Lit Local Podcast
Writing is solitary. Being a writer shouldn’t have to be. The Indie Writer Podcast is currently in the process of being reconceptualized into the Lit Local Podcast(by Lit Local Books). New episodes coming fall 2024. Stay tuned.
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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talk about writing Queer Romance with TJ Alexander and Timothy Janovsky.
TJ Alexander is an amateur baker and author who writes about queer love. Originally from Florida, they received their MA in writing and publishing from Emerson College in Boston. They live in New York City with their wife and various houseplants. They are represented by Larissa Melo Pienkowski of Jill Grinberg Literary Management.
Timothy Janovsky is a queer, multidisciplinary storyteller from New Jersey. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College and a self-appointed certificate in rom-com studies (accreditation pending). When he's not daydreaming about young Hugh Grant, he's telling jokes, playing characters, and writing books. Never Been Kissed is his first novel.
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes
Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
KEEP UP WITH OUR GUESTS!
TJ Alexander:
Twitter: @tjalexanderNYC
Instagram: @tjalexanderNYC
Website: https://tjalexander.com/
Chef's Kiss by TJ Alexander
Timothy Janovsky
Twitter: @timothyjanovsky
Instagram: @timothyjanovsky
Website: https://www.timothyjanovsky.com/
Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talk about Writing Neurodiverse Characters with Halli Gomez.
Halli Gomez writes for children and young adults and works at her independent bookstore. She has written several stories with neurodivergent characters including her young adult novel, LIST OF TEN. When no one is looking, she sock skates through the house and talks to dogs like they are human. When people are looking, she enjoys reading, outdoors, and breaking out of escape rooms with her family. Halli lives in North Carolina with her husband, two boys, and two dogs.
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Heroine by Mindy Mcginnis
Kiss and Repeat by Heather Truett
We Need Diverse Books
Donald Mass Seminars
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Twitter: @Halli_Gomez
Instagram: @halli_gomez_author
Facebook: halligomezauthor
Website: https://halligomez.com
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talk about Applying for Live Events with Amy Rivers and Desiree Brown!
Amy Rivers is an award-winning self-published author and the Director of Northern Colorado Writers. She is the Indie Author Project’s 2021 Indie Author of the Year. In addition to the novels she publishes under her imprint Compathy Press, she's been published in several anthologies including Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Nurses, and was a regular contributor to Novelty Bride Magazine and ESME.com. She was raised in New Mexico and now lives in Colorado with her husband and children.
Desirée Brown is a poet & writer. She received her B.A. from University of North Carolina-Charlotte and her M.F.A. from New York University. She has worked with poets Ishion Hutchinson, Catherine Barnett, Matthew Rohrer, Nick Laird, and more. Her work has appeared in Hedge Apple Magazine, Unlikely Stories, The Woven Tale Press, Sanskrit, and The Scene & Heard Journal. Today she teaches college courses in English and Creative Writing, manages the Young Eager Writers Association & Conference, and practices engaging with the world through a poetic lens.
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DESIREE BROWN
Twitter: @YEWassociation
Instagram: @youngeagerwriters
Websites: https://www.youngeagerwriters.org/
https://www.desireebrown.com/
AMY RIVERS
Twitter: @WritingRivers
Instagram: @Amy.Rivers38
Facebook: @AmyRivers.Writer
Website: http://www.amyrivers.com
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talk about Disaster Fiction with Sarah Blake and Alison Stine.
Sarah Blake is the author of Clean Air, a cli-fi domestic thriller, Naamah, a novel reimagining the story of Noah's ark, and poetry collections Mr. West and Let's Not Live on Earth. In 2013, she received a Literature Fellowship from the NEA. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, and The Kenyon Review. She lives outside of London.
Alison Stine is the author of the 2021 novel Trashlands (MIRA / HarperCollins), which The LA Times called a “ballad to love in a time of darkness,” currently longlisted for the 2022 Reading the West Book Award. Her first novel Road Out of Winter was a selection for The Rumpus Book Club, and won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award. She is also the author of three poetry collections published on university presses and a novella.
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SARAH BLAKE
Buy Clean Air by Sarah Blake
www.sarahblakeauthor.com
Twitter: @blakesarah
Instagram: @sarahblakeauthor
ALISON STINE
Buy Trashlands by Alison Stine
www.alisonstine.com
Twitter: @alisonstine
Instagram: @alistinewrites
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talk about First Contact Scifi with Fernando Crôtte.
Ferd is a late bloomer author, with his debut novel Mission 51 being published at age 66. Ferd lives in Winston Salem, NC and is married with four children, and eleven grandchildren. He works as an Internal Medicine Hospitalist, and in his free time enjoys birding, photography, and flying.
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
Story by Robert McKee
Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le Guin
Save the Cat Beat Sheet Calculator
The Twilight Zone
Outer limits
KEEP UP WITH OUR GUEST!
Buy Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
Twitter - @FerdCrotte
Instagram - @ferdc55
Facebook - ferd.crotte
Website - https://thebestparts.net
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talking about Epic Fantasy with Leo Valiquette.
Leo Valiquette grew up in rural Ontario, Canada, but had become a regular tourist of Tatooine, Middle Earth, and that barn in Charlotte’s Web by the age of eight. He trained to work in museums, before taking up the pen as a journalist and newspaper editor, and then as a corporate business writer and marcom consultant for hire. This love of the fantastical, the historical, and also finding the root of a story fuel his need to create worlds of his own. A cancer survivor, Valiquette has been contesting with metastasized melanoma since late 2019. He lives with his wife and son by a lazy old river.
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
The Fantasy Fiction Formula by Deborah Chester
Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction by Orson Scott Card
KEEP UP WITH OUR GUEST!
Buy Bane of All Things by Leo Valiquette
Twitter - @LeoValiquette
Instagram - @LeoValiquetteAuthor
Facebook - LeoValiquetteAuthor
Website - https://leovaliquette.com/novelist/
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Deadly Declarations by Landis Wade
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today Cari, Becca, and Jacqui talk about reading and writing in 2021, and goals for 2022.
Our favorite books of 2021:
Fiction
Burden of Poof by Julie Anne Lindsey
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Need by Helen Phillips
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Tales from the Hinterland by Melissa Albert
There, There by Tommy Orange
Trashlands by Alison Stine
Non-Fiction
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Dopesick by Beth Macy
Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Hill Women by Cassie Chambers
Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Yates Martin
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson
POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2022
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Proliferation by Erik Otto
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to be checking in about NaNoWriMo with Landis Wade and Stacey Agdern.
Landis Wade is a recovering trial lawyer, host of Charlotte Readers Podcast, and author of books and stories whose third book—The Christmas Redemption—won the Holiday category of the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards, and was the 2018 Holiday category Honorable Mention in the 10th Annual Readers’ Favorite Awards. He won the 2016 North Carolina State Bar short story contest for The Deliberation and received awards for his non-fiction pieces, The Cape Fear Debacle and First Dance. His short work has appeared in Writersdigest.com, The Charlotte Observer, Flying South, Fiction on the Web and in more than six anthologies, including by Daniel Boone Footsteps. His novel Deadly Declarations releases spring 2022.
Stacey Agdern is an award-winning former bookseller who has reviewed romance novels in multiple formats and given talks about various aspects of the romance genre. She’s a proud romance writer, who incorporates Jewish characters and traditions into her stories so that people who grew up like she did can see themselves take center stage on the page. She lives in New York, not far from her favorite hockey team’s practice facility.
Recommended Reading:
A Timeless Christmas by Alexis Stanton
8 Kinky Nights by Xan West
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
Holidays with the Wongs by Jackie Lau
A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
PJ Library: Free Books for Jewish Children and their Families
Keep up with guests:
Landis Wade:
Twitter - @charlottereader
Instagram - @chartlottereaderspodcast
Facebook - @authorlandiswade
Website - https://landiswade.com
The Christmas Heist: A Courtroom Adventure by Landis Wade
Stacey Agdern:
Twitter - @nystacey
Instagram - @sagdern
Facebook - @staceyaagdern
www.staceyagdern.com
Love and Latkes by Stacey Agdern
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Proliferation by Erik Otto
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to be talking about the post-publication letdown with James Tate Hill, Renée K. Nicholson, and Megan Culhane Galbraith.
James Tate Hill is the author of a memoir, Blind Man’s Bluff, released August 3, 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut, Academy Gothic, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays were Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays. He serves as fiction editor for Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. Born in Charleston, WV, he lives in North Carolina with his wife.
Megan Culhane Galbraith is a writer, visual artist, and adoptee. She is the author of The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book, a hybrid memoir-in-essays published by Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press. Her work was Notable in Best American Essays 2021 and 2017 and her writing and art has been published or is forthcoming in HYPERALLERGIC!, BOMB, The Believer, Tupelo Quarterly, Hobart, Longreads, Hotel Amerika, Catapult, and Redivider, among others. She is a graduate of and the Associate Director at the Bennington Writing Seminars and the founding director of the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Young Writers Institute.
Renée K. Nicholson is the author of the poetry collections, Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center and Post Script, and coeditor of the anthology Bodies of Truth: Stories of Illness, Disability, and Medicine. She serves as Director of the Humanities Center at West Virginia University.
Keep up with guests:
James Tate Hill:
Twitter - @jamestatehill
Facebook - @jthilliv
Website - www.jamestatehill.com
Blind Man's Bluff by James Tate Hill
Renée K. Nicholson:
Twitter - @summerbooks1
Website - www.reneenicholson.com
Fierce and Delicate by Renée K. Nicholson
Megan Culhane Galbraith:
Twitter - @megangalbraith
Instagram - @m.galbraith
Facebook - @megan.culhane.galbraith
Website - www.megangalbraith.com
The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book by Megan Culhane Galbraith
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Proliferation by Erik Otto
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Welcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to be checking in about NaNoWriMo with Myrth Killingsworth and Micaela Green.
Micaela Green is a writer and artist curious about the stories that can be found in the relationships around us. She has had artwork previously exhibited at The Hermitage Museum in Norfolk, Virginia. When not working on an MFA in Fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts, she is hanging out with her dog Milo in Charleston, South Carolina.
Myrth Killingsworth is a wild co-creator in an ecosystem of language. Her stories have been featured by the University of New Mexico-Taos’s literary magazine Howl, and she was a finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards. In the past, she has worked as a wilderness ranger in the High Sierra, a massage therapist, a fine arts carpenter, and an assistant arborist. She currently writes and lives in Northern New Mexico with her family.
Keep up with guests:
Myrth Killingsworth:
https://nanowrimo.org/participants/myrth-killingsworth
Micaela Green:
@micaelagreens on Instagram
https://nanowrimo.org/participants/micaela-green
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Check out the following books by our Patrons!
Proliferation by Erik Otto
Mission 51 by Fernando Crôtte
Want to see your book listed? Become a Patron!