Drinks with Tony

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.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

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.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

Hilary Plattner is the author of A Momma Puzzle: A Memoir. In the book she puts together the pieces of her mother who she lost in death by suicide when she was six-years-old.

We discuss the importance of destigmatizing suicide discussion, even the lame algorithms that won’t let the word ‘suicide’ be used. Her process of bringing up these wounds of the past, including the griefs and the joys, and how to understand why suicide happens.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

Pamela Redmond is an author of many books and also performer and writer of her one-woman-show Old Woman Naked.

We deep dive into the process of creativity, how it feels to have your novel made into a TV Series, our complaints about AI, and so much more.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

Rachel Walther is the author of Born To Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon.

We deep dive into one of the greatest films of all time based on a true story of a bank robbery in Brooklyn, starring Al Pacino and directed by Sidney Lumet, released in 1975.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM Los Gatos, 101.9FM Santa Cruz, and 91.1FM Portland on Pirate Cat Radio.

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Creative Writing at Los Feliz Public Library, Los Angeles:

Jaydi Samuels Kuba is the author of Your Last First Date: Secrets from a Hollywood Matchmaker.

We discuss dating, matchmaking, her time as a TV writer for such shows as Family Guy and the reboot of Good Times, and so much more. Check out LJ Matchmaking for more info on Jaydi.

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

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Creative Writing at Los Feliz Public Library, Los Angeles:

Ed Lin is the author of The Dead Can’t Make A Living: A Taipei Market Novel.

Only SIX available spots for my Monday Night Novel Workshop, if you’ve been putting off writing a novel, this is your call to action to join us. Register here.

Ed and I discuss Taiwan, bands we grew up seeing live, including New Order, The Sugarcubes, Public Image Ltd., and of course writing novels.

The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

Frances Crawford is the author of A Bad Bad Place.

Straight out of Glasgow, Frances is a debut novelist, 63 years old, and a punk rock mom. We talk what it takes to shift your life around and become a novelist and finding an agent and publisher to back your goals.

Wanna take a novel workshop to reach your goals, join my workshop linked below.

The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

Darls Centola is the author of Finding Druth with Michale: A Memoir of Friendship, Faith, and First Love.

Darls grew up a Jehovah’s Witness and her and Michael Jackson studied the bible together in high school. The book is her shared journey with Michael that ultimately leads to her exit from the religion.

Join Darls and I at Book Soup in West Hollywood on April 7th as we discuss her memoir in person.

The Novel Approach Workshop with Tony DuShane

Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Tuesday at 4 p.m. on 92.9FM, Los Gatos and 101.9FM, Santa Cruz on Pirate Cat Radio.

Jared Chiang-Zeizel is the co-author of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming.

We chat all things dreams, sex dreams, seeing dead people in dreams, and how to become a lucid dreamer.

March 4th @ 6pm: Tony’s Free Creative Writing Workshop at Los Feliz Library on 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, just show up.

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