The TothWorld Podcast

Prepare your ears for some massive volume variation due to audio problems beyond my control or, more accurately, understanding. Keep that finger on the volume button.

This show includes my poem and accompanying song Air and Weight and One Day Old, the song Sheltering the Sky Beneath Me, a second poem entitled Dissonance Reduction, and, finally, the song I like Candlelit Beaches and Long Walks on the Dinner Table.

Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May of 1997. She has published short stories in the following journals: See You Next Tuesday (2006), Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry (Winter 2006), The Muse Apprentice Guild (October 2002), Artisan, a Journal of Craft (September 2002), Literary PotPourri (May 2002), Exquisite Corpse (Summer 2001), The Barcelona Review (May, 2001), Quercus Review (May, 2001), Penumbra (May 2001), B & A New Fiction (Jan. 2001), Barbaric Yawp (Dec. 2000), Zoetrope All-Story Extra ( June 2001, October and December 1999), Mindkites (December 1999, and June 2000). She worked as a Guest Editor for Zoetrope All-Story Extra in March and April of 2000. Her story "Slut" won third prize at the 2000 California Writer's Conference in Monterey.

Her poetry has been published in various venues including: the Map of Austin Poetry, The Coast Highway Review, The Driftwood Highway 1999 Anthology, Joe's Journal, Best of the Beach 1998, The Publication, and The Cityworks Literary Anthology, Volume 6. She is currently working on writing a second novel entitled Sex Angel, editing and compiling four books of short stories, and querying two screenplays and assorted other projects. Please feel free to email her. And check out her Myspace site here.

These week's guest is Jeff Markowitz, whose novels include Who is Killing Doah's Deer? and A Minor Case of Murder. See Jeff's blog here. Also, hear the story of my medical mystery, as well as the songs Sagital Cut, There Goes the Sun, the poem Mind Bowling, and, finally, the song If I Am What You Say I Am, Then... Download the show here.

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Look forward to the songs Clouds Moving Fast Over a Plain, Collateral Circulation and Unsent Letter to Bill Frisell, as well as my poem Personal Computer.

Also, don't forget to buy my novels, the profits of which will go towards purchasing several cells of an unspecified organ.

This week's guest, Libby Fischer Hellman, writes the award-winning suspense series featuring video producer and single mother Ellie Foreman, who gets by with a wry sense of humor, a circle of good friends, and an occasional bottle of wine. Originally from Washington, D.C., Libby has lived in Chicago for 30 years and finds the contrast between the beautiful and the profane in that city a crime writer's paradise. Next up is Chicago Blues,a dark crime fiction anthology she's editing, which will be released in October by Bleak House Books (also my current my publisher). She also will be releasing a stand-alone PI novel some time in 2008 called Easy Innocence. Visit her website here.

This week's show includes the songs Get Lost, Nothing Left to Do, and a cover of Gang of Four's 5:15. Also included is my poem Variations on a Conclusion in C Minor.

This week's guest is Ayn Amorelli, a published sexy-romance writer of four books (with another on the way) who also writes gothics using the pen name of Ayn Hunt. Ms. Amorelli can be found in Hunt's Corner, hosting a writing chat, every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. EST in AOL's Chapter One chat room.  Excerpts of all her books can be found at her Ayn Hunt site site and Ayn Amorelli site.