The Kindle Chronicles

James and his Bengal cat, Serena

Links

Arlington Street Church, Boston

Sumbul Siddiqui, Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Internment by Samira Ahmed

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Next Week's Guest

Kathleen West, author of Minor Dramas and other Catastrophes - available for pre-order with delivery February 4, 2020

For my political podcast, please check out Edge Cast.

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Your host with Stacey Helbig and Elissa Mekel

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Staples Connect

Staples Connect grand opening invitation February 5, 2020

Staples Studio

RODEcaster Pro Podcast Production Studio

Pro Audio Design

Thomas G. Stemberg (1949 - 2015), founder of Staples

iHeart Radio

We Edit Podcasts

Everything Coworking podcast with Jamie Russo

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Founder of The Creative Penn and author of Audio for Authors

Links

Audio for Authors: Audiobooks, Podcasting, and Voice Technologies (Books for Writers Book 11) by Joanna Penn - Available for pre-order with delivery March 6, 2020

Books by Joanna Penn

Books by J. F. Penn

The Creative Penn podcast

Welcome to Night Vale

Digital Book World - September 14-15, 2020 in Nashville

Bradley Metrock

World War Z by Max Brooks

Audible and storytel

Audiobooks by Steven Erikson

BookBub

Smashwords

ACX

Kobo Writing Life

Kindle Unlimited and KDP Select

International Thriller Writers 2020 awards - including 2017 nomination of Destroyer of Worlds by J. F. Penn in "Best E-Book Original Novel" category

Books by James Scott Bell

The Books and Travel Podcast by Joanna Penn

Patreon

Click here to sign up for Joanna Penn's free Author 2.0 Blueprint and email mini-course

Joanna Penn's full course catalogue

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Author of Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness

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Books by Katharine Esty:

Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness - 2019

Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him - 2014

Workplace Diversity: A Manager's Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into a Competitive Advantage (Paperback only) - 1995

The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time (Hardcover only) - 1969

Skyhorse Publishing

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Author of "I Met Jeff Bezos in 1995 When He Had a Lame-Looking Website Called Amazon"

Interview starts at 11:10 and ends at 50:02

"He came in a bit shy and slightly nervous--febrile, slightly feverish is how I described him, and maybe he was. We got right down to business. We talked for a couple of minutes, and he told me about this business and the packing of the books and so on, and how there was this opportunity to sell books. He was already talking about being able to have a better margin, because there were no bricks and mortar. That was his fundamental shaping of it, of what his business was designed to do. We talked for a while. He told me a little bit about his background, and then he showed me his website."

Links

Amazon holiday press release - December 26, 2019

Craig Stoltz at LinkedIn

"I Met Jeff Bezos in 1995 When He Had a Lame-Looking Website Called Amazon" by Craig Stoltz at Washingtonian - December 27, 2019

HealthCare.gov

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Retired Science Editor of The Christian Science Monitor

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Cowan honored with Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) - May 31, 2001

Karl Taylor Compton, president of MIT 1930-1948

Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)

An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavsky

Prince Louis de Broglie, one of the founders of quantum physics

Edward Teller, known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"

"A Long-ago moment with Edward Teller" by Robert C. Cowen at The Christian Science Monitor - September 12, 2003

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At the Acropolis with Sonja and Anthony

Recorded on Crete December 18, 2019

Uploaded from Cambridge December 20, 2019

We are in Malta today. I created and uploaded this episode using my iPhone, which led to numerous unforeseen challenges. I hope you will be able to listen to it.

--Photo by John Earle

Author of Genesis

Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 43:00

Links

"Hey Google, play me the news" by Liz Gannes at Google's blog

Robin Cook TEDx talk (YouTube) at his alma mater, Wesleyan University - September 17, 2019

Books by Robin Cook: Coma, Cell, Pandemic, Marker

CRISPR-Cas9

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Director, Books PR & Editorial at Amazon.com

Interview starts at 11:47 and ends at 48:10

"We really want to choose books that we feel like customers will love or--in a non-pushy way--should love."

Links

"Alexa's voice can now express disappointment and excitement" by Jay Peters at The Verge - November 26, 2019

Alexa Skills Kit Blog post on new Emotions and Speaking styles - November 26, 2019

Sarah Gelman's posts at The Amazon Book Review

Amazon's Best Books of 2019 (amazon.com/bestbooks2019)

South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

Will the Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard

A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny

We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

"What I'm reading on my summer vacation" by Sarah Gelman at The Amazon Book Review - July 3, 2019

TV Shows mentioned: This is Us, A Million Little Things, Younger,

Next Week's Guest

Robin Cook, author of Genesis: A Novel, available for pre-order from G. P. Putnam's Sons, with release on December 3, 2019

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