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Boychik Lit
Sunday, September 07, 2008
With author Gerald Everett Jones
Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, actress-comedienne Georja Umano, and two Jack Russell Terrorists, Marcello and Zukie. His first book under the LaPuerta imprint was How to Lie with Charts, followed by the first novel in the Rollo Hemphill series: My Inflatable Friend, to which Rubber Babes is the sequel. He plans a third installment, Farnsworth’s Revenge: Rollo’s End.
Interviewee: Gerald Everett Jones
Host: Paula B.
Date: September 7, 2008
Running time: 01:06:49
File size: 32 megabytes
Rating: PG for sexy locker room talk
Gerald Everett Jones' Web site: Boychiklit.com
Short Story Beginnings
Sunday, August 17, 2008
With short story writers Melissa Palladino and Randall Brown
If you've ever wondered how to begin your short story, this show is for you!
Interviewees: Randall Brown and Melissa Palladino
Host: Paula B.
Date: August 17, 2008
Running time: 01:04:19
File size: 31 megabytes
Rating: A tiny bit of sex
Randall Brown's Web site: RandallDouglasBrown.blogspot.com
Melissa Palladino's Web site: MelissaCooksGourmet.blogspot.com
About Literary Magazines (and submitting work to them)
Sunday, August 10, 2008
With Vince Gotera, poetry editor of The North American Review
Vince Gotera is editor of the North American Review, the US's longest-lived literary magazine (founded 1815).
Interviewee: Vince Gotera
Host: Paula B.
Date: August 10, 2008
Running time: 50:19
File size: 24 megabytes
Rating: G
The North American Review Web site: North American Review
Writing When You're Visually Impaired
Sunday, August 03, 2008
With freelance writer/author Bruce Atchison
This week's guest reminds us that blind people write books too.
Bruce Atchison spent his formative years in the small Canadian city of Fort Saskatchewan. After being operated on for congenital cataracts, he was left with poor vision; later glaucoma set in as well.
Interviewee: Bruce Atchison
Host: Paula B.
Date: August 3, 2008
Running time: 46:33
File size: 22 megabytes
Rating: G
Contact Bruce at: batchison@mcsnet.ca
A Successful Freelancer Who Turned Himself into an Ad Agency
Sunday, July 27, 2008
With copywriter Ken Honeywell
This week's guest was a successful freelance writer earning six figures. He worked from home and took meetings in shorts. Why did he give all that up to start his own advertising agency?
Interviewee: Ken Honeywell
Host: Paula B.
Date: July 27, 2008
Running time: 43:20
File size: 21 megabytes
Rating: G
Ken Honeywell's Web site: WellDoneMarketing.com
Writing Plays
Sunday, July 20, 2008
With playwright and author Alretha Thomas
Alretha Thomas' plays have received rave reviews. In this high-energy interview, we focus on two of them: a comedy, Reddie Maid Wife, and a drama, Sacrificing Simone.
Interviewee: Alretha Thomas
Host: Paula B.
Date: July 20, 2008
Running time: 53:10
File size: 25 megabytes
Rating: G
Alretha's Web site: DaughterDenied.com
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