{"id":823,"date":"2013-02-03T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/02\/03\/twcep27\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T00:14:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T05:14:35","slug":"twcep27","status":"publish","type":"wc-podcast","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wc-podcast\/twcep27\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word Count Podcast Episode 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Welcome to Episode 27 of \u201cThe Word Count\u201d podcast!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">The show is posting later than expected due to strange personal circumstances.&nbsp; No more need to be said about that because the show is here!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">What is The Word Count Podcast?<\/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: #c0c0c0;\">Why?<\/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><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Okay.&nbsp; Where can I find it?<\/span><\/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><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b> <\/b><\/span><\/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>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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">What&#8217;s this week&#8217;s theme?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I&#8217;m so glad you asked! &nbsp;The theme for episode 27 is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b style=\"color: #ffff00; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;\">&#8220;<\/b><b style=\"color: #ffff00; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;\">Mistaken identity at the pub&#8230;\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><b style=\"color: #ffff00; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Our guests this week:<\/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;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><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\" \/>Bill Kirton <\/b><\/span><i>\u201cJim and Frank\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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, <i>Material Evidence, Rough Justice, The Darkness, Shadow Selves<\/i> and <i>Unsafe Acts<\/i> are set in north east Scotland and his historical crime\/romance novel, <i>The Figurehead<\/i>, is set in Aberdeen in 1840. <i>The Darkness<\/i> won the silver award in the mystery category of the 2011 Forward National Literature Awards and his spoof mystery, <i>The Sparrow Conundrum<\/i>, was the winner in the humor category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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 <i>Best British Crime Stories<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Writing as Jack Rosse, he\u2019s published a novel for children called <i>The Loch Ewe Mystery<\/i>.<\/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: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bill-kirton.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bill-kirton.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Blog: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwritingandotherstuff.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.Livingwritingandotherstuff.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-821\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"Angelica\" height=\"125\" width=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Angelica.jpg\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Angelica.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Angelica-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>Angelica Dawson <\/b><\/span><i>\u201cBeautiful\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Angelica Dawson isn&#8217;t new to sex, just publishing stories about it. She is also familiar with blood sucking fiends, but those of the insect variety rather than vampiric. She is the author of the Vampire BDSM novella Blue Moon House and promised prequels to come. She has published a short story in <\/span><i style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Campus Sexploits 3<\/i><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> as well, both with her publisher, Naughty Nights Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Twitter:&nbsp;@AngelicaDawson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/angelicadawson.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/angelicadawson.blogspot.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-368\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"MAFink\" height=\"198\" width=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MAFink.jpg\" title=\"\">M. A. Fink <\/b><\/span><i>\u201cIncident at Squeaky&#8217;s\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">M. A. Fink estimates he has read aloud 25,000 pages of text in his lifetime to date, on stage and in&nbsp;more intimate settings. He is the author of the soon-to-be-published illustrated novel The Found Diary&nbsp;of Avery Alexander Myer, as well as number of published poems and flash fiction pieces.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Twitter: @onetarot&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Websites:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">http:\/\/thefounddiary.wordpress.com\/ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(my novel&#8217;s page) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">http:\/\/onetarot.livejournal.com\/ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(writing\/art page)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">http:\/\/alternativerealism.wordpress.com\/ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (site that explores the themes of my novel)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-822\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"MHolder\" height=\"131\" width=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MHolder.jpg\" title=\"\">M. Holder<\/strong><\/span> <em>\u201cDiary of an Assassin\u201d<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">M. Holder currently shares her life with two men, an eight-year-old and three cats, her two boys grown&nbsp;and gone. The first sci-fi book she can remember reading is \u201cStranger in a Strange Land\u201d with a&nbsp;dictionary near by if she didn&#8217;t understand a word. She disappears mentally every November for NaNoWriMo&nbsp;and has completed the challenge four times.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Some of her obsessions are origami, anime, terrible movies and tea. Not in that order. Her family worries&nbsp;about her taste in music.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">She writes because there are stories laying all over the place and she just collects them. \u201cThe Diary of an&nbsp;Assassin\u201d is an example of one she found in the bottom of a teacup.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Twitter: @runawaylolrus<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" 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\" \/>Eden Baylee <\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&#8220;Mistaken Double Identity&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Eden Baylee writes literary erotica and infuses erotic elements into many of her stories. Incorporating some&nbsp;of her favorite things such as travel, culture, and a deep curiosity for what turns people on, her brand of&nbsp;writing is both sensual and sexual.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Her latest release is a book of erotic flash fiction and poetry called HOT FLASH.SPRING INTO SUMMER is her second collection of erotic novellas and the companion piece to her first&nbsp;book, FALL INTO WINTER.<\/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><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Episode 27 of \u201cThe Word Count\u201d podcast! 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