The Dad Lit Pod (est. 2025)
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The one and only Dad Lit Pod for books by, for or about Dads. Follow for episode updates. Feel free to DM if you're interested in being on the pod.
Washington, DC
Joined March 2022
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@andrewcareaga interviewed me about Dad Lit, writing, and the pod. His questions were great and really captured what I am trying to do. Give it a read!
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A Father’s Day weekend conversation about this new genre and the appeal of “voicey, moral, unwieldy, independent, ambitious, and impatient” literary men.
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Bro was looking for that authentic DeLorean experience.
Marty McHigh! NJ driver crashes his 1980s Delorean, is busted with 87 bags of cocaine https://t.co/faAh15SFh4
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The world wants your son fragile. We want him formidable. Raconteur Press Boys’ Adventure—because ‘be careful’ never launched a rocket.
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https://t.co/z5zBPur3Un Editing this week's episode tonight. In the meantime learn who put Bella in the Wych Elm from @BellaHagleyWood
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Podcast Episode · The Dad Lit Podcast · 11/03/2025 · 51m
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Let’s keep supporting each other— substantially. Reading and actually reviewing. Posting heartfelt and spirited takes on each other, and those on different ladders. Former and latter. Don’t call it discourse. Be open. Disclose.
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Why not start your Christmas shopping with some indie books? Here are a few worth considering. 🤠
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Having me as your editor is like having a set of those fancy Romeo + Juliet pistols. Yeah I get the job done but I also up your whole riz factor with my blurb acumen 🤗
@MillerDakotaJ If I may offer a potential restructure based on your prose and making the blurb feel more urgent: The York family believed distance would save them. Fleeing the pyres of Salem in 1692, they sought refuge in Carolina's sultry lowcountry, desperate to escape the witch trial
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Heads up folks! If you are submitting to Insert Coin (I am editing this anthology, and you SHOULD), we have some deadline changes!
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@thedadlitpod @JABryden Books to read and authors to follow! @kroh01 @YuvalKordov @RealNickCole @TheJasonAnspach @wargate @KiernanActual
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I have a pretty awesome list of Dad Lit authors coming up in the next couple of months, including @ScottMcCreaWest @JoelNedecky @DavidTromblay77 @KentWascom and @claymcleod Very excited.
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https://t.co/7lgdCPAfgq Putting together that Christmas/Channukah List for the wife and adult children? Have too many pairs of brown socks, already? Try asking for Dad Lit. Dad Literati, feel free to post your books below. I'll get started with @JABryden
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Bit embarrassing do a “banned” books display in Germany, a country with actual legal restrictions on what books can even be *sold*, and which can imprison you for owning books by banned groups
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https://t.co/9hlOMngAj2 I am told the new Predator in Predator: Badlands has feelings... I am reminded of this previous take. Villain does not need lore - they only need incentive to take action against the protagonist and then to do so. Any lore should not humanize the villain.
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Do prequels ruin or enrich a story? Dan Roberts has some thoughts to share on Warner Bros. foaming at the mouth for an Aunt Gladys prequel for Weapons (2025).
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As many of you know, I aspire to "problematic Jewish author" status. There is an "as a Jew" editorial in New York Magazine and Vulture that claims to be about the history of Jewish literature that is so transperantly wrong, that my only Channukah wish this year is that I had an
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Today is one of those days where I once again find myself wondering if there is anything harder than trying to sell a book... After a few years at it, not a whole lot comes to mind.
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Had a great chat on the Gopher Wood Lounge this week with John Bucher, Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, about our looming Story Crisis. https://t.co/jmqRDv254j
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Indie authors, I want to help you get the recognition you deserve!💕 For $20, I'll tweet about how blasphemous/inappropriate your book is For $100, I'll write an op-ed condemning it For $200, I'll attend a local school board meeting and read the most salacious passages out-loud
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