Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

Lexi Freiman and Dani Vee chat about identity politics and how this impacts our world and perspectives. We discuss the book Inappropriation and how complex current ideologies have become because of our connected world. Is the only way to survive, to embrace ambiguity?

Listen to us talk about this whacky book that'll make you laugh out loud and then re-think everything you thought you knew.

Listen out for the New York traffic in the background. It's awesome.

Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child joins Dani Vee for the 50th episode of the podcast!

Christian takes us through the writing process of developing compelling thrillers and how editing impacts good writing. We also discuss decay theory and we remember the past.

We chat about the media release of an upcoming film adaptation of the book developed by Carver Films, and Anonymous Content who have developed 13 Reasons Why, The Revenant, Babel and True Detective.

The Nowhere Child has broken the record for the fastest selling Australian debut novel ever, with over 25,000 sales in the first eight weeks.

Sarah Epstein, author of Small Spaces chats to Dani Vee about writing psychological thrillers for young adults and creating well-drawn characters. The podcast provides a great insight into the publishing world.

We discuss why carnivals are so terrifying, the importance of setting and why we need to matter.

Listen to a quick sound bite of the amazing authors Dani Vee has interviewed:

Trent Dalton

Angela Meyer

Jack Heath

Megan Golden

Michael Pryor

Bridie Jabour

Tristan Bancks

Will Kostakis

Paige Toon

Craig Johnson

This episode has a TRIGGER WARNING as the episode and book centre around date rape, consent and suicide. Please take care when listening to this episode, and if you think it may cause you distress please skip it and listen to another episode.

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Gabrielle Reid and Dani Vee chat at Belmont Library about the book The Things We Can't Undo and the importance of consent.

Trent Dalton chats to Dani Vee about his beautiful and harrowing novel Boy Swallows Universe.

Trent and Dani chat like old friends in this entertaining, brutally honest and insightful interview about the writing process for Boy Swallows Universe. Based on Trent's own childhood experiences, he chats about the impact Arthur 'Slim' Halliday had on his childhood and the people who shaped him.

Trent and Dani discuss the impact of time and how the world would differ without our obsession with age and ageing, and we reminisce about growing up the 80s, a wonderful time to grow up in Australia.

If the book breaks your heart, the podcast will make you nostalgic as well as give you a laugh.

S.A. Jones chats to Dani Vee about her remarkable novel The Fortress.

The Fortress offers a fascinating, timely, and often challenging alternative to patriarchal society. The Fortress itself is many things - a self-sustaining city-state run by women, a space to atone for toxic masculinity, and the site of male sexual submission.

To step into The Fortress is to be altered forever. Join us as we chat about toxic masculinity, atonement, moral ambiguity and forgiveness. A beautifully unique novel!

Angela Meyer's brilliant debut novel A Superior Spectre is bold, uncomfortable and beautifully written. This unique novel explores gender, human desire, consent, feminism and technological advances that provide us with the ability to alter history.

Angela Meyer chats about her writing process, her experience in the publishing industry, what makes a good manuscript and everything in between.

A wonderful interview for readers who enjoy complex literature that explores humanity and autonomy from two distinct contexts.

Sarah Bailey, best selling crime fiction novelist of The Dark Lake chats about her new novel Into The Night, as well as providing insight into the third book featuring Detective Gemma Woodstock.

Into The Night is set in Melbourne and centres around the murder of a celebrity, with hundreds of witnesses and many suspects. The novel focuses on the issues with celebrity, the dark side of humanity, homelessness and troubled individuals.

Gemma Woodstock is a beautifully created and complex character, Sarah chats about her writing process and developing a character with such complexity.

Raymond A. Villareal chats to Dani Vee about his incredibly unique and intelligent novel 'A People's History of the Vampire Uprising - A novel.'

We chat about the novel as a social commentary including the corruption in politics, discrimination, religion, the law, the impact of social media and how the novel becomes a reflection of modern life. Perhaps it will one day become a history of humanity. We also chat about Taylor Swift and the probability of her re-creating into an gloaming. The conversation goes deep and then we chat about pop culture. An excellent chat not to be missed.

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