Somebody Write This

"In Amish country, an official but other megachurch first lady is magically shrunken down to insect size." What made her shrink? What secrets does she discover in Amish country? Our guest Eoin Smith is here to put it all together! You can find Eoin at @eoincreates. His Instagram bio includes a Linktree to all the other places you can find him! And our links! Patreon: https://www.patreon....

"A former CART champion receives the savage murders that drive her to demand 2,000,000 dollars." We had to do a little research to figure out what a CART champion is... and we had to get creative to figure out how murders made someone demand money. Our guest Timothy G. Stevens is here to work out the details! Check out Tim's work at timstevens.net, or @ungajje on Instagram and bluesk...

"In a class about care-giving, there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community. The story is told from the perspective of author Rudyard Kipling." Well, that's a mouthful, and an unexpected narrator. Our guest Kevin Ryan is here to work through the confusion, though! Check him and his work out at tyrantintraining.com or on social media @kev...

"Anne Ryan is two fraternal twin brothers who meet a seedy rock band manager on a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country and invites them to 1947." Excuse me? Anne Ryan is two people? How do you invite someone to a year? And who has the off-shore bank account? Our guest Brian Hazzard is here to make it all work out. You can check out his other storytelling work with his TTRPG publisher...

"A group of friends kill a housewife, and John uncovers human sacrifices." Is the housewife going to be sacrificed? Is John one of the friends? And who is "my baby"? Glad our guest J.F. Garrard is here to help us work it out! Follow her online at jfgarrard.com and check out her work with Dark Helix Press. And our links! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/somebodywritethis Faceboo...

"Told from a pair of feuding colleagues’ perspective, we see a volcanologist couple’s unorthodox healing practices." How do these two groups interact? What are their healing practices? Is one of them named Quint? Our guest D.M. Kannapan is here to figure it out with us! Find her and her work online at deeptikannapan.com, where you can sign up for email updates and purchase her book &quot...

"Honorably discharged soldier Katia Wiggin’s life changes forever when she meets hard middle-aged couple Sean Hunting." How is Sean Hunting two people? How do they change Katia's life? And are they on the Titanic? Our guest A.M. Pennyfeather is here to make it all make sense! Check out her Fires of Faldon duology -- the second installment just came out this month! And you can follow...

"An astronaut becomes desperate as he tries and fails to approach with another agenda." What is the astronaut approaching? What is his agenda? And what does it have to do with spies in Indiana? This episode in some TRULY wild directions, thanks to the wonderfully zany brain of our guest Andy Barker! And our links! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/somebodywritethis Facebook: https://faceb...

"The jilted Prince Charming moves in with an English spice baron, and being Captain America comes at a price." Who is being Captain America? Is there a romance between Prince Charming and the spice baron? Where does the mayhem come in? Our guest Jim is here to help us figure out the details! Check him out on the Vaguely Scientific podcast wherever you're listening to Somebody Write T...

"A prom queen faces a scandal involving rocket ships." What kind of scandal is that? Who's going back to their hometown? Milo Denison returns to the Somebody Write This podcast to help us work out the details! Find him online at milodenison.com and on the 80s and 90s Uncensored podcast, and check out his new book, Gray Skies, Concrete Dreams. And our links! Patreon: https://www.patre...

"When a Southern mobster figures out what's happening, she sets out with a mysterious box, a heavy-weight champion, and an energy experiment to investigate a drug invasion." How do these characters know each other? What's inside the box? And whose mansion is it? Our guest LP Maxa is here to work it out with us! Check her out on social media @lpmaxa_author, and of course you can f...

"The international life of a notorious escapee who struggles to deal with the scandal and the important speech of a local homicide detective." What scandal is this escapee dealing with? What is this important speech about? And who is the letter from? Our guest Jason Stein is bringing it all together! Check out his podcast Dads From the Crypt on YouTube or on all podcast platforms, and yo...

"Brothers are lured into trying to prevent a terrorist attack with the promise of software, only to find that his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened." We've got a tech-centric thriller that also, I guess, has to involve crickets in some way. Our guest Will Munn will help it all make sense! Check out his roleplaying games at adepticarus.com -- we know we'll be loo...

"An unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man who has spent all their life in the colorful future ends up in 1977, and must play in Major League Baseball." How does this time travel happen? Is the hit-man the one in jail? And who's infected in 1977? Well, our guest Korri Hero is here to help us figure it out! Find them online @korrihero, including on YouTube! And our links! Patreon: ht...

"An ancient prophecy seems to be coming true when an Irish bomber witnesses the whole thing." What's this ancient prophecy? What does the Irish car bomber witness? And how are the cars connected? Our guest Lydia J. Nightingale is here to work through it! Check out her debut novel "Drawn" when it releases next week on 11/18 -- and follow her on Instagram @ljnightingale to find out the best place to...

"A devious biopic of Grives, the computer hacker who takes Tony to a Harley Street hypnotherapist, threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city, and becomes a television star." How does Grives do all this? Is he the scientifically curious teen? And who on earth is Tony? Our guest AndyGames is here to make it all make sense for us! Check out his podcast, Behind the Camera, wherever...

"A grieving man develops a disturbing ability to stop at nothing to get to the top." How does he develop this ability? What is he grieving? And who are his mothers? Jennie's away this week, so Hannah invited both her husband Jacob and her sister Bethany to help her make sense out of this one. And our links! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/somebodywritethis Facebook: https://facebook...

"A Werewolf Film about William Burroughs, who is recruited by the International Military but cannot enter a TV talent show competition." Wait, isn't William Burroughs a real person? Why can't he enter the talent show? And where's the werewolf? Returning guest Naomi Laeuchli is here to figure out all those details! You can find her book "The Schoolmaster's Daughter&qu...

"A fast-talking temp agent is transferred to the country." A simple prompt, but... why are they transferred? Are they going to go raid some farms? Our guest Kaneshi Hart is here to make it make sense somehow. Check out her podcast, "Build a Better Business," and you can find her and her work on LinkedIn! And our links! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/somebodywritethis Facebook...

"Told from a beloved heroic character’s perspective, we see a single woman’s day-to-day family routine." What makes this woman's routine interesting? What beloved heroic character is telling this story? And who is the student of the seaside mansion? Our guest, Michelle Lee Steiner, is here to help us figure it out! You can find her and her work at michellesmission.com. And our links!...

"Richter Kimble, a prostitute, and cab driver Morgan Gilmore must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after their father's funeral." What is this relationship? What do they need to survive? And, excuse me, why is Rumpelstiltskin part of this? Our guest Richie Billing will hopefully make it all make sense! Find him and his work at richiebilling.com, as well as on Patreon, the Fant...

"A psychologist learns important life lessons from an Italian mobster." What kinds of life lessons? How did these two get connected? And will the psychologist get drawn in, even though the title says not to? Our guest co-host Josh Garcia-Cotter and our special guest KC Broadhead are here to make it all make sense! You can check out KC's work at knightscastle.org. And our links! Patre...

"A delivery man in a place somewhere in time and space discovers that terminal illness causes a train robber to come after Harry." Who's Harry? Where is this delivery man? Really, just what does any of this mean? Jennie's out this week, but fortunately we have guest co-host Josh Garcia-Cotter AND our guest Jamie Hughes to make it all work out. Check out Jamie at managingmentalhea...

"A wife enrolls in a school of hysteria, where she fails to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick." Excuse me, what's a school of hysteria? Why does she think Stanley Kubrick will be there? And what's up with his fairytale friends? Our guest Mike Paine is here to work through those details with us! If you like him, check out more of his work here: Voice Over website site https://m...

"Nearly a decade after a small wooden box arrives on the doorstep, the crew of a spaceship engulfs Europe in war." What doorstep? How is the box linked to the war? And who exactly is the bride-to-be in this scenario? Our guest Jaye Pool is here to figure out! Check out her work at jayepool.com and read her latest novel, "Make Me Free." Our links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.co...