Da Vinci’s Waking Dream offers tips and advice for gay entertainment professionals, and interviews with gay writers, musicians, artists, and new/traditional media professionals to help you achieve your dreams.
Categories: Arts
In a post-plague world where humans, animals, and plants have suffered, a colony of survivors has gathered in a fortified former-luxury condominium complex they call “The Park”. These remnants of humanity are inextricably bound to their domestic cats from which Dose (a temporary plague vaccine) is derived. A forager army is heading toward The Park. The Park people must prepare to defend themselves and all they have worked for. They have made a discovery: not all cats are created equal. While regular Dose staves off plague symptoms, the dose derived from Simon (The Park’s only Siamese cat) can be refined into SHAT, a super-dose that rejuvenates the growth of plant life. . . and which also may hold the secret to a permanent plague-cure. Problem: Simon is a neuter. If he should die, so, too, dies humanity’s hope for survival. Enter Sasha, a purebred female Balinese of breeding age that also produces SHAT. With the increasing militarization in The Park (and sky-rocketing tension), Sasha’s humans want to leave, taking their cat with them. But The Park people won’t let them go. . . .
Categories: Arts
Tags: action, adult, awesome, betrayal, cats, character, Lies, novel, story, Violence
Two books: (1) an ESL novella-textbook about a Vietnam War conscientious objector’s 14-year search for identity and (2) an hallucinogenic mid-life crisis/adventure novel, and homage to Malcolm Lowry and Hermann Hesse. [itunes pic]
“The Many Roads to Japan” tells the story of the adventures of a conscientious objector who had to follow many twists and turns in his life journey before finding his niche in Japan. Suitable for low intermediate level and above ESL and EFL students. An excellent resource for peace education studies, too. “The Many Roads to Japan influenced my students a lot, not only in studying English but also in searching for their own identities and thinking about how to live their lives.” — Kazuyo Yamane, Peace Studies lecturer at Kochi University
(3.1 mb; 4:35 minutes) To order a trade paperback or PDF download copy of “The Many Roads to Japan,” go to my bookstore. You can also order from Amazon.com and other online bookstores.
Categories: Arts
Tags: 1960s, Adventure, antiwar, audiobook, conscientious, EFL, english, ESL, expatriate, hallucinogenic, hippie, Japan, listening, Literature, novel, objector, peace, psychedelic, travel, Vietnam, war
Deadly Codes: A Gallagher Novel is the award-winning sequel to Fatal Gamble. Daniel Cormac Gallagher, Jr., a Boston private eye, is hired to investigate the death of Jennifer Clark, tragically killed in a car bombing in her own driveway. Gallagher has been commissioned by Jeanne Campbell, Jennifer’s twin sister, to find a mysterious woman–Jennifer’s secret lesbian lover who vanished immediately after the bombing. While the authorities continue to pursue their suspicions that the terrorist act may have been intended for Jennifer’s husband, Bill, who holds a top-secret position in the counter-intelligence division of the National Security Agency, Jeanne reveals intricate details to Gallagher that intrigue him enough to take on the case. While Gallagher begins searching for the missing woman, he has no idea that a bounty has been placed on his own head. Two hired gunmen are plotting to kill him. Gallagher’s search takes him to Washington D.C. where he discovers that the car bombing is only a backdrop to a complex, treasonous scheme to sell code-breaking formulas to a hostile enemy nation. As the violent mystery unravels, Gallagher finds himself under deadly attack from two shocking but powerful forces — one he knows and another he never expects.
Categories: Uncategorised
Tags: fatal, gallagher, gamble, MYSTERY, novel, sequel, thriller, to
How writers actually write! You might need to be a writer, but you don’t need to struggle so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write)
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Tags: author, Books, creativity, howtowrite, howtowriteabestsellingbook, howtowriteabook, inspiration, novel, novelwriting, writing
Read With Us is an auditory book club, where host Marissa, co-host Sean, and cocoa host Christina finally catch up on their reading list. Read along with us as we take a thorough journey through everything from the latest books trending on book tok to the novels we loved in high school. Episodes release weekly.
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Categories: Arts
Tags: audible, book club, Books, booktok, christina, club, friends, marissa, Memoir, novel, read, Reading, sean, short story, weekly
Self-proclaimed gods have quietly ruled the multiverse of Mebar for over 800 years. But the one founding member of their order that condemned their methods has just been set loose from prison.
Categories: Arts
Tags: Adventure, alternate, book, fantasy, fi, fiction, multi, MYSTERY, novel, reality, SCI, science, verse, writing
Oh No! Lit Class is a semi-educational comedy literature podcast hosted by Megan and RJ, two bitter English grads who are here to tell you all the weird and sexy things you never knew about the books you had to read in school. Let’s ruin some literary classics together. New episodes released every other Thursday.
Categories: Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture
Tags: book club, Books, classic literature, cliff notes, college, Comedy, english, english class, improv, language arts, Literature, literature class, novel, novel podcast, plays, required reading, Shakespeare, sparknotes
The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to control the world. You no longer have the right to believe what you want. You do not have the right to choose the kind of life you will live. But you have a choice: you can surrender and live in fear, or you can join the resistance. As part of Red Horizon, a quickly-growing resistance movement, Gibson Craig has devoted his life to opposing these dictators. But he is not the only one. There are numerous rebel factions hidden underground, as much at war with each other as they are with the government, but in the struggle for freedom, they must unite or be crushed. As they move closer, events spin into motion the most epic of battles the United States, and the world, has ever seen. “ETERNITY”, by debut author, Casey S Townsend, is a fast-paced thriller filled with action, mystery, and romance and is the first in a four-part series of novels that blows apart the boundaries of belief. Welcome to Eternity.
Categories: Arts
Tags: apocalyptic, audiobook, book, casey, Craig, demons, eternity, Gibson, government, heaven, Hell, novel, Podcast, post, serialized, Series, spiritual, supernatural, Townsend
“SEX, DEATH, AND NOISY NEIGHBOURS” A killer has come to town. The victims are connected; each pointing to the next, as if in answer to the question: Who is The One? Is it Peter Reynolds: mild-mannered office clerk pouring petrol through his neighbour’s letterbox in the middle of the night? Is it Wayne Dolan: a man whose sexual fantasies about his neighbour spiral into dangerous obsession when he learns of her secret life as a dominatrix? Or is it Gaz: leader of three friends who love nothing more than sex, weed and partying? All women are easy prey for his charms. All except Sally. And the one who doesn’t want him, is the one he has to have – whether she likes it or not. Mick Nixon has to find the connection, because people are disappearing – and if he and Sally are ever going to share more than just lunch, he’d better hurry up, or they could be next. A dark, funny, and at times horrific ride, One Among the Sleepless is a thriller set just below the surface of suburban existence. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll throw it through your neighbour’s window tied to a house brick! “A tale that’s harder to put down than a delicious bad habit.” Walt Kolenda. Examiner.com
Episode Twenty-Eight: The Last Stop.
Categories: Arts
Tags: audiobook, bennett, british, mike, novel, Podcast, The, thriller, thrillers
Updates & analysis of all things story. From screenplays to novels to deep theoretical story structure, this podcast is aimed at providing the secrets to great storytelling.
Tags: creative-writing, film, novel, screenwriting, story, story structure, television, writing
Last Chance – a small town set on the edge of the far frontier. It is a place of gentle manners and common civility. After all, it should be since more than three quarters of its residents are women. However times change when a Talent Master runs rampant, savages threaten war, and an illegal militia from an alternate universe plans invasion and empire. A hero is needed. A Savior. Meet Aaron Turner, the small unassuming man who runs the Last Chance General Store. He is this town’s–this world’s–only hope. Unfortunately for the town, Aaron also happens to be a soldier and Militia spy whose job is to prepare the ground for the Militia’s invasion. To help him with this task, he has a cellar filled with advanced weaponry and the unique ability to teleport between the two worlds. However after a year of living within Last Chance, Aaron is no longer sure in which direction his loyalties lie.
Categories: Arts
Tags: audiobook, book, eller, fantasy, fiction, guns, Hell, Hellhole, hole, magic, militia, murder, novel, paranormal, psychic, science, scifi, Series, sex, slipstream, tavern, teleport, urban, war
Four women. One podcast. A hard stack of romance novels. Join the Kinky Ladies Book Club as we review the steamiest (or sometimes trashiest) romance and erotica novels we can find. We’ll make you laugh, cringe, and be sure to get you hot and bothered… but mostly bothered.Have a hot read for us? Send your book recommendations to kinkyladiespodcast@gmail.com. New episodes released twice monthly, on Tuesday. See you then, hot stuff.
Categories: Arts, Comedy, Health & Fitness
Tags: book review, Books, feminism, humor, Kindle, kink, novel, romance, sex, women
Canon or Fanon is the podcast where each chapter of the Harry Potter novels is broken down and discussed by an old school book fan, and a fandom expert who’s reading them for the first time! Coming from two opposite ends of experience, Harry and The Captain work through the Harry Potter series one chapter at a time. Each episode the pair will discuss and dissect the intricacies, commonalities and differences between the canon and fanon of this colossal Potter-verse. Content Warning: Cursing, discussions of adult topics Not affiliated with J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. etc.
Categories: Arts
Tags: Harry Potter, novel, Potter
“Teaching My Cat to Read” is a book podcast that adds a unique comedic twist to literary discussions – thinking what our cat would think of this book. Discover answers to questions like, “Who would emerge victorious in a fight between Lady Catherine and Mrs. Bennett?” or “Who funded the grant money for Victor Frankenstein’s experiments?” And don’t forget, we never fail to ask the important question: “What rating would our cat give this book?” Tune in every other week for brand new episodes that guarantee laughter and literary discussion.
Tags: book, book club, book club podcast, book podcast, book review, book review podcast, bookish, novel, Reading, YA Fiction
Welcome to Drive Write the podcast about one storyteller’s journey to become a published author. Andy Rogers can be found online at arogers907.wordpress.com and @arogers907 on twitter.
Categories: Arts
Tags: Characters, fantasy, fiction, Genre, novel, novels, publishing, science, short, Stories, story, tips, writing
Enter a simulated universe where software beings engage in classic human struggles for belonging, status, and attention, and old certainties like death and gravity are just settings to be negotiated. You can be the god of your own private world, but if find yourself feeling lonely, you might be tempted to give away some of your precious control. This podcast will take you behind the scenes with comic book authors and veteran podcasters Jon Perry (@perryjon) and Ted Kupper (@tedkupper) as they write and develop a science fiction graphic novel called Constellation, set in a metaverse unlike any you’ve seen before: neither a utopia nor a dystopia, neither real nor virtual, it is a simulation where everyone knows they are being simulated and no one much cares, where there’s no hope of leaving and no reason to, just an endless supply of human-designed worlds to create and explore.
Categories: Arts
Tags: accelerating, ai, artificial, Automation, comics, comix, genetics, graphic, intelligence, novel, privacy, progress, returns, robotics, scifi, Singularity, Technology, Transhumanism
When twenty-six-year-old Eve McCormick awakes, the images from her nightmare are indelible. The dream feels so real she must force herself to get a grip. This experience is just the beginning for Eve, a Los Angeles clinical hypnotherapist and researcher investigating whether reincarnation is fact or fiction. Unstoppable visions of an ancient lifetime steal days from her. The danger escalates when she wakes up physically injured and marked with a strange symbol. While Eve battles the past to maintain her sanity and safety, her project is jeopardized as another researcher’s attempts to take over. One partner dies and another is accused of inappropriate conduct. Eve and her friend, Dr. Andrea McMurray, don’t believe in coincidence and probe their shared visions for answers. On the other side of the Atlantic, Welshman Ryerson Sanders is haunted by his dreams and believes Eve’s research project can help him. For both of them, an ancient Celtic prophecy and long-sought revenge entangles the past with the present. A druidess and a shape-shifter must join to save the druid way of life, while a queen conspires to kill Erin’s only high king. Will the oaths and agendas of the past reach across the centuries to strengthen or to destroy?
Categories: Arts
Tags: a, carpenter, celtic, Druid, fiction, hypnosis, life, Mark, novel, of, Past, Podcast, regression, rhonda, shapeshifter, The
At twenty-one, Rob Malloy is a successful San Francisco entertainment manager and has achieved more than most men twice his age. Wealthy and famous for closing any deal, he may seem to have everything a man could want. However, he longs to meet a woman he can share his life with. Victoria Knox is a poor eighteen year old student who dreams of nothing but becoming a singer. Dating is the last thing on her mind when she accidentally bumps into Rob in an airport gift shop on Christmas day. Instant attraction draws them to one another, despite their different lifestyles. Looking as if he stepped out of a GQ ad, Rob exudes high class and money. Victoria is convinced he is too good for her, but Rob is immediately attracted to how she freely shares her innocently opinionated views. He likes her down to earth personality that is such a breath of fresh air compared to the gold digging socialites he is normally plagued with. In this love story, Rob introduces Victoria to a high society world where she meets the rich and famous. For the first time she dares to believe her dream of becoming a singing star is possible through Rob’s industry connections. However, Rob is different from anyone she has ever met and she fears she won’t fit into his world. Her mother adds fuel to Victoria’s misgivings by questioning Rob’s intentions. Though sincere, Rob may have trouble convincing his country club parents that Victoria is a proper match. Join Rob and Victoria as they battle social class lines, parental disapproval and ghosts from their pasts to prove that their love is meant to last. Music by Neil MacPherson.
Tags: book, dreams, emmy, heart, jazz, love, madrigal, McPherson, music, Musical, Neil, novel, romance, Sweet, teen, ya, Z