Write On America
AMERICA. What a trip you are! Please post your own thoughts, lyrics, stories and musings. America, we rock! Make us laugh, ponder and explore, but most of all, Write On America...
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ESW 126. Poetry Lesson on Limerick By Nikki Anne Schmutz
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Welcome to “Lessons on the Writer’s Voice”. Gain trusted advice and perspective from writers featured on Eat Sleep Write. Use every moment you can learning the craft of writing by listening while on the go; in your car, at the gym, or while you’re on break at work. Eat Sleep Write is here to help you become the writer you’ve dreamed of being.
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ESW 125: Everything Sci-Fi with author Brian Larson
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in this new continuing monthly series of Everything Sci-Fi, exploring the challenges and the rewards of writing in the science fiction genre. Today we will concentrate on language and using a universal translator to cope with different methods of communicating across species.
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ESW 124. Frankly Speaking with author Don Massenzio
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in conversation with detective/mystery/crime writer Don Massenzio, author of "Frankly Speaking" - A Frank Rozzani Detective Novel, the first of a series. A 16 year old girl has disappeared. The police believe she is a runaway. Her parents believe she has been taken and is being held against her will. When the parents enlist the services of Frank Rozzani, a former police officer turned private detective, a series of events begins to unfold that implicates a popular local pastor and the religious stronghold of the ultra-conservative community. Frank Rozzani, a transplant to Jacksonville, Florida from Syracuse, New York, must find the young girl despite the obstacles launched at him from the local police and others whose interests may be compromised by his investigation. Frank enlists the help of his associate Clifford “Jonesy” Jones to find the girl, uncover the conspiracy, and stay alive. While solving the case, Frank must deal with the demons that drove him from Upstate New York causing him to leave traumatic memories and his children behind.
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ESW 123. Little Yellow Stickies with Rachael Mcintosh
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in this fascinating conversation with Rachael L. McIntosh, author of
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ESW 122. A Deal With God with author Michael Haden
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull on this fascinating conversation about reliving a life by making a deal with God. When Deana Murphy died she told God she would do anything if he would let her come back. Deana didn
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ESW 121. Prisoner of the Swiss with Rob Morris
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in this touching conversation with author/military historian Rob Morris about becoming a better person and living a better life after experiencing the horrors of WWII. Dan Culler was a young Top Turret Gunner/Flight Engineer on a B-24 bomber crew in the 44th Bomb Group, (famous for the Ploesti oil fields raid). The crew was shot up during a mission and forced to land in neutral Switzerland, where they were sent to internment camps high in the Swiss Alps. Life was Spartan but not bad, unless one tried to escape, as Dan did. After his capture, Dan was sent to the Swiss Federal Prison at Wauilermoos, a camp administered by a sadistic Swiss Nazi named Andre Beguin. This began several months of torture, beatings, and confinement during which the U.S. government formerly denied the camp's very existence. Finally, Dan's body wracked by tuberculosis covered with sores, and broken internally by torture, Dan was saved by a British sergeant major and sent to a tuberculosis hospital, from which he made a daring escape with some of his crew, at one point running under a hail of bullets and jumping a barbed wire emplacement along the Swiss/French border. Dan's war was just beginning, for his own government continued to discount the existence of the camp, and Dan was ordered by the O.S.S. never to speak of it. For many years, he received no compensation or help for his incarceration. In 1995, Dan wrote his memoir, The Black Hole of Wauwilermoos, and printed a private run of 1,000 books, which quickly sold out. It became a classic in the genre of POW memoirs, and is often quoted in modern histories, most recently by Donald Miller in Masters of the Air, (soon to be a miniseries from Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg). Military historian Rob Morris, a longtime friend of Dan Culler, approached Dan about the possibility of producing a new, revised, and updated edition in 2014. This book is the result. In the book, the text has been streamlined, many rare photos have been added from sources in both the U.S. and Switzerland (some never before seen), and the book has been updated to cover Dan's life since 1995 and the progress of the drive to recognize American prisoners of Wauwilermoos with the Prisoner of War Medal. The man who led this effort, Army Major Dwight Mears, wrote the introduction and also discusses how he was able to secure the award, which was finally given in April of 2014. This is a disturbing book that is a testament to one man's will to live, and his lifelong struggle for justice in a military system and a nation that seemed to have forgotten his sacrifices.
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ESW 120. Worlds Apart - Leah with Andrea Baker
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in a conversation with British paranormal author Andrea Baker. Nightmares are just dreams, aren
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ESW 119. Portals, Passages & Pathways with B.R. Maul
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in this engrossing conversation with B.R. Maul about being a YA author. When a portal to another world cracks open just outside the small town of Riverside, it sets off a series of events forever changing the lives of two boys; one boy is chosen to lead a world to peace while the other one is chosen to tear it apart. Simon Whittaker lives an ordinary teenage life. That is until the most powerful ring in the land of Magnanthia chooses him to become its guardian. Overnight, Simon has had to flee from something trying to kill him, seen magical spells he had only read about in stories, and stepped into the most majestic world ever imagined. Swept away to the fantastic world that’s in the midst of a brutal war, Simon must place his life in the hands of four unlikely travelers, a swordsman, ranger, cleric, and wizard, sent to lead him down the right path. While King Elderten has ordered death to Magnanthia’s nine guardians, the group he believes is responsible for the kingdom’s devastation, Simon remains the only hope for those who believe the guardians are innocent. Meanwhile, Jak Jakobsin has been pulled through a portal by two of Bedlam’s undead scouts. Bedlam’s overlord plans to use Jak, along with his army of undead, goblins, and trolls, to build a force so powerful that Magnanthia will be his forever. “Portals, Passages & Pathways” is a story of our greatest journey, to discover our purpose in this life, and the consequences of the choices we make to get there. “In the Land of Magnanthia” is the first novel in the series and is told from the alternating viewpoints of Jak and Simon.
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ESW 118. Courier with Terry Irving
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in a wonderful conversation with tv writer-turned-novelist Terry Irving. Vietnam veteran and courier for one of the capital’s leading television networks, Rick Putnam is trying to get his life back together after his nightmarish ordeal in the war. Racing at breakneck speed through the streets of the capital, he not only intends to be the best courier in the business, he also intends to escape the demons that haunt him. But when Rick picks up film from a news crew interviewing a government worker with a hot story, his life begins to unravel as everyone involved in the story dies within hours of the interview and Rick realizes he is the next target. Enlisting the aid of friends who are on the forefront of building (and hacking into) the government’s computer databases, and a beautiful young Indian Rights activist, Eve Buffalo Calf, Rick races full throttle through the streets of the nation’s capital to stay ahead of his pursuers as he searches for answers. When he discovers the killings have been orchestrated by a rogue CIA agent and his team of assassins, Rick isn’t surprised when his road to the truth leads directly to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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ESW 117. Quality Snacks with Andy Mozina
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Join Eat Sleep Write host Adam Scull in a delightful and informative conversation about the art of writing short stories. “Quality Snacks” has already made some waves. The short story collection was a semi-finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (2011) and finalist for multiple honors including the Elixir Press Fiction Award (2012), Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest (2012), Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award (2011) and the Autumn House Fiction Contest (2011). Mozina grew up in Brookfield, Wisc., a suburb of Milwaukee. He studied economics at Northwestern University and later attended Harvard Law School for a year. He earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Boston University. He moved to St. Louis where he completed a doctorate in English literature at Washington University. Finally, after graduate school, he moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1999 to teach literature and creative writing at Kalamazoo College.
