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A Book & Its Author is a podcast featuring interviews with & readings by writers working in a variety of genres. Available on all your favorite platforms & here: https://abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/
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A Book & Its Author is a podcast featuring interviews with & readings by a wide variety of writers. Available on all the usual podcast platforms & here: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com
A Book & Its Author
A podcast. About a book. With an author. Interviewed. Reading from said book.
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New episode! Insights into spy craft & glam metal with Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social & his novel, The Whyte Python World Tour @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. Now available on all the usual podcast platforms & here: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/069-the-whyt...
A Book & Its Author: 069: The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy
Travis Kennedy discusses and reads from his debut novel, The Whyte Python World Tour (Doubleday, 2025), wherein the CIA exploits a glam metal band as part of a psy-op to destabilize communist countrie...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hey! A new episode of AB&IA drops Wednesday, in order to give you something to do on Thursday while in tryptophan-induced stupor. Listen to Travis Kennedy discuss The Whyte Python World Tour!
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s always nice to meet up with old friends like Bernie. All the better when I can interview them for A Book & Its Author. Keep watching this space for info about my episode featuring No Great Tragedy: An Academic Novel by Bernard Schopen.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Today I spoke with John M. Glionna about his latest, Rebels And Outliers: Real Stories Of The American West. It’s a terrific book & the interview was great fun. Keep watching this space for more info. @unvpress.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Nice to run into bookish friends at the Reno Punk Rock Flea Market: Avantpop, Radical Cat Bookstore, PM Press. @renopunkflea.bsky.social @avantpop.bsky.social @theradicalcat.bsky.social @pmpress.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
DeWolfe, Hamapple, In Another Life, & Little Dad at Reno Punk Rock Flea Market. @renopunkflea.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Very cool to see Shwa Laytart at the Reno Punk Rock Flea Market. Shwa was my guest back on episode 29 of A Book & Its Author. @renopunkflea.bsky.social @avantpop.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Cheap Trick!
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Throwback Friday. (Sure.) I tend to read more fiction than non-, but it took me ‘til episode 4 to feature my first such book, Christopher Coake’s excellent collection You Would Have Told Me Not To.
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Latest read. No Great Tragedy by Bernard Schopen.
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Latest read. An Anthology Of Basque Short Stories compiled by Mari Jose Olaziregi.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Come read the short 12 page prologue of #CatIsekai where a girl and her cat are transported to another world. With cover and one illustration by Ishida1694.

Best of all it's Completely FREE if you want it to be! All subsequent chapters will also be free!

infernulls.itch.io/cat-isekai-p...
November 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Latest read. I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak. @aak
October 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Latest read. Madwoman Of The Sacred Heart by Moebius & Alexandro Jodorowsky. @darkhorse.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Blood Vulture, The Dwarves, Helmet, & GWAR. @bloodvulture.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It should be noted: Very enjoyable silly nonsense.
It was awesome getting to do this. I appreciate him taking the time to ask me about my silly nonsense. They were very professional, and very nice, so I hope you'll take a chance to check him out.

Thank you again, it was a lovely time!
Another episode? You bet! A Book & Its Author ep. 68 features Zeggy @infernulls.bsky.social discussing & reading from their light novel, Infernulls: The Golden Letter. Lots of fun, available on all the usual platforms & here: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/068-infernul...
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Another episode? You bet! A Book & Its Author ep. 68 features Zeggy @infernulls.bsky.social discussing & reading from their light novel, Infernulls: The Golden Letter. Lots of fun, available on all the usual platforms & here: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/068-infernul...
A Book & Its Author: 068: Infernulls: The Golden Letter by Zeggy
Zeggy discusses and reads from Infernulls: The Golden Letter (Zeggy, 2025), a light novel homage to anime, role playing games, and classic fantasy, following the adventures of Lamya Cade and an unlike...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Latest read. West Coast Blues by Jacques Tardi & Jean-Patrick Manchette. @fantagraphics.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Heads up! A new episode of A Book & Its Author is on its way this Thursday. Zeggy discusses & reads from their debut light novel, Infernulls: The Golden Letter. (Artwork by Ishida1694) @infernulls.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Latest read. Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse.
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Had an awesome time speaking with Travis Kennedy about his debut novel, The Whyte Python World Tour (glam metal as Cold War psy-op). Keep watching this space for more details. @traviskennedy.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Latest read. The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy. @traviskennedy.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Five years ago today, the first episode of A Book & Its Author appeared. Now: 67 episodes, 59 guests, & still going strong. Thanks to everyone who has given the show their support.
September 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New episode! Check out #67, with Bruce Rettig discussing & reading from Refractions: An Arctic Memoir @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social , an account of his time working in the Alaskan oil fields. On your favorite podcast platforms & here: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/067-refracti...
A Book & Its Author: 067: Refraction: An Arctic Memoir by Bruce Rettig
Bruce Rettig discusses and reads from Refraction: An Arctic Memoir (Wayfarer Books, 2022), about three summers worked in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, home of one of the largest oilfield in America, where an i...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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September 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM