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Cup of TNB: Slade Ham

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor, author and stand-up comedian, Slade Ham.

Slade Ham is a stand up comedian. He has performed in 22 countries on four continents. When not on stage, he drinks Irish whiskey on the rocks and listens to rock and roll much too loud. One day he hopes to write a book, host a travel show, and continue to trick the world into paying him to do the things he loves to do. He keeps a very expensive storage unit in Houston, TX.

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The GSpot: Richard Nash

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Richard Nash about publishing/e-publishing past-present-future.

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Utne Reader calls Richard Nash "One of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Mashable.com ranks him him "The #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing." He ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007, and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. Here's why he left. The last book he edited at Soft Skull, Lydia Millet's

Cup of TNB: Chris Illuminati

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor and author Chris Illuminati. (Yes, that's his REAL name)

Writer CHRIS ILLUMINATI has lived in Lawrenceville, in central New Jersey (also Jon Stewart's hometown), his entire life. He is a regular contributor to such popular men's sites and publications as AskMen.com, Asylum.com, TheBachelorGuy.com, BlogsWithBalls.com, and Penthouse, although he's also written for Cosmopolitan (go figure). His many humorous perspectives can ...

I am guest speaker next week in Bakersfield

My friend Nick Belardes has invited me to be a guest speaker at The Random Writer's Workshop in sunny/funny Bakersfield California. If you're lucky, I may even sing some Buck Owens tunes. Or not. Its really a crap shoot.

Details here.

The Random Writers Workshop is held weekly at Russo's Books in Bakersfield, Calif. Headed up by author Nick Belardes, lectures and discussions have covered tips on getting published, as well as how to start a novel, how to write narrative, dialogue...

Hukilau's Slate Application is available for the iPad and in the store today

Hukilau Slate

By RightSprite

Open iTunes to buy and download apps.

View here

Description

Version one is a simple and easy to use movie slate that allows you to type in the values for all the standard fields like "scene number", "production name" , etc. Shaking the iPad will result in a realistic clapping sound. Version two, slated to come out in a week or so, will have a running LED clock, a scene incrementation button and few stylistic improvements. We encourge users to download it, try it out...

Richard Nash on Publishing Past, Present and Future

Utne Reader calls Richard Nash "One of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Mashable.com ranks him him "The #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing." He ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007, and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. Here's why he left. The last book he edited at Soft Skull, Lydia Millet's Love in Infant Monkeys, was just picked as a Pulitzer finalist.

Nash now runs his own consulting business (details...

THE GSpot: Nick Belardes

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Nick Belardes about his new book, Random Obsessions and a new episode of Bound Up With Books, reviewing De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius.
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NICK BELARDES is the author of Random Obsessions (2009) a book of oddities where you will learn that Mothman might be your big brother, Napoleon had stomach aches, and Thomas Jefferson's grandson was an ax murderer. In 2005 he released the dark novel Lords: Part One a fictional account of the...

Cup of TNB: GINA FRANGELLO

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB fiction editor and author Gina Frangello.
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GINA FRANGELLO is the fiction editor of The Nervous Breakdown. She is the author of the novel My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus 2006) and the collection Slut Lullabies (forthcoming from Emergency Press). She was the longtime Editor of the literary magazine Other Voices, and co-founded its book imprint, Other Voices Books, where she is now the Executive Editor of the Chicago office. Her...

The GSpot: Richard Metzger

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Richard Metzger about publishing and the future of media. Also, a new In Your Ear, reviewing the Sex is Fun podcast.

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Richard Metzger (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a British television host and author. He was the host of the TV show Disinformation, The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com. He is currently the host of the online talk show Dangerous Minds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Metzger

Cup of TNB: Robin Antalek

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor and author ROBIN ANTALEK
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ROBIN ANTALEK has been published in numerous literary journals and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train's Family Matters and Short Story Award for New Writer's Contests as well as a finalist in the Bellingham Review's Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and the winner of The Hudson Valley Writer's Guild Award for New Fiction. Her first novel, The Summer We Fell Apart, will be published by Harper...