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Welcome to bonus episode 28 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

In this episode we have returning guest, writer Craig DiLouie to talk about his new book, a horror novel - The Children of Red Peak.

The survivors of a doomsday cult's horrific last days reunite to confront their past and the entity that appeared on the final night. Craig DiLouie's The Children of Red Peak (Redhook, November 17, 2020) examines belief, madness, and trauma in a psychological and supernatural horror novel.

Publisher's Weekly calls it a "chilling story of cult abuse… Horror readers will be hooked."

David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. As children, they survived a religious group's horrific last days at the isolated mountain Red Peak. Years later as adults, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind.

When a fellow survivor commits suicide, they finally reunite and share their stories. Long-repressed memories surface, defying understanding and belief. Why did their families go down such a dark road? What really happened on that final night? The answers lie buried at Red Peak. But truth has a price, and escaping a second time may demand the ultimate sacrifice.

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Welcome to bonus episode 27 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

In this episode the guest is, Jennifer Anne Gordon a gothic horror novelist.

Her work includes Beautiful, Frightening and Silent (2020) which is a finalist in the Kindle Book Review Awards, and From Daylight to Madness (The Hotel book 1).

Coming out in November 2020 is the concluding book, When the Sleeping Dead Still Talk (The Hotel book 2).

She has a collection of her mixed media artwork published during spring of 2020, entitled Victoriana: mixed media art of Jennifer Gordon.

Jennifer is also one of the hosts as well as the creator of Vox Vomitus, a video podcast on the Global Authors on the Air Network, as well as the Co-Host of the You Tube Channel.

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Welcome to bonus episode 26 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

In this episode, Nina Munteanu is the guest. Nina is a limnologist / water ecologist and teach writing at The University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Her non-fiction book "Water Is..." was selected by Margaret Atwood in the NYT 'Year in Reading' as her recommended choice to read in 2016.

Her fiction book, "A Diary in the Age of Water" follows the climate-induced journey of the Earth and humanity through four generations of women, each with a unique relationship to her world and to water. Water plays both metaphoric and literal roles in this allegorical tale of humanity's final journey from home—where male sterility, heat-shock proteins, horizontal gene transfer, and virgin-births rule a changing world of water securitization through ambitious environmental manipulation.

The cli-fi novel begins centuries from now in the dying northern boreal forest with young KYO, a blue water nymph with multiple arms who dreams of the past and of being a normal human. She is on her way to the library to memorize a textbook on the Age of Water and there discovers a piece of her past from that age when The Water Twins destroyed the world. The central part of the story is a diary by a limnologist, whose personal account creates a terrifying realism to the geo-political tension of water securitization, plague containment, and police oppression.

Check out Nina's websites for further details:

Books - www.ninamunteanu.ca

Teaching www.ninamunteanu.me.

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Welcome to bonus episode 25 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

In this episode, Edward Willett is the guest. Ed is a writer and podcaster. He is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages.

The Moonlit World is his eleventh novel for New York's DAW Books, one of the world's major publishers of science fiction and fantasy. He won Canada's Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009 for Marseguro (DAW Books), and a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2002 for his young-adult fantasy Spirit Singer, recently re-released by Shadowpaw Press, and has been shortlisted for both awards multiple times.

Upcoming works include a young-adult science fiction novel, Star Song, for Shadowpaw Press, and The Tangled Stars, a new space-opera adventure for DAW Books.

Willett also hosts The Worldshapers podcast, which won the 2019 Aurora Award for Best Fan Related Work, featuring conversations with science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process; Shapers of Worlds, a Kickstarted anthology featuring some of the bestselling, award-winning authors who were guests on that podcast during the first year, comes out from Shadowpaw Press in e-book format on September 22 and in print on November 14.

Check out Ed's website for further details on him and links to his works - Edward Willett

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Welcome to the Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

Join your host - longtime Constant Reader - writer/podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.

Welcome to Episode 110 of The Stephen King Podcast!

Filmmaker Julia Marchese has just announced her new project and comes on the podcast to talk about it. Marchese will next be adapting Stephen King's short story I Know What You Need into a short film which she will also direct. The Indiegogo campaign to fund the film launches Monday, October 5th and runs until Saturday, October 24. Marchese's first film was the 2016 documentary Out of Print about the importance of revival cinema and 35mm film exhibition to culture & featured interviews with Rian Johnson, Edgar Wright, Kevin Smith, Joe Dante, Patton Oswalt, Seth Green and many more. The film played around the world, is now streaming online and the 35mm print of the film is now a part of The Academy Film Archive. Marchese acquired the film rights to the story as part of Stephen King's Dollar Baby Program, which allows the rights to certain short stories of his to be bought for one dollar (and you really do send Stephen King a dollar bill in the mail). The contract states that the rights are good for one year, and the resulting film must be 45 minutes or under, plus the film must be non-profit, non-broadcast. Another requirement of Dollar Baby contract is that all of the finished short films must be sent to him to view. That means you can be part of a project that Stephen King himself will watch. I Know What You Need is a short story that was first featured in the September 1976 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and then compiled into the short story collection Night Shift in 1978. The story centers on Elizabeth, a popular college junior who is approached one night by Edward, an unkempt outcast whose first words to her are "I Know What You Need" - and she is shocked to discover that he does. The film will be set in the year the story was first published - 1976. The film will be shot on the gorgeous campus of the University of Maine, where Stephen King attended and where the story is set. That means this film will be shot in the exact same locations that Stephen King wrote about in the story. Marchese is an avid Stephen King fan and has been a loyal Constant Reader since she was a child. In addition to reading his works growing up, she has also spent the last two and a half years reading over 40 of Stephen King's books that are a part of his vast multiverse connected to The Dark Tower series. She is also a film programmer, actor and the co-host of the popular horror podcast Horror Movie Survival Guide. She is beyond thrilled at this opportunity to adapt her favorite short story by her favorite author for the screen. Her Indiegogo campaign runs from October 5 -24, and she appreciates shares just as much as donations!

Julia Marchese in front of Stephen King's house in Bangor, Maine.

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2) 00:30 - King Talk

3) 49:25 - Outro

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Welcome to bonus episode 24 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

In this episode we have a returning guest, writer - V.S. Holmes, author of two series, the Nel Bentley SF series and the fantasy series, The Reforged books.

Check V.S. Holmes website for their other works - V.S. Holmes

where you can find out more about their latest books in the:

Nel Bentley - SF series

and the Reforged fantasy series:

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Welcome to a special bonus episode of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

For your listening pleasure here is a special bonus episode as Lou Sytsma conducts an interview with returning guest Hugo & Nebula Award Winning SF Author - Robert J. Sawyer.

We cover a broad range of topics plus a discussion of his latest book - The Oppenheimer Alternative.

On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit history…with a twist. While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion—the mechanism that powers the sun.

Hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, we want to hear from you.

Good or bad, we want it all!

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2) 00:30 - Robert J. Sawyer Interview

3) 55:43 - Outro

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Welcome to the Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

Join your host - longtime Constant Reader - writer/podcaster - Lou W. Sytsma.

Welcome to Episode 109 of The Stephen King Podcast!

This episode's a biggie folks! Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library makes a return to the podcast! He brings up to date on how his book is doing plus his experiences as a Stephen King lecturer in Sweden.

You can find out more about the book on Lilja's site - Shining In The Darkness.

Also returning is Tyson Blue who has a limited edition book that features the screenplays from The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

You can find out details about the book here - HOPE AND MIRACLES: "THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION" AND "THE GREEN MILE" (TWO SCREENPLAYS BY FRANK DARABONT)

We also talk about the latest Stephen King news and King highlights for each of us over the past year.

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3) 1:20:52 - Outro

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Welcome to special bonus episode 22 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

In this installment, American author Kathrin Hutson, author of the 2019 International Book Awards Finalist, Sleepwater Beat, a fast-paced, near-future - returns to talk about her followup book in the series - Sleepwater Static.

They say home is where the heart is. Now that Sleepwater's on the run, home is just another place to hide. Wyoming's Sleepwater chapter is on the run, hunted for their ability to spin a beat. With little time to mourn the members they've lost, Bernadette Manney takes the group to the one place she swore she'd never see again: the cabin in Hollywood, South Carolina. It's remote enough to lay low and catch a break, but not for long. Their beats are condemned as mutations, radical terrorist tactics, and felonies punishable both by and outside the law. Bernadette thought Sleepwater would be safe here, but returning to her Southern roots unleashes more demons than she left behind. Her past, her love, and even her own flesh and blood won't let her move on through a venomous society intent on rooting out her people. Now, to bring a mother's first child safely into an unsafe world, Bernadette must face her own shame from before Sleepwater itself was born. But redemption and forgiveness may be too much to ask, and it may just be too late.

You can find all Kathrin's books - here.

Visit Kathrin's website to find out more about her - here.

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Welcome to bonus episode 21 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners!

In this installment, an interview with author - MJ Huston.

About The Author:

His third novel: HIGHWAYMAN, a thriller, was published July 02, 2019 with WildBlue Press.

He has also published scores of short stories in anthologies around the world. In addition to writing, MJ is an artist and an amateur photographer.

The sequel to Highwayman, titled: FOUR, is out and available for purchase. Check out his website - MJ Huston - for details.

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