Author Matt Betts sits down with talented creators to discuss the background and inspirations behind the content that we all love.

Interview #1

Timestamp: 1 Minute Mark

Guest: Laura Bickle

Guest Website: https://www.authorlaurabickle.com

Guest Bio: Laura Bickle grew up in rural Ohio, reading entirely too many comic books out loud to her favorite Wonder Woman doll. She now dreams up stories about the monsters under the stairs and sometimes reads them to her cats. Her books have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. Laura’s work has also been included in the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Project 2013 reading list and the State Library of Ohio’s Choose to Read Ohio reading list for 2015-2016. She also writes contemporary fantasy under the name Alayna Williams.

Interview Description: We sit down with Laura Bickle to chat about hybrid writers that publish with big publishers, indie publisher and self publish. Also, we may discuss her collection of Wonder Woman memorabilia.

Interview #2

Timestamp: 37 Minute Mark

Guest: Liz Barrett Foster

Guest Website: https://www.eatlikeawriter.com

Guest Bio: Liz Barrett Foster, is the editor at Eat Like a Writer.

For 11 years, she was an editor with the nation's No. 1 pizza magazine (PMQ), where she became an expert in all things pizza.

Past and present publications include, but are not limited to, National Culinary Review, Restaurant Startup & Growth, Mashed.com, Stacker.com, FSR, QSR, Restaurant Hospitality, PMQ Pizza Magazine, Sapore, Costco Connection and EatingWell.

When creating Eat Like a Writer, I combined three of the things she's most interested in--writing, food, and researching what others do for a living.

Interview Description: Eat like a writer with Liz Barrett Foster.

Interview #3

Timestamp: 56 Minute Mark

Guest: Mac Gagne

Guest Website: https://adventuresandalgorithms.com

Ted Talk #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntS3o9eZHyQ

Ted Talk #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WVeHrrScQ

Guest Bio: Madeleine Gagné is a graduated senior at Duke University and a rising Operations Research PhD student at North Carolina State University. As of this year, she's been named a 2021 Brooke Owens Fellow, and will be working as a Space Systems and Operations Research intern at Northrop Grumman during the summer. She's also an aspiring pulp and science fiction author.

Description: We'll talk with Mac Gagne about her TEDx talk, mathematics, and how how stories, pulp and math all intersect.

Host Overview

Host website: http://www.mattbetts.com

Host Bio:

Matt went to college to study communications, specializing in broadcasting. He signed on with the campus radio station as a news anchor and reporter not long after he arrived at college – before he took his first communications class, in fact. After graduation, he worked for a number of radio stations as a DJ, a reporter and anchor. More than any other format, Matt worked at Oldies stations, which fed his love of Elvis, the Beatles and other great early rock icons.

Matt Betts was born and raised in Lima, Ohio and went to college in Toledo. He currently lives in Columbus with his wife Mackenzie, and their two wonderful boys....