Andrea Carter Brown is the editor of The Washington Prize from The Word Works. She’s the author of several books of poetry, including The Disheveled Bed, Brook & Rainbow, and Domestic Karma. She’s won contests and her work has been recognized by The River Oak Review, Thin Air, and the Poetry Society of America, among others. Her latest book is called September 12. She’s a former resident of downtown Manhattan. On the morning of 9/11, she fled her apartment a block away from the World Trade Center amidst the destruction, not knowing if or when she would ever return.

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Scott Ryan is a multifaceted author, publisher, and television historian, as well as a pop culture and entertainment industry expert. With a portfolio that spans oral histories, behind-the-scenes stories and critical exploration of film and television, his latest book, The Last Decade of Cinema, explores movies from the nineties, offering an analysis of their impact on pop culture both at the time of their release and their lasting significance today.

We discuss everything from Moonlighting, Thirtysomething, Friends, Seinfeld, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, and the effects of streaming and the attention economy on the arts.

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For more than three decades, Clark has taught writing at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida, considered among the most prominent such teaching institutions in the world. He graduated from Providence College with a degree in English and earned his PhD from Stony Brook University.

We discuss the current and future employability of writers, as well as many of his seminal works, like Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. We talk about some of my favorite strategies from that book: cut big, then small, fear not the long sentence, vary paragraph length, and order words for emphasis. We also discuss his forthcoming book about writing college essays.

Writers don't want to miss this one! 

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Doug brings a lend of scholarly research and good old-fashioned storytelling to his writing. He believes in immersive investigation, which has led him to lay inside the grave of a murder victim to envision the carnage that befell them moments before death. He’s scoured remote corners of Death Valley and uncovered key clues that authorities ignored in a missing persons case. And he’s stood alongside Mexican migrant refugee children to understand the peril they face in squalid encampments.

Enjoy this discussion about true crime journalism and its seemingly endless public interest and popularity.

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Dr. Paul D Corona is a Southern California-based physician who is reshaping the future of psychiatry and family medicine. With over 30 years of medical experience, Dr. Corona is not your typical physician. Starting his career in family medicine, he seamlessly transitioned into psychiatry, ultimately pioneering an approach he calls "Mind and Body Healing."  

He’s authored three books in his “My Mind & Body Healing” series. And in his latest book The Corona Protocol, he unlocks revolutionary insights into the treatment of mental health, challenging conventional methods that have been stagnant for decades. 

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Enjoy my wife and I discussing candidly about our marriage and the institution in general. We talk about communication, conflict resolution, sex, finances, religious differences, age differences, and some stuff Jordan Peterson says. No, we're not his groupies. But we did attend his We Who Wrestle With God book tour in Nashville recently, so he's been in our conversations. 

We also talk about our good friend, Melissa Llarena. Here's a link to her awesome podcast Unimaginable Wellness.

We end our discussion with a couple of articles about marriage from Harvard and Fortune.

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In this episode, we discuss everything from creative funding and side hustles to directing and screenwriting. We also talk about his past and forthcoming projects, as well as his thoughts on theatrical releases vs streaming. 

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We also talk about her book Stolen Truth as well as the books she's currently working on.

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Jack is an experienced, multi-award-winning Audio Fiction Writer, Director and Producer with sixteen years of experience across the disciplines of Audio Fiction and Scripted Podcast Production. He also has extensive experience in theatre direction and venue management.

Enjoy this conversation about the art and business of audio drama, the use and threat of AI, acting, directing, casting, and much more. 

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Jonathan Nation discusses short-term negotiation, the value of not quitting the game, and supporting independent game developers. 

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Here are the articles I reference:

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If you find yourself in Shirley, NY, and want to join one of Caesar's awesome gladiator bootcamps, or perhaps try out a class, Caesar can be reached for a consultation at 631-896-3016.

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Goduar sells medicinal herbs and has a shop in Port Jefferson, New York. Be sure to check out his links below. My wife and I have bought plenty of herbs from him. They work wonders!

I hope you enjoyed this series about Goduar Siafu sharing some difficult moments that helped shape him into the person he is today. 

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Goduar sells medicinal herbs and has a shop in Port Jefferson, New York. Be sure to check out his links below. My wife and I have bought plenty of herbs from him. They work wonders!

I hope you enjoy this episode and feel inspired by Goduar's life, as he shares some difficult moments that helped shape him into the person he is today. 

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Goduar sells medicinal herbs and has a shop in Port Jefferson, New York. Be sure to check out his links below. My wife and I have bought plenty of herbs from him. They work wonders!

I hope you enjoy this episode and feel inspired by Goduar's life, as he shares some difficult moments that helped shape him into the person he is today. 

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Daniel is a life coach who inspires leaders to Profitable Living by embodying the C.R.E.A.T.O.R. framework.

He’s helped hundreds of small business owners create millions of dollars, and enjoy their kids while they receive it.

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Back in Season 5 (I’ve since done away with seasons, by the way), I had Eva Sandor on, talking about her new book at the time, Fool’s Proof. She’s since released two more installments in the series. Find out what Eva's been up to in this episode.

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Ruby Peru ghostwrites memoirs with an easy-going, novel-like style with just the right amount of humor.  

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Natalia’s research explores the intertwined histories of race, place, gender, culture, and citizenship. She is the author of the award-winning books, How Race Is Made in America:  Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts and Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940. Her most recent book is A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community. 

In addition to publishing widely in scholarly journals, she has also written for the LA Times, Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, and more. She is also a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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Born in Nashville, Emily Newman is a local painter here in Middle Tennessee, where I’m now located. I met her at a weekly farmer’s market in Franklin a few months back. Her original oil paintings consist of colorful landscapes, portraits, trees, flowers and blooms, abstract places and animals.

Emily discusses her inspiration and desire to stay true to herself and not compromise her integrity as an artist.

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Jennifer Hannaford was a forensic scientist for twenty-five years, and is now a contemporary artist. Her underwater series demonstrates a fantastically refreshing new talent – marrying superb technical drawing and painting skills, with her profound understanding of the human form. 

​In an effort to get in touch with her innate artistic side, Jennifer began her art career with a series of mug shots created entirely with her own finger prints. She recently expanded her subject matter and style to include the underwater series. 

As a forensic scientist, Hannaford experienced some of the harsher realities of human nature.  Her art allows her to explore beautiful moments of the living experience frozen in time on canvas; life, ascension, and balance. Using sensibilities that were born out of her professional training in forensic science, she understands how the body feels and reacts underwater. When we look at her representational work – we can easily relate it to our own life experiences.

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Lisha Lercari is from New York City. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Theory and a master’s degree in Music Education from the Manhattan School of Music. She also studied music in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a French music teacher and conductor who taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century.

Lercari taught music for more than 30 years and for a majority of those years lead her non-profit Music and the Brain (MATB for short). This is a public school program inspired by neurological research linking music and cognitive development. MATB is the experience of what studies are telling us; when children receive sequential music instruction, it can impact their proficiency in language, reading, math and cognition. Nearly 300 schools across the world use the easy-to-teach curriculum to help children and adults understand and appreciate the language of music as well as read music and play the piano.

Here is a Ted Talk she gave a few years back posted on YouTube called How Music Empowers the Brain.

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I’ve known Mundaka for well over two decades. He has always been someone I’ve not only looked up to, but have been fascinated and surprised by. He never ceases to amaze.

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Shawn is not only a comedian, but also an author, podcaster, runs a theater festival, and is part of a collective you can hire to do gratitude calls, where they call your loved ones to let them know what a great job they did raising you.

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A former porn addict, himself, Carl Thomas has been helping others find freedom from porn addiction for over ten years. In 2019, he launched Live Free Ministries and created the Live Free Community App to provide a safe and supportive community for men who hunger for real freedom. He is also the author of When Shame Gets Real.

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Jay Shifman interviews people on the topics of mental health, substance misuse and recovery, and drug use and policy to help the stigma and normalize difficult conversations through empathy and vulnerability. Each year, over 125,000 Americans die from overdose and suicide combined. Jay Shifman survived two suicide attempts, himself, as well as an overdose. And now he works passionately to help others. 

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Wendy Goeldner Hermes began her acting career in 1988, after spending 4 years at DePaul University's Goodman School of Drama. After 3 years of soul-crushing auditions, for unscrupulous casting directors decades before the #MeToo movement, Wendy realized she loved the craft of acting but hated the business. Upon leaving "the business of show," she started a theater company with 8 other friends and fellow Chicago actors and directors called "The Griffin Theater." Wendy performed, ran lights, punched sound boards, and hung drywall.

After being transfixed about the inner workings of local politics, while trying to help run a theater space, Wendy shifted her focus to politics by using her public speaking savvy to navigate local, political campaigns from such various, local offices as school board, Illinois State Reps, U.S. Reps and super pacs. 

During the 22 months of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, Wendy has been taking copious notes, recording data, watching task force meetings and "saving the receipts" on the changing tone of our politics. Look out for Wendy's new book For Those That Want It: My story on how Covid policies, protocols, promises & propaganda propelled me to join the Democrat Diaspora, coming to Amazon this winter!

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Deborah Ghedini has written several books including: Twilight Tales, The House of Grant, and The Devil’s Conference. She’s been on the show before back in Season 4. And she’s here with us today to talk about her latest book: Glass Vases: A Spiritual Perspective on Addiction.

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Lily Iona MacKenzie has published reviews, interviews, short fiction, poetry, travel pieces, essays, and memoir in over 165 American and Canadian venues. She’s also taught rhetoric at the University of San Francisco for over 30 years and was vice-president of USF's part-time faculty union. Currently, she teaches creative writing at USF’s Fromm Institute of Lifelong Learning. She also blogs about reading and writing at https://lilyionamackenzie.com.

Her novels feature sexy, adventuresome, and inspirational women and men—some of them over 60—breaking boundaries.

She has two works of poetry published, which are All This and a chapbook called No More Kings.

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Spencer Steeves is a Connecticut-based author of high fantasy novels and short stories. His large-scale projects began with his duty as Lorekeeper for his Dungeons & Dragons group. In his first year of college, Spencer decided to tackle a full novel, which eventually became his first book Everything Under The Sun. He’s already on to Book 2 of the Astral Kingdoms series. 

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Originally from New York, Michael Lambert Jr. is an L.A.-based filmmaker. Enjoy this conversation as Michael talks about his road to recovery from a car accident that caused him to need a hip replacement, numerous arm surgeries and the amputation of his right leg. Michael discusses relationships, creativity, as well as the physical and emotional challenges he has faced and currently deals with.

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J.L. Torres was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico, a town in the center of the island, and grew up in the South Bronx. After his formal education he returned to the island to find material for his writing. He now lives in New York and has recently retired as Professor Emeritus of SUNY Plattsburgh.

His books focus on the Puerto Rican "diasporica": living in in-betweeness. He explores what it means to live a life yearning for belonging when your nation and home are empty concepts, and you have no historical memory of what they ever meant. His latest book Migrations features a cast of characters estranged from their loved ones, family, culture, and collective history. It is the inaugural winner of the Tomas Rivera Prize from the L.A. Review of Books. 

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Today's conversation is with California-based fantasy author Joshua Moore. In addition to writing, Joshua Moore also runs a cross platform production company called Inside Joke. We discuss his new book Veil Rising and the famous role playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

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Today's conversation is with business owner/entrepreneur/frequent keynote speaker Trey Taylor.

Trey Taylor is the CEO of Taylor Insurance Services, Managing Director of Trinity/Blue Consulting and Founding Partner of Ascend Partners. He is the author of A CEO Only Does 3 Things. He is a wealth of both history and business knowledge.

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Today's episode is with artist and writer of comics Steven Harper. Steven is a world-traveler, comic book and graphic novel author and illustrator, jazz musician and public school art teacher for the last 17 years. To top it off, he's got a mean mustache!

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Very excited about the awesome conversation I had with Eric Rogell. 

Eric Rogell has helped thousands of people and businesses all over the world to take bold action and create unbreakable mindsets and focus, build unstoppable teams, and forge unshakable leadership. He is an author and a speaker, founder of the Boldmen Brotherhood and host of the podcast Eric Rogell talks with Warriors, Lovers, Kings and Heroes.

He’s been featured on a variety of networks and magazines from NBC to Men’s Fitness to NPR.

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Today's guest is none other than my uncle, Armando Ghedini.

Armando has written several books, two of which may possibly be developed into a film and a series. Though his work reads like a novel, the books are all based on real people and events from his life. He's lived in eight different countries, started and sold companies, knows what it is to gain wealth and lose it. In this interview, Armando discusses the process of turning memories into memoir, what it was like growing up with artist parents and the source of his ambition.  

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Joining me today as co-host is my wife and Story Queen, Jennifer Ghedini. We discuss the question: What the Hell is Romance Anyway? We talk about Hollywood's notion of romance, Western and Eastern ideas of marriage, the ins and outs of a longterm relationship and the Before Sunrise trilogy. ***Please Note*** The name of the main actress in those movies is Julie Delpy, not Juliette Binoche. 

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Today's episode is a great conversation I had with Goduar Siafu about Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. We do go quite into depth about this book, so if you haven't read it, but always wanted to, you might want to do that before listening. If you've read it before, you just might want to reread it after this episode. 

Goduar is a business man. He owns a store called Healing Nature in Port Jefferson, NY, where he provides healing alkaline herbs from all over the world. You can visit this store and learn how to heal your body naturally with medicinal plants that have been on this earth for thousands of years. But after one conversation with him, you will realize he is a lot more than a store owner. He’s a man full of wisdom and insights on many aspects of life, both physical and spiritual.

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Today's guest is 13-year-old author and podcaster from San Francisco, California Anika Goyal! Joining me today as co-host is my lovely wife, Jennifer, who is an elementary school teacher and finds Anika's drive as well as her ability and willingness to see and seize opportunities very inspiring. I know you'll enjoy this conversation as much as we did.

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I couldn't think of anything more appropriate than to kick off the seventh season during Halloween week with international bestselling horror author and screenwriter Michaelbrent Collings!

Collings wrote the screenplays for Barricade and Darkroom. He has also written bestselling thriller, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, humor, young adult, and middle grade works, even Western Romance.

Michaelbrent is the only person who has ever been a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award, a Dragon Award, a RONE Award, and a Whitney award. He’s a frequent guest on comic cons and writing podcasts, and now he’s here with us today! I know you'll enjoy this awesome discussion about everything from the psychology of horror and why horror writers are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet to the benefits and hardships of indie publishing.

Show some love! Follow and Support Michaelbrent Collings:

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https://www.facebook.com/MichaelbrentCollings/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelbrent_Collings 

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Even cooler, you can text the word "books" to 66866 to get on his email list and receive some free books!

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Very excited about this interview. This is the last episode of Season 6. We will return Halloween week. Today's discussion is with bestselling author Tommy Breedlove!

Tommy Breedlove is a regular featured keynote speaker at global events. He started his 20-year corporate career at one of the largest financial consulting firms in the world. And then right at the top of his career, Tommy experienced a transformational moment that inspired him to walk away from the corporate world to change his life and follow his true calling.

Follow and support Tommy Breedlove:

https://tommybreedlove.com 

https://www.facebook.com/tommybreedlovelegendary 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tommy-breedlove/ 

https://www.instagram.com/tommybreedlove/ 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/legendary-tommy-breedlove/1134209640 

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Today's conversation is with England's very own, independent filmmaker George Atkinson!

George Atkinson wrote his first scripts as a child, and by the age of eight, his scripts were being performed at a small local theatre. By 16, the Pyramid Arts Centre in the northwest of England’s Warrington, had invited him to premier his first short film. He founded Effortless Pictures in his 20s.

Follow and Support George Atkinson:

https://www.facebook.com/EffortlessPictures/ 

https://effortless-pictures.squarespace.com/blog 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMz0tE1qg5SwmrAF3Cshe0A 

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Today's conversation is with author J. Lynn Ady!

J. Lynn Ady is a Canadian author. Her first book The Pink Blanket is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, Google and Apple Books. We discuss fictionalizing your own trauma, writing a series and self-publishing, among other topics.

Follow and support J. Lynn Ady:

http://www.jlynnady.com

https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Blanket-J-Lynn-Ady-ebook/dp/B084BMTRGL/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3M6V083CSXY7&dchild=1&keywords=the+pink+blanket+j+lynn+ady&qid=1621701586&sprefix=the+pink+blanket%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-2

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Today's conversation is with Ian Mark!

Ian Mark is an award-winning director, actor, producer and writer. With a degree from NYU and a book published by Simon & Schuster, Mark runs Pasadonuts LLC, where he hosts and directs weekly live-streamed improv shows. Today, we’re going to discuss both his book and film projects.

You can follow Ian Mark, buy his books, check out his improv work or listen to his podcast at the links below:

https://amoreperfectunion.wixsite.com/websitehttps://www.instagram.com/amoreperfectunionfilm/

https://i603122.wixsite.com/ianmark

https://twitter.com/TheRealIanMark

https://www.instagram.com/therealianmark/

https://www.facebook.com/therealIanMark

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoned-studies/id1578759144

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1iyRMgs-tQgIHwlc23DePw

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Today's conversation is with children's author Javenna Bellinger!

Javenna Bellinger is the author of the Learn Something Book Series. She has written 24 educational and inspirational children’s books. Javenna speaks about her upbringing, her experience in education and social work, parenting, and inspiring children to reach their full potential.

Follow and support Javenna Bellinger:

https://www.learnsomethingbooks.com

https://www.instagram.com/learn_something_book_series/

Contact: learnsomethingbooks@gmail.com

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Today's conversation about magical realism is with filmmaker Desiree Abeyta.

Desirée is a Telly Award winning filmmaker and creative, known for exploring social and feminist themes through a magical/hopeful lens. She’s a graduate of the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts, She has a BA in Theater Performance from UNLV’s Nevada Conservatory Theatre Program. She starred across from Billy Baldwin and Denise Richards in the film “Christmas Trade” before transitioning from in front of the camera to behind. She’s worked in multiple aspects of the production world.

Desiree has produced and coordinated for a variety of media such as: promotional content for large brands like Google, Macy’s and Pepsi, music videos and events for notable artists such as Beyoncé and Post Malone. She’s an editor, a writer and a director. We’re going to talk about her first film, An Invitation to Tea.

Follow Desiree:

https://desireeabeyta.com 

https://www.instagram.com/gofordesiree/ 

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With a repertoire that includes over 100 “celebrity” impressions - along with an endless variety of cartoon, character, dialect and narrator voices – Joel Gibbs’ award-winning work has been heard in more than 40,000 projects worldwide including broadcast, digital audio, corporate & educational narration, medical & compliance tutorials, audio-books, IVR prompts, animation, e-Learning, on-hold messaging, movie trailers, video games, podcasts, political ads, ringtones and countless other applications for agencies, studios, websites, stations, advertisers and companies everywhere... including thousands of radio & TV commercials that have aired over the decades for virtually every imaginable retail and service category.

He’s provided tons of voiceovers for big companies like Toyota, Hershey’s, Netflix, and many more, I’m very excited about today’s conversation.

You can follow Joel and reach out to him on his website:

https://www.voicesbyjoel.com 

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Today's episode is with Police Officer Rashod Coleman. Rashod started his career in Law Enforcement with the Philadelphia Police Department in 2014. He’s recently written a memoir called Fatherless Son, about how the justice system tore his family apart and brought them back together. Rashod has a powerful story about how when he was just three years old, his father was sentenced to two life sentences for heinous crimes he did not even commit. 

Support Rashod and get a copy of his book here: 

https://www.authorrashod.com 

https://www.facebook.com/Author-Rashod-Coleman-Support-Group-for-People-of-Incarcerated-Parents-100269121673296/ 

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Today's conversation is with the Blind Blogger Maxwell Ivey!

Maxwell Ivey is an author and podcast host, as well as an inspirational and motivational personal coach, who also runs a business buying and selling carnival equipment and amusement park rides. He helps clients build their personal brands through a comprehensive podcast guesting strategy. 

Support and follow Maxwell:

https://theblindblogger.net

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-whats-your-excuse-show/id1473384516

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Today's interview is with award-winning Brazilian author and corporate lawyer Adriana Gavazzoni! Enjoy Adriana's candid spirit as she talks about creating characters based on people she doesn't like in real life, just so she can kill them off in her fiction. She discusses following your passion in life and how she balances her lawyer and creative sides.

Follow, Support and Purchase Adriana's books!

http://www.agavazzoni.com 

https://www.facebook.com/authoragavazzoni/ 

https://twitter.com/a_gavazzoni 

https://www.instagram.com/a_gavazzoni/ 

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/A-Gavazzoni/e/B01IAEII24/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1 

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Today's conversation and final episode for the season is with the young and talented actor/writer/filmmaker David Chamberlain. He’s a recent university graduate with a degree in theatre and he’s host of the podcast  From My Mom’s Basement where he reads his own short stories. Enjoy this discussion about finding acting work, improving your writing, making films and the value (or not) of higher education in the arts.

Follow David Chamberlain:

https://www.davidchamberlain.org

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-my-moms-basement/id1480133539?uo=4

https://www.davidchamberlain.org/my-films

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Ashley Fontes is an author and kids yoga instructor. She has her own podcast and tons of resources on her site https://www.readandyoga.com

I encourage you all to check that out.

In today's episode, Ashley talks about her battle with postpartum depression and the value of doing yoga with children, as well as her overall philosophical approach to yoga.

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Today's interview is with Children and Young Adult author, Judy Laufer! 

Judy Laufer is the author of 7 books, including books for children, and 2 award-winning young adult true stories: Hidden Pearl and Choices. She is the child of holocaust survivors. I really think you will enjoy today’s episode, as we discuss what it was like for Judy's family to escape Nazi Germany as well as her passion for creating a better world through children's literature. 

https://littleeggpublishing.com

https://littleeggpublishing.com/product-category/adult-books/

https://www.instagram.com/littleeggpublishing/ 

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Today's conversation is with filmmaker Gino Payne.

Gino Payne started his film career working in commercial and promotional advertisement. His first projects were in the music video business. Then in 2010, he directed his first feature film, We Was HomeBoyz, starring Pastor Troy and Sean Low.

Gino has worked on projects such as HBO's Hard Knocks, Walking Dead, and even Game of Thrones. He’s been all over the world and currently directs and produces full time for his company 360Films.

Follow Gino Payne:

https://www.instagram.com/sir_gino/ 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5204072/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4 

https://360films.us 

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Today's conversation is with father, husband, veteran paratrooper, marketer and writer Gary Phipps.

You can follow Gary on social media @garybear86 and check out his writings at:

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Today's conversation is with author of Secrets in the Shadows, Heige Boehm.

Heige's writing is influenced by the stories of her parents who grew up in Nazi Germany, and who at the end of the war found themselves in East Germany. They escaped with their first two children to West Berlin in 1961, where Heige was born in 1964.

She spent 10 years researching and writing Secrets in the Shadows.

Follow her online and remember to order a copy of her book.

https://www.heigeboehm.ca

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Shadows-Heige-S-Boehm/dp/1553805720/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=heige+boehm&qid=1612943209&sr=8-1

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Today's conversation is with author, illustrator and copywriter, Eva Sandor! She recently published Fool’s Proof, a comic fantasy novel that the BookLife Prize called “A cleverly plotted, twisty novel with a gratifying conclusion."

In the interview, she discusses everything from copywriting, illustration and self-publishing to storytelling and marketing.

I encourage all of my listeners to grab a copy of Eva Sandor's new book and follow her online.

https://www.evasandor.com

https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Proof-Eva-Sandor/dp/1735067903 

https://buy.bookfunnel.com/v6psjoturl

https://twitter.com/evasandor

https://www.facebook.com/eva.sandor.author

https://www.instagram.com/evasandor_books/

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Today's conversation is with public speech coach and communication expert Brenden Kumarasamy. Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a Youtube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He helps purpose driven entrepreneurs communicate their ideas to the world.

Be sure to follow Brenden for tons of great tips to help you become a better public speaker and communicator. 

https://www.facebook.com/mastertalkyt

https://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalks/videos

https://www.instagram.com/masteryourtalk/

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Today's discussion is about monetizing your art with career coach Melissa Llarena.

Melissa Llarena is the host of An Interview With Melissa Llarena, a podcast featuring weekly interviews with creative down-to-Earth experts (including Gary Vaynerchuk, James Altucher, and many other professionals at the top of their game, who openly reveal their tough career decisions, and whose stories will ignite a fire in your belly to help you build YOUR own out-of-the-box career. 

Meanwhile, as the Founder and CEO of Career Outcomes Matter, Melissa also career coaches marketers (with a special place in her heart for those who love writing) on how to sell their potential in a forward-thinking company where their fresh ideas are listened to, valued, and supported. Her expertise is in helping clients who have ambitious dreams and want to break into new sectors. She brings insights from having worked in 16-business units in NY, Paris, London, and Sydney. Additionally, in her former corporate career, she worked on billion-dollar brands for P&G, JPMorgan Chase, and on IBM for Ogilvy & Mather. She's been featured in Forbes, Financial Times, WSJ, The Huffington Post, Fox Business, and others. She studied Psychology at NYU and earned her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She currently lives with her husband and three sons in Sydney, Australia.  

Melissa has created a special page with some awesome free resources for The Story King listeners. Check it out here: https://www.melissallarena.com/storyking

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He is the author of The Mosaic, a life changing fable that invites people to listen to those who others do not hear and to see the situations in their life differently.

I encourage all my listeners to buy Daniel's book, listen to his podcast and follow him online. Maybe we'll all see a little better if we do so.

Here are his links:

https://themosaiconline.com

https://themosaiconline.com/conversations/

https://themosaiconline.com/shop/

https://themosaiconline.com/podcast/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947637452/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_CcIABbA8DJB44

http://danielbrucelevin.com

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I interviewed Deborah earlier in the season, but today she is interviewing me. Learn a little bit about my background and what makes me tick as a writer.

I encourage everyone to check out Deborah's Amazon page and buy one of her books:

https://www.amazon.com/D-Ghedini/e/B07769B5KG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1 

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

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Justen Renyer is the Associate Professor of Graphic Design as well as the Graphic Design BFA Program Coordinator. He teaches many facets of Graphic Design but specializes in developing as well as teaching the Motion Design curriculum for over 13 years at Oklahoma State University.

Graduates of this program are working at some of the best studios in the country. Their works have earned numerous regional, national, and international awards, including an Adobe Top Talent award, multiple best in shows at the National Student Show and Conference put on annually by the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, where Justen Renyer was a two-time recipient of the prestigious Golden Apple award for best educator.

You can follow Justen Renyer on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justenrenyer/ 

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

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Glenn McBride Jr. is a director, actor, and writer based in Long Island, NY. He recently won Best Acting Award for the 2019  72-Hour Long Island Film Festival. He will be featured in the upcoming film comedies, Stir it up Crazy and Good Friday. And he’ll be playing the role of Dippy Lovesnatch in the comedy series Guinea Pigs.

He’ll be working behind the camera in the upcoming production of Another Wild Christmas Adventure.

And he’s also created and will be releasing a comedy web series called Supply and Demand.

Follow Glenn McBride Jr. at:

https://www.instagram.com/dirglennjrfilms/ 

https://www.facebook.com/DirGlennMcBrideJr 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9344034/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

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Tom Rizzuto is an educator. He has a masters in musicology and currently working towards a doctorate. He’s been an arts and culture blogger. He’s had nonfiction pieces featured in History Magazine and Discover Magazine. He’s written plays that have been produced and film shorts that have featured at film festivals.

You can follow Tom Rizzuto at: https://twitter.com/TomRizzuto 

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

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As writers, we all know how important the setting of the story is. After all, every story has to take place somewhere. And that somewhere matters. The same scene shot in different places will end up being different scenes at the end of the day. Most of us are familiar with the idea of location scouts in the film industry. These mysterious individuals who hunt for good locations to shoot scenes. But I’m not sure many of us are familiar with the actual day-to-day job of it. I wanted to get an insider’s take on it. So here is my conversation with Malaika Johnson.

You can follow Malaika Johnson here:

https://www.instagram.com/mikajohn78/ 

https://twitter.com/mikajohn78 

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

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Now if my listeners recall, I read a couple of short stories by Deborah Ghedini in episode 9 of the first season. You'll learn a lot more about Deborah in today's interview. I encourage everyone to check out Deborah's Amazon page and buy one of her books:

https://www.amazon.com/D-Ghedini/e/B07769B5KG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1 

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

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Today we have a conversation with lead singer from the band Diolosa and the Boys. Joshua Diolosa is a singer/songwriter and musician, but he’s also an actor and writer and currently working on a screenplay. So I thought he’d be the perfect guest to sort of walk us through how you tell a story through song, as he’s able to directly compare it to other forms of writing.

If you want to contact Joshua or learn more about his work, you can follow the links below:

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

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Welcome to another season of The Story King Podcast! This season will be mostly comprised of interviews. In store for you, I have conversations with fellow writers, people in the film industry, a songwriter and actor, professors and more. 

But we kick off the season with a conversation about character development with my 6-year-old son Christopher. You'll hear from his two older brothers in the last episode of the season. 

As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on the show or if you're a writer and would like to be interviewed for the podcast, you can email me at storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and what kind of writing you do.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

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Hi everyone, this episode completes Season 3. I hope you enjoyed going through some of the fairytales of the great Hans Christian Andersen

As always, if you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

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Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZ6gYOR9IGaaY3dmAtN_nQ 

https://twitter.com/TheStoryKingPod 

https://www.facebook.com/storykingpodcast 

https://www.instagram.com/storyking.podcast/

And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZ6gYOR9IGaaY3dmAtN_nQ 

https://twitter.com/TheStoryKingPod 

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZ6gYOR9IGaaY3dmAtN_nQ 

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do.

Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often put a disclaimer at the front of any show I think has content that might not be suitable for kids under twelve. But you parents don’t have to worry about that for Season 3. Every episode for this season will be completely appropriate for kids of any age.

So I’ll be posting an episode every day for twenty days.

And I am excited because we're going through some works of the very famous Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen.

If you’ve never heard of Hans Christian Andersen, you’re probably familiar with some movies that are based on stories he wrote. The most recent one would be Frozen, which was based off his story “The Snow Queen.”

He also wrote a fairytale called “The Little Mermaid,” which I’m sure you’re all familiar with as well.

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark and lived from 1805 to 1875. He was good friends with another famous writer of his time by the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote many things, but he’s most famous and remembered for his fairytales.

I hope you enjoy the show!

If you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com. Just include your name and where you’re from and which prompt your story is based off of.

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

Follow us:

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And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Stay healthy and safe. Please join us tomorrow. Until then...

So what I decided to do for this last episode of Season 2 is dig through my little notebook of story ideas. Find three of them and use them as writing prompts to write three different stories, in the same way I did on the two episodes I had my sons on.

I put myself on a ten-minute timer for each prompt, but honestly, just like the snooze button in the morning, I had to press that re-start button a few times. So each story took roughly an hour to write. Not bad. But I don’t want to give any false impressions of my abilities.

At some point, hopefully next year, I plan on compiling all these quick writing prompt stories into a collection I’ll be marketing towards children, ages 8-13 I think. I say that just so you know these tales aren’t meant to be “serious literary fiction.” They’re short, they’re silly, often parabolic, sometimes not, but hopefully always entertaining.

And as always, if you, yourself, have written a story you’d like me to read on the show, or if you have a writing prompt for me to write a story, please email: storykingpodcast@gmail.com. If I like it, I just might use it. Try to keep your story between 1-3 thousand words. Again, that’s storykingpodcast@gmail.com.

And if you’d like to be a part of what we’re doing on The Story King, please consider becoming a patron. You can visit my page at www.patreon.com/thestorykingThe link will be in the show notes.

If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s a very practical and tangible way to support your favorite content creators, so they have the resources they need to continue producing more great content.

I have three monthly subscription tiers you can choose from on Patreon. A $5, $10, and $20 option.

Any of those will give you immediate access to exclusive content and more.

So please consider becoming a Story King patron. You can check out the details of those subscription tiers on my page: Patreon.com/thestoryking  

Please follow us on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King podcast, where great stories are read, discussed and given their due honor. Please join us next time, until then…

So today is the first installment of writing advice for the podcast. I’m calling these episodes Story King Tips. And the first topic we’re dealing with will be methods for writing longer stories. I’ll be going over three in particular: Interweaving storylines, multiple perspectives and then we’ll talk a little bit about the use of flashbacks.

But why talk about any of this in the first place? Perhaps, you’re already a novelist and you don’t struggle with writing long-form fiction. In which case, this episode may not be for you.  But if you’re like me, you might need some help.

I’m primarily a short story and novella writer. I can write up 20,000 words comfortably, but beyond that, it starts falling apart for me. I can’t keep the story together. I get bored with it.

And I hate fluff. I want my stories to have the least amount of erroneous information. I don’t want needless scenes. And generally, I’m always able to tell my stories in a relatively short time span. For me, five thousand words is already too long for a short story. I write them sometimes, but I usually feel like I’ve done something wrong. Like I’m being long-winded or something.

I’m much more comfortable keeping my fiction short.

So writing a full-fledged novel has been a dream, but a challenge for me.  

So I’ve been thinking about different ways of writing longer stories based on things I’ve read and movies I’ve seen. So we’re going to discuss them today.

Enjoy the show!

If you've written a story you’d like me to read on the show, or if you have a writing prompt for me to write a ten-minute story, please email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com.

And if you’d like to be a part of what we’re doing on The Story King, please consider becoming a patron. You can visit my page at www.patreon.com/thestoryking

If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s a very practical and tangible way to support your favorite content creators, so they have the resources they need to continue producing more great content.

I have three monthly subscription tiers you can choose from on Patreon. A $5, $10, and $20 option. All include receiving exclusive content. So be sure to check those out. Again that’s at www.Patreon.com/thestoryking  

Please follow us on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

And if you enjoy the show, please subscribe and write a positive review on iTunes or the medium of your choice for me. I’d greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you for listening to The Story King podcast, where great stories are read, discussed and given their due honor. Please join us next time, until then…

Today is the last installment of our three-part series of The Grimm's Fairy Tales!

The two stories we’re reading today are “Tom Thumb” and “Rumpelstiltskin.”

If you've written a short story and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, or if you have a writing prompt for me to write a story, please email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com 

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Today we dive into the second of our three-part series of The Grimm's Fairy Tales!

As I mentioned last time, The Grimm’s Fairy Tales are some of the most famous stories in the world. First published in Germany in 1812 and written by two brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, and the original title for the work was “Children’s and Household Tales.”

The two stories we’re reading from the collection today are “Hansel and Gretel” and then “Rapunzel.”

I decided to keep the age disclaimer in the front of this episode, because these fairy tales can sometimes be a bit more brutal to hear and read than the cartoon versions we might’ve seen. My five-year-old was fine with it, but that’s an individual parental decision. Some kids might be more sensitive than others, so I always want to make sure I give fair warning, and then the parent can decide for themselves. And just as a side note, I personally enjoy these stories as an adult and find them fascinating and important to the world’s canon of literature, so I don’t look at them as simply old children’s stories, but rather tales to be read and studied by readers and writers alike.

If you've written a short story and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, or if you have a writing prompt for me to write a story, please email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com 

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Today we take a break from our Grimm Fairy Tales series to review the nominations for this year's 92nd Academy Awards, which will air next Sunday, February 9, at 8 PM EST.

I went ahead and watched every single film we’re going to talk about today with the exception of Pain and Glory with Antonio Banderas, so my thoughts on Best Actor will not reflect his performance, because I didn’t see it.

But what I’m going to do is tell you what I think of each film, and then let you know which movie I think should win, and which one I think will actually win.

There will be some spoilers, but not too many. I’m not breaking any of these films down scene by scene or doing any kind of critical analysis. That said, there will be some spoilers here and there. Nothing major. I’ll keep it light.

And as always, if you've written a short story and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, or if you have a writing prompt for me to write a story, please email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com 

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

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Thank you for listening to The Story King Podcast where great stories are read, discussed, and given their due honor. Please join us next time. Until then...

Today we dive into the first of our three-part series of The Grimm's Fairy Tales!

The Grimm’s Fairy Tales are some of the most famous stories in the world. They were first published in Germany in 1812. They were written by two brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, and the original title for the work was “Children’s and Household Tales.”

The first story we’re reading today is “Little Red Riding Hood,” also known as “Little Red Cap,” (doesn’t have the same ring to it, I know), and the second is “Snow-White and Rose Red.” Now just a disclaimer, this is not the same Snow White story that Disney based their movie from. That one is also a Grimm’s tale, but this one’s different. So if you’re wondering why there’s no queen or seven dwarfs, that would be why.

If you've written a short story and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, or if you have a writing prompt for me to write a story, please email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com 

Support The Story King Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/thestoryking and get immediate access to exclusive content!

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Back by popular demand. I have my three sons on the show again, ages 11, 9, and 5. I've asked each of them to think of writing prompts for me. Then I time myself to write the stories and read them on the show. 

Let's see how I did this week!

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Switching things up a bit. 

I'm very excited to have my three sons on The Story King today, ages 11, 9, and 5. I've asked them to think of writing prompts for me. Then I time myself to write each story and read them on the show. Enjoy!

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Today we read two short stories by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a german-speaking Ashkenazi Jew from Prague. He lived from 1883 to 1924. He was only 40 when he died. His most famous novella, “The Metamorphosis,” is about a protagonist named Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning and discovers he’s been transformed into a large cockroach of some sort. You may have heard the term “kafkaesque,” which is used to describe stories that employ similar magical realism techniques that Kafka used. I’m a big fan of his, so I wanted to read a couple of his shorter lesser known works.

The first story we’re reading today is called, “A Country Doctor,” and the second is called “The Bucket Rider.”

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Happy New Year!

Thank you for checking out The Story King Podcast. Today we read a very famous story by the great D.H. Lawrence.

D.H. Lawrence lived from 1885 to 1930. Some of his well-known novels include Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, among others. But today we read one of his famous short stories called “Odour of Chrysanthemums.”

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I thought today's story was appropriate for the season. This is one of his more famous tales called "The Gift of the Magi." Enjoy!

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Film and TV are basically our preferred modern-day forms of storytelling. So I plan on doing more  episodes like this one intermittently. I'm hoping to watch all the Oscar nominations (at least for Best Picture). You should see an episode with my Academy Award predictions some time in early to mid-February of next year.

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Another story by the great O. Henry! This one is called "The Furnished Room."

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O. Henry was the pen name used for William Sydney Porter. He was an American short story writer who lived from 1862 to 1910. He’s noted for his surprise and twist endings. You may come across the term from time to time, an “O. Henry ending.” That’s what that means. That there was some twist or surprise at the end. The one we’re reading today is called "The Cop and the Anthem."

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So I’m reading two short stories today, because they’re flash fiction pieces, which means they’re extra short. I think both of these are under a thousand words each, though I didn’t do a word count. The first story I’m reading is called “Bad News” and the second is called “The Funnel Horn.” And both of these are in Deborah Ghedini's collection Twilight Tales, which is available on Amazon, along with her other books. 

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Happy Halloween!

Poe is more famous for his poetry than his prose, but today we’re reading, arguably his most famous work, “The Raven,” as well as “The Black Cat.” Now the latter is a short story, but “The Raven” is actually a poem. I chose to read it on the show because it’s a narrative poem, and so even though it rhymes, it does tell a story.

A lot of his work is considered scary, or at least creepy. And these two are no exception. So there’s your disclaimer, if you’re not up for scary today (though it is Halloween this week, so why wouldn't you be?).

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Besides being known for his play The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde also wrote a number of short stories. “The Happy Prince” is probably the most famous one. It was first published in 1888 in a collection called The Happy Prince and other stories, and that’s the one we’re reading today. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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Eddie Newton has had several short stories published and has won the Robert L. Fish Memorial award for Best First Mystery Short Story. He has a political thriller available on Amazon called American Herstory, and his forthcoming novel Horrorfrost is being published this winter and will also be available both digitally and in print on Amazon. He and myself both contributed stories to an apocalyptic anthology published in 2018 called Enter the Aftermath.It’s a collection of end-of-the-world stories, as you may have guessed. And normally, we’re used to massive destruction with scorched skies and blackened seas and land laid waste. But Eddie Newton’s story has such a unique take on an apocalyptic scenario that I had to share it on the show.

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You may know today's story by the movie starring Brad Pitt. It's a very famous story by a very famous American author. We are of course talking about the magical realism piece "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by literary legend F. Scott Fitzgerald!

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Today's episode features short story "Between the Lines" by contemporary author José Antonio Cotrina, translated from the Spanish by James Stevens-Arce.

José Antonio Cotrina is an award winning Spanish sci-fi/fantasy author and has published a number of stories and books throughout recent years that are available on both Amazon and his own website: cotrina.net 

His translator James Stevens-Arce is an author himself, and his website is stevens-arce.com 

And I’m happy to announce that he has a North American release of The Cycle of the Red Moon trilolgy coming out soon. That was a bestseller young adult trilogy in Spain. Kate LeBarbera’s English translation is being published by Dark Horse. The first volume The Harvest of Samhein will be available in book stores on May 26, 2020. There’s an article from Paste Magazine that includes the first two chapters. So be sure to check that out.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/09/jose-antonio-cotrina-cycle-red-moon-samhein.html?fbclid=IwAR0kPpyCDYjSOESgj6Aj6aLbIjDotRYhuqfT6RrwuCzJSTnd0Yn6lEXKV9k

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Today we read our last Saki story for the season. This is one of his more famous ones called "The Lumber Room." Enjoy!

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On today's show, we read two more stories by H.H. Munro, aka Saki. The first one is called "Sredni Vashtar" and the second is "The Open Window." 

You can find more of Saki's works wherever books are sold or borrowed. Many of his stories can be found online as well.

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On today's episode, we read one of my favorite short stories from H.H. Munro, aka Saki. This one is called "The Interlopers" and can be found online as well as in many of his collections. Enjoy!

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