Best Mary Jane Clark Podcasts (2024)

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Podcasting’s Obsession with Obsession (Neil Verma) 52:19

4M ago52:19

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Today we discuss how narrative podcasts work, the role they’ve played in American culture and how they’ve shaped our understanding of podcasting as a genre and an industry. Neil Verma’s new book, Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession, offers a rich analysis of the recent so-called golden age of podcasting. Verma studied around 300 podcasts an…

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Second Line: Footwork in New Orleans (Lowlines by Petra Barran) 32:39

4M ago32:39

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Today we feature the first episode of a new podcast called Lowlines, which follows host Petra Barran as she travels solo through the Americas, meeting people with profound connections to the places they’re from. This episode takes place in New Orleans and focuses on Second Line, the brass band tradition that comes out of Black funeral processions a…

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Beyond Listening: The Hidden Ways Sound Affects Us (Michael Heller) 1:00:01

5M ago1:00:01

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There are sonic experiences that can’t be contained by the word “listening.” Moments when sound overpowers us. When sound is sensed more in our bodies than in our ears. When sound engages in crosstalk with our other senses. Or when it affects us by being inaudible. Dr. Michael Heller’s new book Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter (2023…

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Noise and Affect Theory (Marie Thompson) 48:36

5M ago48:36

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Feminist sound scholar and musician Marie Thompson is a theorist of noise. She has also been one of the key thinkers in integrating the study of sound with the study of affect. Dr. Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the Open University in the UK. She is the author of Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect, and Aesthetic Moralism (Bloomsb…

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From HAL to SIRI: How Computers Learned to Speak (Benjamin Lindquist) 50:42

6M ago50:42

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Today we learn how computers learned to talk with Benjamin Lindquist, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University’s Science in Human Culture program. Ben is the author “The Art of Text to Speech,” which recently appeared in Critical Inquiry, and he’s currently writing a history of text-to-speech computing. In this conversation, we explore:…

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Publishing for Nonfiction Authors (Jane Von Mehren) 1:06:41

6M ago1:06:41

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Join Our Patreon! Send us a voice message! Rate this podcast! Today’s episode provides a thorough walkthrough of the publishing industry for aspiring nonfiction writers. Our guest is Jane Von Mehren, Senior Partner at Aevitas Creative Management and a former Senior Vice President at Random House. Jane explains the structure of the publishing indust…

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Noise and Information in the Office (Joseph L. Clarke) 1:08:48

7M ago1:08:48

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Join Our Patreon! Send us a voice message! Rate this podcast! Ever wonder who’s to blame for the noise and distraction of the open office? Our guest has answers. Joseph L. Clarke is a historian of art and architecture and an associate professor at the University of Toronto. His 2021 book Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space …

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Robin Miles: Talking Books 1:10:45

7M ago1:10:45

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Today we bring you a masterclass in audiobook narration and acting with acclaimed actor, casting director, audiobook narrator and audiobook director, Robin Miles. Miles has narrated over 500 audiobooks, collecting numerous industry awards and, in 2017, was added to the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame. She’s the most recognizable voice in literary Afr…

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Radiophilia (Carolyn Birdsall) 1:06:47

8M ago1:06:47

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Today’s guest is Carolyn Birdsall, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. If you’re a scholar of sound or radio, you likely know her work, particularly her monograph Nazi Soundscapes (AUP, 2012) which was the recipient of the ASCA Book Award in 2013. Her new book, Radiophilia (Bloomsbury, 2023), examines the love of radio th…

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Cosmic Visions in Sound 21:43

8M ago21:43

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Today we share a podcast episode on the visual epistemology of astronomy by our friends at The World According to Sound. What kind of knowledge do we really gain when we look at images from space? Longtime listeners to this show will remember The World According to Sound. As we referred to them two years ago, WATS is a team of two rogue audionauts …

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Tinnitus Stories 38:39

9M ago38:39

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Tinnitus can be annoying, for sure--and for some people it's much worse than annoying--but it also has a lot to say of interest, if we're willing to listen: "Tinnitus has been my guide in sound studies, my Virgil, leading me through a shadow world of sound. It's taught me how high the stakes can be when it comes to the perception and control of sou…

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Warren Zanes: Rockstar Biographer 1:11:53

10M ago1:11:53

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Warren Zanes talks life as a rocker and writer, his new book on Springsteen's Nebraska, how to weave theory into a great story, and why he narrates his own audiobooks. Continue reading → The post Warren Zanes: Rockstar Biographer appeared first on Phantom Power.By Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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Making Radio History (Elena Razlogova) 1:03:22

10M ago1:03:22

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Elena Razlogova discusses U.S. radio history, audience research, music recommendation and recognition algorithms, and her current book project, which centers on freeform radio station WFMU and the rise of online music. We also talk about Elena’s research strategies as a historian working in the digital age. Continue reading → The post Making Radio …

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The Audiobook’s Century-Long Overnight Success (Matthew Rubery) 47:49

11M ago47:49

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Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment—and it only took them over a century to get here. Dr. Matthew Rubery, a Harvard PhD and Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London, pioneered the study of the audiobook, its his…

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Going Public 19:26

11M ago19:26

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In this brief opener for Season Six of Phantom Power, Mack discusses his new project of writing a trade press book, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Continue reading → The post Going Public appeared first on Phantom Power.By Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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A Philosophy of Echoes with Amit Pinchevski 58:38

1+ y ago58:38

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Amit Pinchevski challenges the notion that echo is mere repetition. Instead, echo is a generative medium. Just as a baby first learns to speak by repeating the sounds of others, a philosophy of echoes reminds us that our own agency and creativity reside in repetitions that respond to the past. Continue reading → The post A Philosophy of Echoes with…

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John Cage: Echoes of the Anechoic 26:17

1+ y ago26:17

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Today we explore the mythology around John Cage’s visit to the anechoic chamber. The chamber was designed to completely eliminate echoes. Ironically, the tale of Cage’s experience in that space has echoed through history, affecting our understanding of silence, sound, and the self. But what do we really know about what happened there? Continue read…

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Sonic AI: Steph Ceraso & Hussein Boon 34:12

1+ y ago34:12

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Today we hear two scholars reading their recent work on artificial intelligence. Steph Ceraso studies the technology of “voice donation,” which provides AI-created custom voices for people with vocal disabilities. Hussein Boon contemplates the future of AI in music via some very short and thought-provoking fiction tales. And we start off the show w…

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Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes 44:58

1+ y ago44:58

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Musician and sound artist Brian Harnetty breathes new, musical life into the analog meditations of 60s Catholic mystic Thomas Merton. Continue reading → The post Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes appeared first on Phantom Power.By Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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Morgan Chalut - Hunter 32:20

1+ y ago32:20

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Morgan Chalut lives in Dallas, Texas with her delightfully handsome and silly, charming, supportive and lovely husband, Philip. They have two dogs together: Caramel, who absolutely wants to be your friend, and Sammie, who very definitely does not. She hopes to continue to discover characters and worlds she can plot and explore. You can find Morgan,…

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S.I. Clarke - Consider Pegasus 30:29

1+ y ago30:29

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S.I Clarke shares her home with her partner and an assortment of waifs and strays. When not writing convoluted, inefficient stories, she spends her time telling financial services firms to behave more efficiently. When not doing either of those things, she can be found in the pub or shouting at people online — occasionally practising efficiency by …

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Joan Marie Verba - Twelve 30:02

1+ y ago30:02

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An experienced writer, Joan is the author of the nonfiction books Voyager: Exploring the Outer Planets and Boldly Writing as well as the novels Twelve, Defying the Ghosts, Sword of Queens, The Arachne Portal, Wondry Dragon Finds a Home, Countdown to Action!, Action Alert!, Deadly Danger!, Situation: Critical!, Extreme Hazard!, and Danger Zone! plus…

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Samantha Bryant - Going Through the Change 36:45

1+ y ago36:45

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Samantha Bryant is a middle school Spanish teacher by day and a mom and novelist by night. That makes her a superhero all the time. Her secret superpower is finding lost things. When she's not writing or teaching, Samantha enjoys time with her family, watching old movies, baking, reading, and going places. Her favorite gift is tickets (to just abou…

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Westerkamp: The Unedited Interview [excerpt] 6:42

1+ y ago6:42

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Here is a preview of Mack Hagood’s full one hour and forty minute interview with soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp, which includes many details and stories we couldn’t fit into the three public episodes we featured her in. If you’re a … Continue reading → The post Westerkamp: The Unedited Interview [excerpt] appeared first on Phantom Power.…

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Karen Hough - Ground Control 32:34

1+ y ago32:34

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Karen Hough is a writer, editor and blogger with an Honours BSc. in Human Kinetics. She's more than just a finicky grammar nerd, though a finicky grammar nerd she is. As a Canadian, I can handle either neighbor or neighbour, and prefer to go without the Oxford comma, but can be flexible if needed. My favourite thing is creating content with impact,…

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Barbara Krasnoff - The History of Soul 2065 32:29

1+ y ago32:29

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Barbara Krasnoff divides her time between writing short speculative fiction and editing tech as Reviews Editor for The Verge. Her book The History of Soul 2065 is coming out in June, 2019 from Mythic Delirium Books. It is a “mosaic novel” made up of interconnection short stories about two uncanny families through several generations. Her short fict…

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The Sound World of Harriet Tubman 41:30

1+ y ago41:30

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Just in time for Black History Month, we share an episode we've been excitedly working on for a number of months now. Ethnomusicologist Maya Cunningham brings us “The Sound World of Harriet Tubman.” Maya Cunningham is an activist and jazz singer currently completing a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Afro-American studies with …

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Jenn Gott - The Private Life of Jane Maxwell 30:05

1+ y ago30:05

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Jenn Gott is an author, fangirl, and jack of all hobbies who writes about sapphic leads fighting against darkness and falling in love. She lives in a fairytale forest where, when she's not writing, you can usually find her playing life simulation games, sketching, or entertaining her rambunctious cat. You can find Jenn online on these platforms. Tw…

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Elaine Pascale - Ripped to Shreds 31:51

1+ y ago31:51

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Elaine lives in Florida where she writes horror, and regularly appears on podcasts and participates in Women in Horror writing prompts. Elaine enjoys a robust full moon, chocolate, paddleboarding, and collecting cats. You can find her online on the following platforms. Twitter Facebook Instagram TikTok LinkedIn Website…

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Valerie Valdes - Fault Tolerances 33:27

1+ y ago33:27

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Valerie Valdes’s work has been featured in Uncanny Magazine, Time Travel Short Stories and Nightmare Magazine. Her debut novel Chilling Effect was published by Harper Voyager in September 2019 and Orbit UK in February 2020, with starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal. It was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was al…

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Hildegard Westerkamp: A Life in Soundscape Composition 40:27

1+ y ago40:27

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Hildegard Westerkamp is a pioneering composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. Today we speak to her about her career and listen to excerpts of six soundscape compositions. Continue reading → The post Hildegard Westerkamp: A Life in Soundscape Composition appeared first on Phantom Power.By Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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Terri Bruce - Whenafter 35:52

1+ y ago35:52

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Terri Bruce has been making up adventure stories for as long as she can remember. Like Anne Shirley, she prefers to make people cry rather than laugh, but is happy if she can do either. She is the author of the paranormal/contemporary fantasy "Afterlife" series, which includes Hereafter (Afterlife #1) and Thereafter (Afterlife #2), and several scie…

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Bonus Episode: Jonathan Sterne [excerpt] 24:04

2y ago24:04

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Today we feature an excerpt from our nearly 2-hour bonus episode for Patrons. In the full interview from last season's episode "Dork-o-Phonics," Jonathan Sterne discusses topics such as the early days of sound studies, how his upbringing and a music school rejection led him to sound, his illness and vocal impairment, and a lot of fascinating ideas …

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Spacing Out with Dallas Taylor of 20,000 Hz 45:58

2y ago45:58

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Today we talk to Dallas Taylor, host of the most popular sound podcast on the planet, 20,000 Hertz. He provides an anatomy of his episode "Space." Continue reading → The post Spacing Out with Dallas Taylor of 20,000 Hz appeared first on Phantom Power.By Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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Listening in the Afterlife of Data (David Cecchetto) 1:17:48

2y ago1:17:48

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David Cecchetto is a media theorist, artist, and musician who creates strange sonic experiments for understanding our computer-driven lives. Continue reading → The post Listening in the Afterlife of Data (David Cecchetto) appeared first on Phantom Power.By Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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(Re)Making Radio with Shortwave Collective 53:04

2y ago53:04

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The Shortwave Collective--an international group of feminist radio artists--teach you how to make your own radio with found materials! We talk about play, experimentation, failure, community, and open listening in their feminist radio practice. Continue reading → The post (Re)Making Radio with Shortwave Collective appeared first on Phantom Power.…

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In One Ear, Out The Other (Jacob Danson Faraday On Cirque du Soleil) 43:05

2y ago43:05

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On today’s show, we address a performer’s nightmare—the nightmare of not being able to hear yourself onstage. My guest is ethnomusicologist Jacob Danson Faraday, who takes us behind the scenes of the famed Cirque du Soleil to learn how even … Continue reading → The post In One Ear, Out The Other (Jacob Danson Faraday On Cirque du Soleil) appeared f…

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Season Four Trailer 1:53

2y ago1:53

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Get ready for Season Four of Phantom Power, where we study sound in the arts, music, and culture! On Phantom Power, we’ve got an ear to the ground—listening to the subterranean rats of New York… We’ve got an ear on … Continue reading → The post Season Four Trailer appeared first on Phantom Power.By Mack Hagood, sound professor and audio producer

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Fela Kuti and the Black Atlantic (Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert) 1:17:13

2y ago1:17:13

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This month, we are preparing for the launch of Season Four of the podcast in September. Lots of fascinating topics on deck, as we double our output with a semi-monthly format. We are also about to officially launch a Patreon … Continue reading → The post Fela Kuti and the Black Atlantic (Tim Lawrence and Jeremy Gilbert) appeared first on Phantom Po…

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Kristi Petersen Schoonover - Tidings 27:15

2y ago27:15

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Kristi Petersen Schoonover’s short fiction has been featured in The Adirondack Review, Orca Lit, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Afternoon, I Like Monkeys, New Witch Magazine, MudRock: Stories & Tales, and many, many others; by far, however, her favorite short pieces are those she wrote specifically for anthologies a…

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Karen Heuler - The Splendid City 34:12

2y ago34:12

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Karen Heuler is a prolific writer who has been writing since the 1980's first in literature and later in both science fiction and dark fantasy genres. You can find her online on Twitter and on her Website. #sciencefiction #politicalsatire #magic

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Kate Heartfield - The Embroidered Book 26:50

2y ago26:50

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Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book, a historical fantasy novel, and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (2018/2019). Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician's Workshop, published by Choice of Games. Her short fi…

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Awfully Viral (Paula Harper on Will Robin’s Sound Expertise) 50:59

2y ago50:59

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Will Robin interviews Dr. Paula Harper about her work on viral music videos and taste, specifically that terrible Rebecca Black video "Friday" that's probably still rattling around in some dark recess of your brain. Continue reading → The post Awfully Viral (Paula Harper on Will Robin’s Sound Expertise) appeared first on Phantom Power.…

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Elle Ire - Dead Woman's Pond 27:46

2y ago27:46

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Elle E. Ire resides in the Disney-created town of Celebration, Florida, with her spouse and two dogs. A graduate of the University of Miami, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in creative writing but left the MFA program when they refused to allow her to write genre fiction, instead receiving a Master’s in Literature mostly made up of writing courses…

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Carol Gyzander - Forget Me Not 29:26

2y ago29:26

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Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and mysteries in her early days. To her, the letter “A” means Asimov, Andre Norton, and Agatha Christie! Now that her kids have flown the coop, leaving behind the writer’s requisite cats, she’s gone back to her early loves with short stories that veer into several genres (sci-fi, weird…

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Britta Jensen - Eloia Born 31:11

2y ago31:11

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Britta Jensen’s debut YA novel Eloia Born won the 2019 Writer’s League of Texas YA Discovery Prize and was long-listed for the 2016 Exeter Novel Prize. Reviewers are calling the book “both a dystopian narrative and a quest story; consider it a spiritual successor to Lois Lowry’s The Giver and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village.” You can find Britta o…

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Claudia Blood - Company Assasin 30:33

2y ago30:33

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Juggling her roles as a wife, mom, and pet-wrangler doesn’t leave much free time, but what time Claudia has is filled to the brim with creating sci-fi and fantasy novels set in some worlds that are slightly familiar and some that are totally unique and new. Taking inspiration from all kinds of media, from Dungeons & Dragons to the Dresden Files as …

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Amy Grech - Bruised and Battered Nevermore 26:05

2y ago26:05

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Amy Grech has sold over 100 stories to various anthologies and magazines including: A New York State of Fright, Apex Magazine, Dead Harvest, Flashes of Hope, Gorefest, Hell’s Heart, Hell’s Highway, Hell’s Mall, Microverses, Needle Magazine, Punk Noir Magazine, Scare You To Sleep, Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Tales from The Lake Vol. 3, The…

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Anne Nydam - The Extraordinary Book of Doors 26:12

2y ago26:12

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For more information on the author, please check her social media sites and web page. Web Page Instagram #MiddleGrade #fantasy

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E.C. Ambrose - Drakemaster 29:26

2+ y ago29:26

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E. C. Ambrose writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction, including DRAKEMASTER (Guardbridge, April 2022) about a clockwork doomsday device based on Su Song's astronomical clock of 1090 CE, the Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery, and the Bone Guard archaeological thrillers. She is a graduate of, and sometime instructor for, the Odyssey Spe…

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