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Friday Conversation | Ep 103: What is Slipstream w/ Susana Imaginário, Jose’s Amazing Worlds & Paromita

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My Top 10 Favorite Grimdark Fantasy Books

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Cinephile Saturday: Alien Covenant

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True Detective Season 4 Episode 3: An In-Depth Panel Discussion

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Unraveling the Divisive Mastery of ‘Hereditary’: A Deep Dive into Horror and Grief

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CRITICS AND ARTISTS

I was listening to NPR the other day and they had a show on that was discussing…

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True Detective Season 4 Episode 2: An In-Depth Panel Discussion

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Friday Conversation | Episode 100: Unboxing Nostalgia – Transforming Collections, Epic Reads, and the Evolving Reviewer’s Landscape – Celebrating 100 Episodes

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True Detective Season 4 Episode 1: An In-Depth Panel Discussion

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Cinephile Saturday: Alien3

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Friday Conversation Ep 100 (Part 2/3) Deconstructing Book Reviews: Bias, Genre, and the Complexities of the Reader-Author Dynamic

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The Dex Legacy Season One Collected Scripts & Commentary by Emily Inkpen. A black book cover, with a blue, fragmented DNA helix overlayed across a faint grey planetary orb, with indigo, purple, red, green, yellow and blue stripes of differing lengths falling from the northern pole.

The Dex Legacy Season One Collected Scripts & Commentary by Emily Inkpen

Before I can properly review this book, I need to explain what The Dex Legacy is. Emily…

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Weekly Pulls – Pick of the Week Episode 25

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Reflecting on Truth and Identity: A Deep Dive into Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mirror’

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Friday Conversation Ep 100 (Part 1/3) Celebrating 100 Episodes: Reflections on Podcasting, Writing, and Creative Exploration

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Reflecting on a Year in Books: Reading Journeys, Genre Exploration, and BookTube Influences

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Friday Conversation Ep 99 | Embracing the New Era of Reader Support & Storytelling in Books and Games w/ Michelle West, chibipoe & Jose’s Amazing Worlds

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A Deep Dive into R. Scott Bakker’s ‘The Warrior Prophet’ Chapters 1-4

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Friday Conversation | Ep 98: Cheers to Fantasy Taverns, Literature and Comic Books w/ Chris Mohan, Carl D. Albert, Varsha & Jarrod

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Weekly Pulls – Pick of the Week Episode 23 | Gumaa #1 & Underhiest #1

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Friday Conversation | EP 97: Navigating the World of Book Reviews w/ Mikes Book Reviews, Carl D. Albert, Chris Mohan, Jarrod & Varsha

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A Deep Dive into Poetry: Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’

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Friday Conversation | EP 96: Exploring the Art and Impact of Prose in Storytelling w/ AP Canavan, Janny Wurts, Carl D. Albert, Susana Imaginário & Jarrod

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DEEP DIVE – PART 5

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Friday Conversation | Ep 95: Storytelling

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DEEP DIVE- PART 4

Take a look at the above chart. The blue arrows symbolize the word interrelates. As human beings,…

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DEEP DIVE- PART 3

This week’s purpose is to break down Theme and Form into its most basic definitions: Theme is:…

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DEEP DIVE – PART 2

What are we looking for in a story? What makes a story good or bad for us?…

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS DEEP DIVE 1

Let’s start, if you dare, by taking a deeper dive into story analysis. Yeah, I know. Who…

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WORLD BUILDING

Part of the appeal of playing Dungeons and Dragons, especially during my younger creative years, was building…

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THE LEAP (You Tube beginnings Part 2)

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HOW TO TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF PICTURES | Part V

Greetings fellow Earthlings. I’m Don Maitz, an artist who has worked professionally in the book publishing industry…

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THE SEARCH (you tube beginnings part 1)

A Critical Journey

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AND THE AWARD GOES TO…

Secret Agent X

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HOW TO TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF PICTURES | Part IV

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HOW TO TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF PICTURES | Part III

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CREATIVE ADAPTING

Short Film-A Last Resort

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Friday Conversation | Ep 81: Michael J. Sullivan, Carl D. Albert & Chris Mohan

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REVIEW TIME

Writing reviews can be tricky. There is something to the adage of know your audience when you…

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UH, OH, IT’S MAGIC!

Back in the mid 1990’s, a new game arrived with a big splash called Magic the Gathering….

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THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS

It’s all about the art.

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SELF PUBLISHING THE WRONG WAY

Over the course of ten years of schooling I would manage to write a short story or…

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CREATIVE PASSION- FEATURE FILM

The Killing Hand

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DID I LEARN NOTHING IN HIGH SCHOOL?

Inspiring Professors are so important!

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READING BEGINNINGS

I was a late bloomer. That’s a pretty broad statement, but I’m specifically referring to reading. Sure,…

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THAT CREATIVE LEAP

Where do I go from here? By this time in my life I’ve had my toe dipped…

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