Category Archives: reading

Howard A. Rodman Wows the Oddcast

  By gregoryfrost • June 14, 2019 editing, fantasy, historical fiction, motion pictures, non-fiction, novelist, on writing, publishing, reading, science fiction, screenwriting, short stories

This week’s Oddcast presents an amazing and fascinating interview with award-winning screenwriter (Savage Grace, Joe Gould’s Secret), novelist, journalist and educator Howard A. Rodman about writing novels and screenplays, adapting novels to screenplays, and leading the WGA, not to mention the true, secret history of how a small bookshop in Paris led him to write his new novel, The Great Eastern, wherein Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo battles Melville’s Captain Ahab. Join cohosts Jon McGoran, Gregory Frost, Kelly Simmons, Keith Strunk and Merry Jones.

Howard Rodman on the Oddcast

Q&A Authors’ Roundtable at Towne Book Center

  By gregoryfrost • May 31, 2019 children's books, editing, illustration, Images, literary agents, novelist, on writing, picture books, publishing, reading, science fiction, short stories, teaching writing, Words, worldbuilding

Authors' Roundtable

A special live authors’ roundtable is driven by questions from publishing execs and writers — about idea theft, the dangers of creating characters from real people, the perils of writing near-future sci-fi, and more! Recorded live at the Towne Book Center and Wine Bar. Legendary children’s book author Judy Schachner even shows up with a question or two for Oddcast cohosts Kelly Simmons, Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk.

Noir-at-the-Bar on the Liars Club Oddcast

  By gregoryfrost • November 23, 2018 crime fiction, Happenings, podcast, reading, short stories, thrillers

This week’s Liars Club Oddcast is a very special Noir at the Bar, with bite-sized readings from Jon McGoran, Merry Jones, Bill Lashner, Robb Cadigan, Gregory Frost, Don Lafferty, Edward G Pettit, Bernard Schaffer, Erik Arneson, Dennis Tafoya, and William L. Myers Jr.

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Noir at the BarThe show is a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, in memory of Evie Swierczynski, and the Liars and readers encourage all listeners to consider a donation in Evie’s honor at bit.ly/team-evie-chla-fundraiser. Your tax-deductible gift will help create hope and build healthier futures for many young patients and their families.