Appearances & Interviews
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Upcoming
With Point of Ares at Sports Legends Pub on Sunday 12/15/24. Point of Ares returns as the featured band at Legends’ weekly Rock Jam. We anticipate playing sometime after 6pm.
Recent
Author Event at Tatnuck Bookseller on 9/22/24. Adapting fiction to film, audiobook, and music.
Author Reading and Discussion at the Upton Town Library on 4/6/24. Reading and discussion of The Maenad’s God.
Author Event at Tatnuck Bookseller on 3/23/24. Reading and discussion of The Maenad’s God.
Lez Talk About Books, Baby! podcast with Anita Kelly – recorded 1/31/24; available 2/25/24 on Apple Podcasts, PodBean and YouTube.
Alienation. Disillusion. Creativity as a form of love put out into the universe. And other arcane and delightful matters.
Be My Guest! with Jan Lewis. Carried by Upton Community Television – recorded and available 1/12/24.
Of masks and maenads. And Dionysus. And rock music. And old theater terms. And . . . well, we covered a lot – both serious and not. Jan’s a lot of fun and so is her interview.
The Hollis Chapman Show on BlogTalkRadio – live streamed 12/8/23; available 12/11/23 for download. Alienation. Separation. Art. Power. Identity. Reality. How do you live your life in a toxic society without going mad?
Self Discovery Wisdom podcast with Sara Troy – recorded 11/16/23; available 11/20/23 on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Radio Public, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube and other major platforms.
What would happen if we recognized creativity as an essentially spiritual practice – and any externally-imposed separation from our true selves as a kind of living death?
This interview is a continuation of the Self Discovery Wisdom podcast that was recorded on 8/22/23. Available below.
Author Talk at Booklovers’ Gourmet on 11/18/23. Discussion of The Maenad’s God.
Rainbow Country with Mark Tara – recorded 08/31/23; available 10/23/23 on Audible, Bombshell Radio, CIUT FM, iHeart Radio, podomatic, Rainbow Country archives, Spotify, YouTube and other major platforms.
Mark Tara’s Rainbow Country is a nationally syndicated Canadian lgbtq+ podcast, originating from CIUT FM, right out of the heart of Toronto. Mark opens with Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, the creators of A24’s new release Dicks: The Musical, which just happened to win the People’s Choice Award for Midnight Madness at the 2023 Toronto film festival, and looks to be an outrageously funny and thoroughly fabulous viewing experience.
My segment follows at 20:17, with a short reading (per Mark’s request). Interview starts at 24:14 and ranges from fiction writing to creativity to bass playing to where characters come from.
Author Visit at the Abington Social Library on 9/13/23.
LeftofStr8 Show “5 Questions With . . .” with Scott Fullerton – recorded 08/28/23; available 9/12/23 on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify, YouTube and other major platforms.
If it’s Tuesday it’s time for “5 Questions With . . .” a weekly follow-up to Scott Fullerton’s www.leftofstr8.com podcast, where Scott poses five fun and provocative questions to his previous week’s guests. Composer lyricist Scott Evan Davis opens the segment. My questions start at 8:22. Questions involved 1) choosing a lawyer, a teacher, and a musician to invite to a dinner party 2) the best TV or movie lawyer 3) the character from British literature who would fare best in a fantasy world 4) creating a new Pagan holiday and 5) New England food. Guess which one I couldn’t answer.
LeftofStr8 Show podcast with Scott Fullerton – recorded 08/28/23; available 9/8/23 on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify, YouTube and other major platforms.
Scott Fullerton, the host of the LeftofStr8 Show, creates high energy, highly engaging podcasts that focus on the lgbtq+ community and allies. I was thrilled to have an opportunity to chat with him about music and fiction writing, inner and outer lives and the tension society forces between them, the war on creativity, invoking the muse, and who provides the best wine and 45 rpm records (hint: no questions need be asked as to the source of such delights – if you know, you know.)
Self Discovery Wisdom podcast with Sara Troy – recorded 8/22/23; available 8/28/23 on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Radio Public, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube and other major platforms.
Sara is an insightful, fascinating host and we had a far-ranging discussion covering many topics, including: The ancient war that is still being waged against creativity. Which we’re losing. – The weapons a toxic society uses to separate us from ourselves, and the widespread misery that results. – Who gets to call themselves an artist? – Creativity as a form of spirituality. – Envy/destructiveness/ego in the arts. My books. (All of them).
A follow-up interview was recorded on 11/16/23. Available above.
The Book Show on Talk Radio Europe with Hannah Murray (heard through BBC channels) – recorded 8/14/23; available 8/24/23 on Audioboom, TuneIn, and other major platforms. My interview begins at 26:51.
The Author’s Hour with Wayne G. Barber, WNRI radio interview recorded and available 6/13/23.
Our discussion veered into sacred topics: imagination, the nature of art, the war against creativity, classic literature and rock music, society’s destruction of our inner selves. (Also . . . my books).
Wayne made it all seem as natural as a chat with an old friend over morning coffee, as if we were sitting in an old-fashioned New England diner and discussing the weather.
Author Talk at the Jacob Edwards Library carried by Southbridge Community Television – recorded 2/22/23; available 3/8/23
Then, around the 20 minute mark, a live discussion begins about the earliest origins of all art and creativity, “soft reality” (a phrase I came up with during the discussion that’s now growing on me), myth, fiction writing, where fictional characters come from, creativity as spirituality, and a lot of other stuff.
Which is one more reason libraries, and their patrons, are cool.
Literary Titan interview: “Creativity as a Kind of Spirituality” – 10/18/22
Past
Risingshadow.net guest blog post
Music Street Journal chat transcript (with Rich Newman of TagYerit)
The SF Site interview by Lisa Dumond
Fantastica Daily interview by Eva Wojcik-Obert Archived here.
In The First interview by Kevin L. Gilbert Archived here.
Music Street Journal interview by Gary Hill
The Celebrity Café interview by Dominick A. Miserandino
Revolt interview by Adrian Bromley Archived here.