Life, times and society,from the perspective of a 74 year old , and the ebb of my time here. Cover art photo provided by nibras al-riyami on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@nabsta
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A new Book Club brought to you by the publishers of @viemagazine and @viespeaks Podcast.
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The German Book office of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world's largest and most important trade fair for publishing, is pleased to present a brand new show capturing the trends in the creative industries. This podcast series features leaders making an impact in the creative sector. We talk about what it takes for creative entrepreneurs to succeed, especially in tough business conditions; we speak to them about how the industry has evolved and their own journey. We seek out life and busines ...
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Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Podcast
Dan Jones, Christopher Bean, Peat Long, Damaris Browne, Brian Sexton
Welcome to Chronscast! We are the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. Each episode your hosts Dan Jones, Christopher Bean, and Peat Long will take a deep dive into some classic science-fiction, fantasy, and horror with a special guest. We'll also discuss the challenges of writing and publishing SFF, and our guests' experiences. Episodes feature specialist advice on writing and publishing from our resident legal beagle Damaris Browne ...
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S2 Ep11: Lights. Camera. Action. Storytelling Through Film
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Join us in this exciting interview as VIE Book Club host/VIE magazine editor Jordan Staggs chats with Kevin Elliott, founder of Redfish Film Fest, on all things documentaries, panels, keynotes, films, and more. With plans to be the premier documentary film fest in the Southeast, Redfish Film Fest celebrates the documentary art form while throwing f…
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S2 Ep10: The Gift of Gab: A Chat with Spirited Storytellers
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In this spirited interview, VIE Book Club host/VIE magazine editor Jordan Staggs chats with Madison Shirley, a gifted storyteller and the vice president of Chef Jim Shirley Enterprises, which owns and operates many restaurants along the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast. As friends and fellow creatives, Madison and Jordan talk about the art of storytell…
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S2 Ep9: Kindred Spirits Talk All Things Publishing
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Aspiring novelists, this one's for you! On this episode of VIE Book Club, host and VIE editor Jordan Staggs sits down with special guest Arlon Jay Staggs to discuss all things writing. Why is writing important? How do published authors get their start? What happens after you finish writing your novel and want to publish it? These topics and many mo…
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S2 Ep8: Creating Community One Book at a Time
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As the Downtown Social District of Panama City, Florida, sees revitalization thanks to dedicated locals and city officials, many new businesses have emerged. One of those is Bookish Boutique, a trendy and charming bookstore and gift shop with a mission to create community among the population of readers in Northwest Florida's Gulf Coast area and be…
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S2 Ep7: Tackling Life Through Gratitude with The Widowed Dancer
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We had the pleasure of welcoming local author and marine biologist Bryan Martin to the set of VIE Book Club! Originally from Massachusetts, Bryan has lived around the US and now calls Panama City Beach home. Known as "Sea Lion Bryan" due to his love for the ocean and his experience training sea lions for aquatic centers and the U.S. military. In 20…
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Emerald Anvil & Blair Witch at 25 with Gregg Hale and Ed Sanchez
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We're joined once more by filmmakers Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez, the brains behind The Blair Witch Project, V/H/S, Lovely Molly, and many more. Gregg and Hale talk to us about their new podcast-based audio drama Black Velvet Fairies. It's a tour de force meta narrative that plays with the found footage medium that gave them their big break, but…
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Under The Skin with Gregg Hale & Eduardo Sanchez
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You might be forgiven for thinking that us saying we had two of the horror genre's most distinguished filmmakers on the show would be an April Fool's joke, but you should know by now we never, ever joke about our guests (except for RJ Barker, who will forever be known as the Goth King of Leeds). Today we're joined by Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez,…
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S2 Ep6: Special Crossover Episode - VIE Speaks x VIE Book Club
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Join us in this special crossover episode as Lisa Marie Burwell, Editor-in-Chief of VIE Magazine and host of the VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart and Soul podcast, sits down with Jordan Staggs, Editor at VIE Magazine and host of the VIE Book Club podcast. This episode invites listeners to take an exclusive look inside VIE’s vibrant history and …
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Christopher and Dan are joined by horror writer John Langan, whose great horror novel The Fisherman finally is out now in the UK, an inexplicable seven years after being first published in most other territories. John talks to us about the health and wellbeing of Laird Barron, one of the other members of the modern horror brat pack, who suffered re…
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S1 Ep5: Emerald Coast Storytellers Take the Mic
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Since the most ancient civilizations, humans have had the innate desire to tell stories. Our spoken and written languages have become vehicles not only for communication but also for documenting history, entertaining, and creating connections with others. Music, poetry, and artful prose captivate the mind and evoke feelings like nothing else can. W…
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S1 Ep4: Debut Novelist Suzy Accola Pens Janie Blue
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VIE Book Club host Jordan Staggs sat down with debut author Suzy Accola to catch up on all things life, travel, and writing on this episode of VIE Book Club. Suzy Accola is one of the authors in The Idea Boutique’s publishing stable, and she recently released her first novel, Janie Blue, a romantic thriller that weaves a tangled web of lies, intrig…
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S1 Ep3: Rev Your Engines! Autophiles Celebrate Cars of 30A
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Ready, set, read! The Cars of 30A coffee-table book released in 2021 celebrates gorgeous automobiles of all makes and models, linked by their owners' connection to the beach communities along Scenic Highway 30-A in Northwest Florida. This affluent area attracts collectors of everything from vintage cars to exotics, beach buggies, unique customs, an…
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S1 Ep2: Literati Convene for the Annual Charleston Literary Festival
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For the past several years, creatives worldwide have gathered in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, to share great novels, poetry, journalism, and conversations with like-minded individuals and celebrated storytellers. Sarah Moriarty, a Dublin native who became the Charleston Literary Festival's executive director this year, joins VIE Bo…
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Ahoy ahoy! When the Beanstalker and I were drawing up our wish list for guests on the podcast, there was one name that @Phyrebrat was adamant that we try and get. That was the American author John Langan, who joins us for this episode. John is one of the masters of modern horror and whose seminal book The Fisherman, an exploration of guilt, diaspor…
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S1 Ep1: Storytelling with Photographer David Yarrow
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As an eighteen-year-old with a camera and a love of sports, the last thing on David Yarrow's mind was that his creative journey would one day lead him to become one of the most successful commercial photographers in the world. His compelling, often black-and-white images have graced thousands of walls, galleries, magazine covers, and advertising ca…
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Peat and Dan are joined by Anne Perry, publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books. Anne talks with us about the state of the publishing market in 2023, and what authors ought to consider when positioning their book in the market. We talk about the rising prices of books, the price differential between different regions, subscription-based business mo…
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We're back after the summer break, and are joined by Anne Perry, the publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books, to talk about Naomi Novik's 2015 fantasy bestseller, Uprooted. Based upon aspects of rural Polish folklore, Uprooted follows Agnieszka, a plain village girl who is shocked to learn that she is to be taken away to live with The Dragon, a po…
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So! After a few technical hitches and delays our bumper new episode is finally up. The Big Peat and I are joined by the award-winning fantasy author RJ Barker, whose novel The Bone Ships won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2020. Together we rabbit on about Richard Adams's 1978 classic piece of children's fantasy literature, Watership Do…
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Coronation Special! Titus Groan with Toby Frost
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It's Coronation Day! Well, not quite. But in the UK we are steadily approaching the moment when the king, Charles III, formally takes the Oath and is crowned. This month we're tackling Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, the first book in the seminal Gormenghast series. Titus follows the birth of the titular character and the first eighteen months of his l…
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Episode 16 - Excalibur with Bryan Wigmore
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Merlin's Beard! What better topic to talk about as we enter the springtime and the regeneration of the land than Excalibur and the legend of Arthur, King of the Britons, who is prophesied to restore the land to verdance and glory and who knows much about the average velocity of unladen swallows. But we'll not be focusing on that particular cinemati…
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When Chronscast was originally set up I wanted different co-host folks for different co-host strokes. I wanted my guest today, the blogger Peat Long, to contribute to the podcast particularly in the area of fantasy fiction, in all its guises and possibilities. For various reasons he couldn't commit at the start of the venture, but I'm pleased to sa…
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We're joined today by Tade Thompson, the multi award-winning author of such books as Rosewater, Making Wolf, Far From the Light of Heaven, and the Molly Southbourne novellas. He is also a self-confessed comics junkie, which he proved when he joined us last year to delve into the great WATCHMEN. This year Tade talks with us about Sandman, arguably N…
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John Carpenter's The Thing with Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey
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We see in 2023 with Chad Fifer and Chris Lackey, the hosts of the Strange Studies of Strange Stories podcast covering genre fiction. As well podcasting, they are quite the polymath duo; Chad is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician, and Chris is a writer of books for tabletop RPGs and co-host of other podcasts such as Rachel Watches Star Trek. Ch…
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Ghost Stories For Christmas with Alison Littlewood
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As the nights draw in and we approach the midwinter, what better way to celebrate the season than dipping into that most macabre of festive traditions, the Christmas ghost story? While we're all familiar with Dickens's A Christmas Carol, more modern traditions include the BBC's A Ghost Story For Christmas, adaptations of typically M.R James stories…
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The Left Hand Of Darkness with Emily Inkpen
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This month we're talking about one of the all-time classics of science-fiction literature, and arguably the book that demonstrated science-fiction could be literature: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand Of Darkness, a million-selling Hugo and Nebula winner. We talk about the book's enduring legacy, its approach to worldbuilding, character, and loose…
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Lud In The Mist with Juliet E. McKenna
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This month we're joined by the author fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna, creator of several epic series including The Tales of Einarinn, The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy. Juliet talks to us about one of the very first examples of what we might term "modern fantasy" - Hope Mir…
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This month we're joined by the award-winning British-Canadian author, poet and essayist Naomi Foyle, to talk about Inish Carraig, the alien-invasion-cum-prison break thriller by our very own @Jo Zebedee. Among the topics we cover is the quintessential "Norn Irishness" of the book, conveyed without ever lapsing into cliché, but yet acknowledging the…
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We're joined by one of the kings of UK science-fiction and fantasy, the literary agent John Jarrold, to talk about Rob Holdstock's majestic 1984 novel Mythago Wood, winner of the World Fantasy Award. Over a career spanning almost fifty years John has become one of the leading lights and champions for British genre fiction, and a household name with…
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This episode we finally open that door of the Chronscast household we'd not dared to open before and plunge into the abyssal labyrinth that is Mark Danielewski's maddeningly epic debut novel, House Of Leaves. A book that defies conventional categorisation, it's been described as a horror, a literary piece, a puzzle, and even a love story. We're joi…
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On this episode of Chronscast we're joined by award-winning SF author Tade Thompson to talk about WATCHMEN, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic-book masterpiece that skewers the superhero genre using its own architecture. Tade is the author of numerous novels, including the critically acclaimed sci-fi novel Rosewater, the first in his award winning…
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Swords And Deviltry with Stephen Cox
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Today we're joined by Stephen Cox, the author of the science-fiction drama Our Child Of The Stars, and the newly-published sequel, Our Child Of Two Worlds, both published by Jo Fletcher Books. Stephen dives with us into Fritz Leiber's swords-and-sorcery classic, Swords And Deviltry, which introduces two of fantasy's greatest heroes, the barbarian F…
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An American Werewolf In London with Richard Sheppard
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For this episode we're joined by Richard Sheppard, host of The Constant Reader Podcast, which takes a deep dive into all things Stephen King, from his numerous novels to the equally numerous movie and TV adaptations of his work. Richard talks with us about John Landis's seminal 1981 film An American Werewolf in London, a horror comedy that is funny…
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Podcast on Publishing Perspectives with Porter Anderson
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This episode of Globalocal Talks features Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. In this conversation, he talks about his experience and journey in the publishing industry. He also talks about how Publishing Perspectives happened.
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We're joined on this episode by Jo Zebedee, author of several novels, including the Abendau space opera trilogy, the dystopian Inish Carraig and the Irish fantasy Waters And The Wild. Jo talks to us about Klara And The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's 2020 novel about a sickly young girl who purchases a robotic "Artificial Friend" called Klara. Klara sets abo…
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Northern Lights with Stephen Palmer
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We were joined on this episode by Stephen Palmer, author of several genre novels including Memory Seed, Tommy Catkins, The Girl With Two Souls, and many more. His latest novel, Monique Orphan, was published in November 2021 by Infinite Press. Stephen spoke with us about Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. We discussed the novel's call to action on th…
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Dan Jones and Chris Bean introduce Chronscast, the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science fiction & fantasy (and horror!) community, with over 20,000 members and growing. In episode 0, we give an overview of season 1, outlining what people can expect from Chronscast, why we're doing it, and how it links back to SFF Chronicl…
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Podcast on Literary agents with Anuj Bahri, Red Ink Literary Agency and Mita Kapur, Siyahi- A literary Consultancy
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This episode of Globalocal Talks features Anuj Bahri, CEO, Red Ink Literary Agency and Mita Kapur, Founder and CEO, Siyahi- A Literary Consultancy. In this conversation, they talk about Literary agents in India and how do they work in their respective agencies.
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Podcast on Indian language publishing with Ravi DeeCee ,DC Books and Olivannan Gopalkrishnan, Emerald Publishing
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This episode of Globalocal Talks features Ravi DeeCee, MD, DC Books and Olivannan Gopalkrishnan, CEO, Emerald Publishers. In this conversation, they talk about publishing in Indian languages since they represent two huge languages in India- Tamil and Malayalam. They also talk about e-books and audiobooks in their languages.…
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Episode 404 - The end of learning is the end of mankind! Published 3/5/21
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Learn or be Damned!!
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More on “declassified” WWII documents,.....and what is happening TODAY!!!
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Read on McDuff!!
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G4 years of me in less than 15 minutes,.....sigh!
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(....an extension of “Who Who,....who are you?”
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The OSS,...and a declassified manual to overthrow America as we know it!
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In 1944 a US Army Colonel named “Wild Bill Donavan” was directed to write a manual for the sabotage and ultimate destruction of an entire country!! Not only did it work,...but it’s simplicity is something that is ACTIVE in America TODAY!!
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A declassified Manual from WWII, has written a detailed manual of EXACTLY how to ATTACK and destroy a government from within,......EASILY! If you look at the manual, and track the ACTIONS they recommend and where we are TODAY,......well you tell me
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.......Yes Sir I’ll give you a double Scoop!!
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Five minute “segments”,....(at least that’s what the screen says on the old iPad!
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If I were “implnted” with a location/data chip,.......HUH”
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Podcast with Anja von Kampen, creator of Knietzsche, the youngest philosopher in the world
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This episode of Globalocal Talks features Anja von Kampen, film producer, author, and her invention Knietzsche, the youngest philosopher in the world. In this podcast, she shares how she managed to build this success and how she is growing it, but also with the character Knietzsche to follow his journey into his thoughts about different topics. It …
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Think about life,....while you have it!!!
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Watch out for ‘Curves”, they get you every time!!
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Life in a beach chair
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