Drinks with Tony

Cat Howell is the author of Magic Source Codes: The Craft of Reality. We start the 8-Week Novel Writing Workshop on Monday, this is your last call. TWO spots left. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. We already have a solid group of veterans and beginners. We discuss: How to become rich by masturbating. My limiting beliefs I didn’t even know I had. Alchemy, gnosis, sex magick, and so much mor...

Cara Black is the author of Murder at La Villette. It’s the 21st novel in her Aimée Leduc Investigation series. Join my free Novel Writing Workshop March 9th at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, go to tonydushane.com/free to register. Cara and I discuss the 19th Arrondissement in Paris, how her research for her latest novel brought her into the neighborhood of a serial killer, film adaptations of...

This week I answer a few questions from our listeners about outlining, finding the ending to your story, and more. I also include my interview with Robert McKee from last year. Join my 8-Week Novel Writing Workshop starting March 18th. Go to tonydushane.com/novel to register. Early birds pay $375 for the class where we’ll deep dive into what it takes to write a novel, do writing exercises, w...

Kris Saknussemm is the author of A Guide To Creative Writing and The Imagination. Join me for an 8-week novel writing workshop on Monday nights at 6pm Pacific on Zoom. Go to tonydushane.com/nove l to register. Class runs March 18 – May 6. If you’ve been looking for a time to dive deep into your novel, it’s March 18th. Kris and I discuss psychics vs. mentalists, living in Las Vega...

Sarah Tomlinson is the author of The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers. She has also ghostwritten many books. We discuss ghostwriting for celebrities, Taylor Swift, novels as the perfect storytelling medium, her debut novel coming out 30 years after she decided to write a novel, great journalism and sad journalism, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other...

Kelley McNeil is the author of Mayluna. Join my Free Online Novel Writer Workshop on February 24th here:  at tonydushane.com/free Kelley and I chat: How our brains work with memory and trauma to shift the stories, the trappings of fame for musicians, that time Jon Bon Jovi laughed at her, how Dave Matthews is great even if you don’t like his music, judging friends by their like or dislike of Neil...

Melinda Lee Holm is the author of Your Tarot Guide: Learn to navigate life with the help of the cards. Join my Free Novel Writer Workshop on February 24th here: at tonydushane.com/free Melinda and I discuss how Tarot saved her life as a kid when she grew up being bullied and living in an abusive house, does Tarot really tell us the future? the joy and terror of writing books, and so much more. Dri...

Arthur Rapkin is the author of Poison For Rats: Six Kilos that Changed Everything, a Memoir . We chat about his cocaine smuggling years, surviving Mexican prison, how he got out and escaped to Canada to avoid drug charges in the United States, and so much more. Don’t miss this episode. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursd...

Elle Nash is the author of Deliver Me: A Novel. We chat Christianity, joining the Muslims, leaving the Muslims, literary scene in Glasgow, social media sucks, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 92.9 FM, KPCR-LP, Santa Cruz.

Anne Leigh Parrish is the author of A Summer Morning. Join me for a free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz branch public library on Wednesday, November 8th at 6pm . Just show up and we’ll have some fun. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Donna Marie Hayes is the author of These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman’s Story. We discuss love, faith, what happened when someone died in front of her on the subway, her fear of rats, my fear of heights, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cru...

Rykarda Parasol’s new record is called Tuesday Morning . We discuss Rykarda’s creative rebirth in Paris, how her mom shot up her stuffed animal with a gun in the backyard when Rykarda was 7 years old, her new record and collaborations with Marc Ottavi, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening...

Jon Krampner is the author of Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success. We discuss if Mo Udall became president instead of Carter we may never had Reagan, writing biographies vs. novels, and what happens when two writers are locked in a dark closet. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa...

Beth Raymer is the author of Fireworks Every Night: A Novel. We chat living the writing life vs. having a corporate job, how to get rent control in NYC, fake urgency, betraying people, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Jarret Keene is the author of Hammer of the Dogs. He also teaches graphic novel and world literature at UNLV. We chat when Jarret was a paparazzo in Las Vegas, unsafe spaces, the Las Vegas military presence, and isolation culture with self checkout and door delivery. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101....

James Reich is the author of The Moth for the Star, out now on 7.13 books. We discuss the old days of nurturing authors at publishing houses, the literary canon, sneering kids gotta be sneering kids, streaking naked at cricket matches and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, San...

Ariel Anderssen is the author of Playing To Lose: How a Jehovah’s Witness Became a Submissive BDSM Model. We chat: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, BDSM, Eternal Life (yes or no), other Kinks, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Matthew Binder is the author of Pure Cosmos Club. We discuss quitting your day job to write, living in Budapest, Matthew’s fever-pitch writing process, when you break up who gets custody of the dog, and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on 101.9 FM, KPCR, Santa Cruz.

Trevor J Houser is the author of The Prumont Method. We discuss When he staked out police and judges as a private investigator. The best bar in NYC. Father and daughter relationship in his book and in real life. Writing routines….and so much more…. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets. It also airs every Thursday evening at 6pm on...

Brian O’Hare is the author of the story collection Surrender. We discuss: How to be rich as a writer, seeing characters in everyday life that end up in our books, and the secret to a long romantic relationship is being stubborn. I teach a free creative writing workshop at Los Feliz library on August 9th at 6pm. Join us . Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and...

Bill Boggs is the author of Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns: As told to Bill Boggs. He was a talk show host and his archives are available on Youtube.  We chat: How Jerry Lewis is one of the most misunderstood men in showbiz. Regional radio and TV hosts. His invention the SEXBIT, what women wear to rate the men they’re having sex with. And so much more…. Drinks with Tony is on ...

Margie Taylor is the author of Rose Addams. Along with her career as an author she was a producer and host on radio at CBC in Canada. We chat: What is the sign of a successful man? Are jokes about tragedy okay? Having your first book published in your 40s. Why face to face communication is so important. …..and so much more. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , a...

Joe Clifford is the author of Say My Name, and a TON of other books. His first is memoir, Junkie Love, which we also talk about. And we chat about golf, his 18 tries at rehab, a killer story about an event he envisioned in the 1990s that came to fruition in the 2010s, and the time he ended up naked in jail. Join my free creative writing workshop at the  Los Feliz branch public library on July 5th...

Christine Sneed’s new book of short stories is called Direct Sunlight. She’ll be in conversation with Collette Sartor at Chevalier’s Books on June 28th at 6pm in Larchmont Village. Join my free creative writing workshop at the Los Feliz branch public library on July 5th at 6pm. Drinks with Tony is on  iTunes ,  Spotify ,  Pandora ,  Stitcher , and other podcast outlets. It also a...

Craig Clevenger is the author of Mother Howl. His earlier books are The Contortionist’s Handbook and Dermaphoria. We discuss: How he stumbled into working at the library. How his first publisher went under and the major fallout for the rights of the books by all the authors. Travels through Europe and around the world. The journey of working on Mother Howl. ….and so much more… Dr...