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Books and Brews #73: Sympathetic Monsters & Appalachian Lore Come to Life with Clay Gilbert

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Books & Brews: the place where beer and literature meet!


Clay Gilbert has always believed in the power of the imagination to dissolve differences and forge connections between people. Since 2013, he has published thirteen novels, from science-fiction and horror to YA dystopia and urban fantasy.


His works include the science-fiction series Children of Evohe, which began in 2013 with Annah and the Children of Evohe, as well as the horror novel Dark Road to Paradise and the dark fantasy novel Pearl: A Monster Story.


Clay lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his cat, Rosalind, insists on quality-checking each new book (and helped him with one of his readings on our show!)

We talked about Appalachian legend & lore, making monsters sympathetic & more! Grab your favorite drink and join us!

00:00 START
07:33 Drink 1: Pearl Essence
10:29 Reading 1: Pearl in the Woods
16:55 Addressing Deeper Issues through Sci-fi & Fantasy
23:30 All About the Holler-Bairnies
27:03 Drink 2: Rabbit’s Garden
29:53 Reading 2: Pearl Catches a Rabbit
33:44 Pearl’s Wisdom: Seeing the Good Despite the Bad 
35:34 The Monster Voice
37:55 Drink 3: The Appalachian Holler
41:18 Reading 3: Matt Reflects on Mama Leotie’s Story of Holler-Bairnies
47:16 Why are we fascinated by the dark and mysterious? 
51:29 Do You Believe….Sasquatch, the Flood 
 
Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Clay Gilbert

www.lauravosika.com
www.gabrielshornpress.com
www.booksandbrews.net

Find Clay at amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00BS1N1W4/about?ccs_id=35e83ccd-6d34-40d1-a6a0-52139f34823
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COMING NEXT MONTH: 
Bill McCormick, author of sci-fi, graphic novels, comic books, blogger & former radio host

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
Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

If you liked this episode, you might also like these Books and Brews episodes:

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

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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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HELP US KEEP BRINGING YOU GREAT AUTHORS

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.

Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.

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

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

If you liked this episode you might also like these Books and Brews episodes:

Episode #51: PTL Perrin

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Military brat, voracious reader, and now writing books in her favorite genre, Patty Perrin who writes as PTL Perrin grew up in Europe and speaks several languages. A misfit by any account, Patty shares her love for people, Native cultures, our amazing world, alien encounters, astounding mysteries, and the Creator of it all in her writing.

Author of Reflections of a Misfit, an inspirational collection of faith journey snippets, and the four-book TetraPhere series, Patty is working on another YA Scifi/Fantasy series. She enjoys living in Florida and loves her husband and her large and diverse family.

www.ptlperrin.org

Patty’s Readings:

  ·       The Warning – 9:30

  ·       Terra’s Call: Jewel – 25:10

  ·       Reflections of a Misfit – 39:56

Chris’s Pairings: 

  ·      Mind Eraser (paired to The Warning) – 6:49

  ·       Chocolate Raspberry Martini (paired to Terra’s Call: Jewel) – 22:20

  ·       Summer on Corfu (paired to Reflections of a Misfit) – 38:18

   Interview Highlights: 

  ·       Tetrachromats – 12:00

  ·       Dragons and Atlantis – 15:13

  ·       A Night at Frankenstein’s Castle – 31:46

  ·       Best Marketing Practices – 34:35

  ·       Mutli-lingual and…a new island? – 44:45

  ·       Advice to Misfits – 48:19

COMING NEXT MONTH: Karen Essex, international best-selling author of historical fiction and more

 UPCOMING EVENTS:

  ·        Gabriel’s Horn is  accepting submissions for its anthology. This year’s theme is: MUSIC

  ·       Laura will be giving a Pub Talk at the Kitchi-Gammi Club in Duluth

 Our theme music is from www.bensound.com