Overview
Dave is a grandfather and lives in Ohio. He loves mushroom hunting. He also does his own covers as he's studied graphic arts plus working on becoming a school bus driver. If nothing else, it's a lot of great research for his books.
His book, Magnified and Sanctified, uses Jewish religion even though he isn't Jewish. The title is taken from a Jewish prayer and the story is inspired from the Jewish religion even though it's a zombie novel.
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Magnified and Sanctified - JD Core
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Transcript
[00:00:00] Welcome to episode 95 of discovered wordsmiths today, I have David cor he goes by J D Corp. He's written an extremely interesting book. It takes its title and some inspiration [00:01:00] from the Jewish religion and the Kadash Kadesh prayer for the dead. And it's a zombie story. So it's like a some Gollum's in the Jewish culture.
But it's an interesting discussion. Dave is a grandfather, so he's not starting off right after school. He's got a lot of great things he's done in his life that he contributes to the stories. And he talks about some of those inspirations and some of the things that got them to write the story and it really fine.
He also has done a podcast. So we have a lot in common, a lot of good things to talk about. So if you enjoy interesting books, this is one of those that definitely falls in that category zombies that are inspired by the Jewish religion. So I'll let Dave tell you more about it here. Today on discovered wordsmith.
I have Dave who goes by J D chord. Is that correct? J D or J David core on the writing? Yeah. Okay, great. Dave welcome to the podcast. How are you? Thank you very much [00:02:00] for having me right before Thanksgiving for us. Okay Dave, give everybody a little bit of background about you. Some things you'd like to do where you live, that type of thing besides your writing.
Okay. I live in Southeastern Ohio, which is like the least the most sparsely populated part of the state, basically. I I enjoy. Mushroom hunting. I'm a bit, I'm an avid mushroom hunter and that actually plays into my story. And I I write I'm a I was a graphic. I went to school for graphic arts.
Like I do my own covers and everything like that. And oh, great. That, that's how I got background in that right now I'm studying to be a bus driver school bus. Okay. Because everybody needs a little bit extra income, and that they're having, and they're short, everywhere is short now.
So there was I'm a grandfather and I have four grandchildren that are by blood and a bunch of other grandchildren that are through marriage or Oregon, my girlfriend's kids and et cetera. They're all kind of all kinds of family. Gosh, [00:03:00] it gives me a nice, great I live up by KSU about eight miles out of KSU.
So yeah.