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August 26, 2017
New Losing the Plot, with Mike Thorn!
This episode’s guest is Mike Thorn, author of the forthcoming horror short story collection, “Darkest Hours”, out in November with Unnerving: http://www.unnervingmagazine.com/
We talk about the creative process, the influence of music and film, and the horror of being alive today!!
You can find Mike here!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015685119662
mikethornwrites.com
https://twitter.com/MikeThornWrites
If you’re a reader, writer, listener, editor, anyone with anything to say you can always get in touch with me using losingtheplotpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. I look forward to it!
August 23, 2017
August 21, 2017
Watch my performance at the Open Pen Summer Party 2017!
I was lucky enough to get invited to perform at this year’s Open Pen Summer Party! Juan kindly recorded the performance, so now you can watch it too. Hope you enjoy “I’ve Been to Paradise”!!
Do check out Open Pen, consider buying their excellent best-of anthology, and if you’re a writer, submit to the mag and maybe you’ll be on the stage next!
(If it’s okay with you I’d rather not watch it b/c of my dumb ad-libbing at the beginning for example. Obvs I’ve spoken into a mic before—I run a damn podcast!! You know what I meant though :p)
August 13, 2017
New Losing the Plot, with Tom Hansen
Tom Hansen is the author of “American Junkie”, a memoir which is gripping, horrifying, emotionally charged and even hilarious at times. It really is a blistering book and should be your next read. He is also the author of “This Is What We Do”, a novel reissued by Counterpoint in September.
Tom was kind enough to join us on Losing the Plot to talk about his writing career, his perspective on life, and what Pikachu means to him (my inquiry of course!)
American Junkie was reissued by Soft Skull press this year and should be purchased IMMEDIATELY here.
Preorder the reissue of This is What We Do here.
As always, if you are an editor, reader, writer, listener, anyone with anything to say, you can always get in contact with me at losingtheplotpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. I look forward to it!
August 6, 2017
New Losing the Plot, with Nicholaus Patnaude!
This episode’s guest is Nicholaus Patnaude, author most recently of Guitar Wolf and also First Aide Medicine. He’s the editor-in-chief of Psychedelic Horror Press, a new publisher of—uh, psychedelic horror!
We talk about accessing the subconscious, past lives, and how he came up with a story about a band of animals that are also instruments.
And as always if you’re a reader, writer, editor, someone with something to say, you can always get in touch with me using losingtheplotpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. I look forward to it!
July 31, 2017
Unnerving interviewed me!
In preparation for the release of “The Grimhaven Disaster” (Aug 9th, preorder here), Eddie Generous of the publisher, Unnerving, interviewed me about the research I did for Grimhaven, my writing goals, Losing the Plot and other stuff. Listen here! It was a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy it! Cheers :)
July 27, 2017
New Losing the Plot, with Rupert Dreyfus!
This episode’s guest is Rupert Dreyfus, author most recently of Prezident Scumbag, also The Rebel’s Sketchbook and Spark. We talk about discovering authorial voice, creating a successful story, and the joy of wasting time when you’re young :D
Rupert’s links:
http://www.rupertdreyfus.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/RupertDreyfus/
https://twitter.com/Rupert_Dreyfus
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9873885.Rupert_Dreyfus
And as always if you’re a reader, writer, editor, someone with something to say, you can always get in touch with me using losingtheplotpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com! I look forward to it :)
July 21, 2017
Pre-order The Grimhaven Disaster NOW!!
Hi guys!
So “The Grimhaven Disaster”, my surreal radioactive horror novella, is now available for preorder! Click here and do so now please :)
Themis and his buddies celebrate the end of high school by taking a trip to, of all places, Grimhaven’s abandoned nuclear plant, where Themis’ insane grandfather, who religiously devoted himself to nuclear energy, worked up until the hideous accident that put the plant out of commission. When Themis and his girlfriend explore the plant at night, they discover that the plant isn’t as dormant as it seems, and the background radiation of Themis’ family history threatens to result in a full-blown sickness. The Grimhaven Disaster is a horrific, surreal and positively radioactive vision of what happens when youthful hubris clashes with the sobering decay of adulthood.
July 20, 2017
New Losing the Plot, with Theresa Braun!
This episode’s guest is Theresa Braun, author most recently of “Dead Over Heels”, a genre-blending paranormal novelette. She also has stories in Siren’s Call, Unnerving’s Hardened Hearts anthology and Deadman’s Tome’s Monsters Exist anthology, which she did an amazing job of editing too.
Listen to us talk about haunted houses, amateur ghost hunting, submitting stories and guardian angels! (I also bring up my fear of flying for tenuous reasons as usual—apologies there aha!)
Follow Theresa on Twitter: @tbraun_author
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/6424…27.Theresa_Braun
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GroomAndDoom/
Dead over Heels: www.amazon.com/Theresa-Braun/e/B007YTA6C2
If you’re a reader, writer, editor, someone with something to say, you can always get in touch with me using losingtheplodpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. I look forward to it!
