Sharon and Bruce catch up following Thanksgiving 2022 and talk about their panels at TusCon, including panels of writing PTSD in your work and another about reading scientific studies.

Ed note: Bruce references Val “Kitteman” but we think he meant Val McDermid.

Things and people that get mentioned:

• https://johnaconnell.com
• https://www.valmcdermid.com
• https://alixeharrow.wixsite.com/author
• https://tusconscificon.com/

This episode was originally recorded December 11, 2022

Join authors Sharon Skinner and Bruce Davis as they record the next episode of their Brick Cave Podcast. Covering a wide gamut of literary topics, you are sure to find the listen an engaging and entertaining event.

About Sharon Skinner

Sharon Skinner is the author of numerous books and a number of short stories, including the Tavara Tinker Series. Her most recent title, The Exile's Gift, is available now from Brick Cave Media. She is online at https://sharonskinner.com or https://bookcoachingbysharon.com

About Bruce Davis

Bruce Davis is the author of many books and several short pieces of fiction. He writes science fiction, fantasy and non fiction. His most recent title, Silver Magic, is currently available from Brick Cave Media. He is online at https://brucecdavis.com

About Brick Cave Media®

The Brick Cave Podcast is ©2024 Brick Cave Media LLC., all rights reserved. for more information on Brick Cave Media, visit the organization's website at https://brickcave.media. The Brick Cave Membership Community is called the BC Book Club, and you can join at http://bcbookclub.com.

Wanna Hear Their Thoughts on YOUR first Page?

First Words is the segment of the show where Bruce and Sharon each select the first page of someone’s work, read it on air, and discuss it with feedback.

You can submit your first manuscript page to have them read it during the show, learn more here:

https://brickcave.media/index.php/brick-cave-podcast/about-the-podcast

In this special audio pull from Bob's sort of maybe weekly vlog about happenings at Brick Cave, Bob covers the closing days of the Brick Cave Book Club Membership Drive for 2024. More details here: https://brickcave.media/index.php/news-blogs/172-the-2024-brick-cave-media-membership-drive

Updates on the status of Profit and Loss from Bruce Davis: https://brickcave.media/index.php/authors/bruce-davis?types[0]=1

Bob also talks about upcoming Brick Cave events, including the 2024 Sci Fi Saturday at Bookmaze Mesa, and an exclusive BC Book Club member event with Brick Cave Associate Editor Ben Manning.

https://brickcave.media/index.php/events

Watch the video and/or subscribe to the Brick Cave Bob Vlog on the Brick Cave YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@brickcavemedia/

Bruce and Sharon shift gears to their non fiction readings, including The Emperor of All Ailments month others. Sharon shares her love of Liquid Death and Bruce admits that he has discovered ultra caffeinated coffee. There is also some discussion about Barnes and Noble not stocking hard back books. They talk about print on demand, and Bruce postulates that POD machines should become localized.

Things that get mentioned: https://siddharthamukherjee.com https://liquiddeath.com https://www.deathwishcoffee.com https://www.barnesandnoble.com (Silver Magic)- https://brickcaveclick.com/nl0rtq (Blood From A Rose)- https://brickcaveclick.com/qg2aos

This episode was recorded August 25, 2022.

Join authors Sharon Skinner and Bruce Davis as they record the next episode of their Brick Cave Podcast. Covering a wide gamut of literary topics, you are sure to find the listen an engaging and entertaining event.

About Sharon Skinner

Sharon Skinner is the author of numerous books and a number of short stories, including the Tavara Tinker Series. Her most recent title, The Exile's Gift, is available now from Brick Cave Media. She is online at https://sharonskinner.com or https://bookcoachingbysharon.com

About Bruce Davis

Bruce Davis is the author of many books and several short pieces of fiction. He writes science fiction, fantasy and non fiction. His most recent title, Silver Magic, is currently available from Brick Cave Media. He is online at https://brucecdavis.com

About Brick Cave Media®

The Brick Cave Podcast is ©2024 Brick Cave Media LLC., all rights reserved. for more information on Brick Cave Media, visit the organization's website at https://brickcave.media. The Brick Cave Membership Community is called the BC Book Club, and you can join at http://bcbookclub.com.

Wanna Hear Their Thoughts on YOUR first Page?

First Words is the segment of the show where Bruce and Sharon each select the first page of someone’s work, read it on air, and discuss it with feedback.

You can submit your first manuscript page to have them read it during the show, learn more here:

https://brickcave.media/index.php/brick-cave-podcast/about-the-podcast

The third part of the episode sees Bruce and sharon continuing to share their current reads, such as the Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison among others..

Things that get mentioned: https://www.katherineaddison.com/books https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/author/tessa-harris/ https://douglasstarr.com https://redwombatstudio.com https://nicolagriffith.com

This episode was recorded August 25, 2022.

Join authors Sharon Skinner and Bruce Davis as they record the next episode of their Brick Cave Podcast. Covering a wide gamut of literary topics, you are sure to find the listen an engaging and entertaining event.

About Sharon Skinner

Sharon Skinner is the author of numerous books and a number of short stories, including the Tavara Tinker Series. Her most recent title, The Exile's Gift, is available now from Brick Cave Media. She is online at https://sharonskinner.com or https://bookcoachingbysharon.com

About Bruce Davis

Bruce Davis is the author of many books and several short pieces of fiction. He writes science fiction, fantasy and non fiction. His most recent title, Silver Magic, is currently available from Brick Cave Media. He is online at https://brucecdavis.com

About Brick Cave Media®

The Brick Cave Podcast is ©2024 Brick Cave Media LLC., all rights reserved. for more information on Brick Cave Media, visit the organization's website at https://brickcave.media. The Brick Cave Membership Community is called the BC Book Club, and you can join at http://bcbookclub.com.

Wanna Hear Their Thoughts on YOUR first Page?

First Words is the segment of the show where Bruce and Sharon each select the first page of someone’s work, read it on air, and discuss it with feedback.

You can submit your first manuscript page to have them read it during the show, learn more here:

https://brickcave.media/index.php/brick-cave-podcast/about-the-podcast

In the second part of this episode, Bruce and Sharon talk about book awards and their relevancy. They talk about how different awards are decided, based on their structure. They also talk about the blurring lines of category and genre.

Things that get mentioned: https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecott https://www.thehugoawards.org https://www.otherscribbles.com https://andyweirauthor.com https://natalielloyd.com

This episode was recorded August 25, 2022.

Join authors Sharon Skinner and Bruce Davis as they record the next episode of their Brick Cave Podcast. Covering a wide gamut of literary topics, you are sure to find the listen an engaging and entertaining event.

About Sharon Skinner

Sharon Skinner is the author of numerous books and a number of short stories, including the Tavara Tinker Series. Her most recent title, The Exile's Gift, is available now from Brick Cave Media. She is online at https://sharonskinner.com or https://bookcoachingbysharon.com

About Bruce Davis

Bruce Davis is the author of many books and several short pieces of fiction. He writes science fiction, fantasy and non fiction. His most recent title, Silver Magic, is currently available from Brick Cave Media. He is online at https://brucecdavis.com

About Brick Cave Media®

The Brick Cave Podcast is ©2024 Brick Cave Media LLC., all rights reserved. for more information on Brick Cave Media, visit the organization's website at https://brickcave.media. The Brick Cave Membership Community is called the BC Book Club, and you can join at http://bcbookclub.com.

Wanna Hear Their Thoughts on YOUR first Page?

First Words is the segment of the show where Bruce and Sharon each select the first page of someone’s work, read it on air, and discuss it with feedback.

You can submit your first manuscript page to have them read it during the show, learn more here:

https://brickcave.media/index.php/brick-cave-podcast/about-the-podcast

In this episode, Bruce and Sharon talk about getting back to events and Bruce shares some of the panels he will be facilitating at an upcoming convention. Sharon talks about attending the Roadside Book Festival.

Things that get mentioned: https://www.greatspiritanimalsanctuary.org/ https://roadsidebookfestival.com

https://mesabookfestival.com

https://tusconscificon.com

This episode was recorded August 25, 2022.

Join authors Sharon Skinner and Bruce Davis as they record the next episode of their Brick Cave Podcast. Covering a wide gamut of literary topics, you are sure to find the listen an engaging and entertaining event.

About Sharon Skinner

Sharon Skinner is the author of numerous books and a number of short stories, including the Tavara Tinker Series. Her most recent title, The Exile's Gift, is available now from Brick Cave Media. She is online at https://sharonskinner.com or https://bookcoachingbysharon.com

About Bruce Davis

Bruce Davis is the author of many books and several short pieces of fiction. He writes science fiction, fantasy and non fiction. His most recent title, Silver Magic, is currently available from Brick Cave Media. He is online at https://brucecdavis.com

About Brick Cave Media®

The Brick Cave Podcast is ©2024 Brick Cave Media® LLC., all rights reserved. for more information on Brick Cave Media, visit the organization's website at https://brickcave.media. The Brick Cave Membership Community is called the BC Book Club, and you can join at http://bcbookclub.com.

Wanna Hear Their Thoughts on YOUR first Page?

First Words is the segment of the show where Bruce and Sharon each select the first page of someone’s work, read it on air, and discuss it with feedback.

You can submit your first manuscript page to have them read it during the show, learn more here:

https://brickcave.media/index.php/brick-cave-podcast/about-the-podcast

PSE Bob Nelson of Brick Cave Media shares his thoughts on three questions that any writer should ask themselves before they start to submit their manuscript to a publisher.

About Brick Cave Media™

The Brick Cave Podcast is ©2024 Brick Cave Media LLC., all rights reserved. for more information on Brick Cave Media, visit the organization's website at https://brickcave.media.

The Brick Cave Book Club offers supporters extra episodes and other great advantages- details at https://brickcave.media/index.php/bc-book-club

The gang orders an email sub. Patrick spills the deep secrets of Google. There's more poetry, Bill sharing a little known Medicate Plan. Holly shares a poem that she would have love to have written, Identiyu by Julio Noboa Polanco: https://www.poetry.com/poem/44097/identity

About the 5th segment of this episode

Segment 5 of this episode is available exclusively to our Sapphire, Diamond and Onyx BC Book Club Members.

About Bill Campana

Bill Campana is a 1955 model who has outlived his paint job and warranty, and writes poems just to prove it. He has five books of poetry out with Brick Cave Media: Said Beauty to the Blues, The Ragtime of Modern Living and flotsam and gomorrah (parlour tricks and other mysteries). He has a high school diploma but has no idea where the hell it is. Learn more at https://brkcv.com/3LZBUS3

About Author Patrick Hare

A performance poet for more than twenty years, Patrick Hare has always redefined the ability of poetry to be a weapon of humor, using a sardonic scalpel in his language and theme choices to un-apologetically reveal the areas of our lives we’d all rather not see.

Patrick has performed nationally, including several National Poetry Slams. Learn more at https://brkcv.com/3JRQ7ib

About Brick Cave Media™

The Brick Cave Podcast is ©2022 Brick Cave Media LLC., all rights reserved. for more information on Brick Cave Media, visit the organization's website at https://brickcave.media. The Brick Cave Membership Community is called the BC Book Club, and you can join at https://brkcv.com/3shtc9Y.