s2e30 Diane Goettel of Black Lawrence Press, DIY Publishing, and Professor Jonathan Storm
INDIE PRESSES AND INDIE AUTHORS
SHOW NOTES
s2e30
September 26, 2024
Martha speaks with Indie Publisher Diane Goettel, of Black Lawrence Press. Authors at a monthly Author & Artisan Market talk about self-publishing. We persist to resist book banning. Professor Storm returns to walk and talk in the garden. Featured Poet: Michael Collonese – The Fish Crows of Kinvala.
HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. GUESTS: Diane Goettel, Professor Jonathan Storm, Michael Collonese. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray. ‘Lowlands’ (Instrumental) – Sound of Picture. ‘Swollen Cloud’ – Sound of Picture
GUESTS
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Diane Goettel – Black Lawrence Press
Read more: Diane Goettel – Black Lawrence PressDiane Goettel has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in English from Brooklyn College. She co-edited the anthologies Feast: Poetry & Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner and Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U. She lives in Mount Vernon, New York with her husband and daughter.
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Professor Jonathan Storm
Read more: Professor Jonathan StormJon Storm is a Professor of Biology at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He is lead author of the Field Guide to the Southern Piedmont, a free eBook covering more than 700 species of animals, plants, fungi, slime molds and more in the Piedmont of the Carolinas and Georgia. He and his co-authors won…
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
Michael Colonnese
The Fish Crows of Kinvala
NC Writers Network “In the Company of Writers” Open Mic at The Brandy Bar,
Hendersonville, NC. September 11, 2024
The North Carolina Writers’ Network
The Brandy Bar
AUTHORS AT THE ARTISAN MARKET
Martha speaks with authors at the monthly Author & Artisan Market at As The Page Turns Bookstore in Travelers Rest, SC. Listen to the unedited interviews
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Andrea Beam
Read more: Andrea BeamAndrea Beam is the author of a children’s book, Tyler Goes To School, and editor of the news/media site, Greenville360 based in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Bob Strother
Read more: Bob StrotherA three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Bob Strother’s work has been published internationally and adapted for film. The author of five novels and a short story collection, Strother has won numerous literary awards including the 2015 Southern Writers Magazine Short Fiction Award.
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Brian Marotto
Read more: Brian MarottoBrian Marotto is the author of the modern-day fantasy trilogy The Creature Within comprised of The Awakening, The Deception, and The Imprisoned.
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Carla Field
Read more: Carla FieldCarla Field has been writing since the 1980s, when she won several awards for short stories and poetry, before beginning a lengthy career as a broadcast and digital news journalist and news manager. During her 25 years in the news business, she was awarded several Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalism awards, as well…
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Jason E. Fort
Read more: Jason E. FortJason E. Fort is an independent author who writes both family history and Christian fiction. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and has been a teacher, a coach, a personal trainer, a bouncer, and a police officer. He was brought up in a traditional southern Christian family, and his parents instilled in him an…
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London Clarke
Read more: London ClarkeLondon Clarke is an award-winning author of nine novels, including the Legacy of Darkness series, the Dunmoor series, Wildfell, The Neighbor, and The Night Singers. Her books have repeatedly been #1 Amazon category bestsellers in ghost thrillers and vampire suspense.Clarke lives in South Carolina with her husband and two Italian greyhounds.
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Ruth Buchanan
Read more: Ruth BuchananRuth Buchanan is a freelance writer and the author of books, plays, and countless articles and essays. She is the Director of Literary Services at the personal growth and development network Build a Better Us.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Geoff Bouvier – Us from Nothing
Read more: Geoff Bouvier – Us from NothingFrom the big bang to the emergence of Homo sapiens to Kushim and the first recorded use of writing in 3200 BCE to the moon landing in 1969, Us From Nothing is a sprawling history of humanity. Striving to answer the big questions – Who are we? Where did we come from? How did we…
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Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels
Read more: Mamas, Martyrs, and JezebelsMamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women revisits notions of Black womanhood to include the ways in which Black women’s perceived strength can function as a dangerous denial of Black women’s humanity. This collection addresses the stigma of this extraordinary endurance in professional and personal spaces, the Black…
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Kevin Fenton – Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Read more: Kevin Fenton – Cyan Magenta Yellow BlackNo one was having a good day. It was December in Minnesota in 1993 and we were all at a stage in our life where our therapist thought we might be less loser-like if we met late Monday morning. Late morning, because early morning wasn’t an option for some of us—because some of us couldn’t…
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Jonathan J. Storm – Field Guide to the Southern Piedmont
Read more: Jonathan J. Storm – Field Guide to the Southern PiedmontThe Field Guide to the Southern Piedmont was created to help the general public identify common or distinctive organisms living in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas and Georgia.
SUBMISSIONS
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BANNED BOOKS
We invite you to share your voice
on the banning of books
in schools and libraries in the USA.
PEN America reported ‘While the movement to ban books is driven by a vocal minority demanding censorship, a 2022 poll conducted by The American Library Association found that over 70% of parents oppose book banning leaving many public school districts in a bind. We invite you to share your voice on the banning of books in schools and libraries in the USA.
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Ongoing discussion
Climate Resilience with Laura Lengnick & Meredith Leigh
Climate change is the concern of every writer because it is the concern of every person. Every season, we meet with Laura Lengnick, Meredith Leigh and friends to discuss everything related to agricultural and climate resilience.
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