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Since young boyhood, John has tried to be a compassionate person. He has been in love with the English language for as long as he can remember. His parents read to John and his siblings and told them stories. They had a small standing whiteboard with the alphabet surrounding the edges. John would choose letters and write them on the board, asking his Mother if they made a word. She told him he amazed her with how often his letter choices formed actual words.

John has found richness in many art forms. He draws and paints (mostly portraits), writes songs, and is very active in theatre. In his fifth grade library he discovered mythology books, supported by his teacher. He also started reading Shakespeare's plays—though there was much in the plays that he didn't understand, he fell in love with the language. In junior high John started writing poetry, and in high school he edited the school's creative writing publication, which he did again when at Graceland College.

John got a B.A. in English. His first semester two friends, who did plays, dragged him to the auditions for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He got cast in two small parts, and fell in love with theatre. John got a strong minor in theatre, and wrote a play his senior year that was a finalist for a national contest. John continued writing and a few years later earned his Master's in theatre from Central Missouri University. He was commissioned to write a play about local history, which he directed for the town's theatre group, and wrote another play, Children of the Pelican, for his Master's thesis.

John then went straight to UC—Santa Barbara, where got his doctorate in Dramatic Art. He directed some one act plays from the play-writing program. He also appeared in some other plays. He wrote his dissertation about a San Francisco production of a play about Jesus at the same time California was preparing for a vote on a new state constitution. Eugene O'Neill's father, James O'Neill, was arrested for playing Christ on a professional stage.

During his last summer, John went to Kirtland, Ohio to direct and act in a play he had been commissioned to write by the Community of Christ for the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Kirtland Temple. He later received special citations from two different history associations.

John has written many blogs on Kansas City history, and several stories and poems for children. He also has a book titled The Prayer of Mathias and Other Plays for Worship.

He is now working to get a publisher for his novel, Quite at Leisure, or, Second Impressions, his sequel to Pride and Prejudice, or, First Impressions.

John is in his 30th year of marriage to his wonderful and beautiful wife, Hemdah Salonimer-Horner, a brilliant pianist and piano teacher.

Laurence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021)

Ferlinghetti's most famous work, Coney Island of the Mind, (1958). Also co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard (August 24, 1966) based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet

University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri

Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa

Community of Christ Church, Independence, Missouri

John's plays, The Prayer of Mathias, Arches, Who Shot Old Drum, Children of the Pelican, The Kirkland Rehearsal, The Dancing Tyrant

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, and Jane Austen's collected works, Love & Friendship

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon

John's unpublished novel, Quite at Leisure: Or Second Impressions

PodMatch, A dating service for podcasters

patreon.com/StoryPower

"Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories." ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist

Justin Lamb is a successful podcast host, musician, and future therapist. Over the years, he has shifted his passions from music to the mind. He as an advocate for sobriety, therapy, and trauma research. Justin shifted his professional focus in his mid-thirties to become a therapist and transform his passion for items into a career. As a musician, Justin has played across the country and successfully funded a studio album through Kickstarter.

Justin's Podcast: Friend Request, website, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok

Find Justin's music here

Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku

"Every Life is a Library" Douglas Oral History Project, Story-Power Episode, June 9, 2021

Oakland University, Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan

Friend Request Episode 057, Katie Allen, Memoir about Senegal

Friend Request Episode 082, Don Wildman, Cities of the Underworld

Julia Cameron, The Artists Way, It's Never Too Late to Begin Again, Seeking Wisdom

What Should I Read Next with Anne Bogel, Episode 307, Allison Fallon, "Writers start as readers"

Ted Lasso, An Apple + original series

"Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories." ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist

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Sharon Hart-Green's debut novel COME BACK FOR ME is a gripping story of trauma, loss, and the redemptive power of love set in the aftermath of World War II. It was chosen as the inaugural fiction offering of The New Jewish Press (a new imprint of the University of Toronto Press). It was released on June 1, 2017 (paper) and Jan. 2020 (ebook).

Sharon received her PhD in Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and has taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at the University of Toronto. Her first book NOT A SIMPLE STORY (Lexington Books) was a study of the work of Hebrew novelist S. Y. Agnon. Her second book, BRIDGING THE DIVIDE (Syracuse University Press), is a compilation of her translations of the Hebrew poems of Hava Pinhas-Cohen.

In addition, Sharon's short stories, poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in a number of publications, including Midstream, The Jewish Review of Books, and JewishFiction.net.

She is currently at work on a second novel, about the mystical inclinations of a young man in search of love.

Come Back For Me, Sharon Hart-Green

The Space Between Time, Lucinda Sage-Midgorden

Moshe Mikanovsky, Writer, The Resurrector, Story-Power Eps. 33 and 37

Beth Henson and Ceci Lewis, The Douglas Oral History Project, Story-Power Ep. 24

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin, PBS Mini Series (2002), Benjamin Franklin (April 4, 2022 PBS) A Ken Burns film

John Adams (2008) Mini Series, on HBO Max Book, David McCullough

A.D. Trosper, Story-Power Ep. 28, Stacy Bennett, Story-Power Ep. 29

Elizabeth Strout, Writer, Olive Kitteridge, Mini Series, (2014)

Amy and Elizabeth

Jhumpa Lahiri, Writer,

Whereabouts, The Lowland, Unaccustomed Earth, The Namesake

Jane Austen, Writer,

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and more

Charles Dickens, Writer,

A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and more

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Writer,

The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and more

Leo Tolstoy, Writer,

Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Kingdom of God is Within You, and more

Gustav Flaubert, Writer,

Madame Bovary, The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, and more

Honore de Balzac, Writer,

Pere Forint, Droll Stories, The Human Comedy, Lost Illusions, and more

The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling

Eleanor, David Michaels

George Eliot, (Mary Ann Evans) Writer,

Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, and more

Sharon's Website: https://www.sharonhartgreen.com, LinkedIn, Facebook

"Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories." ~ Roger D. Schank, Cognitive Scientist

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Dr. Ellen Frankel served for eighteen years as Editor in Chief and CEO of The Jewish Publication Society. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton.

She is the author of eleven books, including The Classic Tales; The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols; The Five Books of Miriam; The Jewish Spirit; and The Illustrated Hebrew Bible. With Rabbi Goldie Milgram, she co-edited two volumes of Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning; and was a contributor to Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, and Quran, edited by Brian Arthur Brown.

Dr. Frankel has published three books for young people. Her JPS Illustrated Children's Bible, won the 2010 National Jewish Book Award.

Dr. Frankel travels widely as a storyteller, lecturer, and scholar-in-residence.

Several of Frankel's portraits of biblical women were set to music by Andrea Clearfield in her oratorio, Women of Valor, commissioned by Hadassah of Southern California and premiered by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony in 2000. She and Clearfield later added a new piece, "Hagar." She was also commissioned to write the libretto for Clearfield's oratorio, The Golem Psalms, which premiered in Philadelphia in 2006. Dr. Frankel's first opera, Slaying the Dragon, with music by Michael Ching, had its world premiere in Philadelphia in 2012. Her second opera, The Triangle Fire, premiered in New York in 2017. Her next work, Beyond the Binary, with Andrea Clearfield, about robots, artificial intelligence, and gender, will premiere in Philadelphia in Spring 2022.

Dr. Frankel is currently at work on a new series, The Jerusalem Mysteries, featuring Israeli intelligence agent, Maya Rimon. The first two books, The Deadly Scrolls and The Hyena Murders, will be published in 2022.

Dr. Frankel lives in Florida and Maine with her husband. She has two grown children and three grandchildren.

Ellen Frankel's Books

The Classic Tales

The Deadly Scrolls, Ellen Frankel (pre-order drops in May 2022)

The Hyena Murders, Ellen Frankel (book 2 of The Jerusalem Mysteries, drops November 2022)

Children's Bible, Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols, A Woman's Commentary on the Five Books of Moses

Dov Noy, Jewish Virtual Library, Hebrew stories of refugees to Israel after WW II, Ellen working on publishing those stories Librettist for composer, Andrea Clearfield, (Facebook, Apple Music) Opera, Women of Valor, based on Ellen's book, The Five Books of Miriam

Robert Ludlum, Author, The Bourne Identity series.

Beyond the Binary Opera about AI, Robots, and Gender with the Mendelssohn Choir, Philadelphia, PA

Slaying the Dragon Opera Philadelphia, based on "Not by the Sword", (author) to be revived by Michael Ching in 2023

Opera based on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Patchakanak, Peruvian Folk Tale (check spelling)

Opera Philadelphia, David Davan

McDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

Folk tales of Western Africa, Uncle Remus stories, Native American Tales, The Illiad, The Odyssey

The Space Between Time, Lucinda Sage-Midgorden

#PodMatch

The Jewish Publication Society, Jewish Braille Institute International

audible.com

A.D. (Audra) Trosper, Stacy Bennett, authors of fantasy novels, Story-Power episodes 28, 29.

Julee Balko, The Things We Keep

WSIRN, episode 307, Allison Fallon, The Power of Writing it Down, Find Your Voice website

Elizabeth George, mystery author

DigDeep Navajo Water Project, Charity:Water, Mercy Corps, Water and much more

Books discussed

Migrations, Charlotte Mcconaghy

Finding the Mother Tree, Susanne Sigard

Overstory, Richard Power

Robert Crummey, Bedlam, etc.

Louise Penny, author, Inspector Gamache series

Daniel Silva, author Gabriel Allon series

Ann Cleeves, author The Two Rivers series

Code Breaker, Steve Jobs, Walter Issacson

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry

Apeirogon: A Novel, Colum McCann

Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

H is for Hawk, Helen Mcdonald

Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings series

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Caribbean Literature

Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

"Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories." ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist

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Gedaly is a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and content pro. He loves Shakespeare, Kung Fu movies, and geeking out about technology.

He's the co-founder of Working.Actor, writer of adventure movies, and occasional singer. One day he hopes to become a mad scientist!

The Marx Brothers Movies

Charlie Chaplin, Favorite Director, Films,

City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin, Director and Writer

The Great Dictator (1940) Charlie Chaplin, Director and Writer

Burgled (2020) Short, Gedaly Guberek, Ruben Guberek, Directors, Gedaly Guberek, Writer

Jackie Chan, Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema, Producer, Actor, Stunts, (Favorite Director)

Jet Li, Beijing, China, Actor, Producer, Martial Artist

Fearless (2006), Ronny Yu, Director, Chris Chow, Christine To, Writers

Cirque du Soleil, Entertainment Company, Las Vegas

Kung Fu forms mentioned: Choy Li Fut, Wing Chun, Tai Chi,

Japanese form mentioned: Sun- style T'ai Chi Ch'uan

Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) Alfred Hitchcock, Director, Ben Hecht, Writer

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Robert Wiene, Director, Carl Mayer, Writer

Martin Scorsese, Producer, Director, Actor

working.actor.com

Foundation TV Series (2021 – ) Josh Friedman and David S. Goyer, Creators, Issac Asimov, Novels, Podcast

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

#PodMatch, How I met Gedaly and many other great Story-Power Guests

William Shakespeare plays mentioned

As You Like It

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Greg McKeown

The War of Art:Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Steven Pressfield

Gedaly's Personal Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube

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Lala Drona (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan-American painter and videaste, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since published and exhibited her work internationally. Most recently, her videos and paintings exploring digital spaces and the female gaze, were shown at the Cite des Arts de Paris. Inspired by her experience of growing up with a unilateral breast agenesis, her paintings, videos, and writing explore "transitions between the virtual and the real" and "women in the digital world." The totality of her artwork contributes to, and exists within a fictional universe and mythology established online and then recontextualized in the physical world through paint on canvas, performance, and sculpture.

Lala Drona is currently creating a documentary which recounts her experience growing up with a unilateral breast agenesis. The documentary follows her through her final reconstructive surgeries in her adult life. Topics cover "shame," "secrets," and the role of the human body in our everyday social interactions.

Lala Drona dealt with her secret body by creating a fictional universe from a young age, one in which she still uses today for creative inspiration http://www.basedonafact.com

See her paintings and videos www.laladrona.com

Lala's YouTube Channel, Instagram, Website, Facebook, Twitter

Exhibition at Powerhouse, Lousanne, Switzerland, March 8, screening her art video for the opening.

Unilateral Breast agenesis

Stephen Hawking

Amazonian Myth

Visit Paris, France

The Louvre

Musèe d'Orsay

Notre-Dame Cathedral

Chartre Cathedral

Cathedral of Sainte-Croix, Orléans

Sedona, Arizona

Visit Greece, home of the myth of the Amazons

Ivan Bodley, Story-Power Ep. 35 "Am I Famous Yet"

Now, Voyager (1942) Irving Rapper, Director, Olive Higgins Prouty, Novel, Casey Robinson, Screenplay

Foundation TV series (2021 – ) Josh Friedman, David S. Goyer, Creators, Alex Graves, and 5 other, Directors, Issac Asimov, Novel series

Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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A bearded nerd from Iran in his mid 20's, with a particular interest in the motion pictures as a hobby, career and general life. Has a very high opinion of Jeremy Irons, adores Westerns and Musicals and loves movies from the 1960s.

Ali Khamseh YouTube Channel, LinkedIn, Instagram

Hammer Film Production Ltd., Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing

Arizona Dream (1993) Emir Kusturica, Director, David Atkins and Emir Kusturica, Writers

#PodMatch What I call, "A dating site for podcasters and their guests."

Dracula: Prince of Darkness,(1966) Terence Fisher, Director, Based on a character by Bram Stoker, Jimmy Sangster and Anthony Hinds, Screenplay

The Devil Rides Out, (1968) Terence Fisher, Director, Dennis Wheatley, Novel, Richard Matheson, Screenplay

The Curse of Frankenstein, (1957) Terence Fisher, Director, Mary Shelley, based on her novel, Jimmy Sangster, Screenplay

The Gorgon, (1964) Terence Fisher, Director, J. Llewellyn Devine, Story, John Gilling, Screenplay

Horror Express (1972) Eugenio Martin, Director, Arnaud d'Usseau, Julian Zimet, Screenplay

New Hammer films:

The Woman In Black, (2012), James Watkins, Director, Susan Hill, Novel, Jane Goldman, Screenplay, Staring, Daniel Radcliffe

Let Me In, (2010) Matt Reeves, Director, Matt Reeves, Screenplay based on John Ajvide Lindqvist for "Låt den rätte komma in"

The Resident, (2011) Antti Jokinen, Director, Antti Jokinen, Robert Orr, Screenplay

Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, (1977) One of the most famous movies on the planet

Firefly, (2002 – 2003) TV Series created by Joss Whedon

Serenity, (2005) Joss Whedon, Director and Screenplay

Logan, (2017) James Mangold, Director and Story, Scott Frank, Michael Green, Screenplay

The Father, (2020) Florian Zeller, Director, Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, Screenplay

Silence of the Lambs, (1991) Jonathan Demme, Director, Thomas Harris, Novel, Thomas Harris, Ted Tally, Screenplay

The Capture of the Green River Killer, (2008) TV Mini Series Norma Bailey, Director, Dave Reichert, Book, John Pielmeier, Writer

Sergio Leone, Italian Director

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, (1966) Sergio Leone, Director, Agenore Incrocci, Screenplay

Eli Wallach, American Character Actor

The Godfather, part III, (1990)Francis Ford Coppola, Director, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Screenplay

My Fair Lady, (1964) George Cukor, Director, George Bernard Shaw, Play, Alan Jay Lerner, Screenplay, Frederick Loewe, André Previn, Music

Mary Poppins, (1964) Robert Stephenson, Director, P.L. Travers "Mary Poppins" books, Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Screenplay

Camelot, (1967) Joshua Logan, Director, T.H. White, Novel, "The Once and Future King", Alan Jay Lerner, Screenplay, Frederick Loewe, Lyrics, Alfred Newman, Conductor

Ursula in The Little Mermaid, (1989) Ron Clements, John Musker, Directors, Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tale, John Musker, Ron Clements, Screenplay

Scar in The Lion King, (1994) Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, Directors, Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton, Screenplay

AK88 Studios, Ali's other YouTube channel.

Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah

The Lighthouse, (2019) Robert Eggers, Director, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, Screenplay

News of the World, (2020) Paul Greengrass, Director, Paulette Jiles, Novel, Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies, Screenplay

Bill and Ted Face the Music, (2020) Dean Parisot, Director, Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon, Screenplay

Pig, (2021) Nicholas Cage, Star, Michael Sarnoski, Director, Vanessa Block, Michael Sarnoski, Screenplay

Annette, (2021) Leos Carax, Director, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Original Story

Suicide Squad, (2016) David Ayer, Director, David Ayer, John Ostrander (Comic book) Screenplay

Zack Snyder, American Director

Ryan Reynolds Films

Free Guy, (2021) Shawn Levy, Director, Matt Lieberman, Zak Penn, Screenplay

Deadpool, (2016) Tim Miller, Director, Rhett Teese, Paul Wernick, Screenplay

Woman in Gold, (2015) Simon Curtis, Maria Altmann's Life Story, E. Randol Schoenberg, Life Story, Alexi Kay Campbell, Screenplay

Artist Gustav Klimt

Defiance, (2008) Edward Zwick, Director, Nechama Tec Book, "Defiance: the Bielski Partisans", Clayton Frohman, Edward Zwick, Screenplay

The Forgotten Battle, (2020) Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., Director, Jesse Maiman, Story, Paula lander Test, Pauline van Mantgem, Screenplay

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Copyright 2011

Michael Palin, Travels of a Lifetime, (2020 – 2021), TV Series, Andrew Abbott, Director

Tombstone, (1993) George P. Cosmastos Kevin Jarre, Directors, Kevin Jarre, Screenplay

The Queen's Gambit, (2020) TV Mini Series, Scott Frank, Allan Scott, Creators

Mad Men, (2007 – 2015) TV Series, Matthew Weiner, Creator

Squid Game, (2001 -) TV Series, Hwang Dong-hyuk, Director and Screenwriter

Southern Poverty Law Center

The Nightmare Before Christmas, (1993) Henry Selick, Director, Tim Burton, Story and Characters, Michael McDowell, Adaptation, Caroline Thompson, Screenwriter

Martin Scorsese,American Director, Producer, Actor, Writer

Turner Classic Movies

Movies Restored by Martin Scorsese, The Film Foundation – World Cinema Project,

Iranian: Downpour, (1972) Bahram Beyzaie, Director and Writer,Iranian title: Ragbar

Turkish: Dry Summer, (1963) Metin Erksan, Director,Law of the Border, (1966) Lütfi Akad, Director

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, (2011) Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Director, Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Cylan, Screenplay

John Ford, American Director, Producer, Actor

"Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories." ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist

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Tara is a body freedom coach, a personal trainer, a speaker, a writer, a mom, and a wife. After spending most of her life trying to shrink her body and her voice, she is finally able to take up the space in the world that she has always been worthy of. She coaches women with body image issues to discover that the magic they are looking for in the world actually lies within them. Tara uses movement and mindset to help unlock the inner strength and power of her clients.

Tara's Website TWT Academy

Social Media, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok

#the_female_lead on Instagram

The Body is not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor

Dr. Maria Church, Story-Power ep. 25, Books,Love Based Leadership: The Model for Leading with Strength, Grace and Authenticity, Love Based Leadership: Transform your life with Meaning and Abundance, A Course in Leadership: 21 Spiritual Lessons on Power, Love and Influence, Published by Dudley Court Press

Moshe Mikanovsky, Story-Power eps. 33 and 37 and The Resurrector, Published by New Degree Press

PodMatch, a "dating service for podcasters"

Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life, Founder of Hay House Publishing

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I am an actor, artist, Singer and general crafter.

I am a fan of DnD, Shadowrun, LARP, Creative Writing and literature.

I am keen to discuss the ways that people and communities express themselves through performance and creativity.

I am also the host of Yorick Radio Productions.

The Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling

The Lord of the Rings series, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia, series, C. S. Lewis

The Rats of NIMH, series, Robert C. O'Brien

Yorick Radio Productions

Mind Waves News, Podcast accessible here.

Resistance: A Graphic Novel, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Ben H. Winters

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame Smith

The Cadfael Chonicles, Ellis Peters

The Circle of Ceridwen Saga, Octavia Randolph

Axiom's End: A Novel, Lindsay Ellis

Novels by Stephen King

The Stand

The Green Mile

The Shawshank Redemption

Pet Cemetery

The Shining

Rosie's Social Media

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook

"Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories." ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist

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Jim Markus hosts Frugal Living, a podcast for smart shoppers and savers. He works as an editor at Brad's Deals, where he evaluates and negotiates deals for bargain hunters.

Jim is also a writer, game developer, and event producer. He founded The Secret Society of Writing Duelists (and cofounded The Ink & Blood Dueling Society), a comedy-writing and theater group noted for appearances around the United States. He designed Fortunes: The Tarot Card Storytelling Game, which came out this year.

Brad's Deals, website and Frugal Living podcast

The Ink and Blood Dueling Society, the secret society of writing duelists

Video games mentioned: Dread with Jenga, Fall of Magic

Jim's video game: Fortunes: The Tarot Card Story Telling Game

Bring Your Own Theatre Productions, Chicago, Illinois

The Truck, Truck, Theatre

826 Literacy Program, Wicker Park Secret Agent Supply Company in Chicago

Eternity Games, More Known Books, Imprint for Jim's books

Write With Lions, Jim Markus

New Wave Coffee Shop, Chicago, Illinois

The Ink and Blood Society Doesn't Exist, Jim Markus

The Bechdel Test

A.D. Trosper, Author, Dragon's Call series

Stacy Bennett, Author, Corthan Legacy

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, (2006 – 2007) Aaron Sorkin, Creator

Charles Huth, personal website, Northside Comic Artist Project

Twitch.TV

PodMatch a site for Podcasters

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