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- AIC Stories 100 - Faded Words 016 - The Lady or The Tiger by Frank R Stockton
A brilliant story about a princess faced with a most dreadful decision. Will she feed her lover to a Tiger or watch him wed to a woman she hates?
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Originally published in a magazine called The Century in 1882.
Written by Frank R Stockton
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message21 min - AIC Stories 099 - Faded Words 015 - Interview - Author Annie Sullivan on A Curse of Gold
Annie Sullivan joins me in the virtual studio this week to talk all about her brand new book, A Curse of Gold. Another fantastic BlinkYA title, Annie has taken a familiar story in the tale of King Midas and his golden touch and turned it into an epic adventure!
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From her inspiration in finding a way to retell classic stories to her writing process to even a little Wheel of Time love, I know that if you are a fan of great stories, writing, and amazing adventures you will LOVE this conversation!
Links:Webhttps://anniesullivanauthor.com/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/annsulliva
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/annsulliva/
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message1 hr 6 min - AIC Stories 098 - Faded Words 014 - Interview - Author Danny Gardner on Ace Boon Coon
What a pleasure this week as I had an opportunity to sit down and have an amazing chat with Danny Gardner, stand up comedian and Author of the brand new novel Ace Boon Coon!
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We cover a lot of ground, from his Midwest roots, his comedy career and being mentored by THE Bernie Mac, his writing, and so much more. He even makes one of the MOST brilliant analogies tying music and writing together in a way that I’ve never even considered.
ALSOIf you want to get entered into the give-away of Danny’s first novel, A Negro and an Ofay, which is the 1st book in The Tales of Elliot Caprice series, all you have to do is find me on Instagram or Twitter with the handle of @fadedwordspod, FOLLOW ME, THEN send me a direct message saying you’d like to be entered in the book giveaway! That’s it, it’s that simple!Links:Webhttp://www.bronzevillebooks.com/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/bronzevillebooks
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/bronzevillebooks/
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message1 hr 31 min - AIC Stories 097 - Faded Words 013 - Beyond the Door by Philip K Dick
This week I’m visiting the amazing storyteller Philip K Dick once again. This time it’s a tale of a bit of a love triangle and a cuckoo clock that may be more than it seems.
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Originally published in a magazine called Fantastic Universe in January 1954.
Written by Philip K Dick
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message22 min - AIC Stories 096 - Faded Words 012 - The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson
This week I’m reading a short story about a boy on an adventure of epic, and mythic, proportions as he explores the edge of the world and the wonders it contains.
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Originally published in a magazine called Fantastic Stories of Imagination in May 1962.
Written by Karen Anderson
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message18 min - AIC Stories 095 - Faded Words 011 - Interview - Author MarcyKate Connolly on Twin Daggers
This week I’m joined by New York Times Best Selling Children’s Book Author MarcyKate Connolly to talk about her fantastic new book “Twin Daggers”.
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Naturally we’re talking SPOILER FREE about her terrific new book, as well as diving into her writing process, inspirations why you should be using Scrivener and Save the Cat if you're a writer, NaNoWriMo, and so much more!
Twin Daggers from MarcyKate’s website description:
“Blink YA/Harper CollinsRelease Date: 8.25.2020
Hardcover, ebook, audiobook
Young Adult Fantasy
Aissa’s life is a web of carefully constructed lies. She and her twin sister, Zandria, are Magi spies, a magical people most believe to be extinct. And they’re on a mission for revenge.
This action and adventure spy thriller—a fantasy spin on “Romeo and Juliet” from New York Times bestselling author MarcyKate Connolly—is perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer and Elly Blake and is about to become your new obsession!
By day, Aissa and Zandra play the role of normal young Technocrats eager to fulfill the duties of their new apprenticeships. By night, they plot their revenge to retake their city from the Technocrats. But then Aissa is given a new mission: find and kidnap the heir to the Technocrat throne, who is rumored to be one of the Heartless—a person born without a working heart who survives via a mechanical replacement—and has been hidden since birth.
Aissa is more likely to be caught than to be successful, but she’s never been one to turn down an assignment, even if the hunt is complicated by a kind Technocrat researcher who is determined to find a cure for the Heartless. But when Zandria is captured by the Technocrats, Aissa will do anything to get her sister back. Even if it means abandoning all other loyalties and missions … and risking everything by trusting her sworn enemies.”
LINKS
BUY TWIN DAGGERS BY MARCYKATE CONNOLLY
WEB:
MarcyKate ConnollySOCIAL:
Twitter - @MarcyKate
Instagram - @marcykateconnolly
Facebook - @marcykateconnolly
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message1 hr 16 min - AIC Stories 094 - Faded Words 010 - Interview - Author Hanna C Howard on Ignite the Sun
This week I’m joined by talented Author Hanna C Howard to talk about her fantastic new book “Ignite the Sun”.
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Of course we also cover a lot of ground about her start in writing, her creative process and much, much more!
Ignite the Sun, from the Amazon description:
“Once upon a time, there was something called the sun … In a kingdom ruled by a witch, the sun is just part of a legend about Light-filled days of old. But now Siria Nightingale is headed to the heart of the darkness to try and restore the Light—or lose everything trying.Sixteen-year-old Siria Nightingale has never seen the sun. That’s because Queen Iyzabel shrouded the kingdom in shadow upon her ascent to the throne, with claims it would protect her subjects from the dangerous Light.
The Darkness has always left Siria uneasy, and part of her still longs for the stories of the Light-filled days she once listened to alongside her best friend Linden, told in secret by Linden’s grandfather. But Siria’s need to please her strict and demanding parents means embracing the dark and heading to the royal city—the very center of Queen Izybel’s power—for a chance at a coveted placement at court. And what Siria discovers at the Choosing Ball sends her on a quest toward the last vestiges of Light, alongside a ragtag group of rebels who could help her restore the sun … or doom the kingdom to shadow forever.
Ignite the Sun is:
- A YA fantasy adventure that is exciting and unique, right down to its metallic book cover
- An allegorical exploration of the struggle with anxiety and depression
- Perfect for readers 13 and up”
LINKS
WEB:
Hanna C HowardBUY “IGNITE THE SUN” by Hanna C Howard
VIRTUAL LAUNCH PARTY PLUS ORDER SIGNED COPIES OF IGNITE THE SUN!INSTAGRAM / TWITTER
@hannachoward
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message1 hr 8 min - AIC Stories 093 - Faded Words 009 - The Red Room by H.G. Wells
Charged with spending a night in The Red Room to prove it’s not haunted, a man is forced to confront his darkest horrors. Will he survive?
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Written in 1894 and originally published in March of 1896 in The Idler Magazine.
Best known for his books The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells had a prolific career as an author. So much so that Jules Verne dubbed him “the father of science fiction”.While he usually explored the world of sci-fi stories, this story finds him exploring a good old fashioned haunted house, ghost story. Horror in short fiction form.
LINKS
The Red Room by H.G. Wells
Read by David Szweduik
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message33 min - AIC Stories 092 - Faded Words 008 - Interview - Author John McNally on The Fear Of Everything
This week I’m honored to bring to you a conversation with Author John McNally to discuss his new book “The Fear Of Everything”, which is available September 1st, 2020.
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With a back catalog of seventeen previous books, John has some great insight into the craft of storytelling and I urge you to explore not only his latest book which is a fantastic collection of short stories called “The Fear of Everything” but his extensive back catalog of work!LINKS
WEB:
https://www.facebook.com/FictionWriterJohnMcNally/BUY HIS BOOKS AT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE OR ANYWHERE YOU GET YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSFaded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aicstories/message1 hr 24 min - AIC Stories 091 - Faded Words 007 - The Other Gods by H.P. Lovecraft
What happens when a mortal challenges the mighty gods? This week I’m reading a great short story from icon of horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Originally published in November of 1933 in the Fantasy Fan Magazine.
Best known as the father of Lovecraftian Horror and the Cthulhu Mythology, H.P. Lovecraft, in his short life, became a master of weird and horrifying fiction.In this story we see a man, Barzai the Wise, attempt to meet the gods. We find out what happens when man’s pride swells with self importance and we find out if the gods find him worthy.
LINKS
The Other Gods by H.P. Lovecraft
Read by David Szweduik
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by GuifrogAdditional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
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About AIC Stories
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A bookish podcast exploring stories in all forms - discussing and reviewing books, films, and tv as I journey through my eclectic TBR backlog and watchlist.