Best Back Porch Writer Podcasts (2024)

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Recollect Season 4 Cross Cultural Episode 1 - with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle: Where Are All the Acorns: Two WOC Writers Who Left Their Colonized Teaching Jobs 42:28

11M ago42:28

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Welcome to Recollect Season 4 Cross Cultural. In all of the episodes of this season I extend the conversation about Black women decolonizing to women of color. One of the internalized behaviors that makes capitalism and colonization work, is being used and abused by the false system and not talking to each other about it. If we don't band together …

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Recollect Season 3 Episode 6 - with Victoria Scott-Miller: Red Cups & Fish Fries - Two Black Book Loving Women Musing about Sharing and Collaborating 22:25

1y ago22:25

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In this last episode of Season 3, Victoria Scott-Miller, children’s book author, and owner of Liberation Station Bookstore in Raleigh, NC is visiting me at Her Story Garden Studios. What starts out to be a conversation and first meeting to collaborate on my book release party and her bookstore opening this summer, turns into a conversation about al…

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Recollect Season 3 Episode 5 – with Khadijah Ali-Coleman: Black Mothers Reckoning with Our 2022 Year & Recollecting What Our Daughters Taught Us 30:50

1+ y ago30:50

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Note to Listener: Listen to it all. There are a number of times that Khadijah and I say goodbye, but in Black folk fashion, we strike up another and another conversation. LOL! In this episode Khadijah Ali-Coleman and I are recollecting what our daughters have taught us. It is March, and my daughter is turning 22. Wow! From tiny hands that I hold in…

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Recollect Season 3 Episode 4 – with Shana Tucker: A Conversation on Recollecting Love, Home and the Porch Light Concept 29:21

1+ y ago29:21

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Happy Valentines, and Super Bowl and February Birthdays. What a great time for this Love & Home conversation. In this episode Shana and I as new neighbors in our new Durham neighborhood are eating peanut butter and apples and carrots and telling stories of how Home & Love are synonymous in the heart. This conversation doesn't follow any conventions…

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Recollect Season 3 Episode 3 – with Gerty Mitchell, Transformation Silence into Freedom 34:31

1+ y ago34:31

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Recollect Season 3 Episode 3 – with Gerty Mitchell, Transformation Silence into Freedom. So nice to be back! Happy 2023! In this episode of the Recollect Podcast, I am joined by Gerty Mitchell. She’s Haitian-American, and living life with a purpose in the vibrant city of Durham, North Carolina. She is a woman who is unapologetic and intentional abo…

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Recollect Season 3 Episode 2 with Jill Collen Jefferson, Dragon Slayer Civil Rights and International Human Rights Attorney 1:09:27

2y ago1:09:27

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Jill is from my birthplace, Mississippi and in this episode we recollect our omniscient little southern girls to our wise Black woman selves who have taken up professions to heal and set right what racism has set all upside down and inside out. Jill, my friends, is indeed a dragon slayer. We speak the truth about the perpetrators in order to flip t…

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Recollect Season 3 Episode 1 With Kafi Allah, Black & Foraging Connecting with Yourself and The Generations Before and to Come 43:40

2+ y ago43:40

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Is this you? “Oh, yeah! I’ve seen that plant my entire life and didn’t know what it was or that you could eat it?”The COVID pause sent a lot of us to walking in the woods and looking at stuff, and trudging on it but most of us, myself included, still didn’t know what we were looking at. Kafi and I have done a lot of hiking and identifying since the…

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Recollect Season 2 Episode 6 What Can I Do For Ukraine, Just Me? 21:07

2+ y ago21:07

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Hello Listeners,Welcome to this Episode of Recollect: Conversations with Black Women about Decolonizing Using Story & Nature. In this episode the conversation I have is with myself and all of the shit that is in my head on this Sunday afternoon February 27, 2022. Like many people in the world, I am troubled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I ask…

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Recollect Season 2 Episode 5 Black History is What 2 Black Vegan Women Ate for Dinner In February & Their Funny Food Stories 55:07

2+ y ago55:07

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In this episode Dr. Candace Parrish owner of Yellow Plate Vegan and I play with our food and tell stories about it all as we let our family experiences with collard greens, broken dolls, Black movie theaters with unlikely veggies, squirrels that got away and other tales be the recollection that decolorizes the food on the table. We end up giving y’…

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Recollect Season 2 Episode 4 Mama Bear by Shirley Smith One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life & Her Own. Shirley & Zelda talk About Writing the Story She Lived 55:02

2+ y ago55:02

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Hey Y'all this episode features Shirley Smith as we talk though the journey of her memoir Mama Bear and our connection of healing in the collaboration process of co-writing the work. In the last episode Natasha Thomas and I talked about the stresses in a Black woman’s body that can impact her ability to healthily bring children into this life. This…

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Recollect Season 2 Episode 3 Self-Segregating & Black Only Spaces: 2 Black Women PhD Art Therapists Talk About “The Whole Body NO”, The Matrix Moment & The Fox Strategy for Black Women’s Liberation 1:16:05

2+ y ago1:16:05

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Natasha Thomas, PhD was the other Black woman in my Cohort at Lesley University. We were the women who were trying to get in there and out unscathed with those letters in hand. There were lots of Matrix bullet dodging moments, and lots of revelations as our bodes said “no” to the bullshit and “yes” to the sanctity of lending our love-work in Black …

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Recollect Season 2 Episode 2 Creative Evocation – How Do You Know to Do That? A Conversation with Performance Artist Ebony Golden 41:34

2+ y ago41:34

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This episode is a continuation of my conversation with Ebony Golden as we make that pot of sorrel tea at Her Story Garden Studios and go in for answering the question of how do we know what we know creatively. We evoke an understanding that one must exfoliate the rules, listen to your dreams, be quiet without fear of death, ask the elders and spiri…

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Recollect Season 2 Episode 1 Unchoking the Breath of a Tree: A Conversation w Performing Artist Ebony Golden 42:41

2+ y ago42:41

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In this episode it’s December 18, 2021. Yep, you guessed it, it is a nice global warming seventy degrees out. Performance Artist, brilliant, beautiful one, Ebony Golden and I are at the big table at Her Story Garden Studios. We testify ourselves to revelations about letting go of systems (like nonprofit structures) that cut off the breath of the tr…

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Recollect Season 1 Episode 5 No More Doubt! What Did You Come Here to Do? Six Black Women Testifying Around the Fire Circle About Making Shit Happen in 2022 18:40

2+ y ago18:40

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In this very special episode of Season 1 of Recollect, it is December 11th, 2021. It is time to manifest what we want in 2022. It is a strange and beautiful 72 degrees outside. I am with 6 Black women of ages from our twenties to our almost-sixties: Sister Asia, Sister Amber, Sister Gerty, Sister Carla, Sister Linda, and myself. We have walked in s…

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Recollect Season 1 Episode 4 Reconciliation without Punishment: Radical Self-Love with Kim Arrington 31:18

2+ y ago31:18

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Kim Arrington and I are on a walk up the Couch Mountain Trail at Duke Forest. It’s Saturday, November 27th. There are a sea of fall leaves beneath our feet. She has fallen, gotten up, and hiked anyway, metaphor for what happens when we fall. We have invited our deceased fathers and their lessons on our hike. Our children and our mothers and other f…

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Recollect Season 1 Episode 3 The Grace in Silence & Pausing a Way to Black Women’s Knowing with Mignon Hooper 27:32

2+ y ago27:32

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Just in time for giving thanks. There is so much gratitude for this conversation. It is a Sunday, November 14th. The sun is shining Mignon Hooper and I are 2 Black 50 something year old women walking in the wood at the Eno River and she has spoken of pausing and I have responded. We talk about pausing and reconnecting with your wisdom so that the “…

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Recollect Season 1 Episode 2 A Family Secret Story and the Bad Ass Black Film Maker Leslie Cunningham Who Brings the Generational Healing 30:40

2+ y ago30:40

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In this episode, I’m with film maker Leslie Cunningham, sitting out on a warm 70-degree November day at Rufhiwa Book Café in Durham, NC. I say it’s November 21st in the episode when it’s November 11th and we say the name of the coffee shop ALL kinds of ways before we get it right. We talk about Black women’s abandonment, self-worth, Black family se…

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Recollect Season 1 Episode 1 Vegan Talk with Candace Parrish, PhD 43:38

2+ y ago43:38

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I'm here in conversation at Her Story Garden Studios where I am Director with Dr. Candace Parrish. It's a rainy day in November 2021 and we are having tea with picture windows that bring in the beauty of fall leaves and the monstrous green bamboo swaying in the windows. We are eating vegan corn curls and laughing our assess off about growing up Bla…

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How to write a war story, that's not 37:00

7y ago37:00

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Raised in a deeply religious family, Mercy rebels against all rules during his teenage years. He stops attending church and drops out of high school. To avoid a destined path of self-destruction, Mercy enlists in the Army. After two combat tours, Mercy returns home battling PTSD. Trying to forget about the lives that he has taken and resume a "norm…

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Tom Nix's 10 Life Key Concepts 35:00

7y ago35:00

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Tom Nix sold his check cashing business for an enormous amount of money, and now he's sharing his "lessons learned" through speaking engagements and writing. LIFE’S KEY CONCEPTS 1. We live in a cause-and-effect world in which we have immense personal power. The degree of personal power we can exercise in our life depends on how much we know about t…

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Dark Fantasy Author Andy Peloquin 32:00

7y ago32:00

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Andy Peloquin is a storyteller and an artist--words are his palette. Fantasy is his genre of choice, and he loves to explore the darker side of human nature through the filter of fantasy heroes, villains, and everything in between. Thief of the Night Guild is the sequel to Child of the Night Guild. It showcases how the woman Ilanna has to adapt and…

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Speculative Fiction Author William Michael Davidson 40:00

7y ago40:00

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William Michael Davidson lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife and two daughters. A believer that "good living produces good writing," Davidson writes early in the morning so he can get outside, exercise, spend time with people, and experience as much as possible. A writer of speculative fiction, he enjoys stories that deal with humanity's…

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Writing Fearlessly with William Kenower 41:00

7y ago41:00

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William Kenower is the author of Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write With Confidence, and Write Within Yourself: An Author’s Companion, the Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, and a sought-after speaker and teacher. In addition to his books he’s been published in The New York Times and Edible Seattle, and has been a featured blogger fo…

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Writing Historical Fantasy that Sells 36:00

7y ago36:00

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J.M. Robison is a fantasy historian who chronicles the events which force heroes to reveal their mistakes, lead rebellions to dethrone tyranny, and unearth ancient secrets to free the oppressed. She's quested over lands with the U.S. Army and now works for the king under the honorable title of Deputy Sheriff. She makes her own shampoo, lotions, lau…

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Launch Your Writer Platform 40:00

7y ago40:00

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Tonight's show welcomes back Tony Wilkins. He's the host of the ever-popular weekly Small Business Forum Radio show right here on Blog Talk. His book-turned-workshop series, The Career Whisperer, is available to anyone who wants to step up their selling game, transition and transform their speaking business, and others. We'll also talk about buildi…

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Coach Your Way to Authenticity 34:00

7y ago34:00

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Norma Hollis teaches self-awareness by helping you know yourself on a deep authentic level. She takes you on a journey inside of yourself to find, live and share your authentic voice, the essence of who you are. After studying human nature from personal, professional and spiritual perspectives for over 30 years, Norma has created a system that intr…

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Compassion-based Medicine in Today's Health Market 40:00

7y ago40:00

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Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine Not just another book about death and dying, Stay, Breathe with Me shows how to bring heart and compassion back into medicine to revive the art of care. From a pioneer in palliative care comes the gift of wisdom that when we remove false barriers and fully embrace the human side of illness, …

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Write Engaging YA Mystery Thrillers 29:00

7y ago29:00

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Sandie Will is a young adult novelist who lives in Tampa Bay, Florida and works as a manager and geologist by day. She has written two novels and is currently working on her third. Her debut novel, The Caging at Deadwater Manor, is a heart-pounding young adult psychological thriller. Her second is a historical time travel that will be released in l…

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The Bewitching Power of Entertainment & Other Ills 33:00

7+ y ago33:00

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Brian Paul Bach is a writer, artist, filmmaker and photographer; he has worked across the entertainment business, in theatre, music and as an academic. He now lives in central Washington State with his wife, Sandra. His previous works include, The Grand Trunk Road From the Front Seat, Calcutta’s Edifice: The Buildings of a Great City, and Busted Bo…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 10 35:00

7+ y ago35:00

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Joshua Robertson is a bestselling author in dark fantasy. Robertson is a Licensed Master Social Worker, who received his degree from Wichita State University. He has worked with children and families for the past fifteen years in a variety of unique venues: a residential behavior school, a psychiatric treatment facility, and the child welfare syste…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 10 40:00

7+ y ago40:00

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Suzanna J. Linton grew up in the swamps of the South Carolina Lowcountry, where she was fed a steady diet of books, tall tales, and catfish. She started writing poetry from an early age before transitioning to fiction. While in high school, she was introduced to the Dragonriders of Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The An…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 9 46:00

7+ y ago46:00

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Angela B. Chrysler is a writer, logician, philosopher, and die-hard nerd who studies theology, historical linguistics, music composition, and medieval European history in New York, with a dry sense of humor and an unusual sense of sarcasm. She lives in a garden with her family and cats. Every now and then Ms. Chrysler puts down the PS4 remote to ga…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 8 30:00

7+ y ago30:00

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Walk between the worlds of angels and devils, explore the deeper meaning of demons, and face the beauty of the monster in all of us with author Jay Norry. Stumbling Backasswards Into The Light is an uplifting autobiography, the tale of Jay's decision to question the answers he had been given and discover his own deeper meaning. Walking Between Worl…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 7 30:00

7+ y ago30:00

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Charlene Jones’ publications include: Medicine Buddha/Medicine Mind an easy to read exploration of the seam between Visualization Meditation and Neuroscience The Stain, a novel about Reincarnation, Karma and the Release from Suffering Bliss Pig A Book of Poetry Co-Authored with Linda Stitt Ms. Jones’ interview by Charmaine Carraway on her program h…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 6 27:00

7+ y ago27:00

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Connie Cockrell grew up in upstate NY, just outside of Gloversville, NY. She now lives in Payson, AZ with her husband: hiking, gardening, and playing bunko. Connie began writing in response to a challenge from her daughter in October 2011 and has been hooked ever since. She writes about whatever comes into her head so her books could be in any genr…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 5 30:00

7+ y ago30:00

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Logan Miehl loves writing from anywhere with a plugin for her laptop—ideally among her native Rocky Mountains, where she enjoys hiking and camping with her husband. Miehl's debut fantasy novella, An Unlikely Bride, is the tale of a fiery princess named Kalinda and the journey she takes to unearth her Kingdom's dark past. Follow Kalinda as she disco…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 4 30:00

7+ y ago30:00

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Timothy is originally from England, but now lives in Alaska with his wife, Sandi. The two of them met online, and are the writing team behind the Shadows Over Seattle series of short stories, and upcoming novels. "Under A Hunter's Moon" is the first in the "Shadows Over Seattle: Prequels" short story series. Richard Parsons is a lupine, one of the …

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 3 31:00

7+ y ago31:00

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A computer geek by day, Donald Firesmith works as a system and software engineer helping the US Government acquire large, complex software-intensive systems. In this guise, he has authored seven technical books, written numerous software- and system-related articles and papers, and spoken at more conferences than he can possibly remember. He is als…

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Living the Indie Author Life, Take 2 30:00

7+ y ago30:00

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From story dabbler in the 1980's, to published author as of July 2013, Angel M. is a multi-genre fictional author. To date, she has published The Keeper Book 1 and Underwater City Book 2 of an adventure/fantasy series and Pawper to Pedigree, a dog comedy. In between her day job, family, and writing, Angel M. uses her humor to help those wanting to …

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Living the Indie Author Life: Take 1 30:00

7+ y ago30:00

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Entering into the realm of novel writer late in life, Tom Fallwell, at an age of more than sixty years, jumped into that world with both feet. Having always had a fascination with fantasy world-building, even from early in his life, Tom wanted to create his own world filled with rich history and lore. His Rangers of Laerean series does just that, p…

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Writing Realistic Dark Fantasy 26:00

7+ y ago26:00

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Author Andy Peloquin explores the darker side of human nature through the filter of fantasy heroes, villains, and everything in between. He's also a freelance writer, a book lover, and a guy who just loves to meet new people. About Child of the Night Guild Viola, a child sold to pay her father's debts, has lost everything: her mother, her home, and…

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Living the Indie Author Life 16:00

7+ y ago16:00

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Back Porch Writer is a proud supporter of the annual Brain to Books Cyber Convention. From now until April 7, 2017, you'll meet exciting voices representing a variety of genres. Joy Nwosu was born in Enugu, Anambra State of south-eastern Nigeria. Her parents were Charles Belonwu and Deborah Nwosu. She is the fifth in rank of the seven children of h…

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How to Create a Captivating War Romance 30:00

7+ y ago30:00

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Monika Jephcott Thomas grew up in Dortmund Mengede, north-west Germany. She moved to the UK in 1966, enjoying a thirty year career in education before retraining as a therapist. Two young doctors form a profound and loving bond in Nazi Germany; a bond that will stretch them to the very limits of human endurance. Catholic Max - whose religious and m…

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Why Mental Heath Days Matter 15:00

7+ y ago15:00

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I'm declaring today "take a break from the rubbish" day. It's been years since I felt a need to take a mental health day, but after a disappointing, frustrating, and hatefilled election cycle, I know that I need one. How about you? Not one to wallow, I'm sharing what got me to this decision, and more importantly, what I'm doing about it!…

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Ups and Downs Authorpreneurship 25:00

7+ y ago25:00

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Born in London, Tony Halker studied geology at Leeds University after which he worked as a geologist, travelling extensively overseas. Following an MBA at Cranfield School of Management, he became a manager in hi-tec business. The introduction of new technology threatens to upend the way of life in a Celtic Druid society as conflicting loyalties pi…

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Choosing the Right Subgenre 28:00

8y ago28:00

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Author Ali Parker writes under five pen names, including this one, and has published 88 books in roughly 2 years. How? That's what we're all here to find out. She primarily writes romance, but does so in a few subgenres: western, scifi, and borderline erotic (from what I could figure out from covers and a little sample reading, but I could be wrong…

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Writing Cyberpunk That Sells 30:00

8y ago30:00

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Adam Dreece kicked off his indie author career with his best-selling steampunk meets fairy tale series, The Yellow Hoods, which struck a chord with kids 9-15 and adults. After four books in the series, the former software architect put out two more young adult books, the post-apocalyptic fantasy book The Wizard Killer – Season One, and then his sci…

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Why Procrastinating Makes You More Creative 31:00

8y ago31:00

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According to Adam Grant's book, Originals, procrastinating can lead to increased creativity. What? Yeah, you read that right. My guest today is Glen Perkins. He's a fellow author and appeared on the show a few times during my first year. A few weeks ago, he mentioned that he'd stopped writing for a bit. That led to a discussion about why writers se…

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How to Write Inspiring Children's Books 26:00

8y ago26:00

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Paulette loves books, wilderness and making ancient spiritual truths applicable to all ages in daily life, bringing all these together in her Datatraya series. Paulette had an unusual childhood, growing up in Cumbria and in Scotland. Born of rock climbing and mountaineering parents her every spare moment was spent outdoors. Dirty, often barefoot an…

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Award-Winning Thriller Author Tells All 25:00

8y ago25:00

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Trace Conger is an award-winning author in the crime, thriller and suspense genres. His Mr. Finn series follows disgraced private investigator Finn Harding as he straddles the fine line between investigator and criminal. Conger is known for his tight writing style, dark themes and subtle humor. He lives in Cincinnati with his wonderfully supportive…

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