island   At about 39:50, Rachel vouches for the historical veracity of the racist wording used in the Avalon newspapers in the archives Coco searches in the book   At about 42:00, The two shout out Gwen, who Rachel calls “everyone's sassy aunty”    At about 43:00, Pete quotes a great line from Gwen   At about 44:00, Rachel characterizes Noah, and how he views Coco   At about 46:30, Pete lays out a series of crimes that terrorize the island in the book, in tandem with the beginning of the Covid epidemic; Rachel expands upon ideas of the despicable things done in quarantine   At about 49:00, Pete highlights the cascading problems and scares that complicate Coco's life as the book goes on   At about 50:15, Pete recounts an early scene with a cab driver that is prophetic   At about 51:30, Pete outlines some key themes of the book-racism, gentrification, etc.: and Rachel expands on ideas of classicism and ideas of loneliness, as well as Garden of Eden   At about 54:10, Pete and Rachel   At about 55:40, Pete asks Rachel about writing in different voices-obituary, narration, etc.,-as well as the genesis of the book's title   At about 58:50, Rachel imagines who would play Coco if a movie of What Never Happened took place   At about 59:35, Rachel talks about exciting future projects    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Check out the next episode, which airs on August 1 Chloe Cooper Jones is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine; She is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for “Fearing for His Life,” a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner, and the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University, with both grants in support of her 2023 book, Easy Beauty.    The episode will air on August 1.

Notes and Links to Jessica Cuello's Work      In Episode 195, Pete welcomes Jessica Cuello, and the two discuss, among other topics, her deep love for poetry and the French language, the power of libraries, transformational work by Jamaica Kincaid, the history of Mary Shelley, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the chaotic and amazon lives led by the family members, ideas of guilt, trauma, misogyny, feminist power, death, doomed love, and identity.     Jessica Cuello's most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award, a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award, and a longlist mention for The Julie Suk Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father's Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). In 2014 she was awarded The Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding secondary teaching. She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.      Buy Yours, Creature   Jess' Website   Review of Yours, Creature At about 2:30, Jessica responds to Pete asking about where to buy Yours, Creature, and her social media/contact information   At about 3:40, Jessica talks about her relationship with language and literature, as well as books like Jamaica Kincaid's that changed her trajectory, and her relationships with libraries, small towns, and urban areas   At about 11:10, The two discuss teaching foreign language and evolving pedagogy   At about 12:05, Jessica answers Pete's questions about any links between French-which she teaches-and her own writing    At about 14:30, Pete talks about Mary Wollstonecraft and his knowledge or lack thereof in asking Mary about the links between her and her daughter, Mary Shelley; Jessica talks about seeds for her interest in the Marys   At about 20:10, The two discuss the frenetic life, particularly her teens and 20s, of Mary Shelley   At about 21:20, Pete asks about the rationale for the poetry collection's title; Jessica speaks to its significance    At about 22:55, Pete speaks about the epistolary form of the letters and wonders about the formality of much of the work   At about 24:10, Jessica gives background on her structure for the book and its iterations    At about 25:50, Pete lays out the book's first poem and birth and death; he reads from Page 4 and asks Jessica about ideas of revenge; she speaks of an evocative image   At about 28:30, Jessica cites evidence of Shelley's father, Godwin, and the stories he wrote about her life and the violence he perpetrated    At about 30:25, Pete reads from some early poems, laying out the divide between mother and stepdaughter   At about 31:00, The theme of loss is discussed   At about 31:50, Jessica reflects on her usage of initials for the males in the collection, particularly Godwin   At about 34:50, The two concentrate on a poem that deals with “threes” and the family dynamic after Mary Wollstonecraft's death and ideas of guilt   At about 37:10, Jessica explains a blank in a poem and its meanings and her rationale   At about 38:40, Jessica explains a legend about Mary Shelley and Percy's trysts    At about 40:25, Pete reads telling and moving lines about grief from the collection   At about 41:20, Men in Shelley's life are discussed in their flightiness, and Pete asks Jess about what shone through for Mary in loving Percy   At about 44:15, Pete highlights strong imagery, and Jess talks about Fanny, a half-sister of Mary, and ideas of women not wanting to “inconvenience” others   At about 47:25, Traumas of many types are discussed    At about 49:00, Jessica responds to Pete's wondering about “the creature” and its origins and meanings; Jessica and Pete reflect on the creature as “feminine”    At about 52:30, The two discuss the ways women's bodies are viewed, as Pete cites important lines from the collection   At about 54:00, Pete asks about any future project that Jessica is working on     You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Check out the next episode, which airs on August 1. Chloe Cooper Jones is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine; She is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for “Fearing for His Life,” a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner, and the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University, with both grants in support of her 2023 book, Easy Beauty.    The episode will air on August 1.

Episode 194 Notes and Links to Ruth Madievsky's Work       On Episode 194 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Ruth Madievsky and the two discuss, among other things, her early relationship with Moldova and the former Soviet Union, her bilingual journey, formative and transformative writers and works, her sensibility as a poet and novelist, and prominent themes and issues about and surrounding her book, such as generational trauma and its effect on families and individuals, sexual violence, homophobia, codependent relationships, and dark humor that comes with pain and trauma.         Ruth Madievsky is the author of a novel, All-Night Pharmacy (Catapult, July 2023), an instant national bestseller. An Indie Next Pick, All-Night Pharmacy has been named a Best/Most Anticipated 2023 Book by over 40 venues, including NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vulture, and Buzzfeed.   Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Tin House, Guernica, them, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016), was the winner of the Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series and spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers list. She was the winner of The American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Iowa Review's Tim McGinnis Award for fiction, and a Tin House scholarship in poetry. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States.   She has recently completed a second poetry collection. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist. She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky.       Buy All-Night Pharmacy   Ruth's Website   Review of All-Night Pharmacy from Kirkus Reviews   Article about All-Night Pharmacy in The Los Angeles Times   Conversation and Article with Adrian Florido on NPR's “All Things Considered” At about 2:50, Ruth discusses her mindset in this time immediately after two milestones-the birth of her daughter and great success for All-Night Pharmacy   At about 4:25, Ruth shouts out Skylight Books as a great place, among many, to buy her book-also, Book Soup   At about 5:00, Ruth talks about her family's history with the Russian language and their Jewish identity in the former Soviet Union and reasons for emigration    At about 8:10, Ruth talks about communities of those who spoke Russian and those who shared her love for reading and writing and storytelling    At about 12:15, Pete asks which books and writers were formative and transformative for Ruth   At about 14:20, Ruth talks about the “contradictory, complicated” Los Angeles of her youth and beyond   At about 16:00, Ruth shouts out Richard Siken, Marie Howe, Terrance Hayes, Bryan Washington, Raven Leilani, as inspirational and challenging writers   At about 17:35, Pete compliments the book's “arresting” last image   At about 18:30, Ruth describes why she's “a poet writing novels,” in relation to recent fun viral posts   At about 20:15, Ruth highlights a fun “deleted scene” article from Guernica   At about 22:55, Pete highlights the book's epigraph and an early strong characterization of Debbie   At about 24:10, Ruth gives a characterization of Debbie   At about 26:00, The two juxtapose the narrator and Debbie and shout the “earnest” Ronnie   At about 28:50, Ruth gives background on the “cursed bar game”-“Wealthy Patron” and the bar Salvation    At about 30:30, The two discuss Ronnie as “stable” in light of Debbie and the narrator's troubled parents    At about 31:30, Ruth talks about traumas and how they inform the actions of Debbie and the narrator's mother   At about 33:20, Generational gaps are highlighted, particularly among Debbie and the narrator's grandmother and them; the larger idea of Jewish and other immigrants and ideas of hardship are discussed   At about 35:05, Ruth responds to Pete's question about what one does to “live up to” their forebears' sacrifices; she points to the narrator's guilt/conflicted feelings and trying to “honor”   At about 37:15, A heavy and darkly humorous party from the book is highlighted   At about 37:45, Ruth speaks to the ways in which the sisters acted out in connection to their father as “mostly a nonentity”   At about 39:15, Ruth discusses the knife and statue and ideas of agency in the narrator's life   At about 42:10, The two discuss touch and “cutting” and the transference of pain   At about 43:00, Ruth discusses ideas of “being a victim,” particularly in the ways in which Debbie and her sister deal with their sexual abuse   At about 47:00, The two discuss the codependent relationship between sisters, as well as Sasha's    At about 50:00, Ruth talks about the contrast between the narrator's relationship with Sasha in the US and Moldova and how their relationship evolved    At about 52:50, Pete quotes some meaningful lines from the book that deal with generational traumas    At about 54:00, Pete wonders if Ruth has plans to further explore issues and characters from All-Night Pharmacy in future projects   At about 56:30, An article in Full Stop that cites a reason for the book's title is mentioned  You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 195 with Jessica Cuello, whose book Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize; her latest book is Yours, Creature, a creative and stirring look at the life of Mary Shelley.  The episode will air on July 28.

Episode 193 Notes and Links to Ethan Chatagnier's Work       On Episode 193 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Ethan Chatagnier, and the two discuss, among other things, Ethan's early reading and writing-John Saul!-his transformative and formative moments and educators at Fresno State, and salient issues in Singer Distance like emotional distance, entropy, father-child relationships, optimism and pessimism, and successful plot structures and schematics.       Ethan Chatagnier is the author of Singer Distance, a novel published by Tin House Books in October 2022, and of Warnings from the Future, a story collection from Acre Books in 2018. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals including the Kenyon Review Online, Georgia Review, New England Review, Story, Five Points, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Cincinnati Review. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize and been listed as notable in the Best American Short Stories and the Million Writers Award.    He is a graduate of Fresno State, where he won the Larry Levis Prize in Poetry, and of Emerson College, where he earned an MA in Publishing and Writing. He lives in Fresno, California with his family.       Buy Singer Distance   Ethan's Website   Review of Singer Distance from Kirkus Review At about 3:00, Ethan discusses his early relationship with reading and writing-John Saul shout out!   At about 6:30, Ethan discusses his wrestling career and how writing and reading became more of interest    At about 9:30, Ethan discusses mentors and great professors at Fresno State, including Juan Felipe Herrera and Steve Yarbrough   At about 11:40, Ethan responds to Pete's questions about whether or not he wants to write widely or more focused on single subjects   At about 14:10, Ken Kalfus' Equilateral is cited as inspiration for Singer Distance   At about 15:15, Erika Swyler,  Kazuo Ishiguro, and R.F. Kuang are shouted out as contemporary writers who thrill and challenge Ethan    At about 17:20, Pete compliments Ethan for plot twists and asks him about how he balances science and plot   At about 18:15, Ethan summarizes the book and gives necessary background information and backstory   At about 23:15, Ethan responds to Pete's wondering about the speculative nature of women, especially Crystal Singer, in a pre-ERA world   At about 24:40, Pete reads a profound line from the book and asks Ethan about young and fervent love's role in the book   At about 26:50, Ethan connects an analogy about garbage in the book to Crystal and Rick's relationship    At about 28:30, Ethan and Pete share some of the early plot and discuss ideas of fame and ethereal happiness   At about 31:50, Ethan sums up Crystal's actions after her great feat in the Arizona desert, and what motivations she might have had due to her family situation    At about 34:30, Crystal and Rick are discussed in their shared love for Holliday, a famous scientist in the media   At about 36:35, Pete wonders about Rick's fractured relationship with his dad, Ethan talks about it being “a rift that was waiting to happen”   At about 37:55, Ethan shares a telling anecdote about fathers and sons from Steve Yarbrough's class at Fresno State   At about 39:30, Pete notes the ways in which “distance” is used in the book and spotlights a beautifully-drawn scene   At about 40:25, Pete lays out the book's structure and its parts and charts the beginning of Part II   At about 42:00, Ethan follows up on Pete noting that Rick's colleague Angie can't quite break through his emotional armor and why Rick sort of “get[s] by” in life and in his career   At about 44:25, The two discuss entropy and its usage in the book   At about 45:00, “Loneliness on the top” and obsession with regards to Crystal is discussed; he also juxtaposes with an author's situation in writing a second book after a successful first one   At about 48:55, Pete reads some heaping praise for the book, including from NPR, and Ethan talks about connections made and renewed after publicity for the book   At about 50:40, Pete asks Ethan about optimism and pessimism in the book, specifically in its ending; Ethan calls it “surprisingly hopeful” and gives an example of a vastly-depressing short story of his   At about 55:15, Ethan talks about his work and any interest in screenwriting   At about 57:45, Ethan talks about choosing upcoming projects, and gives out social media and contact information You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 194 with Ruth Madievsky, whose debut novel, All-Night Pharmacy, came out on July 11 with Catapult, and has been named a Best/Most Anticipated 2023 Book by The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and Buzzfeed. Ruth's debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake, was winner of the Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series.     The episode will air on July 25.

Notes and Links to Donovan X. Ramsey's Work    For Episode 192, Pete welcomes Donovan X. Ramsey, and the two discuss, among other things, his early relationship with language, formative and transformative writers like bell hooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Phillip Roth, Colson Whitehead, and the inimitable Toni Morrison, connotations and legal policies that are products of the mythmaking and propagandizing of the “crack era,” the emblematic stories of the people followed in Donovan's book, historical precedent for the over policing and oppression of Black people in the US, and optimism and pessimism to be seen in the stories of the crack era and of today.      Donovan X. Ramsey is a journalist, author, and an indispensable voice on issues of identity, justice, and patterns of power in America. His reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, WSJ Magazine, Ebony, and Essence, among other outlets. He has been a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, NewsOne, and theGrio. He has served as an editor at The Marshall Project and Complex. Ramsey's writing career has been focused entirely on amplifying the remarkable unheard stories of Black America. He believes in people-first narratives that center individuals and communities—not just issues. His memorable magazine work includes profiles of Deion Sanders, Killer Mike, and Bubba Wallace for GQ; and Bryan Stevenson and Ibram Kendi for WSJ Magazine. Ramsey is the author of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era, a work of narrative nonfiction exploring how Black America survived the crack epidemic for One World, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher. He was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He holds degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he concentrated in magazine journalism, and Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta. Today, he calls Los Angeles home.     Buy When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era   Donovan's Website   Review in The New York Times of When Crack Was King   Interview with The Los Angeles Times about When Crack Was King At about 2:55, Donovan gives background on his early reading and writing life   At about 6:00, Donovan and Pete fanboy over Toni Morrison, who Donovan calls “the greatest to ever do it”   At about 7:30, Donovan discusses his love of Phillip Roth's work, as well as that of Zora Neale Hurston and Colston Whitehead's work   At about 9:50, Donovan talks about ideas of representation and how he was taken care of intellectually   At about 12:30, Donovan references current writers who thrill and challenge him, including Colson Whitehead, Mat Johnson, and Stephen King, whose cover of It inspired the cover for When Crack Was King   At about 14:30, Donovan responds to Pete's questions about long form versus “longer form” and how he dove into the research   At about 17:50, Donovan cites jazz as a must when he's writing   At about 19:00, Pete points to “crack era laws” Donovan references that seemed to be seeds for the book, and Donovan responds by mentioning Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration as an important “seed” for the book   At about 23:00, Donovan talks about the connotations that come with the word “crackhead,” as well as government and official language that served to dehumanize drug users and Black Americans    At about 26:20, Pete compliments and notes about a “good historical revision” in use of language that is not dehumanizing    At about 27:10, Pete marks the book's eight-part structure    At about 28:30, Pete points out the book's interesting and necessary historical background that is provided   At about 29:05, Donovan responds to Pete's asking about Nixon's “War on Drugs” and the preceding and succeeding years in drug and policing policies; he specifically speaks about Nixon's “Southern Strategy”    ***At about 33:10, The two discuss connections between events charted in the book with events of today and lament how, since history is cyclical,” there is little   At about 34:20, Pete and Donovan discuss the “inconsistent[cy}” in the US government's and society's view of drugs and punishment    At about 38:15, Donovan explains the Richard Pryor story and Lenny Bias' tragic death in the context of mythmaking and propaganda around crack cocaine   At about 40:10, The newspaper article “Jimmy's World” and the almost unbelievable circus around it is discussed    At about 44:20, “Gabo” weighs in on “Jimmy's World!”   At about 44:45, Donovan charts the historical consequences of racist tropes regarding drugs and their supposed transference of superhuman qualities for Blacks and other people of color   At about 47:25, The two discuss Kurt Schmoke's turn towards the decriminalization of drugs    At about 52:00, Donovan reflects on the economic ties between so much of society and the “War   At about 53:15, The two discuss the Democrats' emphasis on “tough on crime” in the crack era and beyond, as well as the need for making things right now, with the adjustment of laws and redress of past wrongs   At about 57:20, Pete discusses the importance of Dre Dre and other hip musicians as part of bringing the crack era to an end, as well as communities standing up to bring use down   At about 58:40, Donovan talks about pessimism that came after finishing the book in 2020, including the case of young Black men being barred from selling water in Atlanta    At about 1:02:25, Pete highlights the power of the individual stories in the book, including a beautiful andeote involving Shawn-Coach McCray   At about 1:04:00, Donovan responds to Pete's questions about any optimism he feels in examining the individual stories of Shawn, Lennie, Elgin, Kurt, and others   At about 1:06:50, Donovan talks about exciting upcoming projects, including podcast potential    At about 1:08:00, Donovan shouts out Reparations Club in Los Angeles, For Keeps Bookstore in Atlanta, and McNally Jackson Books in New York as good places to buy his book, as well as his social media/contact info    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. Check out the next episode with Ethan Chatagnier, which airs today, July 18.    Ethan is the author of Singer Distance, a novel lauded by NPR Books and The Millions. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals including the Kenyon Review Online and he has won a Pushcart Prize and been listed as notable in the Best American Short Stories.     Again, the episode with Ethan will air today, July 18.  

Episode 191 Notes and Links to Sarah's Work       On Episode 191 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Sarah Fawn Montgomery, and the two discuss, among other things, her early reading and writing, storytelling, growing up in Central California, the ways in which blue-collar Americans have been depicted-or not depicted in literature, and salient themes in her essay collection, like nostalgia, father-daughter relationships, cycles of poverty and violence and trauma, and evolving ideas of home.      Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press, 2022), Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir (The Ohio State University Press, 2018) and the poetry chapbooks Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and The Astronaut Checks His Watch (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays many times, and her poetry and prose have appeared in Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Electric Literature, LitHub, New England Review, The Normal School, Passages North, Poetry Foundation, The Rumpus, Southeast Review, Terrain, and numerous other journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in creative writing from California State University-Fresno and a PhD in English in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.      Buy Halfway from Home: Essays   Sarah's Website   Review of Halfway from Home: Essays from Kirkus Review   Split Rock Review-Review of Halfway from Home   At about 2:20, Sarah talks about her early relationships with reading and writing, and about how she wanted to write stories about often-overlooked working-class people   At about 4:20, Sarah cites some early favorite books and writers, and she analyzes the ways she reads a favorite, Joan Didion, now differently than she did then   At about 7:00, The two discuss class and how it is talked about in our society (or not) and represented in literature    At about 9:00, Sarah discusses how she got excited about writing-she shouts out to a high school teacher who gave a meaningful and transformative journal assignment and invited Sarah to keep writing   At about 13:00, Sarah references nonfiction writers who thrilled her in college-like Audre Lorde, Sandra Cisneros, and Jamaica Kincaid-and thrill her today, like Chen Chen, Ada Limón, Donika Kelly, Saeed Jones, Dorothy Chan, and torrin a. greathouse     At about 14:40, Sarah recounts the genesis of her Halfway From Home collection and answers Pete's questions about making the individual essays cohere   At about 17:40, Pete summarizes the book's first essay and its “dig sites” and focus on her father's whimsy and her love of dirt-it's called “Excavation”    At about 19:00, Sarah speaks to the significance of “excavation” in the first story and beyond   At about 21:00, Pete compliments the story's “imagined ending” and Sarah speaks about its significance and background    At about 23:25, Sarah discusses the power and symbolism of fire and light, cold and darkness, as featured in her book   At about 26:10, The two discuss ideas of homes, serenity, and respite from traumas and chaos   At about 31:30, The two discuss her essay on cartography   At about 35:40, Pete muses   At about 37:00, The history of Sarah's family in mines is discussed, along with the multiple meanings of “descendants”   At about 40:50, Sarah talks about “complicating humanity,” especially with regards to her grandfather and grandmother   At about 42:15, Pete asks about the end of an essay and how Sarah approached its second-person address   At about 44:20, The two discuss nostalgia and its connections to the essays, the intriguing concept of saudade, and nostalgia's history as something to be discouraged   At about 48:35, Pete recounts how nostalgia has informed the podcast's ethos   At about 50:45, Sarah confesses to being “anti-time” (!) and the two reference a classic Saved by the Bell scene   At about 54:45, Cycles of violence as depicted in the essay are examined   At about 56:45, Sarah reflects on how she sees and saw he father throughout her collection and in more recent times   At about 1:01:00, Pete notes the ways in which women in Sarah's family are portrayed in her collection    At about 1:02:30, Pete compliments a beautiful scene with father and daughter and Sarah talks about the nostalgia associated with parents and childhood-Pete    At about 1:04:45, Sarah shares an interesting new project involving combatting ableist writing as default    At about 1:05:50, The two fan boy/girl over Alice Wong's work   At about 1:06:15, Sarah shouts out her publisher Split Lip Press as a place to buy her book   At about 1:06:45, Sarah gives out social media/contact information    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 192 with Donovan X Ramsey. He is a journalist, author, and indispensable voice on issues of identity, justice, and patterns of power in América; When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era comes out on June 11, i.e. the day this episode with Sarah has been published.  The episode will air on July 18.

Episode 190 Notes and Links to Ellen Birkett Morris' Work      On Episode 190 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Ellen Birkett Morris, and the two discuss, among other things, her early relationship with the written word and Southern gothic writers, her increased confidence in world building that led to her embracing writing as a profession, writers whose work thrills her, her upcoming award-winning novel, promoting her Lost Girls story collection during the onset of Covid, pertinent themes from her collection, such as misogyny, the innocence of youth, aging and its attendant repercussions, connections/intimacy, and death, as well as her mindset in writing emotional and wrenching pieces.       Ellen Birkett Morris is an award-winning, multi-genre writer, teacher, and editor based in Louisville, Kentucky. Morris is the author of SURRENDER (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in Thin Air Magazine, The Clackamas Literary Review, Juked, Alimentum, Gastronomica, 3Elements Review and Inscape, among other journals.  Morris won top prize in the 2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short Edition and was a semi-finalist for the 2009 Rita Dove Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.    Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, South Carolina Review, Sliver of Stone, Great Jones Street, Santa Fe Literary Review, and Upstreet, among other journals. She is the 2015 winner of the Bevel Summers Prize for her story “May Apples” and won the Betty Gabehart Prize for Fiction.      Morris's plays have appeared in Mud City Journal, Monologue Bank, and Plays, The Drama Magazine for Young People. Her ten-minute play, “Lost Girls,” was a finalist for the 2008 Heideman Award given by Actors Theatre. “Lost Girls' received a staged reading at Cincinnati's Arnoff Center.    Her essays can be found in trade paperback books including NESTING: IT'S A CHICK THING, THE WRITING GROUP BOOK, THE GIRLS' BOOK OF LOVE, and THE GIRLS' BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP, in journals including Brevity blog, The Common, The Butter, The Fem and South Loop Review, and on National Public Radio.    Morris teaches creative writing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky.       Buy Lost Girls   Ellen's Website   Review of Lost Girls by Yvette Benavides for Texas Public Radio   At about 3:20, Ellen describes her relationship with the written word, including the impact of the Southern Gothic she often was read   At about 4:45, Ellen talks about initial nervousness and small successes that “catapulted [her] into writing”   At about 5:40, Ellen keys in on what improvements she made in worldbuilding and “the magic of populating” her writing   At about 7:00, Ellen highlights Bobbie Ann Mason, Barbara Kingsolver, Ernest Hemingway and Elizabeth Berg as writers who have shaped her own work, as well as how her jour; Elizabeth Strout, George Saunders, and Rebecca Makkai are cited as beloved contemporary writers   At about 8:15, Pete remarks on the book's economy of language, and Ellen adds how her pacing propels her work and how her journalism career has aided her later writing   At about 10:55, Ellen shouts out Rebecca Kuang's Yellowface as a must-read   At about 12:40, Pete remarks on Ellen's fabulous variety of work and asks her about muses and how she writes in different mediums; she provides an anecdote involving her father that illustrates her philosophy   At about 13:55, Ellen talks about how workshop help from Erin Flanagan provided the catalyst for her upcoming novel At about 15:10, Ellen shares exciting news regarding her upcoming novel winning the Donald L. Jordan Award At about 18:05, Ellen discusses the difficulties in the promoting and release of Lost Girls in June 2020 At about 19:30, Ellen calls the book a “loosely-linked collection of stories” and its connections to “Winesberg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson At about 20:40, The two discuss the title story and the real-life backstory that inspired Ellen's desire to center women in her story collection At about 22:00, Ellen explains how she complicates the title story At about 24:00, The two discuss the story of “Inheritance” and Ellen discusses “sin-eating,” themes of oppression and cycles of poverty and trauma and death and the story's resonant title At about 28:15, Ellen calls the story's ending the most “raw, heart wrenching” she's written At about 28:55, The story “Religion” is discussed, including its emphasis on intimacy and social groups, and Ellen underlines the story's humor At about 30:30, The two talk about “Harvest” and themes of vitality and ageism and misogyny At about 33:20, Pete fanboys over the story “The Afterlife” and the two discuss the grief and complicated mourning that takes place At about 35:20, Ellen discusses advice received about complicating characters to create more compelling work At about 37:10, Pete asks Ellen how emotionally-taxing this story was for her At about 38:55, Pete compares the story to Alice Elliott Dark's “In the Gloaming" At about 39:40, The two discuss “fresh starts” as a theme and “After the Fall” and its connections to the Biblical story, its telling opening line, and its “metaphorical weight” At about 42:05, The two discuss human connection as a throughline in the collection At about 44:00, Tony, a repeated character, is highlighted, along with ideas of connections and unrequited love At about 46:10, Through discussing “Neverland,” the two discuss its pertinent themes of connection and childhood traumas after Pete reads a story excerpt At about 47:35, Ellen talks about the juxtaposition of youth and aging and complicity fits in the story At about 48:55, Pete cites the innocence of youth as successfully-rendered by Ellen, including in the story “Kodachrome” At about 51:45, Ellen responds to Pete's question about how she ordered the story collection-she cites Lee Martin's advice At about 53:55, Ellen gives out publishing info for his work, including Carmichael's in Louisville; she also gives contact info/social media

Episode 186 Notes and Links to Stephanie Feldman's Work   *Content Warning-Please be aware of discussion of sexual assault*        On Episode 186 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Stephanie Feldman, and the two discuss, among other things, her early trajectory towards becoming a writer, formative and transformative writers and writing, genre and genre-less writing, the balance between allegory and plot in Saturnalia, the book's focus on Philadelphia and on the world at large, hedonism/inaction  in the wake of climate disasters, the long echoes of sexual assault, class and power in her book, and whether the book has a sense of optimism.       Stephanie Feldman is the author of the novels Saturnalia and The Angel of Losses, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Crawford Fantasy Award, and finalist for the Mythopoeic Award. She is co-editor of the multi-genre anthology Who Will Speak for America? and her stories and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Asimov's Science Fiction, Catapult Magazine, Electric Literature, Flash Fiction Online, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Rumpus, Uncharted Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Weird Horror, and more. She lives outside Philadelphia with her family.     Buy Saturnalia   Stephanie Feldman's Website   Review of Saturnalia from John Mauro at Grimdark Magazine   At about 1:55, Stephanie describes her early reading and writing, and being “fated” to be a writer   At about 4:00, Stephanie shouts out Anne Rice, Jeanette Winterson, and others as formational and transformational writers   At about 6:00, Stephanie cites the “world building and atmosphere” of Rice's work that inspired Saturnalia and the Philadelphia of the book   At about 7:20, Stephanie highlights Sofia Samatar, her work regarding Uzbekistan especially, and Jeffrey Ford as beloved contemporary writers   At about 9:00, Stephanie responds to Pete's questions about the importance (or lack thereof) of genre   At about 11:55, Stephanie gives background on/seeds for Saturnalia, including The Masque of Red Death and the Covid pandemic   At about 15:00, Pete asks about the balance/timing involving the book's allegory/symbolism and its plot/premise   At about 16:30, The two discuss the epigraph from Umberto Eco and its connection to hedonism and climate change    At about 18:40, The exposition is laid out, and Stephanie discusses connections to Saturn and fortune telling's importance in the book   At about 22:45, Pete summarizes the night of the winter solstice, including The Lord of Misrule, and Nina's tough times that lead her to do a job for Max    At about 24:30, Pete connects a telling quote from Faulkner to the book's pivotal violation and gender roles and power dynamics   At about 30:50, Stephanie responds to Pete's musings about the book's commentary on social class and power    At about 33:00, Stephanie and Pete speak about Philadelphia's small-town feel and Niña's feelings of being “trapped”   At about 36:55, Stephanie responds to Pete's questions about any optimism/pessimism that comes from the book   At about 38:55, Alchemy and myth and the stories are discussed    At about 40:00, Stephanie talks about the ways she and readers continue to experience the book some seven months after publication    At about 41:40, Pete shares the book's blurb from Carmen Maria Machado    At about 42:00, Stephanie shares an exciting future project   At about 43:00, Stephanie gives the history of the “blue laws” in PA   At about 44:00, Stephanie shares social media/contact info and places to buy her work, including Main Point Books, A Novel Idea, Weird Horror “The Getaway”      You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.  Please tune in for Episode 187 with V Castro. She is a two-time Bram Stoker award nominated writer born in San Antonio, Texas, to Mexican American parents, and she has been writing horror stories since she was a child, always fascinated by Mexican folklore and the urban legends of Texas. Her latest is The Haunting of Alejandra.    The episode will air on June 13.

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If you're a company that does industrial services or B2B, your industrial marketing or B2B Marketing needs a different plan than if you were a dentist or a lawyer.  B2B Marketing strategies and B2C Marketing strategies are not the same.The marketing agencies that work for anyone and everyone don't know how to tailor advertising for industrial marketing is because most of the time they don't have a lot of experience doing it. If you work in these industries, then this is exactly what I'm focusing on:- Machining- Metals- Plastics: Injection Molding, Rotational Molding- Secondary Services: Assembly, Welding, Pad Printing, Etc- Distribution- Industrial Automation- Packaging / Corrugated- Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial SoftwareHere are the steps we go through: ( Digital Marketing for Industry Business / Digital Marketing for B2B Business )Step 1 - WEBSITE: Review the website to determine how good/bad it is. If the website isn't optimized then you want to fix any minor issues before you try and drive a ton of traffic to it.Step 2 - SEO: How are you currently ranking on Google? How good/bad are your organic rankings? There are many minor fixes for SEO that can happen quickly to allow Google to begin re-indexing you. SEO is a long-term game and high rankings don't happen overnight, it's best to fix it so you can start rebuilding the rankings.Step 3 - CURRENT MARKETING: What are your current marketing efforts? How many resources do you have? Some of our clients have internal resources that can be utilized instead of paying our agency team to do it. We can develop the strategy and review their work but this allows you to use some of your current overhead and reduce the outsourced expense.Step 4 - CONTENT MARKETING: Are you currently doing any content marketing efforts? When is the last time that an article or video was published? Our solution is to manage all of your written content for you from creation to posting and distribution.Step 5 - DISTRIBUTION: How are you currently distributing your content? The most efficient and organic method for a manufacturing or industrial services company is to focus on LinkedIn. Most of your current prospects and customers can be found and engaged with on LinkedIn. We manage your company presence while also teaching your sales team exactly how to execute and turn LinkedIn into a prospecting machine!Step 6 - VIDEO MARKETING: Do you have a current video marketing strategy? Do you have any new videos that you can publish? We come on-site quarterly and video enough content for 12 videos that are distributed through social media, your website, and YouTube for organic search rankings.

Website review Tax time is Jan. 27th www.businessmasteratwood.com. #tax #taxseason #websitereview Join Yaya Diamond as she does an in depth website review for our upcoming tax season. She will focus on the navigation, ease of use, customer service, professionalism, and of course are they able to do our taxes. Tax season begins on Jan 27th and we all want to be ready. If you are looking for a new accountant that can do your tax returns then check out this review. We would love to hear from you so please comment, and let us know who you use. Thank you

In this episode, we discuss Shipageddon Season and the Cyber Monday that broke shipping. Then a Nuggs teardown– They're "the Tesla of chicken."Show LinksShipBob's Shipping Carrier DataNUGGSSponsorsGet powerful marketing automation with Klaviyo's revenue-driving email platformTry Bold Product Upsell, free trialSave 20% on Turbo, a blazing fast Shopify theme - Use code KURT20 at checkoutImprove your shop's search engine ranking with Venntov SEO Meta ManagerNever miss an episodeSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsJoin Kurt's newsletterHelp the showAsk a question in The Unofficial Shopify Podcast Facebook GroupLeave a reviewSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsWhat's Kurt up to?See our recent work at EthercycleSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelApply to work with Kurt to grow your store.

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This episode is available on YouTube. Watch now: https://youtu.be/mjeP1M5cgEgIts too late to change anything on your store now this close to Black Friday, so instead, lets do something fun and talk about politics.In today's episode: How Presidential Candidates Maximize eCommerce SalesWe'll compare the Shopify stores of President Trump's 2020 campaign, and four Democratic presidential candidates, to see where they could improve and what they did right.Listener note: While politicians are the subject of our teardown, we have entirely avoided political issues. Nothing about this episode should be considered political commentary. Fight the urge to send us your political opinions. Please.In order of discussion:TrumpButtigiegYangSandersWarrenNever miss an episodeSubscribe wherever you get your podcastsJoin Kurt's newsletterHelp the showAsk a question in The Unofficial Shopify Podcast Facebook GroupLeave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings & reviews help, and I read each one.Subscribe wherever you get your podcastsWhat's Kurt up to?See our recent work at EthercycleSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelApply to work with Kurt to grow your store.SponsorsTry Bold Product Upsell free for 90 daysSave 20% on Turbo, a blazing fast Shopify themeImprove your shop's search engine ranking with Venntov SEO Meta Manager

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In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes real estate investment and self-storage expert, Bill Barnhill. Bill is the president of Omega Properties, Inc; a commercial real estate management and brokerage firm based in Mobile, Alabama. He has over 41 years of experience in the commercial real estate business and has specialized in self-storage for the last 24 years, having brokered over 200 million in self storage transactions. Bill gives some in depth knowledge as well as some statics about the self storage business. He and Kevin talk about managing self-storage on site and off site and the strategy of buying mismanaged storage facilities. They also discuss consolidations in the market, emerging technology and the future of the business. QUOTES: “So storage has a lot of benefits I think, it’s lower maintenance, and one nice thing is you can raise your rent, they put a 30 day notice unlike a lot of other sectors in real estate, it’s a growing industry.” “Americans have a lot of things and they don’t want to get rid of them, you inherit them, then you store them.” “You want to study that particular market, and what you’re looking for is a certain population, a lot of houses and an area where it’s growing, might be where there’s new jobs being created.” “The main mistake I see they [mom-and-pop owners] are making, is they would rather be 95% occupied at a lower rent than be 80% occupied and have a higher rent, they think full is better but what’s better is more income.” “28% of millennials use storage.” HIGHLIGHTS 7:21 Bill’s background 12:20 Kevin and Bill talk about fundamentals of the self-storage business 18:17 Opportunities in mismanaged facilities 30:02 Consolidations and the remaining mom-and-pop facilities 34:04 Technology and management 46:15 Storage wars and treasure seekers Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit Omega Properties' Website Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes back real estate investment expert, Brian Murray. Brian is the founder and CEO of Washington Street Properties, a commercial real estate investment and property management company and one of the nation’s fastest growing private companies. Bryan is also the author of the best selling book, Crushing It In Apartments and Commercial Real Estate, a definite must-read for anyone who wants to start in the commercial real estate space. Brian talks about real estate management and how he manages to spread his focus geographically and on different asset types. He shares some insights about multifamily vis-à-vis commercial property real estate. He shares details on how his company re-purposed an old hotel into a thriving apartment complex. Kevin and Bryan also discuss how to find great opportunities and give some advice on how to thrive in these challenging times. QUOTES: “That first acquisition kind of set the tone in terms of how I developed my own company and it’s really based on value adds.” “We’ll increase the income, drive those expenses down, create value and then we pull some cash out and grow, but that’s becoming more of a challenge now.” “I feel like you’ve got a lot more control with multifamily, when you’re managing a commercial property, it depends on the specific property but many, many times you have a disproportionate amount of rent coming in from individual tenants so if you lose a tenant in a commercial property, depending on the specific property, you may lose ten percent of your rent or even a hundred percent of your rent.” “With our residential tenants, we have primarily workforce housing type tenants, you know, people who are down to earth and frankly, I’ve been more comfortable dealing with them.” “Cap rates are so much higher in hotels right now than they are in multifamily that I think there’s a lot of opportunity out there that people can pursue.” HIGHLIGHTS 6:52 Start of Brian’s career in real estate and how it’s changed over the years 10:47 Expanding geographical horizons 14:00 Comparing multifamily and commercial real estate 22:18 Brian’s hotel conversion project 35:54 Expansion to other asset classes   Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here   Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit Washington Street Properties' Website Review and Subscribe

This week’s episode of the Real Estate Investing For Cashflow podcast features real estate investment expert Ian Ross, founder of Somera Road, Inc; a real estate private equity firm based in New York. Somera takes an entrepreneurial and creative approach to value -add, opportunistic real estate in non-core markets. Since its inception in 2014, it has acquired about 10.5 million square feet in real estate across twenty US cities. Listeners get a glimpse of how Somera operates as Ian shares details on certain projects they’re currently involved in. Ian also shares some perspectives on development and execution and how Somera envisions value in real estate.  QUOTES: “If you have grown up around sophisticated, highly complex, large-scale markets like New York city, and you understand how to underwrite those markets, I could take you to Cleveland and we could look at the relevant office buildings and you could figure out supply and demand, how people live, work, play, move, where they want to be, how they want to be there and how they’re willing to pay to be there, fairly quickly.” “We’re very micro-economic focused and focused on a deal by deal basis.” “We do what we say we’re gonna do and I think that by taking that approach, we become a great liquidity provider to a lot of sellers who are looking for surety of close.” “I’m just trying to learn information and input that information to analysis, it’s not that hard.” HIGHLIGHTS 5:10 Ian’s background 9:04 Ian explains what they do at Somera 21:10 Deals and opportunities 31:54 How does Somera identify opportunity? 39:36 Thoughts on autonomous vehicles   Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here   Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit Somera Road's Website Review and Subscribe

This episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast features real estate investment expert Sean Katona, owner of Simplified Properties. Sean is an expert investor, landlord and a national speaker. His business focuses on the retail sector, revitalizing shopping centers and apartments for maximum returns. Kevin and Sean dive into ways to stabilize property post acquisition and improve the community by increasing foot traffic in businesses. Sean also also talks about the change in retail and the importance of differentiating the uses and physical presence of retail businesses. Quotes: “Upon closing we are immediately able to execute a couple of leases and so you just hit the ground running with momentum and that makes your bankers and investor partners feel good.” “Right out of the gate, we improve the landscaping. We reseal and restripe the parking lot. We upgrade some lighting into LEDs. We remove some old signage. When you see that happening in a community, with a building that’s maybe been tired or forgotten, people take notice. The tenants see that.. And so it helps be able to tell the story of new managers or new owners here who want to improve the center.” “Once we have some of those things to showcase, we start having conversations with the tenant.” “Leaving the house is a true adventure and there has to be some serious value in that at the end of this. We get a lot of food delivered but we still go out to eat a lot.” “What I’m trying to do is support the heck out of my brokers and I do a lot of marketing.” Highlights: [5:33] Sean’s background in Corporate America and his start on Real Estate[8:41] Why Sean choose to focus on the retail asset class[11:00] Sean’s first “slam dunk” deal [18:50] What are triple net leases?[23:00] Kevin and Sean discuss changes in the retail business landscape [27:26] Benefits of bringing in brokers[33:20] How to choose the proper broker?[39:05] Sean’s plans for the future Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit Simplified Property's Website Review and Subscribe  

Today's show features Craig Berger, Founder and CEO of Avid Realty Partners, a commercial realty firm focused on hotel and multi-family apartment assets.  Craig speaks about how he scaled up his company, the challenges he faced along the way, and the successes he enjoyed with his business model.Quotes: "It's a less efficient market. It's harder to sell a hotel asset than it is a multi-family asset." "We were on our downside scenarios. If we lose revenues 30%, how long will our cash last before we're in trouble? If revenues drop 20%, how long does our cash last before we're in trouble?" "A lot of people don't want to own anymore so the underlying trends and demographics still are very favorably for the multi-family sector. But the prices continue to make me nervous." "First of all, I'd say, find some good mentors. That's always important. Find some talented people to work with that are willing to work with you." "Find your passion. Find your inspiration and reach for the stars. You gotta go for it." "Have cash on hand. Protect yourself. Be willing to make mistakes but hopefully not fatal ones. And make sure you're measuring the downside, the recession scenario, and how long you're going to be able to survive if business shrinks 5%, 10%, 15% from current levels." "Take some Excel classes. Try to get a basic model out for your revenues and expenses. If revenues shrink 10%, expenses don't." Discussed in this Episode: Introduction to Craig Berger and his background Evolution of Craig's business How Craig Hedges against risk Deals that didn't go as planned Advice that Craig would give himself 4 years ago Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit Avid Realty Partner's Website Review and Subscribe

This Episode of The Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow Podcast features Bryan Davison of EquiAlt; a specialized investment management firm. Bryan gives some valuable insights on running a real estate business. He dives into the advantages of the no leverage approach to business, the culture at EquiAlt and the types of investments and investors he deals with. Kevin and Brian’s discussion provides valuable tips and insights on hiring, choosing asset classes, property management and even provides inspiration based from personal experiences, from dealing with the recession to current market conditions. --------------- Quotes:   “Pain is one of the greatest teachers in life.” “I wasn’t gonna believe the banks, I wasn’t gonna believe Wall Street anymore and I wanted to do everything I could to dissociate myself personally and the money business from ever needing Wall Street bank money again.” “All my investors do not have a direct interest in the investment, so that allows me complete management discretion.. If that doesn’t work for someone, it doesn’t work for me either.” “I really hire for talent and personality, not exactly the specific job skill set.” “They like EquiAlt products simply because they see us as more stable and we can be a little more transparent with them.” “When I buy something, I plan on having it for a while.”   Discussed In This Episode: How Kevin & Brian bounced back after the housing crash Bryan’s business structure Asset classes and how Bryan makes his decisions Bryan discusses the markets he is in Bryan explains the type of investors he works with Bryan’s take on Property Management How the economy has healed Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit EquiAlt's Website Review and Subscribe

This episode of the REIFCF podcast features real estate investment expert, Ellie Perlman, who is the founder and CEO of Blue Lake Capital, a firm that specializes on multifamily properties. She also runs a podcast and a blog that focuses on passive investing. Kevin and Ellie discuss valuable data and tips for anyone looking to invest or further a career in real estate. They dive into the current market conditions and creative practices and relate those with their own experiences that could give the listener fresh insights into real estate and investment. QUOTES: “The better syndicators have the capacity and the willingness to sit down with you and explain concepts.” “Once I understood that real estate investing was my path, then that was it. And for me it was moving forward in full speed.” “I just had this desire of being the general of my own path. I wanted to create something that [my kids can inherit] and build a legacy.” “For a market to be a solid market, it has to have a job growth, population growth and rent growth and those are all connected.” “Seeing the prices that other companies pay for real estate and that scares me because it’s definitely going to affect the market going forward and it affects it already. I’m losing deals to companies that bid higher than me and I mean they’re either very comfortable with a lot lower returns but mainly they’re being  a little too optimistic than they should be.” “The vast majority of passive investors don’t look at the exit cap rate and they don’t ask about it.” “You see other folks who got very nice marketing materials but if you really dig into how they they’re arriving at those overall projections, or the IRR’s that they’re stating, you gotta understand the components that make that up. And the exit cap is one of the primary components that ultimately determine what the range looks like and what it might look like for the investor. “ “Building credibility is an art. You need to follow up with them for every deal that you’re looking into and explain to them why a certain deal didn’t work out. “ HIGHLIGHTS 08:06 Overview of Ellie started her career in law and transitioned to real estate before 2007 11:00 Kevin and Ellie talk about the knowledge that can be learned from being a passive investor. 13:40 The advantages of being on the general partnership side and the relationship of lender and investor. 15:40 Ellie’s transitions between job positions and the climactic shift in her career 18:20 Talk on ways to learn how to handle your own and other people’s money. 20:29 Ellie explains why she chose states where she invested in and what factored into her decisions. 22:45 Discussion on new and current opportunities and their IRR’s. 30:06 The current market and what is exciting and scary about it. 32:10 Kevin and Ellie talk about cap rates and how it factors into investments. 37:10 Ellie discusses deal sourcing and advises inexperienced people on how to potentially start out in real estate. Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit Blue Lake Capital's Website Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with Farmland Investor and Owner of American Farm Investors, Brian Luftman. Originally as a commodities trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Brian was looking into a way to hedge his own investments against a financial meltdown based in commodities, aside from paper assets. When looking for potential ways to invest his money in hard commodity assets however, Brian came up short. Nobody in the United States (whether it be an RE fund or otherwise) provided the option to syndicate deals to purchase farmland. Brian then founded American Farm Investors; an investment firm specializing in raising capital for purchasing the very best farmland in the country producing the highest yearly yields. HIGHLIGHTS:[5:59] Brian's Background [12:22] Who is the typical seller of farmland? [18:19] What separates good farmland from bad farmland? [24:56] What are some of the risks associated with farmland investing? [30:25] How does Brian's company field opportunities today? [37:49] Closing Thoughts. Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Visit American Farm Investor's Website Review and Subscribe

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, the Lumen Brothers (and Sister) talk about everything from Touring to Pitfalls. Join Anne, David, and Stan as they pontificate about: "The Luminous Group", The LDI Portfolio and Website Review, "Youngish Designers", Anne's obsession with Lighting the Set, Creating the Dramatic Space, Al Gurdon's "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert" Emmy, Tips for your First Tour, Stan's Boy Scout's Motto, Andy Figueroa's wise advice, Relationships on tour, What designers should avoid, Trying something new, Goldfinger, "Broadway Baby", Our favorite theatrical spaces, Merlin Velour, Chamfered Legs, The importance of Masking, and DON'T HANG MASKING IN FULLNESS! Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense.

What could possibly go wrong? If you are the proud owner of a multifamily property, the answers range from minor falls to catastrophic weather events. How can you mitigate the risk and reduce your total number of claims? And what kind of multifamily insurance coverage do you need to manage the circumstances outside your control? Bryan Shimeall is the Vice President of Multifamily Risk Advisors, a division of Tanner, Ballew and Maloof formed to leverage the firm’s 20-plus years of experience handling insurance for the multifamily industry. Bryan is dedicated to delivering customized solutions that mitigate risk for apartment building investors, and he is an expert in the realm of risk assessment and exposure to loss. Today, Bryan sits down with me to share his definition of and approach to risk assessment. He discusses the most common gaps in multifamily coverage, the most common property and liability claims, and the best strategies for mitigating risk. Bryan also explains when to pursue a master policy and the fundamentals of catastrophic coverage. Listen in for insight on the benefits of working with a risk management consultant and learn what to look for in a multifamily insurance policy! Key Takeaways The role of Multifamily Risk Advisors Insurance services for multifamily industry Boutique shop in business 20 years Bryan’s definition of risk assessment Process of identifying inherent risk of property Includes property and liability Bryan’s approach to risk assessment Age and condition of property Construction type and location Look at seller’s historic losses The most common gaps in coverage Catastrophic hurricane deductibles Denial that managing risk will mitigate claim How operators can manage risk Routinely walk property Keep up with deferred maintenance Update AC units The most common claims Liability—wet conditions, loose handrails cause falls Property—small oven fires The disadvantages of the ‘trailing 12 premium’ No reason to look at number for guidance Don’t know how owner has insured property The benefits of working with a risk management consultant Knowledge, experience and relationships Specialize in multifamily, understand mechanics How Multifamily Risk Advisors can assist during the acquisition phase Ask for OM on property (square footage, construction type) Respond quickly with real insurance costs for property Identify other issues (i.e.: budget money for roof replacement) When to pursue a master policy No raw number (≈1K units) Geography is most important factor Uniform deductible, renewal date Allows for predictability The fundamentals of catastrophic coverage Windstorm deductible in coastal areas Hailstorms in Midwest reflected in rates The most common mistake among investors Pay attention to premium but not deductibles Connect with Bryan Multifamily Risk Advisors Email bshimeall@multifamilyra.com Resources Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing: The Blueprint to Quitting Your Job with Real Estate—Even Without Experience or Cash by Michael Blank Deal Maker LIVE Michael’s Website Review the Podcast on iTunes

As an aspiring real estate investor, you possess a spirit of independence as well as a desire for financial freedom. What if you could take that self-determination to the next level and essentially become your own bank? Patrick Donohoe is on a mission to teach you how to take control of your money with the Perpetual Wealth Strategy, taking advantage of a particular kind of life insurance policy to facilitate real estate investment, secure retirement funds, and build a legacy that you can pass on to your children. Patrick is the president and CEO of Paradigm Life, a financial services firm committed to changing the way their clients look at life and wealth. The Paradigm team supports thousands of individuals and businesses in creating income for life and leaving a meaningful legacy. Patrick is a sought-after speaker in the realm of wealth management and investment, and he serves as the host of The Wealth Standard podcast. He is also the author of Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: A Financial Strategy to Reignite the American Dream. Today, Patrick joins me to share the benefits of the Perpetual Wealth Strategy and explain how it serves as the foundation for fulfilling the true American Dream. He offers insight around how a specifically-designed whole life insurance policy works, why its interest rate is so much higher than a savings account, and how the policy gives you a line of credit to borrow against for investment purposes. Listen in for Patrick’s advice around leveraging the Perpetual Wealth Strategy to generate passive income, pass on a legacy, and take control of your wealth—the way the rich do! Key Takeaways How Patrick came to start his business Mentored by Rich Dad advisor Kim Butler Stuck it out after partnership wiped out in 2008 Patrick’s definition of the American Dream Independence and freedom Greatest wealth built within person The benefits of the Perpetual Wealth Strategy Whole life insurance policy with mutual company Designed for cash value accumulation Provision for insurance to give line of credit Grow without taxes, comes with coverage The concept of liquid wealth Borrow against account (i.e.: real estate investment) Enables family to pass on liquid legacy Who this type of policy is for Rich understand, know how to use Mindset only barrier to entry The interest associated with a Perpetual Wealth policy Account holders own company, receive profit share Typically 4 to 6% The power of the Perpetual Wealth policy credit line Can borrow entire amount (interest rate of 4 to 5%) Don’t have to qualify, loan not on credit report How Patrick uses his own policy Hold cash reserves for personal and business life Rest used as opportunity fund to invest Use not dictated by anyone BUT you Make better decisions with access to alternatives How a Perpetual Wealth policy serves as a passive income generator Longer you pay in, less risk to insurance company Interest earned in later years is compounded Consistency of income (not connected to volatility) Connect with Patrick Paradigm Life Resources Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: A Financial Strategy to Reignite the American Dream by Patrick H. Donohoe Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not by Robert T. Kiyosaki Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing: The Blueprint to Quitting Your Job with Real Estate—Even Without Experience or Cash by Michael Blank Deal Maker LIVE Michael’s Website Review the Podcast on iTunes

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In this episode, I chat with April Fontenot from Wildflowers + Whimsy regarding her recent BGC Website Review. Take a listen to hear her takeaways from her experience. BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 94th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm chatting with April (Wildflowers & Whimsy) about her recent website review. * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me in the Facebook Group on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlchat INSIDE THIS EPISODE * Who is April? * April's blogging journey * Why a Website Review? * Key Takeaways from the Website Review * Implementation from the Website Review * Blogging Goals? * Hot Seat Questions & Answers RESOURCES MENTIONED + SHOUT-OUTS **Some links below contain affiliate links. Purchasing through them, at no further cost to you, help support Boss Girl Creative. Thank you for supporting the brands that support BGC!** FIND TAYLOR ONLINE Blog - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk FIND APRIL ONLINE Blog - Wildflowers + Whimsy Facebook - AprilNFontenot Instagram - @aprilnicolefontenot Pinterest - @aprilnicole Twitter - @aprilnicole_ww HELP SPREAD THE BOSS GIRL LOVE! It would be amazeballs if you shared Boss Girl Creative Podcast with your fellow Boss Girls on twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If you love this podcast, head on over to iTunes and kindly leave a rating, a review and subscribe! WAYS TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BOSS GIRL CREATIVE PODCAST Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via Boss Girl Creative Newsletter Click here to subscribe via Stitcher FEEDBACK + PROMOTION You can ask your questions and leave your comments by either calling (707) BOSS-GIRL, emailing hello@bossgirlcreative.com or go to the Boss Girl Creative Facebook group!

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Felicia Pratt, CEO of Rockin Websites, is a web designer and marketing consultant who specializes in creating online platforms that are not only visually appealing, but also converts. Felicia shares advice as well as key questions for anyone looking for a good web designer. One of the things that makes her unique is that she takes the time evaluate client needs and marketing strategies especially through website reviews. She also specializes in the use analytics to improve customer reach. Felicia continues to be on a mission to assist business owners in growing their business through their websites.

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In this weeks episode of BariatricTV we have a Drop Zone freak that you can really get your arms around. We take a look at another freak that is running for a cause. Talk a little bit about the "Scaring the Newbies" drama that's been going on in the WLS online community. And wrap things up with a consumer guide to weight loss surgery.