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MICHAEL SINGER DOBSON is an internationally known project management consultant, author, and lecturer. He’s the author of twenty books on various aspects of project management, office politics, organizational dynamics, and personal growth. A popular seminar leader and keynote speaker, Dobson brings a practical real-world background, good humor, and a dynamic personal style to make his topics come alive. http://efanzines.com/RandomJottings/index.htm, https://www.facebook.com/michael.s.dobson, https://www.facebook.com/TimespinnerPress/?pnref=lhc, http://www.dobsonsolutions.com/Home.html, http://www.dobsonbooks.com/Site/Home.html ------------------- Michael Dobson Bio: ------------------- His book ENLIGHTENED OFFICE POLITICS (with Deborah Dobson) was named one of LIBRARY JOURNAL’s Top 100 Business Books for 2001.  His novels FOX ON THE RHINE and MACARTHUR’S WAR (both with Douglas NIles) were both selections of the Military Book Club. His simulation game BATTLESYSTEM (also with Doug Niles) won the H. G. Wells Award. His professional career prior to becoming a consultant includes: •Vice President of Discovery Software International, marketing and project management for commercial software development •Vice President of Games Workshop (US), marketing and business development for a UK-based game and toy company •Director of Marketing and New Product Development for TSR, Inc., a Wisconsin-based game company •President of Michael Dobson & Associates, a career counseling firm •Senior Consultant of The Résumé Place, Washington, DC, specializing in Federal employment strategies •Presentation Specialist/Museum Technician, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, helping to build the world’s most popular museum, with both curatorial/project management and public operations roles His client list has included the U.S. Navy’s nuclear program, Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Union Carbide, NASA, GSA Public Building Service, Australian State Rail, and many others. He recently authored the “Decision-Making” chapter for a NASA-sponsored textbook on systems engineering. He’s given well over a thousand seminars on three continents. Michael is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute. He lives in the Washington, DC, suburbs with his wife and frequent co-author Deborah Singer Dobson, an organizational development executive, their son James, two Shelties and a tarantula—and the only Apollo spacesuit in private hands. Reach him at [email protected]. For Michael’s fiction, visit www.dobsonbooks.com. --------------------- About Michael Dobson: --------------------- Before starting Timespinner Press and the The Story of a Special Day series, Michael Dobson had already written over 25 books, including novels, management and project management books, and historical studies. Dobson was part of the original team that built and opened the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC. He wrote and developed exhibits, authored articles for Smithsonian books on aircraft, and managed public operations of the Albert Einstein Spacearium. In the 1980s, Dobson was head of game design and marketing for TSR, publishers of Dungeons & Dragons, leading an exceptional creative team in the development of cutting-edge entertainment products. His bestselling book Practical Project Management has been called “the best project management book ever written. His book Enlightened Office Politics (co-authored with his wife Deborah) was named one of the 100 Best Business Books of 2001 by the prestigious Library Journal. Two of his novels were selected by the Military Book Club, and he won the H. G. Wells Award for game design for AD&D Battlesystem. His books have been translated into Chinese, German, Polish, and other languages. In 2010, Dobson was awarded the Samaritan Medal for Peace and Humanitarian Service by the indigenous Samaritan people for his work in Israel and

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/knowsh-tcast/id1350994664?mt=2 Jim Ward is a published author of multiple role playing games e.g. Metamorphosis Alpha and Gamma World, CCG's e.g. Spellfire and Dragon Ball Z and author of multiple novels and gaming books including the popular Storytellers Thesaurus. We talk with Jim Ward about his early life involving games, his past vocations, time at TSR, and current and future projects. https://www.facebook.com/DragonscalesFRPG/?hc_location=ufi, https://www.facebook.com/FSCgames/?hc_ref=ARSNhO2k_UCtidnrkmBfzCBUcd9yDBckZ7TZd82UE51y4DmLj-ISj1sbxtBUpKaY03E, http://firesidecreations.com/, http://www.trolllord.com/, https://www.trolllord.com/tlgstore/#!/Storytellers-Thesaurus/p/45956264/category=14267001, http://goodman-games.com/, http://goodman-games.com/ma/ ------------------------------------------------------------ James M. Ward (Game Designer) Bio: ------------------------------------------------------------ James M. Ward went to college to gain an education degree with majors in English and History. In 1974 he met Gary Gygax and began to turn out fantasy and science fiction product. Highlights of that work include: - METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA the first science fiction RPG - The Lost 77 Worlds science fiction apocalyptic RPG - GAMMA WORLD the first apocalypse RPG - DEITIES & DEMIGODS - GREYHAWK ADVENTURES - Hundreds of articles in STRATIGIC REVIEW, DRAGON MAGAZINE, POLYHEDRON, SCRYE, and CRUSADER journal. He has had success with several game companies: the GREAT SHAKES CHARLIE BROWN game, TAINTED LANDS the horror rpg, OF GODS AND MONSTERS, DARK OUTPOST, DARK VISITOR, and DARK COLONY. With his love of games and gaming he also took time to write a few novels along the way. His POOLS OF RADIANCE trilogy was on several best sellers lists and translated into 6 different languages. His HALCYON BLYTHE MIDSHIP WIZARD pair of novels hit the locus best seller list and was translated into Spanish and German. He did a series of game books in the Pick-a-Path style: TIME CURE, LOST PRINCE, G. I. JOE OPERATION WEAPONS DISASTER, LIGHT ON QUEST MOUNTAIN, and THE RING, THE SWORD, AND THE UNICORN. He has worked with several Hollywood production houses doing things like the animated cartoon G.I. JOE THE MOUNTAIN, Cap Com TOWER OF DOOM Video game, DC comics and several lines of fantasy licenses, and the HE-MAN series of Golden Books from Western Publishing. Part of his list of honors include: Canadian Young Readers Choice Award for Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe, Dragon Ball Z best CCG of the year, voted into the Game Designer Hall of Fame, and the TSR $2 million plaque for personally making TSR $2 million in one year. He’s been pleasantly married for a little over 43 years, has three grown sons, and six amazing grandchildren. He still tries to play games every week and can be talked into going to a convention or two every year.

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/knowsh-tcast/id1350994664?mt=2 An evening conversation with professional vocalist and lyricist Cat Hall, founding member of the band Dissonance. Join us for a chronological history of Cat/Dissonance as we discuss her albums and current/future projects. https://hakatak.bandcamp.com/ https://dissonanceband.bandcamp.com/album/void http://www.nilaihah.com/reincarnate.htm http://music.nebulae.com/album/chlorophyll

We take a deep dive with our guest Published Author and Game Designer Richard Balsley to talk about the history of tabletop game design and the state of modern day game creation. www.richardtbalsley.com

Ancient Aliens, Coral Castle, Sink Holes, a rod no bigger than your thumb and movies we don't like.

Orch OR. Orchestrated Reduction of Quantum Entangled Information in Micro-tubules in the Brain......because, what else would we be talking about on a Friday night? An interesting trip through Quantum Physics and Consciousness.... www.TheXFactory.com

Trippy Gods, Gods on High and Gary Gygax... I sit down with the Mad Historian Eric D. Smith to discuss psychotropic drugs and their influence on ancient religions. Yes, it gets strange.......

Satanism, Metal Music, Dungeons and Dragons and Light Beer.... Big brother Shane Frazier joins me and Eric D. Smith on his thesis about the Satanic Panic of the 70's and 80's.....

Mexicans aren't stealing your jobs.......I am!

Millennials, K-POP and the end of everything. We talk to one of the much vilified Millennials to find of if things are as bad as old people say.... The answers may surprise you!!!!