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Writers Drinking Coffee

Writers Drinking Coffee

Hello everyone, and welcome to Writers Drinking Coffee. This is a podcast based on writers sitting around, drinking coffee and/or occasionally wine, and talking about anything and everything. Bean Scene Café - https://www.beanscenecafe.com/ Chaz Brenchley - http://www.chazbrenchley.co.uk/ or @chazbrenchley Jeannie Warner - https://www.amazon.com/Jeannie-Warner/e/B01B38QICQ @thetsmorgan John Schmidt - @JohnRSchmidt Michael Engberg – music intro and exit – www.manyhatsmusic.com Art by Jakkal Designs

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Episode 222 – Interview with Steve Schlam

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/10/30

Never say it’s too late in your life to start writing! Steve Shlam joins us to talk about his first published novel, “The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane”. It was nominated for two prizes, and is a fascinating dive into the world of 1950’s-60’s wrestling. Haystacks, a nice Jewish boy, goes on the road with his manager into the world of scripted wrestling and discovers it’s far more dangerous than he was first informed. Told from the perspective of a man in and out of consciousness in a hospital, the

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Episode 221 – A Discussion of Progress

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/09/18

Everyone who wants to write has a work in progress. At least one. Jeannie sits down with Andrew Walsh, a prized hockey network friend-writing crossover, to talk about making progress on writing his first novel. We hope the discussion triggers something in any listener to say, “I could try that” or “yeah, thanks for kicking my ass to get me in motion again.” Because everyone has a story - whether their own or something else in their imagination. Write it! Start right now! … Continue...Episode

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Episode 219 – Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/07/21

Dr. Bernstein is a cultural historian at Harvard, teaching US Racial Formation since the early 19th century. Her latest book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, delves into the history of America’s first prisons in New York built along capitalist ideals, and how one young man violently rebelled against the unfair and abusive treatment therein. One man’s violent resistance response to injustice continues today to shape American perspectives on race,

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Episode 218 – Interview with Dheepa Maturi

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/07/07

Dheepa started out as a poet, but found herself drawn into novel writing to express bigger ideas, such as the social interconnection necessary for human prosperity and the corresponding good treatment of the earth as part of our social ecosystem. Come listen as she talks about 108: An Ecothriller, which is full of vedic writing and eastern beliefs and how her characters need to overcome their family tragedies, emotions, and a zeitgeist of futility to work together for a common good. …

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Episode 216 – Somewhere in Lisa Czarina Michaud’s...

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/05/21

Lisa returns with her sequel to the first novel (Slanted and Disenchanted) with a character-driven story called Welcome to Hollywood. It’s a novel of two 20-somethings in 2004 Hollywood, battling with high rents, unsatisfying jobs, and a deep attraction to one another - problem is, they haven’t figured out how to communicate who they are, what they want, and who they are each individually becoming. They’re still a band though, even if they stopped practicing, and music has a way of making

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Episode 214 – Interview with Jim C. Hines

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/04/09

Jim C. Hines is a Hugo-award winning author of a series of princess fairy tales reimagined. Jim has taken the whole fairy tale Princess trope to a new and darkly glorious confection, combining multiple versions into a new saga where the women band together to solve their problems. Come listen as we delve into folklore retelling and cunning new ideas. Damn the Narrativium, full speed ahead! … Continue...Episode 214 – Interview with Jim C. Hines

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Episode 213 – Interview with K.M. Herkes

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/03/19

K.M. Herkes writes across multiple genres, from Science Fiction and Fantasy to straight up good contemporary literature. She started as a novelist first, oddly enough, then moved to short stories. We read and squeed over her new book "Relics from a Traveling Show", and dug gleefully through the wide variety of stories in this, her first collection. … Continue...Episode 213 – Interview with K.M. Herkes

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Episode 212 – The Operative Returns – welcome back L....

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/02/16

L. Douglas Garrett takes us back to his “Remember the Trade” series of professional operatives, and we sit down with him and his editor Nicky Robinson to chat about their compilation of Remember the Dead. Join us to learn along with “Dave” as he becomes the operative we know and love through a new novella and two prequel short stories. … Continue...Episode 212 – The Operative Returns – welcome back L. Douglas Garrett

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Episode 211 – Rocking Out with Richard Sparks

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/02/05

I hope you all remember Richard Sparks, author of New Rock, New Role. We’re here to squee with enthusiasm at the next in the series that just dropped in November, called New Rock, New Realm. We pick up right where the first book ended, so join us! … Continue...Episode 211 – Rocking Out with Richard Sparks

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Episode 210 – Interview with Karen Nelson

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/01/05

Come meet Karen Nelson, one of the masterminds behind Writing by Writers workshops and author of The Sunken Town. It’s a story about a girl who suddenly inherits property from her birth mother, the narrative dancing gracefully between concepts of adoption, identity, and the consequences of the choices we make. Enjoy! … Continue...Episode 210 – Interview with Karen Nelson

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Episode 209 – Martin Treanor’s Cat

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2025/01/03

We welcome back Martin Treanor to ask that most interesting of questions: what do fairies want? In his new book, Curiosity and the Cat, a girl who finds herself without much adult influence commits a crime that makes her feel guilty, but happy. But what has she unleashed? What is that cat, really? … Continue...Episode 209 – Martin Treanor’s Cat

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Episode 207 – The Literary Memoirs of Alma Alexander

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2024/11/29

We have chatted with many memoirists, but this vision of the past is new and startlingly original. Alma Alexander’s newest book takes us through her life in stages via the description of the written word that impacted her so profoundly over the years. From childhood to adult, she describes the books she was reading with a glorious review, taking the reader either back to their own experience reading the author or poet, or sending them right out to the library to find a new delight. …

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Episode 206 – Indie Publisher focus – The Queen of...

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2024/11/22

The Queen of Swords Press is “an independent small press specializing in swashbuckling tales of derring-do, bold new adventures in time and space, mysterious stories of the occult and arcane and fantastical tales of people and lands far and near.” Which really sums up why we love all the books they’ve put out, without even mentioning their wide variety of protagonists that increase representation for all of us. But how does an indie press work? Constantly, as this interview with Catherine Lundoff

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Episode 201 – Becoming Terran with Mark Roth-Whitworth

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2024/05/08

We welcome back Mark to talk about Becoming Terran, a near-future 2077 on this planet, describing how the people of Earth came together in one (okay, uneasy) Terran Confederation and reached for the stars. In his latest book, there is a conspiracy of plutocrats, a dynasty of brave women who understand when to fight for what they believe in, and some tasty genetic and surgical mod technology.… Continue...Episode 201 – Becoming Terran with Mark Roth-Whitworth

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Episode 200 – Katharine Kerr does Sci Fi!

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2024/04/26

While many adore Katharine Kerr for the Deverry novels, lately she’s been leaving fantasy behind for a new setting - outer space. Kit joins us to talk about forging ahead into a new world she’s created in space, and how she thinks about world building, translating science and physics into fiction, and other tricks of a veteran wordsmith. Come join us and hear about the two new novels that will be coming out this fall - starting with Haze, set in the universe of her previous work, Polar City Blues,

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Episode 199 – Interview with Richard Sparks

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2024/04/07

Richard Sparks may have started his career as a comedy writer, lyricist, librettist, and director, but since moving to California and picking up gaming he’s started writing fantasy novels - and we love them! He combines his comedic wit, honed over a long career, with high fantasy and a soupçon of science fiction. For lovers of gaming, fantasy, or laughter, this book is for you! Plus he already has 4 more books in the series written… … Continue...Episode 199 – Interview with Richard

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Episode 198 – Interview with Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2024/03/22

Come with us on a joyful ride with healer, hippie, and Harley rider Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr as we discuss her book Wild Heart, her biography about growing, learning, embracing, and being wild at heart. We go a little long because we had fun and learned so much, including about The Farm and Helmet Haiku! … Continue...Episode 198 – Interview with Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr

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Episode 197 – Welcome Back Lynn Harrod

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2024/02/11

We're delighted to welcome back Lynn Harrod upon the release of his latest book, Child of Imago. Lynn weaves a new version of Dorothy in Oz located an interesting twist on the post-apocalyptic world. DOT slowly discovers that her memory has been wiped, heading off on a heroine's journey to find out who she is, how to rescue the girls in her dreams, and what family might really mean. Hint: It's not in Kansas. Enjoy! … Continue...Episode 197 – Welcome Back Lynn Harrod

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Episode 44 – An Interview with Jeff Berry

Writers Drinking Coffee ·

2020/04/21

The Jeff Berry? Well, -A- Jeff Berry. Redeeming the name, we bring you the story of a man who studied Computers so he wouldn't have to wait tables, then ran away to New York to be an actor and playwright. Now he lives in England, and writes Medieval cooking articles as well as plays and stories. … Continue...Episode 44 – An Interview with Jeff Berry

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