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Welcome to Chapter 58! We've got a Round Table talking about all things romance writing. It's a fun and thoughtful conversation with something for everyone - even those of you (like me) who don't typically read romance.

Magen Runyan - Podcaster (3 Book Girls) and Bookstagrammer
Connect with Magen: Instagram | 3 Book Girls

Clay Mattox - Bookstagrammer
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Collette Carmon - Author and VP of ORWG
Connect with Collette: website | Facebook | Instagram 

Sabrina A. Fish - Author and President of ORWG
Connect with Sabrina: website | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok

Mentioned on the Show:
Icebreaker - Hannah Grace
Book Lovers - Emily Henry
Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Canas
A Game of Gods - Scarlett St. Clair
Under the Dome - Stephen King
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
Cold Blood - Marnie Vinge
Vampire Queen's Search - Sabrina A. Fish
How the Penguins Saved Veronica - Hazel Prior
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
Nalini Singh
Love in the Time of Serial Killers - Alicia Thompson
Butcher and Blackbird - Brynne Weaver
Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The King of Spring - Collette Carmon
Oklahoma Romance Writer's Guild

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Looking for great books? We've got you covered!

Our guest is Bookstagrammer Grace Filer who runs the "If Books Could Thrill" book club in OKC.

Connect with Grace: Instagram | If Books Could Thrill IG

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Recommendations in this episode:

Grace
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death - Maggie O’Farrell
The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka
Monstrilio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova 
The Midnight Club - Christopher Pike

Hannah
A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas
Nestlings - Nat Cassidy
The September House - Carissa Orlando
Holes - Louis Sachar

J
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Starter Villain - John Scalzi
Chain Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Ringworld - Larry Niven

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Welcome to Chapter 57! My guest today is Missy Hancock. 
Missy describes herself as a wife of one, mom of six, and grammy of one. She’s lived in Oklahoma since she was ten and is happily settled in Guthrie, America. She says her motto in life is to live by love, not by fear. In the fall of 2023 Missy released three books in her Ele Charmichael series, under her pen name - M. Sparks Clark.

We have a fun conversation about her work, self-publishing, staying true to your characters, and, of course, Bigfoot. 

Connect with Missy: website | Instagram | TikTok

Mentioned on the Show

Ele Carmichael series - Missy Hancock
Holly Samson Hall
The Floating Bookshop
The Scent Keeper - Erica Bauermeister
Liane Moriarty
Kelly Harms
Amy E. Riechert
Kathrine Center
Louise Miller
Beth O’Leary
Other Birds | The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
Heather Webber
A Man Called Ove - Fredrick Backman
Phaedra Patrick
Madeleine L’ Engle Time Quartet
Codex Alera series - Jim Butcher
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

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It's Volume 7 of Behind the Rain! I've got 11 poems from 9 Oklahoma poets cued up and ready for you to enjoy. Be sure to connect with the poets across their social media (linked below) to let them know how much you appreciate their work. 

Here's the lineup for this edition of the anthology:

Pretty Wordy - Rachel Waters

• Instagram: @rachelwaters.co
• Website: https://rachelwaters.co/poet/

Let It Burn - Brand Rackley

• Instagram: @brandrackley 

Tornado Alley - Holly Jahangiri

• Facebook: @author.hollyjahangiri
• Website: https://jahangiri.us/2020

Yoked - MAC Woods

• Instagram: @mac_since1985

To Nowhere and Blue Balloon - Ruth Key

Cherry Creek - Andrew Gilman

• Instagram: @andrewmorrisgilman

Return to the Sea - Abagail Pappas

• Instagram: @actually_belle

My Power - Sydney Aerin

• Instagram: @sydneysometimes

What He'd Done - David Jennings

• Facebook: @DJennPhotos
• Website: davidjenningsartinphotographyandpoetry.com

New Year's Musings - Rachel Waters

• Instagram: @rachelwaters.co
• Website: https://rachelwaters.co/poet/

If you'd like to submit a poem for consideration for Volume Eight of Behind the Rain (releasing April 15, 2024), visit okiebookcast.com/behindtherain for details. Submission deadline is March 15!

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I'm joined by author and podcaster, Betsey Kulakowski, to talk about the 1974 film adaptation of an Oklahoma classic - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. We talk about the book and the film and ways in which the movie got it "right" and a place or two where it might have missed the mark. Spoiler alert, I've got some strong thoughts on that front.
If you love the book and / or the film, you'll love this conversation. If you haven't read or seen it, you're going to want to by the time we're through.
Check it out and let us know what we got right (or wrong).

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Welcome to Chapter 56!
Today I get to introduce you to the owner of one of the great comic shops in Oklahoma - Buck Berlin from New World Comics in OKC. New World has been a fixture in Oklahoma City for decades and Buck has been its owner and chaos coordinator for the last couple of those. 
In our conversation we cover:

• The origins of the store and what it has to offer
• The comic creation scene in Oklahoma
• The role Buck and a group of superhero cosplayers perform in the community
• Advice for those just getting interested in comics
• What to expect when you walk into a comic shop for the first time
• The value of comics for reluctant readers
• the significance of comics as a medium for storytelling

Connect with Buck at New World Comics: Facebook

New World Comic Con: website

Titles and Creators Mentioned on the Show:
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Charles Martin / Literati Press
Glamorella’s Daughter - Charles Martin and Jerry Bennett
Heathen - Natasha Alterici
The Black-Jack Demon - Nick Hermes
We Promised Utopia
Scud the Disposable Assassin - Harmon, Carter, Schrab, Grey
Arsenic Lullaby
Daniel Warren Johnson
Kyle Starks
Stan Lee

Characters Mentioned on the Show:
Superman
Batman
The Crow
Blade
XMen
Spiderman
Captain America
Mr. Fantastic / Fantastic Four
Guardians of the Galaxy
Red Tornado
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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It's the December 2023 edition of Your Next Great Read! This is a special one as Hannah and I are actually recording in the same room for the first time. We don't have a guest for this episode, but we do talk about our favorite three books of 2023 in addition to our usual conversation.

Connect with Hannah: website | Twitter | Instagram

Recommendations:

Hannah
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
One Day in December - Josie Silver
Love and Other Words - Christina Lauren

Hannah's 2023 Top 3:
Black Sheep - Rachel Harrison
Local Woman Missing - Mary Kubica
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

J
Worth Dying For - Lee Child
Horrorstor - Grady Hendrix
The Lost Cause - Cory Doctorow
Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky

J's 2023 Top 3:
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Shutter - Ramona Emerson
The Long and Faraway Gone - Lou Berney

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My guest for Chapter 55 is Casie Dodd. Casie is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma but now lives in Fort Smith, Arkansas with her husband and two children. Her work has appeared in This Land, Oxford American, Image, Arkansas Review, and other journals. Casie is the founder and publisher of Belle Point Press, a fantastic independent press that has published several books from Oklahoma authors and poets, including Ben Myers, Damon McKinney, and Rob Roensch. In our conversation, we talk about the origins of Belle Point Press and its mission and heartbeat. We also talk about the advantages and challenges of small presses and about Casie’s work, as well as that of many others. It’s a great look behind the curtain of publishing from the perspective of a small press.

Connect with Casie: writing website | Belle Point Press website | Substack | Instagram

Mentioned on the show:

Mid-South Anthology: 

• Ben Myers
• Tyler Justin Smothers
• Kristen Grace

Beer Breath Kisses - Damon McKinney
In the Morning, The City Is the Prairie - Rob Roensch
Deep Vellum Books
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems - C.T. Salazar
Night Angler - Geffrey Davis
Hub City Press
Cleave - tiana nobile
Texas Review Press
Bull City Press
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

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I'm joined by author Luke Swanson to talk about our favorite adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 classic, A Christmas Carol. Not to give it away, but Kermit may be involved.
We talk about the book and the film and look at faithfulness and changes - including all of the music. If you're a fan of the story or the film, you're going to love the conversation. If you've never seen the movie, you'll be looking for it as soon as you finish listening.
Check it out and let us know what we got right (or wrong).

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Grab Luke's new book - Curtains on a Christmas Carol

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Welcome to Chapter 54!

My guest is debut novelist, Emily Habeck, author of Shark Heart: A Love Story. Emily has a BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts as well as master’s degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School and Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. Since it's release in August, Shark Heart has been named a USA Today Bestseller, a Book of the Month selection, a New York Times book review editor’s choice, and was the #1 Indie Next pick for August 2023. She is from Ardmore, Oklahoma and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

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Books mentioned on the show:
You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith
Smile - Sarah Ruhl
Bluets - Maggie Nelson
Fellowship Point - Alice Elliot Dark

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