On this episode, Benjamin Gorman pops down to Grants Pass, Oregon to gab with Gianaclis Caldwell, Michael Niemann, Kate Ristau, Casey Dunn, and Heather S. Ransom. An outdoor writing event was canceled because of fires, so we made a show at the Oregon Pizza and Pour Authority!

Today’s secret word is: Lasers!

Today’s episode is brought to you by Marc Janssen’s poetry collection November Reconsidered:

https://www.amazon.com/November-Reconsidered-Marc-Janssen/dp/B09BCGMBJW

Here’s Benjamin’s review of Marc’s book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R102GI3B9F4SCG

Benjamin Gorman’s The Convention of Fiends, Book 2: You Were Warned is available now!

Pre-order on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CJ7XN6BV

Or get your paperback or hardcover copies from the Not a Pipe Publishing store and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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RSVP for Benjamin and Kate’s joint launch party on October 28th here: https://fb.me/e/1o1Ry7YFT

Find Gianaclis Caldwell here: https://gianacliscaldwell.com/

Find Michael Niemann here: https://michael-niemann.com/

Find Kate Ristau here: https://kateristau.com/

Get 25% off when you buy her whole Shadow Girls Saga here: https://not-a-pipe-publishing.square.site/s/shop

Find Casey Dunn here: https://www.caseydunnbooks.com/

Find Heather S. Ransom here: http://www.heathersransom.ink/

Get 25% off when you buy her whole Going Green trilogy here: https://not-a-pipe-publishing.square.site/s/shop

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Annie Carl, author of NEBULA VIBRATIONS and editor of SOUL JAR, about pole dancing, knitting, and the importance of featuring the voices of people with disabilities in speculative fiction.

Today’s secret word is: Gibberish

Today’s episode is brought to you by Marc Janessen’s poetry collection November Reconsidered:

https://www.amazon.com/November-Reconsidered-Marc-Janssen/dp/B09BCGMBJW

Here’s Benjamin’s review of Marc’s book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R102GI3B9F4SCG

Annie Carl’s Soul Jar: Thirty-One Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors: https://bookshop.org/p/books/soul-jar-thirty-one-fantastical-tales-by-disabled-authors/19651067?ean=9781942436577 

Annie’s website: https://www.anniecarlauthor.com/

Elliott Bay Book Event: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/20231017

Edmonds Bookshop Event:  https://edmondsbookshop.indielite.org/event/third-thursday-art-walk-join-us-meet-annie-carl-editor-soul-jar

Powell’s Event: https://www.powells.com/book/soul-jar-9781942436577/1-3

Saltwater Bookshop Event:

October 24th at 6 p.m. Here’s their website: https://www.saltwaterbookshop.com/

Benjamin Gorman’s The Convention of Fiends, Book 2: You Were Warned is available for pre-order!

Pre-order on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CJ7XN6BV

Or preorder the paperback from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-were-warned-the-convention-of-fiends-book-2-benjamin-gorman/20629308?ean=9781956892390

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Mentioned on the show:

Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by

Yamile Saied Méndez (Author),  Amparo Ortiz (Author), and Ricardo López Ortiz (Illustrator)

https://bookshop.org/p/books/our-shadows-have-claws-15-latin-american-monster-stories-amparo-ortiz/19625954?ean=9781643751832

From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

By Renée Ahdieh (Author), Nnedi Okorafor (Author), Sabaa Tahir (Author), Pierce Brown (Author),  Meg Cabot (Author), and more! 

https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-a-certain-point-of-view-star-wars-pierce-brown/9101894?ean=9780345511478

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride

https://bookshop.org/p/books/hold-me-closer-necromancer-lish-mcbride/12356094?ean=9780312674373

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Doug the Producer about a slight costume miscommunication, Doug working as a publicist for Not a Pipe Publishing, and Benjamin considering a run for President … as a spoiler in the Republican primary?!

Today’s secret word is: Werebear

Post your ideas and justifications for Doug’s last name on any of Not a Pipe Publishing's social media accounts. (We're on twitter, Threads, BlueSkye, Facebook, and TikTok.)

Today’s episode is brought to you by Marc Janessen’s poetry collection November Reconsidered:

https://www.amazon.com/November-Reconsidered-Marc-Janssen/dp/B09BCGMBJW

Here’s Benjamin’s review of Marc’s book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R102GI3B9F4SCG

Benjamin Gorman’s The Convention of Fiends, Book 2: You Were Warned is available for pre-order!

Pre-order on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CJ7XN6BV

Or preorder the paperback from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-were-warned-the-convention-of-fiends-book-2-benjamin-gorman/20629308?ean=9781956892390

Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Jessie Kwak, author of AFTER THE TIDE, about her awesome eye patches (and the drive-by shooting that made them necessary), the upcoming Author Alchemy Summit, baking for Halloween, Oregon measure 114,  substack, and learning to give ourselves grace. 

Today’s secret word is: Jalapeño Poppers

Find Jessie here: www.jessiekwak.com

And Jessie is on all the social medias as Jessie Kwak but is mainly active on Instagram and bluesky right now. 

And you can still get the early bird pricing for Jessie’s Author Alchemy Summit (but only until the end of October, so hurry!). Register here: https://authoralchemysummit.com/

Today’s episode is brought to you by Marc Janessen’s poetry collection November Reconsidered:

https://www.amazon.com/November-Reconsidered-Marc-Janssen/dp/B09BCGMBJW

Here’s Benjamin’s review of Marc’s book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R102GI3B9F4SCG

Jessie Kwak’s The Nanshe Chronicles: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1PL7BD8?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tpbk_tkin

Jessie Kwak’s The Bulari Saga:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07THC81FY?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tpbk_tkin

Jessie Kwak’s From Chaos to Creativity:

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Creativity-Building-Productivity-Artists/dp/1621061604

Jessie Kwak’s After the Tide

https://fairwoodpress.com/store/p132/AFTER_THE_TIDE.html

Benjamin Gorman’s The Convention of Fiends, Book 2: You Were Warned is available for pre-order!

Pre-order on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CJ7XN6BV

Or preorder the paperback from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-were-warned-the-convention-of-fiends-book-2-benjamin-gorman/20629308?ean=9781956892390

Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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Mentioned on the show:

Allison Epstein’s Dirtbags Through the Ages: https://rapscallison.substack.com/

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Erik Grove, author of stories in COZY COSMIC and WINDING PATHS, about marathon running, Australian brain worms, and how the most punk rock thing in the world is therapy. 

Today’s secret word is: Goat (Dedicated to Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito. She knows why.)

Find Erik here: www.erikgrove.com

Preorder your copy of Cozy Cosmic here: https://underlandpress.gumroad.com/l/cozycosmic

Preorder your copy of Winding Paths here (as soon as it’s available): https://www.demagoguepress.com/

Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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Mentioned on the show:

Shanghai Immortal by AY Chao https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-Immortal-richly-debut-fantasy/dp/1399717413

A. Y. Chao in Conversation With Fonda Lee

Monday, October 23 @ 7pm (PT) / Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

https://www.powells.com/events-update

Spanish Love Songs album No Joy: https://spanishlovesongs.bandcamp.com/album/no-joy

A Giant Dog album Bite: https://agiantdog.bandcamp.com/album/bite

The Gaslight Anthem album History Books: https://www.roughtrade.com/us/product/the-gaslight-anthem/history-books

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with J.B. Kish, author of “Lo-Fi Chocolate Cake” in the anthology The Cozy Cosmic, about view-masters, Egyptology, and treating Crohn’s disease with destigmatization, community, and humor. Totally normal writer stuff. 

Today’s secret word is: Danny DeVito

Find J.B. here: 

• J.B. Kish website http://jbkish.com
• J.B. Kish substack https://jbkish.substack.com/
• The Cozy Cosmic, edited by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito & Mark Teppo: https://www.underlandpress.com/cozycosmic.php
• Willamette Writers Hybrid Vancouver: Author Roadmap with J.B. Kish https://willamettewriters.org/event/hybrid-vancouver-author-roadmap-with-j-b-kish/

You can still support our Writing Against the Darkness team and help us fight Alzheimer’s Disease by donating here

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?fr_id=16164&pg=team&team_id=784887

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Mentioned on the show:

House (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(1977_film)

Camp Oasis https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/get-involved/camp-oasis

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric Larocca https://www.powells.com/book/-9781803363004/1-0

View-Master Military Reels https://3dstereo.com/collections/military-reels

“New Insights Into Egyptian Mummification Recipes” https://www.archaeology.org/news/11725-230906-egypt-mummification-recipes

“This is Water” by David Foster Wallace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Laura Stanfill, author of SINGING LESSONS FOR THE STYLISH CANARY and publisher at Forest Avenue Press, about great books she’s looking forward to, sharing fruit from her trees with the Portland Food Forest Initiative and Portland Fruit Tree Project, the Oregon Humane Society finding homes for animals from Maui, and building community even when she’s a dragon. 

Today’s secret word is: Heirloom

Find Laura here: https://laurastanfill.com/

Social media as LHStanfill and forestavenuepress

Check out all the wonderful books available at Forest Avenue Press: https://www.forestavenuepress.com/

Get your copy of SINGING LESSONS FOR THE STYLISH CANARY here:

https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/singing-lessons-for-the-stylish-canary

You can still support our Writing Against the Darkness team and help us fight Alzheimer’s Disease by donating here

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?fr_id=16164&pg=team&team_id=784887

Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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Mentioned on the show:

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lake-Novel-Ann-Patchett/dp/006332752X

SOUL JAR: 31 Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors by Annie Carl (Editor), Nicola Griffith (Foreword)

https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/j82ly8pt9lia2x1dbc7tbp26l3gp4y

King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner 

https://www.amazon.com/King-Armadillos-Wendy-Chin-Tanner/dp/1250843006

Good Night by Luis Alberto Urrea

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Night-Irene-Alberto-Urrea/dp/0316265853

Plums for Months by Zaji Cox

https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/plums-for-months

NO GOD LIKE THE MOTHER by Kesha Ajose-Fisher

https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/no-god-like-the-mother

Oregon Humane Society

https://oregonhumane.tfaforms.net/23

Portland Fruit Tree Project 

https://www.portlandfruit.org/

Portland Food Forest Initiative

https://www.pdxfoodforest.com/

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Armin Tolentino, author of WE MEANT TO BRING IT HOME ALIVE, about boxing, cooking tofu in an air fryer, and shopping for ukuleles on Craigslist. So, totally normal writer stuff.

Today’s secret word is: Air Fryer

Find Armin here: 

https://www.armintolentino.com/

https://twitter.com/ArminTolentino

WE MEANT TO BRING IT HOME ALIVE

https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Bring-Home-Alive/dp/1946580074

You can still support our Writing Against the Darkness team and help us fight Alzheimer’s Disease by donating here

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?fr_id=16164&pg=team&team_id=784887

Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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Mentioned on the show:

Small Animals Caught in Traps by CB Bernard

https://www.amazon.com/Small-Animals-Caught-Traps-Novel/dp/B0B859111H

Stephanie Adams Santos, Dream of Xibalba 

https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Xibalba-Stephanie-Adams-Santos/dp/1949039382

http://www.obscurobeach.com/about.html

People Along the Sand by Rachel King

https://www.amazon.com/People-Along-Sand-Rachel-King/dp/1950843483

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Kurt Clopton, author of SUPERGUY, about making stained glass, fronting a band of not-rockstars, and writing stories on yachts we’ll never buy. So, normal writer stuff.

Today’s secret word is: Clout (But not in the way you think!)

Find Kurt here: @kurtclopton on Instagram

SuperGuy

https://not-a-pipe-publishing.square.site/product/superguy-by-kurt-clopton/6?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=true&q=false

SuperGuy 2: Electric Boogaloo

https://not-a-pipe-publishing.square.site/product/superguy-2-by-kurt-clopton/8?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=true&q=false

You can still support our Writing Against the Darkness team and help us fight Alzheimer’s Disease by donating here

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?fr_id=16164&pg=team&team_id=784887

Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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Mentioned on the show:

The New Apprentice by Michael Weber

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-new-apprentice-michael-weber/1143437557

The Lovejoy series by Johnathan Gash (Discussed, not whole-heartedly recommended. Elements do not age well) 

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/g/jonathan-gash/lovejoy/

On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with Elle Mitchell, author of ANOTHER ELIZABETH, about #DisabilityRights, Australian #LoveIsland, and crafting miniature dioramas with real human blood. So, totally normal stuff. 

Today’s secret word is: phlebotomist

Find Elizabeth here: 

www.Emitchellwrites.com 

Insta/Threads (we’ll see about Threads, cause who knows with new things) @emtichellwrites

By Elle Mitchell:

Another Elizabeth: https://www.amazon.com/Another-Elizabeth-Literary-Psychological-Disabled-ebook/dp/B0BTGVF9FW

I Never Stopped: https://www.amazon.com/Another-Elizabeth-Literary-Psychological-Disabled-ebook/dp/B0BTGVF9FW

America Are You Scared Yet:

https://www.amazon.com/American-Are-You-Scared-Yet/dp/1949990060

Check out the merch store at Not a Pipe Publishing, and get 10% off your whole order when you use the coupon code ShowFan

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You can still support our Writing Against the Darkness team and help us fight Alzheimer’s Disease by donating here

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?fr_id=16164&pg=team&team_id=784887