The Writer, the Reader, and the Podcast

By Danielle Ste. Just

The Writer, the Reader, and the Podcast brings you everything your fellow book lovers are thinking! Science fiction and fantasy author Danielle Ste. Just is joined by readers and writers across the literary spectrum. Readers share what they love, wonder about, and yearn for in the books they read. Authors explain how they take their projects from concept to written page. Plus updates on the local literary scene.

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The Writer, the Reader, and the PodcastFeb 14, 2022

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Frances Pauli and the Business of Writing

Award-winning author Frances Pauli has made it a mission to get her writing out to a wide audience. Join us as we discuss diverse strategies, from game writing to serialized fiction and everything in between.

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Danielle Ste. Just

Website: https://www.daniellestejust.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielleSteJust

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Frances Pauli

Website: https://francespauli.com

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May 05, 202201:26:59

Assault Helicopter Companies, Backstory, and Square-Peg Pete

Writers can’t help but put their own life in their fiction. Some writers—perhaps a lot of us—do it subconsciously. But sometimes you find a writer who does it with full intention, who has taken the time to dissect his life’s experiences and the influences he deems important, and consciously puts them into his fiction.

Meet Bob Calverley: author, Vietnam veteran, award-winning journalist, and lover of life. Not only will he show us a different side of the Vietnam war than many of us have experienced in fiction, but he’s also got enough book recommendations to make your bookshelf sag in the middle.

Some of us are history buffs, but Bob is even more than that. He’s a life buff.

Join me as I discuss writing, American history, and life in general with life buff Bob Calverley.

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Danielle Ste. Just

Website: https://www.daniellestejust.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielleSteJust

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Bob Calverley

Website: https://www.bobcalverley.com

Amazon: Author Page

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Bob's Book Recommendations:

Childhood Favorites:

Old Mother Westwind stories by Thornton W. Burgess.

Hardy Boys mysteries by Franklin W. Dixon

Other Old Favorites:

Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis. Note from Bob: “That book was a big bestseller during the war. Tregaskis was a war correspondent who wrote several other books about the war. While they are very politically incorrect today, they were still excellent books for their time.”

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Going After Cacciato and If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O’Brien

What It's Like to Go to War and Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson

Starship Troopers, Glory Road and Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein.

Naked and the Dead and The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

Recent Favorites:

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Tubby Palooza by Tony Dunbar

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne

No Exit by Taylor Adams

Favorite Book of All Time:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Feb 14, 202238:51

Lifelong Seeker and the Penny Dreadfuls | Kathie Jo Hobbs Reader Interview

Interviewing writers comes naturally to the literary community. But what about interviewing the other side of the writer/reader relationship? This is the first episode in our ongoing series of reader interviews.

Today on The Writer, the Reader, and the Podcast, reader extraordinaire and dynamic human being Kathie Jo Hobbs joins author Danielle Ste. Just to talk all about her lifelong love of reading. Learn what she yearns for, wonders about, and seeks out in the books she reads. Kathie Jo also shares with us how she meshes her fascinating job with her love of books.

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Danielle Ste. Just

Website: https://www.daniellestejust.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielleSteJust

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Kathie Jo Hobbs

Websites: www.aaacrimescene.com, aaahoardingbiohazard.com

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Jan 08, 202221:58

December Book Festival & the Genesis of WRITERS | Ventura

As a writer, have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a direct line to your readers? As a reader, have you ever wished you could ask your favorite authors that burning question about your favorite book? Have you ever wondered why that direct writer/reader connection is underserved? Four writers are tackling those tough questions.

Today on The Writer, the Reader, and the Podcast, author Danielle Ste. Just is talking with the other three founding members of WRITERS | Ventura about how they started their project to bring writers and readers together, what they're planning for their inaugural book festival coming up in December 2021, and how integral storytelling is to us as a species.

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The inaugural WRITERS | Ventura book festival is happening Saturday December 11th and Sunday December 12th, 2021 from 11 am to 4 pm at the E.P. Foster Library in downtown Ventura, California. If you're a writer, a reader, a podcaster, or anything in between, come join the fun!