Yes, I really should spell it LITE as in LITE beer. But I didn’t and I’m not changing it now. Since 2019, we’ve been doing our full podcast interviews with authors once a month. But there are lots of authors out there. So we’ve started Books & Brews Light in which Laura interviews authors one on one, with a greater focus on the interview rather than on pairing drinks, and one reading instead of three. This also allows us to do more of the interview segment.
We have now interviewed about 40 authors on our LIGHT version of the program. These interviews go up only at YouTube. Subscribe (it’s free!) to help us out and meet a great variety of interesting authors.
We’ve talked with a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction authors, starting with Alani Bankhead, spy hunter and Ben Stimpson on Folklore. We’ve talked with authors about finance, autism, micro-preemies, succeeding in business, helping kids excel in school, historical fiction, dogs, American history, world travel, sailing, hiking, overcoming life’s trials, raising boys, sci-fi, poetry, fantasy, end times, superheroes, and more.
We’ve talked with authors from the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Stop by our channel and look for Books & Brews Light.
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Bill McCormick is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of several novels, graphic novels, and comic book series, and has appeared in numerous anthologies. He began writing professionally in 1986 for the Chicago Rocker Magazine in conjunction with his radio show on Z-95 (ABC-FM) and went on to write for several other magazines and blogs. He wrote a twisted news & science blog at WorldNewsCenter.org. It provided source material for his weekly radio show on WBIG 1280 AM, FOX!, which aired for 12 years.
We talked about domestic scenes in sci-fi, PTSD, creating chimeras (in fiction and in reality!) and much more. Check out the cocktails Chris created to go with Bill’s readings.
00:00 START 05:32 Drink 1: Blighter Bob 7:41 Reading 1: Opening Up About War 15:05 Creating Chimeras 18:58 Talking about PTSD 22:31 Drink 2: The Lone Tree 25:48 Reading 2: Goptri of the Mists 31:08 Choosing Names in Sci-Fi 37:13 Living with No Regrets 42:32 Drink 3: The Bosom Caresser 45:19 Reading 3: The Writer’s Stuff: Let’s Get the Writer! 50:36 An exception to allow PG-13
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