Books and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet!
Kristie Wolf weaves tales about fearless heroes and badass heroines who fight for justice and love while burning up the pages. Kristie's passion for writing romance ignited during her teenage years when she told her mom she was going to write a novel someday. She did, and now she can't stop. As the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran, wife of a Marine, and Navy mom, she enjoys writing happily ever afters for not just military heroes, but for all the brave, loyal, and selfless men and women who serve and protect our country in every capacity.

We talked about why people do or don't, can or can't, fall in love, military sci-fi vs reality, PTSD, cowboys, horses and boots…and more!

00:00 START
05:04 Drink 1: Strawberry Buttercream Martini
08:19 Reading 1: The Stolen Cake
16:30 Does the technology exist for VIPER's amputees' new limbs?
17:30 Ethics, Experimentation and Improving Quality of Life
25:59 Drink 2: Empress and Tonic
25:13 Reading 2: Kane to the Rescue
34:41 PTSD and Stalkers
37:41 Men as Protectors, Trust
40:25 Tropes in Romance
43:22 Drink 3: Grogg or Mulled Spiced Wine
46:51 Reading 3: Christmas with a Cowboy
51:00 The Naked Cowboy of Gooseberry Falls
52:51 Our Experiences with Horses

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If you enjoy our interviews or have benefited from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.
A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode.
Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika
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COMING NEXT MONTH:
Kristie Wolf, thrillers
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: CHILDREN
See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk
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Books and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet!

Jake Needham is an American lawyer who became a screen and television writer through a series of coincidences too ridiculous for anyone to believe. When he realized how little he actually liked movies and television, he started writing crime novels.

Jake has lived in Asia and Australia since 1980, first in Sydney, then in Hong Kong, and from 1992, in Bangkok. He and his wife, an Oxford graduate and prematurely retired concert pianist, have been married for thirty-two years and have two adult sons. Jake has published seventeen novels that have collectively sold over a million copies. You see? The great tradition of the American expat novelist isn't entirely dead yet.

We talked about masks (psychological, not covid), childhood trauma, plastic surgery…and Aquanet wiggling into tight pants in the 80! (And more!)

00:00 START
05:30 Drink 1: Mango Cinnamon Margarita
08:11 Reading 1: Charlie and the Dogs
13:48 From law to writing for film & TV
24:27 Character-driven fiction
25:05 Drink 2: Singapore Sling
28:24 Reading 2: A Hot Day in Singapore
33:31 Misbehaving Characters: Plotting and Pantsing
41:20 Cultural differences and life in Singapore
44:40 Drink 3: The Zombie
48:18 Reading 3: Charlie Trust
56:16 Living next door to Farrah Fawcett
58:01 Law, the legal system, and justice

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Ashley and Andrea
Www.booksandbrews.net
www.lauravosika.com
www.gabrielshornpress.com
www.glenmirrilfarms.wordpress.com
Www.jakeneedhamnovels.com

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If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.
A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode.
Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika
Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN * Books and Brews products:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come)
Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us booksandbrewslive@gmail.com

COMING NEXT MONTH:
Kristie Wolf, thrillers

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: CHILDREN
See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to get notifications of all our new videos. We have now interviewed more than 115 authors! Would you like to be featured? Leave a comment.

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Books and Brews: the place where beer and literature meet!
Ashley Fontainne is an author and co-author of more than 30 novels, known for her intricate plots and writing in genres from dark comedy to mystery/thrillers to suspenseful paranormal.

Andrea Emmes, a singer, performer and one-time magician's assistant who has narrated many of Ashley's books, steps into writing for the first time with their co-authored paranormal and psychological thriller, ETERNAL BEAUTY.

We talked about masks (psychological, not covid), childhood trauma, plastic surgery…and Aquanet wiggling into tight pants in the 80! (And more!)

00:00 START
06:26 Drink 1: The Exorcist
09:35 Reading 1: Bridget
16:17 Technology & Truth: how much of what we see isn't real?
23:45 Ashley's most meaningful book
25:51 Drink 2: Witch's Brew
30:30 Reading 2: Claire
37:29 Abused children, trauma & the brain
39:03 Claire & plastic surgery
44:25 Drink 3: The Bulge in My Pants
46:58 Reading 3: Barbara
52:35 Why the story is set in the near future
55:14 Women & other women; women & men & love & sex

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with Ashley and Andrea
Www.booksandbrews.net
www.lauravosika.com
www.gabrielshornpress.com
www.glenmirrilfarms.wordpress.com
Www.ashleyfontainne.net
Www.andreaemmes.com

GET THE BOOK: https://bit.ly/42AqEF3

AUDIO: https://www.audible.com/pd/Eternal-Beauty-Audiobook/B0FV4W68M5

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• If you enjoy our interviews or have benefitted from them, we invite you to help us continue our work. It takes a great deal of time and money to produce Books and Brews. We've been doing interviews since January 2017 as a free service to authors. We continue to promote those authors on our social media for years after their interviews. Subscribing, following, liking, commenting and sharing all help us to keep doing what we do.
• A $5 tip helps us pay for our many expenses: Libsyn hosting, web hosting, Google meets, providing the drinks for the interview and the many hours of preparation and editing that go into each episode.
• Patreon: patreon.com/BooksandBrewswithLauraVosika
• Tip Jar: paypal.me/booksandbrewsMN
• Books and Brews products:
  https://www.zazzle.com/store/books_an… (more to come)
• Sponsor an episode to promote your product or service: contact us booksandbrewslive@gmail.com

COMING NEXT MONTH:
Jake Needham, counter-terrorism and action thrillers

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Gabriel's Horn is accepting submissions for its anthology NEW THEMES: CHILDREN
See Laura's interview at Central Valley Talk

Our theme music is from www.bensound.com.

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to get notifications of all our new videos. We have now interviewed more than 115 authors! Would you like to be featured? Leave a comment.

https://www.youtube.com/@booksandbrews