We all get ensnared in the 'Net. It's become such a part of our lives. Podcasts, videos, commercial sites, political rants, hate speech, love speech, the cuter than cute, the most horrible of the horrific, real and true information, and myths upon myths upon myths. All this makes the internet really not that much different from any other conduit of communication: TV, Radio, newspapers, books, pamphlets, the local coffee shop, and the neighborhood bar. It is just so much bigger, pervasive, and not only in your face, and in your home, but in your pocket. It is a big (even if small), digital companion. We can only hope that for most of us, it is also a friend.
For an author of books, it allows you to get your face and voice out there for discovery. As authors rarely get invited on to early morning and late-night network and cable shows, that's a pretty good -- if nowhere near as potent -- benefit.
And it can be fun. I've had some good times being a guest on podcasts and videos, and even making a few of my own in the past eight years or so. And I thought it might be useful to gather them together in one place just in case anyone trying to decide to take a chance on my books wanted to get to know me a bit.
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I was very pleased—not to mention honored—to be a guest on the Phil & Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, joining the likes of past guests Harry Shearer, John Goodman, Kevin Pollak, Penn Jillette, Weird Al Yankovic, Laraine Newman, Neal Israel, Leonard Maltin, and Armin Shimerman.
I had a great time talking to Phil and Ted in the wilds of Benedict Canyon about my dark days in Hollywood (or shadowy days, or maybe just not well illuminated days). And, of course, about my true passion, the novels I have written over the past 20 years or so.
More specifically, the audiobook of my novel CREATURE FEATURE: A HORRID COMEDY.
Phil and Ted know a lot about comedy and creating radio not just for the ear, but for the mind’s eye, so I was thrilled that they both very much liked the audiobook, especially the performances of Seamus Dever and Juliana Dever,
and the great job Seamus did producing, directing, and editing the audiobook.
Hear the podcast HERE or by going to Spotify or other podcast platforms.
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I was honored to be asked by Ray Bradbury scholar Phil Nichols to be his first guest on the podcast Bradbury 100 in June of 2020 during Ray's centenary year. I was doubly honored to be Phil's guest for a special LIVE vidcast in August of 2021 one day after what would have been Ray's 101 birthday.
We talked about my relationship with Ray for over thirty years, concentrating on our time working together on the ill-fated animated NEMO project. You can watch it on YouTube HERE.
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In June of 2021, I was a guest on the unique and quite neat Sample Chapter Podcast.
Host Jason A. Meuschke not only interviews authors but askes them to read a sample chapter from one of their books. I suggested we do something a little different. Rather than have me read from Creature Feature: A Horrid Comedy, I suggested he play the first chapter performed by Seamus Dever and Juliana Dever in the audiobook that had just been released.
Jason love the idea and so that's what he did. You can hear the interview with me and Seamus and Juliana performing the first chapter HERE.
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Kia Carrington-Russell is a young Australian author who decided that she wanted to talk to many authors worldwide. I was happy to do so in October of 2020 when my novel Creature Feature: A Horrid Comedy was released.
I think I'm the only author she talked to in two parts. Which either means I am extremely interesting. Or that she just couldn't shut me up!
In either case, in Part One Kia wanted to know about my time in Hollywood, especially in animation. In Part Two we get to my writing life, including the writing of my play Made on the Moon, and adapting it into a novella.
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As my novel Bully 4 Love was being released I guested on the Distinct Authors Podcast, which you can listen to on Spotify.
You can listen to the podcast HERE.
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I was honored to be the first guest on Phil Nichols' Bradbury100 podcast. Phil — or Dr. Phil Nichols has run the Bradburymedia.com website for almost 20 years concentrating on the media adaptations of Bradbury's work. This led to him getting his Ph.D. in a study o Bradbury's screenwriting. He is currently Course Leader - Film & TV Production at the University of Wolverhampton in the U.K.
Phil has designed this podcast to serve as a virtual celebration of Ray at 100 as a way to soothe the disappointment of many that physical celebrations of Ray will not be taking place this year due to that little bugger, COVID-19. In the podcast, Phil talks to friends and colleagues of Ray's as well as scholars and fans. In this first episode Phil opens with a consideration of the problematic labeling of Ray as a "science fiction writer." In doing so, Phil beautifully and intelligently puts Ray's work into a perspective that allows appreciation of the facets of Ray's writing. So, click to learn more and listen to the podcast. But you also might want to get on the various podcast distribution locales like Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, and others so you can subscribe and not miss one episode. Cheers!
You can listen to it HERE
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I was doubly pleased in this venture because, as my Azusa High School cohorts will know, John and I were inseparable buddies during our high school & college years, and while we worked on The Cinemaphile, a film newspaper John had founded. Then life moved us in different directions. But many roads lead back home, and our mutual love of books has often found us enjoying each other’s company again.
For more information on Journey to Where and all my books go to the MY BOOKS page on this blog.
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YOU CAN LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE.
Frank Thompson is a film historian who has a great podcast, The Commentary Track. Here he has illuminating conversations with other film historians and people involved in the making of films. As he knew of my twenty-year plus history of working in film, and some of the people I worked with, including Chuck Jones, Dick Zanuck, and Ray Bradbury, he asked me to sit down and yak with him. I was more than happy to oblige and had a good doing so.
UNFORTUNATELY, MY EPISODE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, BUT FRANK HOPES FOR IT TO BE UP AGAIN AT A LATER DATE.
Sword & Laser is a popular internet show on all things SF (the laser) & Fantasy (the sword). Jeff Cannata, who recorded the audiobook of my novel Traveling in Space (which I produced and directed), and I appeared on the show and talked about our collaboration and my novel in some detail.
L.A. public TV station KCET invited me to be one-day food critic on their internet show, Free Lunch. I was happy to do it as free lunches are gold to a writer.
I've guested often on Peter Anthony Holder's The Stuph File podcast. Here's on of my favorites, sharing the mic with Jonah Cummings, the audiobook narrator of my novel Blood is Pretty.
The last work I did in film animation was to voice the character of Scott, the owner of a Snow Dome store, who wants a son, in Steve Moore's (although credited here as Oscar Moore) award-winning animated short. It's a charming, if off-beat, love story.
I was the first person to be asked to give some free advice for a series of internet shorts. My free advice actually was wisdom I had received from a world-famous film animation director who shall remain nameless.
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UNFORTUNATELY, MY EPISODE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, BUT FRANK HOPES FOR IT TO BE UP AGAIN AT A LATER DATE.
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April 2, 2014, Peter Lonsdale and I finish recording the audiobook of Traveling in Space with the very talented Jeff Cannata. And we get a little silly.
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On September 23, 2013, the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library in Los Angeles was dedicated to Ray Bradbury. This had been Ray's local library, and he had spent many hours here with his four daughters and often spoke here. I helped bring this about, although it really was the combined efforts of Councilmember Paul Koretz, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Friends of the Palms-Rancho Park Library, and leaders in the local community that made it happen. After the dedication, I joined fellow authors Harlan Ellison and George Clayton Johnson upstairs in the Ray Bradbury Room to talk about our mutual friend, Ray Bradbury. This video was shot by another friend of Ray's, John Sasser.
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I've guested often on Peter Anthony Holder's The Stuph File podcast. Here's on of my favorites, sharing the mic with Jonah Cummings, the audiobook narrator of my novel Blood is Pretty.
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