03Feb/23

Melanie Mitzner

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February 3, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 5: Melanie Mitzner + our “Everything Everywhere All at Once” review!

Melanie Mitzner, author of the novel Slow Reveal, joins us to discuss building intimacy and trust in relationships and how that mirrors art, as well as capturing the 90s and NYC in her novel. She even reads a powerful 2-minute excerpt. Then Liz Faraim joins us to review Everything Everywhere All at Once!

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Slow Reveal was published by York University’s Inanna Publications in May 2022, a Best of Women’s Fiction Debut 2022 and Fiction Bestseller at Berkeley distributor SPD Books. An excerpt of her novel Too Good To Be True was published in the Harrington Lesbian Quarterly. Her screenplay Zero Gravity was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship. A finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships for her screenplay Dodge and Burn, her screenplays In The Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She received a fellowship from M.E.T. Theater and was awarded fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. As a journalist, she covered the tech industry, television production and visual effects. Her recent work appears in Wine Spectator, Gay and Lesbian Review,Vol1Brooklyn, Bloom and San Francisco Bay Times. Interviews and excerpts are on Open-Book, Rainbow Country radio show syndicated and podcast across Canada, Glad Day Bookshop TV and Hasty Booklist.

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27Jan/23

Josh Bookman

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January 27, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 4: Josh Bookman + Sense8 review part 4!

Josh Bookman, author of the novel to: all the friends I killed, joins us to discuss the millennial experience regarding contemporary loneliness when friends pair off and move on, as well as the postponement of traditional benchmarks. Then Albert Nothlit returns for the final part of our review of Sense8’s first season!

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Joshua Kent Bookman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and reformed by life and work in Sweden, France, and Italy.

He has studied songwriting at Berklee College of Music, as well as languages at the Middlebury Italian School, Syracuse University, Alliance Française, and Folkuniversitetet. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University and M.F.A. from ArtCenter College of Design.

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13Jan/23

Emmett Patterson

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January 13, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 2: Emmett Patterson + Sense8 review part 2!

Emmett Patterson, contributing author to Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic joins us to discuss the LGBTQ, racial, and disability healthcare challenges that the recent pandemic highlighted. Then Albert Nothlit returns for part 2 of our review of Sense8’s first season!

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Emmett Patterson is a longtime queer & trans health activist, project manager, and writer. He takes a global, community-centered approach to his work, having organized with activists in the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the United States. Emmett studied Public Health and Gender & Sexuality Studies at American University and earned a graduate certificate in LGBT Healthy Policy & Practice at The George Washington University. He attributes his commitment to sexual health and liberation for himself and others to the wisdom of a lineage of HIV and AIDS, racial justice, and disability justice activists.

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06Jan/23

Dr. JJ Kelly

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January 6, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 1: Dr. JJ Kelly on Emotional Intelligence!

Dr. JJ Kelly, founder of UnorthoDocs Inc., helps us kick off the New Year by sharing her HOLY SH*T series, and educating us on her no-nonsense approach to emotional intelligence, which in turns can facilitate creativity and joy!

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After 16 years of passionately working in the current system of the mental health profession and seeing the systemic sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism, narcissism and elitism…Dr. JJ Kelly wanted nothing more than to burn it all down.

Instead, she decided to redirect her outrage into building something new based on love, laughter, and teaching emotional intelligence – because she believes that global healing is achieved by teaching people the skills to like themselves, or as she always says, “Happy people act right.”

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30Dec/22

2022 Yearly Wrap-up

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December 30, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 52: 2022 Yearly Wrap-up + Our Review of The Christmas House 2!

M.D. Neu helps us close out the year by reviewing The Christmas House 2! We share our honorable mention films, and discuss plans for the year to come! Happy New Year from us to you!

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M.D. Neu is an inclusive, international award-winning Gay fiction writer with a love for writing and travel. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California) and growing up around technology, he’s always been fascinated with what could be.

Growing up in an accepting family as a gay man, he always wondered why there were never stories reflecting who he was. Constantly surrounded by characters that only reflected heterosexual society, M.D. Neu decided he wanted to change that. So, he took to writing, wanting to tell good stories that reflected our diverse world.

When M.D. Neu isn’t writing, he works for a nonprofit and travels with his biggest supporter and his harshest critic, Eric, his husband of twenty plus years.

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16Dec/22

Faith Mosley

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December 16, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 50: Faith Mosley + Our Review of Happiest Season!

Faith Mosley shares her debut novel, Sky Court, which leads to talk about the importance of seeing ourselves reflected in fiction. Then M.D. Neu joins us to review Happiest Season!

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Faith Mosley’s previous works have been included in the short story anthology Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction (BLF Press, 2016). She now lives in Central New Mexico, where she has spent the past couple of years converting a small school bus into a tiny house on wheels.

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02Dec/22

Gary Eldon Peter

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December 2, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 48: Gary Eldon Peter + Our Review of Matteo Lane’s The Advice Special!

Gary Eldon Peter shares his award-winning YA novel, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen, which leads us to talking about the importance of young adult literature. Then Baz & Vance review Matteo Lane’s The Advice Special and share who won their weeks.

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Gary Eldon Peter’s short stories have been appearing in publications, winning awards, and even performed on NPR to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. His debut novel continues this trend, having won the Acheven Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction and just this week made NPR’s 2022 list of Young Adult Books We Love! Having been awarded many artist residencies, Gary currently teaches courses in writing, law and popular culture, and the future of work and technology at the University of Minnesota.

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25Nov/22

Albert Nothlit

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November 25, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 47: Albert Nothlit + Our Review of The Big Brunch!

Albert Nothlit returns to share the conclusion of his scifi, humans colonizing an alien planet series with the novel: World Warden, which leads us to discussions about genetic memories and trilateral symmetry in biology. Then Baz & Vance review The Big Brunch and share who won their weeks.

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Albert Nothlit is a writer and an engineer who enjoys creating science fiction worlds. He thinks it’s amazing to be able to connect with people by sharing stories, which are essentially pieces of his soul. He is always thankful when a reader gives him feedback. For him, hearing back from readers is the best part of the writing process.

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February 11, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Albert Nothlit back as the guest on Season 7, Episode 06 – There’s Always Hope!

Albert Nothlit returns to share his new novel, Life Seed, and discuss the human impact on environment, writing hope punk, and finding LGBTQ representation outside of the US.

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Albert Nothlit is a writer and an engineer who enjoys creating science fiction worlds. He thinks it’s amazing to be able to connect with people by sharing stories, which are essentially pieces of his soul. He is always thankful when a reader gives him feedback. For him, hearing back from readers is the best part of the writing process.

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March 18, 2016

EarthshatterIt gives us great pleasure to announce Albert Nothlit as the guest on episode 049: Finding Strength in Weakness!
Join us as we discuss Albert’s latest story – his first full-length novel – Earthshatter. Albert not only drops a few spoilers, but talks about world building, how culture shapes world building and genetic engineering, writing serial fiction, and his own successes with social media in marketing outside his native language.

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June 12, 2015

It gives us great pleasure to announce Albert Nothlit as the guest on episode 004: Re-Engineering Sci-Fi!
Join us as we discuss Albert’s focus on the Science Fiction and characters over the romance, and then dive into why treating LGBTQ romance the same as “mainstream” romance is so important.We then discuss the evolution of his writing, the evolution of Science Fiction, and the direction genre writing is headed.

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18Nov/22

RL Merrill

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November 18, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 46: R.L. Merrill + Our Review of The Winchesters!

R.L. Merrill returns to the show to share her recent novel: Sundowners, and explain why a hippie vampire just makes sense in the face of conspiracies that go back to a missing cult. Baz & Vance review The Winchesters and share who won their weeks.

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Whether she’s writing contemporary romance featuring quirky and relatable characters or diving deep into the paranormal and supernatural to give readers a shiver, R.L. Merrill loves creating compelling stories that will stay with readers long after. Award-winning Ro spends every spare moment improving her writing craft and striving to find that perfect balance between real-life and happily ever after. She writes diverse and inclusive romance, contributes paranormal hilarity to Robyn Peterman’s Magic and Mayhem Universe, and pens horror-inspired music reviews for HorrorAddicts.net. You can find her connecting with readers on social media, advocating for America’s youth, raising two brilliant kids, or headbanging at a rock show near her home in the San Francisco Bay Area!

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November 6, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome R.L. “Ro” Merrill as the guest on Episode 293 – Weird Stuff Tends to Happen!

R.L. “Ro” Merrill joins us to discuss paranormal romance, have some Halloween fun (the day we recorded the ep), and reveal her two recent releases: Fang Me Three Times and A Peculiar Prom Night.

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R.L. Merrill brings you stories of Hope, Love, and Rock ‘n’ Roll featuring quirky and relatable characters. Whether she’s writing about contemporary issues that affect us all or diving deep into the paranormal and supernatural to give readers a shiver, she loves creating compelling stories that will stay with readers long after. Winner of the Kathryn Hayes “When Sparks Fly” Best Contemporary award for Hurricane Reese, and a Foreword INDIES finalist for Summer of Hush, Ro spends every spare moment improving her writing craft and striving to find that perfect balance between real-life and happily ever after. She writes diverse and inclusive romance, contributes paranormal hilarity to Robyn Peterman’s Magic and Mayhem Universe, and works on various other writing and mentoring projects that tickle her fancy or benefit a worthy cause. You can find her connecting with readers on social media, educating America’s youth, raising two brilliant teenagers, writing horror-inspired music reviews for HorrorAddicts.net, trying desperately to get that back piece finished in the tattoo chair, or headbanging at a rock show near her home in the San Francisco Bay Area! Stay Tuned for more Rock ‘n’ Romance.

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04Nov/22

Dia de los Muertos

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November 4, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 44: Dia de los Muertos + Our Review of Queer for Fear!

Join us celebrating the close of horror month when author Michael G. Williams joins our review of Queer for Fear from Shudder, then all three of us share who won our weeks.

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