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Episode #71: Time Travel, Sci-fi and Woodstock with Beth Duke

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Bestselling author Beth Duke’s Anywhen is the ultimate outsider story—a young woman yearning to belong across time itself. With universal themes of love, jealousy, sacrifice, friendship, joy, loss, and forgiveness, this genre-defying novel is a story like no other…one that will stay with you long after the final page. 


Beth read from her latest book, Anywhen, that combines sci-fi, time travel, and historical fiction. We talked about Woodstock, the central event of Anywhen, about southern fiction, stereotypes, the good and bad of AI, and Utopias. Is Baezy’s world a Utopia? Did living in peace result in naivety or bring her great disillusionment?

00:00 START
04:59 Drink 1: Algorithmic Amaretto Sour
07:28 Reading 1: Letter to a Many-Greats Grandmother
11:38 Southern fiction and stereotypes
19:48 Did Baezy’s time achieve Utopia?
22:30 AI: good or bad?
25:38 Drink 2: The Peace Love and Music Cocktail
30:25 Reading 2: Baisy Meets Her Many-Greats Grandmother
34:06 There’s something about Woodstock…why was it so unique?
41:24 The power of art and music?
43:58 Drink 3: Pina Colada Pi
37:42 Reading 3: Trying to Tell the Truth
52:33 A blurb from Alabama’s lead singer!
54:31 Keys to success as an author

 
Visit our PATREON for AFTER HOURS with many of our guests!

LINKS

https://www.bethduke.com

www.lauravosika.com

www.gabrielshornpress.com

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COMING NEXT MONTH:

Michael Modzelewski, outdoorsman, author of fiction and non-fiction and Mr. November!

UPCOMING EVENTS:


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Books & Brews #70: Sherlock Holmes with Richard T. Ryan

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A lifelong Sherlockian, Richard T. Ryan is the author of nine Sherlock Holmes novels and currently working on his tenth. He’s also written a well-received murder mystery “Deadly Relations which has been produced twice off-Broadway. He pursued graduate studies at Notre Dame where he majored in medieval literature.

Our talk ranged from Knights Templar finding Minnesota in the 1300s to the reasons Arthur Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes to the inefficient bombers of the 1880s and the Scarlet Pimpernel and Mark Wahlberg.

00:00 START
06:20 Drink 1: Watson’s Delight
07:20 Reading 1: The Traitorous Templar
11:20 From medieval literature and old English to Sherlock Holmes
16:13 Pastiches, purity, and creative license
18:54 Drink 2: The Baker Street Bramble
20:07 Reading 2: Three May Keep a Secret
21:45 Masters of disguise
25:52 What makes Sherlock Holmes so enduring
30:21 Arthur Conan Doyle’s feelings about Sherlock Holmes
35:55 Drink 3: The Moriarty Martini
37:42 Reading 3: The Devil’s Disciples
39:24 The importance of getting the details right
43:20 News and fiction

Visit our PATREON for AFTER HOURS with Richard T. Ryan

LINKS

https://www.clippings.me/users/michaelcolon
www.lauravosika.com
www.gabrielshornpress.com
www.booksandbrews.net

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COMING NEXT MONTH:

Beth Duke, amazon bestselling author of southern fiction and time travel

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Books & Brews #69: Sci-Fi and AI with Michael Colon

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BOOKS AND BREWS: THE PLACE WHERE BEER AND LITERATURE MEET

Michael Colon is a novelist and freelance writer, born and raised in New York City. His author’s story is about hard work, perseverance, and believing in the power of imagination. Michael’s inspiration comes from various societal abnormalities, the beauty in cultural differences, and his own life experiences.

His debut novel, The Gift from Aelius, is about an artificial intelligence’s growing awareness of purpose and life. There is not a science fiction tale as poetic and thought-provoking. In the not-too distant future, A191, a Codex with artificial intelligence, feels like a misfit in Paradise, a walled city in the middle of an endless desert where humans imprisoned his race long ago. He’s not like the others of his kind; he longs to meet humans and make peace with them so man and Codexes can be reunited in the world. These thoughts and feelings are not allowed in Paradise; he risks banishment to the desert by the Overseer A. I. who rules by fear and force. The journey reveals the truth about his existence, the Overseer’s lies, and the consequences of mankind’s untethered technology.

00:00 START
05:31 Drink 1: The Singularity
08:13 Reading 1: Codex
12:53 Will AI begin to think for itself?
15:30 Did AI already try to destroy humanity?
21:21 Drink 2: Paradise
23:28 Reading 2: Starry Desert Night
29:02 Free will and choices
31:10 Numbers, names, and fear of losing our humanity
35:03 Philosophy and Sci-fi
45:12 Drink 3: Bingo
47:06 Reading 3: At the Haven
48:04 Political divide
48:59 Finding your purpose

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Michael Colon

LINKS

https://www.clippings.me/users/michaelcolon
www.lauravosika.com
www.gabrielshornpress.com
www.booksandbrews.net
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If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We’ve been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews.

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A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode:

COMING NEXT MONTH:

Richard T. Ryan, Sherlockian tales!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Gabriel’s Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: CHILDREN
See Laura’s interview at Central Valley Talk
See Laura’s interview with Rob & Joan Carter at INDIE NOVEL SOURCE

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Episode #58: Vampires & Haunts with Filmmaker Peter Andrew Sacco

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Books & Brews meets Peter Andrew Sacco. Peter is the author of 30 books, fiction and non-fiction and published on 4 continents. He is a resident expert and regular of Top 50 USA radio and TV markets including Fox, CBS, ABC, ESPN, Coast to Coast, iHeart and over 100 major radio and TV networks.

Peter is a multi-award-winning, director, cinematographer, actor and producer on 7 continents.
In addition to filmmaking & production, Peter has written more than 800 articles (self-help and fiction) appearing in major news media world- wide.

He has also been a university professor for 28 years, as well as being a psychologist, specializing in criminal psychology, sports psychology and addiction studies.

www.peterandrewsacco.com

Peter’s Readings:

·       Gummer, the World’s Last Toothless Vampire – 8:20

·       Meeting a Vampire Actor – 27:43

·       A Haunted Air BnB – 42:33

Chris’s Cocktail Pairings: 

·       Bloody Maru (paired to Gummer) – 5:57

·       Love Bite (paired to Meeting a Vampire Actor) – 26:00

·       The Haunted Mansion (paired to A Haunted Air BnB) – 39:45


Interview Highlights: 

·       Jack the Ripper/criminal profiling – 15:40

·       Music or criminal psychology? – 22:09

·       Adventuring in Antarctica!? – 31:53

·       Why are we drawn to vampires & zombies? – 34:03

·       From author to TV show host – 47:17

·       Scariest things seen–and why Peter quit the TV show – 48:29

COMING NEXT MONTH:

Join Books & Brews next month when we talk to Theresa Halvorsen, author of The Dad’s Playbook to Labor and Delivery and Warehouse Dreams and countless articles on pregnancy, birth and parenting. But her true love is speculative fiction.


In addition to writing, Theresa enjoys interacting with other writers and helps to produce a writing Podcast called the Semi Sages of the Pages She co-runs a writer’s group in Temecula that meets once a month, and belongs to various critique groups. 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

·        Gabriel’s Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEME: MUSIC

·       Laura will be selling her books, premium rabbit fertilizer & knit goods at Overhome Trading Post in ThornHill Tennessee, February 10, 2024

·       See Laura’s interview at Central Valley Talk

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Episode #56: The Real John Quincy with M.B. Zucker

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Books and Brews talks with M.B. Zucker.

M. B. Zucker has been interested in storytelling for as long as he can remember. He devoted himself to historical fiction at fifteen and earned his B.A. at Occidental College and his J.D. at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He lives in Virginia with his family. He is the author of four novels: The Eisenhower Chronicles, A Great Soldier in the Last Great War, Theodore Roosevelt and the Hunt for the Liopleurodon, and The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine. Among his honors is the Best Fictional Biography Award at the 2023 BookFest.

M. B. (Michael) Zucker has been interested in storytelling for as long as he can remember. He devoted himself to historical fiction at fifteen and earned his B.A. at Occidental College and his J.D. at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He lives in Virginia with his family. He is the author of four novels: The Eisenhower Chronicles, A Great Soldier in the Last Great War, Theodore Roosevelt and the Hunt for the Liopleurodon, and The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine. Among his honors is the Best Fictional Biography Award at the 2023 BookFest.

www.mbzucker.com

Michael’s Readings:

  • Meeting the Elder Adams – 8:53
  • The Holy Alliance – 27:53
  • JQA Helps an Enslaved Woman – 42:46

Chris’s Cocktail Pairings:

  • Old Gimlet Eye (paired to Meeting the Elder Adams)– 6:03
  • Hot Ale Flip (paired to The Holy Alliance) – 23:56
  • Mint Julep – 38:29

Interview Highlights:

  • Parents and pressure to be president – 17:17
  • Can our country unite? – 21:50
  • Writing and publishing from age 14 – 20:05
  • Summing up the Monroe Doctrine – 33:03
  • Founding Fathers’ intentions regarding slavery – 47:21
  • How JQA spent a night in the snow to find his brilliant idea – 52:06

COMING NEXT MONTH: Theresa Halvorsen, paranormal and pregnancy!

UPCOMING EVENTS: Gabriel’s Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEME: MUSIC

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