Drinks with Tony

Cara Black is the author of Murder at La Villette. It’s the 21st novel in her Aimée Leduc Investigation series.

Join my free Novel Writing Workshop March 9th at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, go to tonydushane.com/free to register.

Cara and I discuss the 19th Arrondissement in Paris, how her research for her latest novel brought her into the neighborhood of a serial killer, film adaptations of books and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

This week I answer a few questions from our listeners about outlining, finding the ending to your story, and more. I also include my interview with Robert McKee from last year.

Join my 8-Week Novel Writing Workshop starting March 18th. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. Early birds pay $375 for the class where we’ll deep dive into what it takes to write a novel, do writing exercises, workshop your work, and set you up on a path to completing your novel. Join now, enrollment is limited. We’ll meet on Zoom.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Kris Saknussemm is the author of A Guide To Creative Writing and The Imagination.

Join me for an 8-week novel writing workshop on Monday nights at 6pm Pacific on Zoom. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. Class runs March 18 – May 6. If you’ve been looking for a time to dive deep into your novel, it’s March 18th.

Kris and I discuss psychics vs. mentalists, living in Las Vegas, writers exploring other ways to tap their imaginations, never fall in love with a writer, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Sarah Tomlinson is the author of The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers. She has also ghostwritten many books.

We discuss ghostwriting for celebrities, Taylor Swift, novels as the perfect storytelling medium, her debut novel coming out 30 years after she decided to write a novel, great journalism and sad journalism, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Kelley McNeil is the author of Mayluna.

Join my Free Online Novel Writer Workshop on February 24th here: at tonydushane.com/free

Kelley and I chat: How our brains work with memory and trauma to shift the stories, the trappings of fame for musicians, that time Jon Bon Jovi laughed at her, how Dave Matthews is great even if you don’t like his music, judging friends by their like or dislike of Neil Diamond, her years doing music promo for large venues in Pittsburgh, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Melinda Lee Holm is the author of Your Tarot Guide: Learn to navigate life with the help of the cards.

Join my Free Novel Writer Workshop on February 24th here: at tonydushane.com/free

Melinda and I discuss how Tarot saved her life as a kid when she grew up being bullied and living in an abusive house, does Tarot really tell us the future? the joy and terror of writing books, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Los Gatos.

Or, everything I’ve done wrong in ghostwriting so you don’t have to.

Join me for a Free Novel Writing Workshop on Feb 24th, 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 8pm UK.

Go to: tonydushane.com/free to join. Only available to the first 50 students.

Arthur Rapkin is the author of Poison For Rats: Six Kilos that Changed Everything, a Memoir.

We chat about his cocaine smuggling years, surviving Mexican prison, how he got out and escaped to Canada to avoid drug charges in the United States, and so much more.

Don’t miss this episode.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.

Elle Nash is the author of Deliver Me: A Novel.

We chat Christianity, joining the Muslims, leaving the Muslims, literary scene in Glasgow, social media sucks, and so much more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.

Scott Weintraub is the co-author of Back to the Body: Infusing Physical Life Into Characters in Theatre and Film. With Jean-Louis Rodrigue.

We chat the importance of creating stories not only as actors and writers, but as regular humans throughout our days. We all have stories, we even tell stories with body language. Scott and I dive into this and more.

Drinks with Tony is on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.