Each week I chat with Authors you should be reading.
Episodes
Thursday Nov 21, 2019
Thursday Nov 21, 2019
Good Adventures,
Writers, is your imagination stuck? Tired of staring at a blank page? Looking for a new way into your stories? You're in luck! Roll-A-Prompt Writing Journals, which I co-authored are the topic today. Sets of elements plus the roll of a dice = more than 6000 writing prompts per book.6 in all. 5 genres, plus a mashup. Three authors have bravely joined us today. They'll each roll for a prompt from the same set of elements and then write while Lisa and I chat about the books. At the end, you'll get to hear what they came up with.
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And you can join in the fun. Below, I've included the set of elements we used. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Melissa & Lisa
Links:
Roll-A-Prompt books on Amazon
(On other retailers soon)
My co-author Lisa Mahoney
Our guest writers:
Crys Cain's website.
Kayla Dawn Thomas's website.
Terri Collica's website
Terri's Sunny McBain series
Today's set of elements. Grab a six sided dice and play along:
Character
Roll 1 number
Even = MC is alone
Odd = Roll again for a companion
- Birthday party clown
- Tree trimmer
- Ambassador
- Fishmonger
- Gatekeeper in purgatory
- Romance novel writer I
F the MC is alone, add an object
Roll 1 Number
- Hard boiled egg
- Cowbell
- Mirror
- Stuffed hedgehog
- Oxygen tank
- Nose-ring
Scenario
Roll 1 number
- Called for jury duty
- Abandoned cart at the supermarket
- Screams echo through the ship
- Lost in a passageway
- Unmanned horse and buggy
- Dog is found in a tree house
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Good Adventures,
This week, I'm chatting with one of my favorite authors. Romance. Fantasy suspense, giant dogs, and husbands that won't retire.
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Links:
https://www.lindapoitevin.com (romance website)
https://www.facebook.com/LindaPoitevin
https://www.lydiahawkebooks.com (urban fantasy website)
Even if you don't read either genre, you need to follow Linda on facebook just for her photos of itty bitty and giant dog. But seriously. She's great. Read her books.
A pool of blood. A missing body. A famous brother accused of murder. June Nash has the worst luck. Grab your copy of How to Sex Your Snake today. https://books2read.com/u/bxvJYq
And as I always say on the show, let me know what you're reading! My kindle is almost bare.
See you next time. Go read a good book.
Melissa
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Good adventures,
This week I had a blast chatting with Noir author John D. Patten about his pulp detective series. Gritty bad guys. Gritty good guys. Off the charts action.
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Links:
Find John on his website.
Read John's books - they're currently in Kindle Unlimited. (Oct 2019)
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A pool of blood. A missing body. A famous brother accused of murder. June Nash has the worst luck. Grab your copy of How to Sex Your Snake today. https://books2read.com/u/bxvJYq
That’s it for this week. Go read a good book,
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Good Adventures,
This week on the show, I chat with Tom Fowler author of the CT Ferguson Mystery series. Classic mystery with modern cyber intrigue.
Is almost Halloween, which means Christmas is just around the corner. What's everybody asking Santa for this year? I'd love for one of the elves to find the mouse that keeps chewing up the seats in my car. I park in the driveway so I figure the little devil smelled the BBQ sauce packets my kid left under a seat. Many glue traps (useless) snap traps (I was the only one tripping them) and a bug bomb later, it might be gone. I hope. We'll see tomorrow.
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Links for this weeks show:
Tom Fowler's books on Amazon
Get a free prequel when you join Tom's mailing list
That's it for this week. I'll be back soon with some news on the next June Nash Misadventure. Plus a new non fiction project. See you soon, go read a good book.
Melissa
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Good Adventures,
On Books Cubed this week, I'm chatting with suspense author Lori Flynn about her new book, I love You to Pieces plus book recommendations.
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Links:
Lori Flynn I love You to Pieces
The Unknown Devil by Tom Fowler
Bed, Breakfast, and Bones by Carolyn L. Dean
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Get the free prequel to my June Nash Misadventure series and find to why a monkey was wearing June’s bra.https://books2read.com/u/3npXnK
Or dive right in and get the full length novel, How to Sex Your Snake. A pool of blood, a missing body, a famous brother accused of murder. June Nash has the worst luck.https://books2read.com/u/bxvJYq
That’s it for this week. Go read a good book,
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Good Adventures,
This week, I'm finishing up the next book in the June Nash MisAdventure Series. If you're not caught up, you still have time to read or listen to the book one, How to Sex Your Snake. To whet your appetite, I'm sharing chs 3 and 4 from the audiobook. Go back to Ep 28 for chs 1 and 2.
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Links:
The Forest by Julia Blake
Sins of the Angel by Lydia M Hawke (not Hawkes like I said in the show!)
How to Sex Your Snake by Melissa Banczak
See you next time. Go read a good book.
Melissa
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Good Adventures,
Did you catch the event on Facebook about Storming Area 51? The truth is out there and if enough people show, they can't stop them all! This week, my guest is Alex C Gates who is part of a new anthology centered around a group of people storming area 51! We also talk book recommendations and his adorable doodle dog Stella. She's got her own Instagram page and it's well worth a follow.
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Links:
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Thursday Sep 05, 2019
Thursday Sep 05, 2019
Good Adventures,
No book talk this week thanks to evacuating for Hurricane Dorian. Instead, how about some photos from the opening day of Star Wars Land in Orlando. If you'd rather see the photos I'm badly describing, hyper-jump over to Youtube.
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What do I write? Thanks for asking. Get the free prequel to my June Nash Misadventure series and find out why a monkey was wearing June’s bra.
https://books2read.com/how-to-bungle-your-jungle
Or dive right in and get the full length novel How to Sex Your Snake
https://books2read.com/how-to-sex-your-snake
That's it for this week, go read a good book!
Melissa
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Good Adventures,
A gritty New York summer, a killer with a machete, Hipsters who need to die. This week, I'm chatting with Richie Narvaez about his critically acclaimed debut novel Hipster Death Rattle. I walked into a lot of walls reading this one. You'll love it too.
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Links:
Richie's website and links to the book
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What do I write? Thanks for asking. Get the free prequel to my June Nash Misadventure series and find out why a monkey was wearing June’s bra.
Or dive right in to the series with How to Sex Your Snake and How to Square Your Grouper.
That's it for this week, go read a good book!
Melissa
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
Good Adventures,
This week, I finish my chat with Merri Maywether. What's it like to live in a town without a stop light? What do the people in town think about being characters in her books? It's all in this week's show.
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Links:
You'll find Merri at her website: https://merrimaywether.com
My blog about Key West: http://twistofkeylime.blogspot.com
The posts about Fantasy Fest contain NSFW photos.
I'll see you next week, go read a good book.
Melissa