Susan Coll is the author of Word Salad.

We chat about two-book deals, teaching lawyers how to write fiction, how to stay calm during a book release, and so much more.

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Michele McDannold is the publisher of Roadside Press.

We chat how to start a press, working with authors, the literary scenes in Ohio and Pittsburgh, and so much more.

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Michael Elias is the author of Bender’s L.A. He’s also the creator of the TV series Head of the Class and has a long list of TV and film credits.

We chat specifically about The Head of the Class episode that was filmed in the USSR in 1988, as well as our mutual admiration for Henry Miller, and his new novel Bender’s L.A.

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Romie Stott is the author of Nothing In The Basement: A Horror Novel.

We discuss 48 hours film competitions, discovery of Alexander Dumas, her process for coming up with comp titles when querying a novel, and so much more.

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K. S. Haddock is the author of Imagine My Surprise!

We talk about his musicals at San Francisco Fringe Fest, failed novels, novels that succeeded, cage fighting, and so much more.

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Justin Phillips is the author of American Limoncillo.

We chat about his years in the Navy in Naples, Italy … where his novel is also based, how screenwriting informed his novel, his run-ins with the mafia, and so much more.

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Lee Upton is the author of The Withers.

We chat all things writing, about all the new and funky book genres of the publishing industry, how to come up with character names, and so much more.

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Adam Steiner is the author of Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave’s Songs of Love and Death.

Bless his heart to give me any excuse to deep dive into Nick Cave. We talk about how we found our way to Nick’s work in different manners and different times, Adam’s approach to writing and rewriting the biography, and what records from Nick’s back catalogue are fantastic and others that aren’t so great.

Hey, read my new series on DuShane.substack.com called Nick Cave and the Jehovah’s Witness. And enjoy the show.

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Alta Ifland is the author of Two Queens and a Chronicler.

She left Romania with her dissident husband in 1991, in the chaos following the collapse of the communist regime. She ended up in Florida sponsored by a community of Lutheran ministers, which was her first taste of culture in the United States. She found her way to Northern California and imbedded herself in the literary community. It’s a fascinating journey.

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Kennedy Weible is the author of Dirty Myrtle.

We discuss working for years in the restaurant biz and how very few people know the term capping ashtrays, how to shift anger writing to fun writing and why it’s the only way to fly, growing up in Myrtle Beach, and so much more.

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