Season 2, Episode 9 Joshua Gillingham is a Canadian teacher, author and games designer. He writes The Saga of Torin Ten-Trees, a series based on Viking legend and lore. His games, both card games and board games, are also inspired by Scandanavian culture, particularly his card game Althingi, which was recently successfully back on Kickstarter. […]
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Man V Fat with Andrew Shanahan
Season 2, Episode 8 Andrew Shanahan is the founder of Man v Fat and the author of Before and After. His novel released at the exact right time, as it’s about the end of the world. What makes Andrew’s novel so unique, however, is it tells an apocalypse survival story from the point of view […]
What is Spirituality? with Lali A Love
Season 2, Episode 7 Lali A Love is the author of Heart of a Warrior Angel and The Decoding of Jo. She is also a poet and has two collections of poetry out, The Joy of Infinite Transcendence and her recently released Ananda: Poetry for the Soul. Additionally, Lali also has an inspiring Instagram account […]
Parenting over Long Distance with Mike Coles
Season 2, Episode 6 As an introduction, Mike Coles is a lawyer, writer, and the main man behind the wonderful app Choose Your Reader. This app is where children can not only choose the story they want to hear but choose the family member that reads it to them! Firstly, Mike tells me the story […]
Find your Passion with Eve McDonnell
Season 2, Episode 5 Eve McDonnell is an Irish children’s author, artist and an all-round fantastic person. She is the author of Elsetime, a middle-grade fantasy book that tells the story of Needle, Glory and their mutual pet crow. The novel launched in September 2020, and Eve and I spoke about what it was like […]
Working Class Writers with Dougie Brimson (Season 2, Episode 2)
For the second episode of the second season I managed to land an interview with author and screenwriter Dougie Brimson. Dougie’s first book was Everywhere We Go, a non-fiction book about soccer in the build-up to the 1996 European Championships. Dougie decided when he started writing that he would “write for himself”. He believed that […]