{"id":1030,"date":"2014-11-23T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/index.php\/2014\/11\/23\/twcep44\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T05:05:30","slug":"twcep44","status":"publish","type":"wc-podcast","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wc-podcast\/twcep44\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word Count Episode 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Welcome to Episode 44 of \u201cThe Word Count\u201d podcast!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Well things do tend to taper off for the end of the year\u2014between NaNoWriMo, the holidays and the general chaos that accompanies all of it.&nbsp; So we have three stories for you this week based on a three word prompt.&nbsp; Those three words?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>\u201cWoman. Book. Fall.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">But before we introduce our cadre of writers, a bit about the show:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em>What is The Word Count Podcast?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">It is a free broadcast by writers for writers.&nbsp; Simply put, a theme for each show is announced via this site, Twitter and Facebook and writers are given a week or two to write AND RECORD their stories based on said theme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em>Why?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Why not, says I.&nbsp; It\u2019s a great way to practice writing and public speaking.&nbsp; It\u2019s another way for writers to get their work \u201cout there.\u201d&nbsp; And I love to meet fellow authors and have a blast putting the show together.&nbsp; It\u2019s just that simple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Okay.&nbsp; Where can I find it?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">You can listen to the latest podcast below, subscribe via iTunes or listen at the show\u2019s site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <iframe style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3196915\/height\/360\/width\/640\/theme\/legacy\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"654\" valign=\"top\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b>Direct: <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordcount.libsyn.com\/webpage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/thewordcount.libsyn.com\/webpage<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b>iTunes (and remember, iTunes takes   their sweet time in posting. &nbsp;If you don&#8217;t see it yet, keep trying!): <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/the-word-count\/id392550989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/the-word-count\/id392550989<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Our guests this week:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-809\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"eden_at_benmcnally\" height=\"233\" width=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eden_at_benmcnally.jpg\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eden_at_benmcnally.jpg 960w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eden_at_benmcnally-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eden_at_benmcnally-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eden_at_benmcnally-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Eden Baylee<\/span><\/b><i> \u201cBookmark\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><i> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Eden Baylee left a twenty-year banking career to become a full-time writer. She incorporates many of her favorite things into her writing such as: travel; humor; music; poetry; art; and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><i>Stranger at Sunset<\/i> is her first mystery novel, on the heels of several books of erotic anthologies and short stories. She writes in multiple genres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">An introvert by nature and an extrovert by design, Eden is most comfortable at home with her laptop surrounded by books. She is an online Scrabble junkie and a social media enthusiast, but she really needs to get out more often!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">To stay apprised of Eden\u2019s book-related news, please add your name to her&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/UKP8P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mailing list<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Connect with her via her&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/edenbaylee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> |&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edenbaylee.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a> |&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/edenbaylee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twitter @edenbaylee<\/a> |&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/edenbaylee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-291\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"bill_Kirton\" height=\"173\" width=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bill_Kirton.jpg\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bill_Kirton.jpg 1564w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bill_Kirton-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bill_Kirton-600x594.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bill_Kirton-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bill_Kirton-1024x1014.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bill_Kirton-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Bill Kirton <\/span><\/b><i>\u201cThe Fall\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Before taking early retirement to become a full-time writer, Bill Kirton was a lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen. He\u2019s written stage and radio plays, short stories, novels, skits and songs for revues, and five non-fiction books aimed at helping students with their writing and study skills. His five modern crime novels,&nbsp;<i>Material Evidence, Rough Justice, The Darkness, Shadow Selves <\/i>and&nbsp;<i>Unsafe Acts<\/i> are set in north east Scotland and his historical crime\/romance novel,&nbsp;<i>The Figurehead<\/i>, is set in Aberdeen in 1840.&nbsp;<i>The Darkness<\/i> won the silver award in the mystery category of the 2011 Forward National Literature Awards and his spoof mystery,&nbsp;<i>The Sparrow Conundrum<\/i>, was the winner in the humor category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">He\u2019s published a novel for children called&nbsp;<i>The Loch Ewe Mystery<\/i>, and his latest publication is a satirical novella about online gaming and the real and virtual worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">He\u2019s had radio plays broadcast by the BBC and the Australian BC.&nbsp; His short stories have appeared in many anthologies, including three of the CWA\u2019s annual collections, and one was chosen by Maxim Jakubowski for his 2010 anthology of&nbsp;<i>Best British Crime Stories<\/i>. It\u2019s also been optioned by a film company in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">He\u2019s been a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at universities in Aberdeen, Dundee and St Andrews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Twitter: @carver22<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bill-kirton.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bill-kirton.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwritingandotherstuff.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.Livingwritingandotherstuff.blogspot.com<\/a><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1029\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"kimmydon2shrunk\" height=\"263\" width=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kimmydon2shrunk.jpg\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kimmydon2shrunk.jpg 259w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kimmydon2shrunk-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Kimberly Gould<\/span><\/b> <i>\u201cWonderland\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Kimberly Gould hates being called Kimmy, but her mom called her Kimmydonn and that was okay. When she isn&#8217;t writing about the post-apocalyptic world, she is working to prevent an apocalypse as an environmental consultant. She is the author of Never Say Die: A Zombie Time Loop Story, Thickness of Blood, and her post-apocalyptic renaissance series, Cargon. You can find her anywhere online as Kimmydonn, including her webpage, Kimmydonn.com, and twitter (@Kimmydonn).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Episode 44 of \u201cThe Word Count\u201d podcast! 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