Dark Waters

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Dark Waters episodes

February 08, 2022 Beach Body aka The Universal Trauma Quota
We are joined by the wonderful Scott Cumming to discuss his whirlwind year of writing, his new book A Chapbook About Nothing, finding seconds in the day to jot down poems, and how it all started with a single review. We also go through his story Beach Body, and mental health in the time of Corona.
Scott Cumming unsuspectingly went to see Garden State wearing his Shins tee. He has been published at The Daily Drunk, Punk Noir Magazine, Versification, and Shotgun Honey. His poem, “Blood on Snow”, was voted the best of Outcast Press Poetry Things We Carry issue and nominated for a Pushcart. His collection, A Chapbook About Nothing, was released on December 31.
You can find him on Twitter or on his website.
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1 hr 28 min
February 01, 2022 Dance Among the Flames/The Ninja Betrayed aka Busting the Sensationalized Ninja
We get the chance to chat with the wonderful Tori Eldridge about the Lily Wong mystery thriller series, and her upcoming book Dance Among the Flames, as well as previous lives in other artistic fields, what even is a schedule, genre-bending, the importance of diverse voices in literature, and the destroying monolithic views of culture.
Tori Eldridge is the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong thriller series—The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, and The Ninja Betrayed. Her Brazilian horror novel, Dance Among the Flames, will release May 24, 2022. Tori’s shorter works have been published in Weird Tales magazine and numerous anthologies featuring horror, dystopian, and other literary genres. Her horror screenplay The Gift was a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist. Tori holds a fifth-degree black belt in To-Shin Do ninja martial arts and has performed as an actress, singer, dancer on Broadway, television, and film.
You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, & BookBub

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1 hr 32 min
January 25, 2022 Trouble No More, aka You Never Know, Sometimes You Get Desperate
We hosted a crowdcast with authors from the anthology Trouble No More - crime fiction inspired by the Allman Brothers. We speak with Mark Westmoreland about the process of putting the anthology together, and see we're all really just a bunch of music nerds, then hear readings from Mark, James D.F. Hannah, Michel Lee Garrett, Brodie Lowe, Rob Pierce, and N.B. Turner. We suggest following them all on Twitter.
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1 hr 13 min
September 21, 2021 Catch Up Time/Pageant Mom All Over You
A brief episode in which Nate and Kirstyn catch up on new projects, preview S3 guests, announce the S3 book club books (The Maidens and The Only Good Indians), and make no promises about derailing any and all future conversations.

To preorder Trouble No More (Allman Brothers anthology) click here

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17 min
July 07, 2021 Picnic in the Ruins Aka Book Club #2
Nate and Kirstyn discuss the book Picnic in the Ruins by Todd Robert Petersen, and within it, the erasure of culture, representation in media, and the minor inaccuracies in movies and books that cause us much frustration.
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43 min
June 29, 2021 Blackstoke aka John Cena on Mars
Rob Parker joins us to discuss his book Blackstoke, endless multitasking, transparency in publishing, and getting younger generations invested in writing. Also a conversation about great names for new indie publications (the team claims dibs on Trash Panda).

Rob Parker is an author and podcaster from the UK. He’s responsible for the Ben Bracken series of thrillers as well as Crook’s Hollow and the Audible Original Far from the Tree. He released Blackstoke, his first horror novel in March of this year. He’s a regular contributor or host of four separate podcasts: the Blood Brothers Crime Podcast, For Your Reconsideration, Really, 007!, and the Northern Crime Syndicate Podcast. His newest edition to the Ben Bracken series, The Watchman, is now available on Amazon.

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1 hr 38 min
June 24, 2021 A WIP, aka, Finding Laphroaig in Indiana
The lovely Amy King joins us to discuss her research on linguistic violence, fourteen-year-old poetry, and obsessions with Greek mythology. We also go through some of Kirstyn's new novel, disappearing plot maps, and the best-backhanded compliment Nathan has ever received.

Amy is a PhD researcher exploring the nature of linguistic violence on social media, and digital communications professional for an intersectional feminist organization. Her undergrad degree in Linguistics fuelled a fascination for syntax and semantics, leading to her first exposure in editing - a play on the life and times of Francis Bacon - and further afield to theatre reviewing; scratching a musical theatre-shaped itch. In 2018 she founded The Feminist Fringe as a response to the often lackluster lists of Feminist Fringe Shows, and to inject a little feminist analysis in show reviews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With so much of her time spent pondering the nature of violence, both online and AFK, she often finds escape through poetry, short story collections, and her recently rekindled obsession with fanfiction. In her own poetry and creative non-fiction she explores the uncertainty, discomfort and frustration of daily life with anxiety and depression - a habit she only got back into as the angst of her teens only heightened in an adulthood fraught with escalating political violence, societal decay and personal loss of recent years. She's also fond of embracing the rage of the now in-game by killing skaven, smashing chaos warriors and surviving the After Times through Vermintide 2.

You can find her on Twitter @Amy_CKing1

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1 hr 56 min
June 15, 2021 "Cosmopolis" aka, Welcome to our Book Club
We see each other for the first time since the start of quarantine and promise we will never record an episode outside again. We discuss one of Kirstyn's favorite books, Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo, butcher pronunciations and names, discuss human separation from emotion, and the downfall of capitalism. Also, there are cigars and whiskey and a preview for the book club we definitely should have posted prior.

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46 min
June 10, 2021 Children of Chicago aka Glow in the Dark Vampire Teeth
We are joined by recently New York Times cited author Cynthia Pelayo about her book, Children of Chicago, as well as her short story writing, genre-bending, and the human elements of horror. We admit, much gushing did occur.

Cynthia is a poet and author from Chicago who has been twice nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for “superior achievement” in dark fantasy and horror writing. She is the author of the new book, Children of Chicago, published by Agora/Polis as well as Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, and Poems of My Night, a contributing author to multiple copies of the Gothic Blue Book series, the anthologies She’s Lost Control and Halldark Holidays, and an editor for the anthologies Latinx Screams and We are Wolves.

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1 hr 39 min
June 01, 2021 "The Vampire Priest" aka Save That For Your Therapist
We are joined by the lovely Izzy once more to discuss the varying aesthetics of academia, casual roasting of the Midwest, and whether Janet from the PTA is an adequate counter to Dad jokes. Nate reads a short story involving biting, repression, and religion, we are all definitely convinced that Dracula had purely feelings of friendship for Mina Harker.

Isabelle Hourihane is a UK-based copy editor and advocate for irredeemable characters. She does not have social media and exists as a 20th-century ghost. We sometimes wonder if she’s just a figment of our imagination.
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1 hr 11 min