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December 24, 2017
Jon’s Author Diary – 012 – December 24, 2017
A few months ago, Jon was interviewed by Preston Leigh on the 30-Minute Author Interviews podcast.
Preston asked Jon ten questions which were recorded exclusively for patrons of his show, and he has given his kind permission to share them here.
You can check out Preston’s awesome work supporting independent authors at his website leighgendarium.com.
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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 486
Short story: The Lighthouse Keeper by Daisy Johnson, listened to on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, from June 2017. Recommended.
Poem: The Clock in Literature by Aram Saroyan, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from December 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: 8-Bit Sound, listened to on the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, from December 2017. Highly Recommended.<
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
December 23, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 485
Short story: The Lazy River by Zadie Smith, from the New Yorker, December 2017.
Poem: First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay, listened to on the Voice Before the Void podcast. Recommended.
Essay: The Development of WiFi, listened to on the BBC’s Witness podcast, from December 2017. Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
December 22, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 484
Short story: A Gift from the Culture by Iain M. Banks, from The State of the Art. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Keen Fitful Gusts are Whisp’ring Here and There by John Keats, listened to through Librivox. Recommended.
Essay: Should Moms Eat Placentas? listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from December 2017. Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
December 21, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 483
Short story: “I am a Handsome Man,” said Apollo Crow by Kate Elliott, from The Book of Swords, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozios. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Sonnet to Liberty by Oscar Wilde, listened to through Librivox.
Essay: a New Weapon in the Fight Against Superbugs by David Brenner, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from December 2017. Highly Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
December 20, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 482
Short story: The Other Large Thing by John Scalzi, from Miniatures. Recommended.
Poem: The Other Side by Jennifer Foerster, listened to on the PoetryNow podcast, from December 2017. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Passport, listened to on the BBC’s 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy podcast, from May 2017.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
December 19, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 481
Short story: Hell from the East by Hugh Howey, from Machine Learning: New And Collected Stories. Highly Recommended.
Poem: The March of the Black Mountain by G. K. Chesterton, listened to through Librivox.
Essay: The Novelist’s Complicity by Zia Haider Rahman, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from December 2017.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
December 18, 2017
The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 480
Short story: The Sword of Destiny by Matthew Hughes, from The Book of Swords, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozios. Recommended.
Poem: To a Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph by Anne Sexton, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from December 2017. Highly Recommended.<
Essay: The Brain Benefits of Deep Sleep — and How to Get More of It by Dan Garenberg, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from December 2017. Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
December 17, 2017
Jon’s Author Diary – 011 – December 17, 2017
This week, Jon carried on writing his standalone novel, Blind Gambit, and started writing the second draft for the first book in the collaborative Black Death series.
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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: 479
Short story: The House of the Sphinx by Lord Dunsany, listened to through Librivox. Recommended.
Poem: Success is Counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson, listened to through Librivox. Highly Recommended.
Essay: Detox by Aleks Krotoski, listened to on the BBC’s Digital Human podcast, from May 2013. Recommended.
What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?
