The Podcast Has No Name

What started as a simple podcast turned into pure chaos, hilarious tangents, author confessions, and exciting updates for the months ahead. From bookstore launches and upcoming tours to sleep deprivation, editing struggles, and “authors are people too” moments, this finale has it all. 😂 We’re pressing pause for the summer while the book tours begin, but don’t worry… this isn’t goodbye. More stori...

Three authors walk into a podcast with no name and somehow end up dropping real gems about the indie publishing game. In this episode, Michael Chatfield and Andrew Givler sit down with entrepreneur, gamer, and author Cole Rider for a wide-ranging conversation that goes way deeper than anyone planned. They kick things off debating the existence of "watery water," then dive headfirst into what it ac...

Three authors walk into a podcast with no name and somehow end up dropping real gems about the indie publishing game. In this episode, Michael Chatfield and Andrew Givler sit down with entrepreneur, gamer, and author Cole Rider for a wide-ranging conversation that goes way deeper than anyone planned. They kick things off debating the existence of "watery water," then dive headfirst into what it ac...

PART TWO IS HERE! From DragonCon memories and WorldCon plans to writing struggles, frame narratives, fantasy books, and the realities of being an author, this episode dives deep into the creative minds behind the stories we love. 📚⚔️ The conversations get even more hilarious, insightful, and chaotic in Part 2 as the guys talk conventions, editing nightmares, storytelling tricks, fantasy classics,...

Welcome to the podcast that has no name, where indie authors hang out, overthink storytelling, and accidentally turn writing advice into chaos and comedy. In this Part 1 episode, Andrew Givler, Michael Chatfield, and Z.B Big Dog Steele dive deep into the reality of being an author today, from writing and editing struggles, to worldbuilding, pacing, and what actually makes a story work. We talk abo...

Part 2 gets even more real and a lot more chaotic 😂 In this episode, Hunter Mythos shares the full story behind the Mustang obsession, life after the Marines, financial ups and downs, and the moment everything changed. What starts as a funny story about cars turns into a deep, honest conversation about failure, growth, creativity, and what it really takes to rebuild your life (and career). 💡 In...

Welcome to the podcast with no name! Because apparently, naming things is harder than writing books 😂 In this episode, we’re joined by author Hunter Mythos alongside co-host Andrew Gibbler, diving into a chaotic, hilarious, and surprisingly deep conversation about writing, creativity, burnout, and life as an author. From wild travel stories in Colombia to the realities of publishing multiple book...

We finally did it. No name for the podcast yet, but we've got four authors, three countries, and somehow nobody could agree on anything except that writing is slowly destroying all of us. JM Clarke and Andy Peloquin joined me and Andrew this week and it went exactly as unhinged as you'd expect. We got into burning 800,000 words to the ground and starting over, dictating yourself off a cliff at 70,...

Part 1: We finally did it. No name for the podcast yet, but we've got four authors, three countries, and somehow nobody could agree on anything except that writing is slowly destroying all of us. JM Clarke and Andy Peloquin joined me and Andrew this week and it went exactly as unhinged as you'd expect. We got into burning 800,000 words to the ground and starting over, dictating yourself off a clif...

Haylock joined us from Australia at an ungodly hour and his five year old spent the last ten minutes spinning his chair on camera. Perfect ending honestly. We got into the two laptop writing setup that somehow still leads to distraction, why three star reviews hurt more than one stars, the science behind books literally making your muscles flex as you read, and accidentally plotted the entire apoc...

Haylock joined us from Australia at an ungodly hour and his five year old spent the last ten minutes spinning his chair on camera. Perfect ending honestly. We got into the two laptop writing setup that somehow still leads to distraction, why three star reviews hurt more than one stars, the science behind books literally making your muscles flex as you read, and accidentally plotted the entire apoc...

Me and Andrew finally started the podcast, and Brian spent the first 10 minutes muted while we just roasted him live. We got into everything. Andrew finally telling the full story of how Brian spent an entire convention thinking he was a failed YouTuber with 5k subs (he had 1.4 million), our legendary 14-hour Vegas drinking session where I was secretly getting quadruple pours all night, AI being c...

Me and Andrew finally started the podcast, and Brian spent the first 10 minutes muted while we just roasted him live. We got into everything. Andrew finally telling the full story of how Brian spent an entire convention thinking he was a failed YouTuber with 5k subs (he had 1.4 million), our legendary 14-hour Vegas drinking session where I was secretly getting quadruple pours all night, AI being c...