Host Dan Roberts interview Dan Russell - GRIT LIT author and Dad. They Talk Arkansas, Grit Lit, being a Dad, and how to write about working class life.

Visit Dan Russell on X/Twitter at: @danrussellmfaOr Check out his website at: danrussellwrites.com

For more information on The Dad Lit Pod find us on X/Twitter@thedadlitpod or visit: https://drobertswhrc.wixsite.com/dgroberts

The Dad Lit Pod Intro and Outro by Author J.A. Bryden, visitJabryden.com for more from him.

Host Dan Roberts Introduces the new Intro and Outro by author and fellow Ninja Turtle Fanatic J.A. Bryden. (Also Dan mispronounces Ozzie - he already knows)

For more information on The Dad Lit Pod find us on X/Twitter@thedadlitpod or visit: https://drobertswhrc.wixsite.com/dgroberts

The Dad Lit Pod Intro and Outro by Author J.A. Bryden, visitJabryden.com for more from him

Dan interviews Rhyan Pike. Rhyan is a father of three, a former law enforcement officer and a veteran. He writes horror short stories for the No Sleep Podcast and the Creepy podcast.

In August 2025, his first novel Barrets Island will be released from Pheonix Voices Publlishing.

The short story we discussed on the pod can be found on Rhyan's Website, Humility.

In this episode Dan interviews Ryan Null, author of the Flare Chronicles fantasy series. Ryan is a dad and marketing force. He is also a caring dad who loves to share the blessings of reading and creating with the world.

Check out his book, The Flare Chronicles: Into The Blaze, an epic fantasy for the whole family: https://www.amazon.com/Flare-Chronicles-Into-Blaze/dp/1304297195

On this episode Dan interview Jay S. Bell. Jay is the author of many novels. Most can be found under the name Scott Bell. His most recent novel, Welcome to Cottonmouth, is a wild adventure with spies, guns, beautiful women, and lost of Texas spirit.

Pre-order a copy of Jay's book on Amazon, Available July 8, 2025 from Blackstone Publishing: https://a.co/d/8ou1jQC

Check out some of his other works at his Amazon author site: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Scott-Bell/author/B011CWYQUY?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=3e14dd59-3291-454e-ac94-4c1155a6cfce

In this Dad Lit Pod Audio Essay - Dan Roberts - your illustrious host - asks: Can Playing Games With Lit Boost Male Fiction Reading? And, proposes Tie-In novels as a method for engaging new readers in the gaming community - specificly the Warhammer 40K community.

Read works from The Black Library on their website: https://www.blacklibrary.com/

You can find Dan on X: @thedadlitpod - Follow him and join the Dad Lit conversation.

You can also visit he website: https://drobertswhrc.wixsite.com/dgroberts

Dan interviews author and dad Bob Armstrong about the rerelease of Bob's Book - Prodigies - a western about gift people who set out west and try to make a life for themselves.

Bob is also the author of Dadolescence - about being a dad and the challenges that come with that.

You can find Bob on substack: https://armstrongb.substack.com/

And you can find Prodigies from Roan and Weatherford later this year. (I will update and provide a link when we have a set date.

Our host, Dan tries something new. An audio essay: "How to Find the Literary Man"

In the essay Dan explains how he found Literary Men quites easily and why you wont find them in The New Yorker.

Publishers and books mentioned in this podcast include:

Shotgun Honey

The Scythian Wolf

The Owl men of Shanidar

Craig Terlson, and the Luke Fischer Series

Piketfire Press

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Dan Roberts is a literary man. He hosts The Dad Lit Pod, available on apple and spotify where he interviews literary men and, also, women about books written by dads, for dads or about dads. You can also find him on X, @thedadlitpod

His website is here: https://drobertswhrc.wixsite.com/dgroberts

Dan interviews Craig "Terly" Terlson, again! Terly has a new book in his Luke Fischer series, Sayulita Sucker. They discuss the new book, the sense of place created by food, the weight of guns in books, and all sorts of other Dad Lit topics.

Craig Terlson has a bunch of books available. You can get them all here: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/stores/Craig-Terlson/author/B008KOK3C8?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1743461986&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true⁠

You can also follow him on Substack at Terlson Talk Story: ⁠https://craigterlson.substack.com/

Dan interviews Timothy Robare. Tim and Dan discuss growing up in rural Vermont, Tim's grit, work effort, and his overcoming struggling to hear for much of his life.

He is an author of Romantic Poetry and Red Wall style fantasy novels.

For works by Timothy, see his linktree: https://linktr.ee/timothyrobare