A Book & Its Author

08/12/2024

Time to get excited! Season 11 of A Book & Its Author is afoot. Available on all major podcast platforms. Schedule below.

051: December 12, 2024: Susan Palwick: The Necessary Beggar (Tor, 2005, 2020)

052: December 19, 2024: Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid & E. Marshall Wilder: A Nuclear Family: Coming Of Age In Oppenheimer’s Secret City (Bradbury-Reid & Wilder, 2023)

053: December 26, 2024: Jacci Turner: Love Virus (Tree House Press, 2024)

054: January 2, 2025: Ellen Hopkins: Sync (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024)

055: January 9, 2025: Alan M. Shore: Uncommon Allies: American Jews And Christians Uniting Against Hi**er, 1933-1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2024)

08/12/2024

The schedule for season 11 drops tomorrow.

06/12/2024

I just wrapped up a great conversation with Alan M. Shore about his book, Uncommon Allies. That means season 11 of A Book & Its Author is about ready to go. Schedule coming soon! Watch this space!

02/12/2024

Episode 3 was a little scary as it was my first interview with someone I didn’t already know personally. Fortunately, Nikki Reimer was a great guest. And she’s a poet worth checking out.

20/11/2024

Wow. Episode 2 came out more than four years ago. Which is small potatoes when one considers that it had been 25 years since I’d spoken to Chris Bucholtz, who wrote this excellent book about WWII pilots.

18/11/2024

Since I’ve recently expanded my social media presence, I’m reintroducing some of my previous episodes, starting with the first. There hasn’t been a bigger booster of my podcasting than Mike Branch, so he was naturally the first I reached out to for AB&IA.

17/11/2024

Here’s the latest update. This past week I had a very nice chat with Ellen Hopkins about her latest, Sync. That means season 11 is getting really close to launch. Keep watching this space for details.

15/11/2024

I’m still here, but I’m expanding my social media reach with profiles on both strings & azure firmament (you know what I mean…) Please follow the podcast there, esp. if you’re a writer. Doing so will increase your chances in AB&IA’s annual social media contest!

13/11/2024

This past weekend’s Local Author Fest was a great opportunity to catch up with Northern Nevada writers, including AB&IA alumni Jacci Turner & Danny Nielsen (pictured), and to meet new ones. Props to Washoe County Library for an engaging, well-organized event.

04/11/2024

It was so nice seeing Mike Branch, three-time AB&IA guest, inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall Of Fame. A well-deserved honor.

31/10/2024

Tough times for Shwa, Sugar, & the Avantpop Bookstore. (Shwa was guest on ep. 29 of AB&IA.) Consider helping if you can. Avantpop Bookstore

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14/10/2024

A few photos (& not especially good ones, I’m afraid) from the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl. Great fun, featuring a number of A Book & Its Author alumni, including Michael Branch, Jared Stanley, Mark Maynard, & Shaun Griffin, all pictured here.

14/10/2024

Sweet. I made it into the Literary Crawl video. That’s me pedaling on the Reno Brew Bike.

27/09/2024

One step closer to season 11 of A Book & Its Author. This morning I had a lovely chat with Jacci Turner about her latest novel, Love Virus. Stay tuned for more details.

27/09/2024

I had a wonderful conversation today with Ellen Wilder Bradbury-Reid & E. Marshall Wilder about their book, Nuclear Family: Coming Of Age In Oppenheimer’s Secret City. Keep watching this space for more info on this & the rest of season 11.

24/09/2024

University Of Nebraska Press has been perhaps the most well represented publisher on A Book & Its Author. Check out their website for books by guests Suzanne Roberts, Robert Aquinas McNally, Katya Cengel, Susan Devan Harness, & others.

Congratulations to the following UNP authors who were Nebraska Book Award Winners! Winners will be honored at the Nebraska Celebration of Books (NCOB) literary festival on October 12 at the…

17/09/2024

I just wrapped a nice interview with Susan Palwick. Keep watching this space for more info as season 11 of A Book & Its Author takes shape.

14/09/2024

I’m a bit late here, but I want to thank everyone who voted for AB&IA in the Reno News & Review Best of Northern Nevada poll. Congrats to the other nominees, Ballot Battleground: Nevada, Community Cares, Worst Little Podcast, Test Those Breasts, & winner Renoites. A shoutout to Nathaniel Benjamin, too, who did the awesome artwork for this issue of Reno News & Review & was a guest on my old podcast, The Bucket of Blah Blah.