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Everything Stephen King, from Carrie to The Institute, from the novels to the short stories, from the small screen to the big screen. Each month we take a deep dive into one book from the bibliography of the King of horror fiction, while also charting the byways of King's forays into other genres (The Dark Tower series, On Writing etc) and also casting an eye on the many TV and film adaptations of King's work. Recorded live from the UEA media suite, Richard Sheppard interviews writers, acade ...
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Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast is aimed at the aspiring leaders of Tri-Cities Washington. Our mission is two-fold: 1. To inspire breakthrough leadership in listeners and their sphere of influence in the Tri-Cities. 2. To showcase leaders who are right now making a difference in their organizations and beyond. Please join us as we explore what makes the Tri-Cities great, and the people that make it that way.
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Episode Forty-One - Paul Inman (writer/director Dollar Baby 'That Feeling')
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As the Dollar Baby experiment comes to its close, i would like to shine a spotlight on some of the more successful films made from the treasure trove of Stephen King's short stories. 'That Feeling' by Paul Inman expertly captures the dark, guilt-ridden themes of the 1998 short story 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What it is in French'. It's being …
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Episode Forty - KingCON 2024 (Convention organisers Kris Webster & Andy Graham)
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This Autumn why not head to the Linq Hotel between the 24th-27th of October for the first-of-its-kind Stephen King Convention (AKA KingCON2024)? There is a great lineup of guests, including Mick Garris, Robert Kurtzman and two of my recent favorite authors, Jonathan Janz and Ronald Malfi. There are also a host of illustrators, artists, writers, col…
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Episode Thirty-Nine - The Drawing of the Three w/Kim C. (Podcast Host - The Year of Underrated Stephen King, Patreon - The Danse Macabre with Kim C)
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Back once again with undisputed Queen of Stephen King podcasting, Kim C. In this episode, Kim C. plays Sherpa Tenzing to my increasingly word-baggery Edmund Hilary as we scale the second Dark Tower novel, The Drawing of the Three. As you will hear, this installment of the DT series left us bewitched, bothered, bemused and with breathe completely ta…
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Episode Thirty Eight - The Stand Part Two w/Andy Stanton (Author of Benny the Blue Whale, co-host of the Tumbler's Willy Podcast)
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Our fever for The Stand has gone full blown this month, as we finish our epic conversation with Andy Stanton. We discuss the mutations of The Stand, from the graphic novels to the miniseries and touching on the forthcoming The End of the World as We Know It, a collection of short stories set in the world of Captain Trips with contributions from pas…
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Episode Thirty Seven - Pet Sematary: Bloodlines W/N.P. Cunniffe (Author of The Weejee Man, The Wake
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Lindsey Anderson Beer's 2023 prequel to the 2019 reboot of Pet Sematary got something of a kicking by most critics on its release. There are the bones of a good film in their somewhere though, and the look and the soundtrack of the film, plus an eclectic cast, make it an interesting curio if nothing else. Joining me to discuss it is N.P. Cunniffe, …
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Episode Thirty Six - The Stand w/Andy Stanton (Writer of Benny the Blue Whale, Host of The Tumbler's Willy Podcast, Creator of Mr Gum
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We're back (again) after a long hiatus, but what a return. One of the most listened to episodes of this podcast were the two-part epic discussions between me and Andy Stanton a few years ago. We both kicked around the idea of a rematch, and what other book could we cover but the 1990 edition of Stephen King's The Stand? Whilst other podcasts displa…
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Episode Thirty Five - Sorry, Right Number w/Adam Z. Robinson (Writer, Actor, Theatre-Maker - Haunted, A Christmas Carol, Shivers)
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We unearth a real curio in the King canon today, as the teleplay for Sorry, Right Number gets a good grilling. Originally filmed as part of the Tales From The Darkside television series, the teleplay was then reproduced in the 1993 short story collection, Nightmares and Dreamscapes. My guest and I discuss how much of this is autobiography, how much…
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Episode Thirty Four - Hans-Åke Lilja (Lilja's Library Webmaster, Author of Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King)
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It should be unsurprising that Stephen King, as the world's most popular writer, should have such a pervasive presence online. More than any other author, the number of his fan-sites is in the thousands. However, only one fan-site has achieved the kind of dominance that Lilja's Library has. Indeed, it is a resource in producing this podcast every m…
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Episode Thirty Three - Daphné Baiwir (Director of Stephen King on Screen)
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Daphné Baiwir is the writer and director of a new documentary, Stephen King on Screen. When I read the description of the documentary, I knew I had to talk to her. She has assembled not only a list of filmmakers and fans (including previous guest Tom Holland) that promise real insight, but it opens with an easter-egg filled introduction that will h…
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Episode Thirty Two - 11.22.63 w/Kim C. (The Year of Underrated Stephen King Podcast)
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I had the pleasure of being a guest on Kim C's podcast, The Year of Underrated Stephen King, a few months ago. It was such a fun, lively conversation, and Kim C was such a knowledgeable, charming host that I took the liberty of inviting her to come on the Constant Reader Podcast to discuss the monolithic 11.22.63. It was a pleasure to dive back int…
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Episode Thirty One - Survivor Type w/Ally Wilkes (Author of All the White Spaces, Where the Dead Wait)
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I am joined by Ally Wilkes on an expedition very few Stephen King fans will forget - into the heart of darkness and autocannibalism in Survivor Type. This grisly morsel was the grossout highlight of King's collection Skeleton Crew. It was recently turned into an animated episode of Shudder's Creepshow to pretty good effect. Once read, this one isn'…
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Episode Thirty - Misery (1990) w/Justin Stanley (Screenwriter of Black Butterfly) + Grindhouse Screening News!
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This month we take a look at the torments of the writing process through the lens of Rob Reiner's 1990 adaptation of 1987 King novel Misery. Like last month's Shawshank Redemption it was a favourite of critics and audiences alike, mainly due to the bravura performances of James Caan and Kathy Bates. Joining me to talk about it is screenwriter and f…
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Episode Twenty-Nine - The Shawshank Redemption w/James Michels (Author of Life's Dark Corners, The Ballad of Johnny Carlo, Ice Rising)
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Apologies for the hiatus, now back at full strength and we have a full slate of episodes for 2023 lined up, including some TBC guests making their own Stephen King adaptations, as well as some of the geniuses behind some big-name books and TV shows, plus fellow podcasters from within the Stephen King podcasting community. James Michels is a great g…
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Cynthia MacFarlan, a Chicago area native, moved to the Tri-Cities in 2000. As a Speech/Language pathologist for more than forty years, Mrs. MacFarlan has worked with people of all ages, in multiple settings and across all levels of care to help them with communication disorders. Mrs. MacFarlan’s love of animals and therapeutic skills led her to for…
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Torey founded BrandCraft in 2012. An artist at heart with an entrepreneurial spirit. Torey’s background winds through Science & Engineering (a registered Civil Engineer) until he decided to chase his true passion – marketing. After short stints away, the Tri-Cities area lured him back to plant roots and put up shop. Free time consists of golf, coac…
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Episode Twenty-Eight - The Eyes of the Dragon w/Isaac Thorne (Author of Hell Spring, The Gordon Place)
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Isaac Thorne is a man with a serious imagination. Hell Spring, his most recent novel contains (amongst much else) a killer Marilyn Monroe, cataclysmic floods, self-mutilation, time travel and monstrous phalluses. Who better to investigate one of King's more off-kilter, leftfield novels, the fantasy epic The Eyes of the Dragon? We discuss this charm…
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Vicki Monteagudo is the owner and Designated Broker of Century 21 Tri-Cities and has been a Licensed Realtor in the State of Washington since 2002. Vicki specializes in land acquisitions and community developments. Her lateral leadership focuses on development product planning and creating New construction selection processes and contractual proced…
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Episode Twenty-Seven - Crouch End w/Lauren Jane Barnett (Author of Death Lines: Walking London Through Horror Cinema, Host of London Horror Movie Club Podcast)
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PLEASE LIKE, RATE, REVIEW AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS FROM Please note that we discuss the publication of Lauren's new book Death Lines at length, as well as its original publication date. That date has now been pushed back, but I urge you all to go here and pre-order a copy now! In this episode we venture into S…
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Episode Twenty-Six - Bag of Bones w/Sean Hogan (Author of Twilight's Last Screaming, England's Screaming - Screenwriter of The Devil's Business, The Borderlands)
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Still having a few issues with Zencastr, so this is another Skype special. Audio quality doesn't dictate guest quality, however, and talking to Sean Hogan was a blast. We discuss King's old-school ghost story, Bag of Bones, and how the gothic and the modern turn into an underrated King tour-de-force. I was a huge fan of Sean's book England's Scream…
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It's a great day to Grow Forward with Tri Cities Influencer, Shae Frichette from Frichette Winery!
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Episode Twenty-Five - Black House w/Matt Wesolowski (Author of the Scott King 'Six Stories' cycle: Hydra, Six Stories, Changeling, Beast, Deity, Demon))
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Back after a brief sabbatical, we pick up our deep-diving trawl through Stephen King's oeuvre with one of my new favourite writers, Matt Wesolowski. Here's some blurb: - "Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror f…
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Episode Twenty-Four - The Long Walk w/Julia Marchese (Host of the Horror Movie Survival Guide, Director of I Know What You Need)
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Much gratitude to Julia Marchese of the Horror Movie Survival Guide and the director and guiding light behind the forthcoming 'Dollar Baby' adaptation of Stephen King's shot story I Know What You Need. Together Julia and I battled technical difficulties (after my interview with Stewart O Nan I think I might be jinxed, or at least have gremlins in t…
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Tri Cities Influencers: Holley, Lance, and Madeline
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Episode Twenty-Three - Duma Key w/Christopher Bean (Co-host of the Chronscast Podcast, Writer of A Sour Ground)
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Duma Key, an epic of recovery, talent, murderous secrets and the Florida Keys gets a deep dive today. I was recently a guest on the SFF Chrons podcast hosted by fan of the show Dan Jones and co-hosted by today's guest, Christopher Bean. Duma Key hits hard for Christopher, in ways that we discuss in depth on this episode. Thanks to Christopher for c…
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Tri Cities Influencers: Cari McGee, Jennifer Cunnington, and Jay Freeman
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Episode Twenty-Two - The Speed Queen w/Stewart O'Nan (Writer of Faithful, The Night Country, Ocean State)
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Stewart O'Nan's new book, Ocean State, has recently been released in the United States to wide acclaim. However, today we are going to look at one of his earlier books - 2001's The Speed Queen. In a change from our usual format, this isn't a book or an adaptation of a Stephen King text, but instead a novel that uses Stephen King as a character. Kin…
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Tri Cities Influencers: Elizabeth Barnes and Brian Ace
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Tri Cities Influencers: Carlos Martinez, Michael Novakovich, and Brad Toner
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Episode Twenty One - Creepshow w/Peter Laws (Writer of The Frighteners, Matt Hunter series, Host of Frightful and Hometown Histories: Europe)
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The return of author, columnist, minister and podcaster Peter Laws to the podcast, taking a dive into the George Romero/Stephen King collaboration Creepshow (1982). We take part each episode of this mixed bag of gory tales, touching upon George Romero's career, soundtrack obsessives, the beast within and the cockroaches in the wall. Peter can be fo…
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Episode Twenty - Needful Things w/Dan Jones (Writer of Man o' War and Host of the Chronscast Podcast)
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Buyer beware in Castle Rock, as Leland Gaunt only wants a little of your money, and all of your soul. Stephen King's 1994 novel Needful Things gets a dismantling with returning guest Dan Jones. One of our mutual favourites, and one of the stories that signposted the interesting development King's work would take in the 1990s, as he starts to leave …
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Tri Cities Influencer: Theresa Richardson
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00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:24.810 Paul Casey: it's a great day to grow forward thanks for joining me today's episode with jet Richardson he's executive director of habitat for humanity here in the tri cities and a fun fact about jet well, he said he's allowed sneezer jet tell us more about that. 2 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:28.530 Jet's iPhone: I don't kno…
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Episode Nineteen - Doctor Sleep w/Alex Grass (Writer of Dreck, A Boy's Hammer, Black River Lantern)
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Apologies for the wait on this one, thanks for your patience. We will be returning to our celebration of Epix TV's Chapelwaite soon, but for now I was luck enough to sit down with Alex Grass, author of Dreck, about addiction, the writing life, and Stephen King's novel Doctor Sleep. Alex is a fascinating chap, and a fine writer, and I urge you to se…
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84. Growing Forward Podcast featuring Jeanne Dillner
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Paul Casey: Great team leaders notice an imbalance in the team and have the ability to adjust to it. But again, don't attack the person attack the problem. Speaker 1: Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington, it's the Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast. Welcome to the TCI podcast. We're local leadership and self-lead…
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85. Growing Forward Podcast featuring Diahann Howard
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Paul Casey: Your brain does not see the word knots. So if you're like, I am not going to eat chocolate, you know what your brain hears is chocolate. And so then you're like start moving toward it and you have actually more of a craving for it because the brain doesn't see that where it's just a fun fact about the brain Speaker 2: Raising the water …
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80. Growing Forward Podcast featuring Edison Valerio
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Paul Casey: We're making left onto a two-way highway is like approaching a change situation. So I've got a vision. Consider the timing, possess the means and the team to make the change and look both ways before accelerating, Speaker 2: Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. It's the Tri-Cities influencer pod…
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82. Growing Forward Podcast featuring Ken Hohenberg
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Paul Casey: Change isn't cemented until it becomes part of the new routine and it's the leader's job to create the culture. Remember I led with that two sessions ago, a change of culture only happens through accountability, Speaker 2: Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. It's the Tri-Cities influencer podca…
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81. Growing Forward Podcast featuring Kyle Cox
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Paul Casey: John Maxwell's says, "If change doesn't make you uncomfortable, it's not really change." There might be like, baby change. But, when we're talking about change in the seminar, we're talking about, like substantial change for your project, or your team, or an organization. Speaker 2: Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Citie…
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83. Growing Forward Podcast featuring Zahra Roach
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Paul Casey: Bulls are the gasoline that make the vision goes somewhere, Speaker 2: Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington, it's in Tri-Cities influencer podcast. Welcome to the TC podcast. We're local leadership and self-leadership expert Paul Casey interviews, local CEOs, entrepreneurs, and non-profit executi…
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Episode Eighteen - Chapelwaite w/Peter Filardi (Creator of Chapelwaite, Writer of Salem's Lot (TV), The Road Virus Heads North (TV), The Craft, Flatliners)
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We begin a month long appreciation of the newest Stephen King adaptation, EPIX TV's Chapelwaite. Based on the short story Jerusalem's Lot from the Night Shift anthology, Chapelwaite stars Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire and genre favorite Julian Richings. Mixing in elements of the short story with mythology established in the novel Salem's Lot, this …
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79. Growing Forward Podcast Leaving a leadership legacy w/ Paul Casey
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Paul Casey: it's a great day to grow forward thanks for joining me for today's episode and it's with me i'm going to do a solo episode for you today on leadership development that leaves a legacy. 215 00:31:53.430 --> 00:32:02.430 Paul Casey: If you are in a role where you get to develop other people, which is what leaders do best, then this is for…
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