 It's Day 7 of Halloween and I have two VERY special guests for you today... Actor Barry Corbin, whom you'll remember from classics like Dead & Buried, Critters 2, the television series Northern Exposure, and Academy award-winning film No Country for Old Men (and many, many more films over more than 40 years!), and actor and writer Susan Berger who was the Real Butcher in American Horror Story: Roanoke, and has been in loads of other film and television series including Looks that Kill, Kajillionaire, Grey's Anatomy, Two Broke Girls, and Lucifer (among many more!). I had so much fun chatting with these two that I had to break the interview into two videos! Check out Part 1 below: This interview runs a bit long...not unlike many others in this year's series! Check out Part 2 of my interview with Barry Corbin and Susan Berger below... And you can watch the trailer for young Christopher Corbin's "Killer Chef", as well as the full version of young Jim Corbin's "Crystal Manator II" below: Check out Barry's full list of credits on IMDb Check out Susan's Acting Site And don't forget Susan's Writer Site... ...and her site for Children's Literature!
And a few of Barry and Susan's films you'll wanna check out...plus a few of Susan's picture books, and other books and films we chatted about.
Click HERE to revisit Day 6...
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 Kirk Haviland is one of the Programmers at Toronto's Blood in the Snow Film Festival. We talk about all sorts of genre favs, as well as how the line-up for the 2021 Blood in the Snow Festival is shaping up! Check it out below, or on my new YouTube Author Channel...  Today I chat with not one, but TWO amazing children's book authors, and a mother and daughter team, to boot! Check out my interview with Rosie Amazing and her mom Allison McWood below! Books by Rosie Amazing
Books by Allison McWood
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Find out more about the books Annelid Press publishes!
 Welcome to Day 4 of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days! Today we've got the VERY talkative Joshua Pantalleresco, author and podcaster. So, I decided to split up the footage into 2 videos for you to enjoy! FIND JUST JOSHIN' HERE View Part 1 of my interview with Josh just below... And check out Part 2 below here... Movies and Books we chatted about:
Find some of Josh's books in the Mirror World Publishing Shop
 Welcome, welcome, welcome! - as John Oliver would say on Last Week Tonight. It's the 3rd Day of Halloween and my 3rd blog and guest for my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween for 2021. This month, Mirror World Publishing and Pandamonium Publishing are re-releasing two of my picture storybooks - Sloth the Lazy Dragon and Merry Myrrh the Christmas Bat and THIS SATURDAY is the Virtual (Zoom) relaunch party for BOTH BOOKS! So, today's guest is the illustrator of both Merry Myrrh the Christmas Bat and Sloth the Lazy Dragon, the extraordinarily talented painter and tattoo artist Alex Zgud. Find out more about Alex and a little more about the virtual relaunch in our interview below... For more about the tattoo studio where she works, visit Studio Phi. |
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It is Day 2 of the 13 Horrifically Silly Days goodness, and today I have as my guest author and publisher Justine Alley Dowsett, who was actually my guest in a written interview on Day 2 of my 13 Days blog series back in 2019! This time, we chat on video about her latest genre book projects - including one with a dash of horror content! And as always, we also talk horror and B-movies! Check it out (and as always, please note there is some minor coarse language and a few images that may be disturbing to some (particularly young) viewers):
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Watch Day 3 of the 13 Days HERE!
IT HAS BEGUN! Presenting Day 1 of the 2021 edition of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween! This year, I will be posting on this site, where I've posted in 2019 & 2020, AND on tripletake.net/blog/ which will be the new home of this blog series.
We begin with young filmmaker and director Amelia Moses, whose films Bleed with Me and Bloodthirsty were both featured in the 2020 Blood in the Snow Festival and were subsequently released in early 2021...please note there is some minor coarse language and a few images that may be disturbing to some (particularly young) viewers.
We begin with young filmmaker and director Amelia Moses, whose films Bleed with Me and Bloodthirsty were both featured in the 2020 Blood in the Snow Festival and were subsequently released in early 2021...please note there is some minor coarse language and a few images that may be disturbing to some (particularly young) viewers.
Check out the trailers for both "Bleed With Me" and "Bloodthirsty"!
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To begin with, please tell me a bit about yourself—your background in writing for children and in other genres.
Hi, everyone! I’m 55-years-old, been married to my husband for 33 years, have 4 children, 5 grandchildren, 2 daughters-in-law’s, a son-in-law, and a special young lady who will officially become our newest daughter-in-law in May 2022.
Reading has been a passion of mine since the day I read my first sentence. I’ve written poetry and short stories on and off my whole life, but I didn’t really begin writing longer works until my early 40’s. It may sound silly, but I’ve always had a profound fear of paragraph breaks – i.e. where to break a paragraph – and that kept me from writing for a long time, believe it or not. It sounds silly after having written ten books now, but there it is. I was also spurred to begin writing in earnest at that time after going through a significant trauma in my life – it was one of those “now or never” moments.
I’m now the author of ten books – an award-winning tween time-travel trilogy, an award-winning children’s chapter book, a British murder mystery, and five faith-based novels.
Tell me about your tween time-travel trilogy.
I wrote the trilogy as a gift for the children of a good friend of mine. They’d been asking me to write them a story for a long time, and the In Time series is the fruit of that request. The main character of the trilogy is a twelve-year-old girl named Emarie Gordon. She lives in a small, historic town, and because she loves everything to do with the olden days, she frequently hangs out with Glenda, an eccentric, elderly woman who owns the local antique store. One day, Glenda shows Emarie an antique Underwood No. 5 typewriter she found in mint condition. When Glenda walks away, Emarie puts her fingers on the typewriter keys and immediately experiences a buzzing sensation in her fingertips. The more she plays with the typewriter, the stronger the feeling grows. The swivel chair she’s sitting in begins to rock, and a whirlwind fills the shop, opening a time-travel portal which carries Emarie away to 1901. There are three books in the series, so you’ll have to check them out to discover where in time Emarie goes in each of the books! There’s a lot of history that kids will learn as they read the stories, and at the end of each book, I include notes that point out to them the history they may have learned without even realizing it.
What inspired you to write about time-travel?
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of time-travel, and it seemed like a great vehicle by which to introduce history to kids as the main character travels through time.
What inspired the premise of A Nose Apart? How did this story come to be?
While riding my bike on trails in a nature preserve type area near my home during the lockdown in spring/summer 2020, I would overhear bits of conversation as I rode by groups of people. Some of the tidbits I heard were quite interesting! I also saw a lot of chipmunks scurrying across the trails during my rides. With those two things combined, the idea somehow came into my head to write about a tiny, unique creature who lives in a nature preserve and who loves to eavesdrop on the humans who walk through the preserve. This character named Boba has a unique, curly-tipped nose she believes she was given to sniff out information. She lives for information! However, her need to know things gets her into a predicament she could never have anticipated!
How did you come up with your characters?
From here on out, I’ll be focusing on A Nose Apart, but I wanted to first say that the characters from the In Time series are loosely based on my friend’s six children who I wrote the books for. Some aspects of their personalities are in each of the characters. That made for fun writing!
Boba in A Nose Apart isn’t based on anyone in particular. She was just cooked up in my imagination with all her eccentricities and oddities. Darrin from A Nose Apart is loosely based on my good friend’s sister who had Down syndrome, as well as other individuals with Down syndrome who I’ve crossed paths with during my lifetime.
What makes this book important right now (feel free to apply this to either the trilogy or A Nose Apart)?
A Nose Apart is a book that celebrates the uniqueness’s we each possess. In this time of great division, I feel we need to hear and read about that perspective more than ever.
Hi, everyone! I’m 55-years-old, been married to my husband for 33 years, have 4 children, 5 grandchildren, 2 daughters-in-law’s, a son-in-law, and a special young lady who will officially become our newest daughter-in-law in May 2022.
Reading has been a passion of mine since the day I read my first sentence. I’ve written poetry and short stories on and off my whole life, but I didn’t really begin writing longer works until my early 40’s. It may sound silly, but I’ve always had a profound fear of paragraph breaks – i.e. where to break a paragraph – and that kept me from writing for a long time, believe it or not. It sounds silly after having written ten books now, but there it is. I was also spurred to begin writing in earnest at that time after going through a significant trauma in my life – it was one of those “now or never” moments.
I’m now the author of ten books – an award-winning tween time-travel trilogy, an award-winning children’s chapter book, a British murder mystery, and five faith-based novels.
Tell me about your tween time-travel trilogy.
I wrote the trilogy as a gift for the children of a good friend of mine. They’d been asking me to write them a story for a long time, and the In Time series is the fruit of that request. The main character of the trilogy is a twelve-year-old girl named Emarie Gordon. She lives in a small, historic town, and because she loves everything to do with the olden days, she frequently hangs out with Glenda, an eccentric, elderly woman who owns the local antique store. One day, Glenda shows Emarie an antique Underwood No. 5 typewriter she found in mint condition. When Glenda walks away, Emarie puts her fingers on the typewriter keys and immediately experiences a buzzing sensation in her fingertips. The more she plays with the typewriter, the stronger the feeling grows. The swivel chair she’s sitting in begins to rock, and a whirlwind fills the shop, opening a time-travel portal which carries Emarie away to 1901. There are three books in the series, so you’ll have to check them out to discover where in time Emarie goes in each of the books! There’s a lot of history that kids will learn as they read the stories, and at the end of each book, I include notes that point out to them the history they may have learned without even realizing it.
What inspired you to write about time-travel?
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of time-travel, and it seemed like a great vehicle by which to introduce history to kids as the main character travels through time.
What inspired the premise of A Nose Apart? How did this story come to be?
While riding my bike on trails in a nature preserve type area near my home during the lockdown in spring/summer 2020, I would overhear bits of conversation as I rode by groups of people. Some of the tidbits I heard were quite interesting! I also saw a lot of chipmunks scurrying across the trails during my rides. With those two things combined, the idea somehow came into my head to write about a tiny, unique creature who lives in a nature preserve and who loves to eavesdrop on the humans who walk through the preserve. This character named Boba has a unique, curly-tipped nose she believes she was given to sniff out information. She lives for information! However, her need to know things gets her into a predicament she could never have anticipated!
How did you come up with your characters?
From here on out, I’ll be focusing on A Nose Apart, but I wanted to first say that the characters from the In Time series are loosely based on my friend’s six children who I wrote the books for. Some aspects of their personalities are in each of the characters. That made for fun writing!
Boba in A Nose Apart isn’t based on anyone in particular. She was just cooked up in my imagination with all her eccentricities and oddities. Darrin from A Nose Apart is loosely based on my good friend’s sister who had Down syndrome, as well as other individuals with Down syndrome who I’ve crossed paths with during my lifetime.
What makes this book important right now (feel free to apply this to either the trilogy or A Nose Apart)?
A Nose Apart is a book that celebrates the uniqueness’s we each possess. In this time of great division, I feel we need to hear and read about that perspective more than ever.
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