Success in the publishing world can often be a double edged sword, and our latest author interview is a testament to that grim fact. Jacy Lahar wrote a book so annoying that it drove him into seclusion, tore apart his family, and inspired splinter groups in the south pole. Bob Fingerman has drawn him in his latest attempt to remain incognito. Thanks to 2020-06-30 21:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The artists/works to which we compare this 2006 fanfic include:
Conor unveils his Cockney <?> accent, and it is QUITE something.
Also, we open with an audio recording of one of the first meetings between Mike and Conor and it turns out to be shockingly prescient!
Reading Assignment for next time: R...
2020-06-26 18:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Janelle compiled a list of title suggestions from various jackals for the collab book. Please take a look and vote for your three favorites!
2020-06-23 14:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We picked two names at random and will send them our copies of Digital Fortress! Congrats to the winners, please email 372pages@gmail.com or send a patreon message with your shipping address!
2020-06-22 13:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike is joined by Bob Fingerman to once again explore the books of an author who we just can't devote an entire season to. This week it's Steves Rick, KFC jingle heir and laserdisc enthusiast. Steves has written a series of books about a very interesting niche of the travel market, has a fascinating personal life, and will be sure to tell you when he's angry.
2020-06-18 20:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostConor and Mike announce their, and your, next assignment. It's a good one.
2020-06-18 14:59:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, we finally stitched together everyone's submissions for the collaborative book project, and we figured we may as well get them to you before the weekend! This link is to a zip file that contains the entire text as a word doc, epub, and mobi file. You can copy the mobi to your kindle, or epub to another ereader.
Based on what I read so far, it is delightful chaos. I think before we share it with the res...
2020-06-12 17:32:53 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to meet another author whose work we unfortunately just don't have time to delve into in our usual detail. This week we're talking to the curiously pronounced Steph Imhofeles, who has combined his loves of a forgotten late 80s NBC show, an obscure form of crafting, and a baffling desire to invoke a lawsuit from a powerful media giant into a series of detective novels. Thanks again to Bob Fi...
2020-06-10 21:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostMike and Conor run down a fine selection of emails from listeners.
Mike's "Real or FanFic" failures are discussed at length, as are Dan Brown's failures at writing, making up Armenian names, and getting accurate information from NSA employees.
2020-06-04 15:02:30 +0000 UTC View PostCertified True® Story: Mike is the victim of the strangest wedding violence you've ever heard, I hope.
2020-06-02 00:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Irishman is envious of the length of this podcast. But there was so much to talk about!
While Susan sits dazed, stupefied, sooty, unsure of where she is, what she's doing, how math works, and whether or not she'll ever get to Stone Manor, the revolting men around her solve the problems posed by E. Tankado.
A lot of Dumb Sentences, a LOT of technicians yelling, and Conor dives to the Dark Web to find a recreation that will hit you like a bullet to Jabba's gut.
2020-05-29 20:11:19 +0000 UTC View Post
It appears that longtime listener Mark Burger has some competition in a new title we are working on at RiffTrax.
2020-05-28 15:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk a lot about authors on this podcast but we like to occasionally give the authors a chance to make their voices heard. This week we're joined by Bob Fingerman who introduces us to Linda Van Vleet, whose Livejournal fiction became the bestselling cyberpunk trilogy Prohibition Patty. Linda maintains an incredibly dedicated fanbase despite a standoffish nature and a few skeleton...
2020-05-26 21:25:30 +0000 UTC View PostPeaceful, relaxing Sunday stories. Grab your coffee or 9:00 AM whisky (or whiskey) and enjoy....
2020-05-24 13:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a reminder that your pages for the collaborative book are due in a week. Don't bail on the commitment, you'll let all the other jackals who signed up down. They're due on Tuesday, 5/26, and on Wednesday we lock the submissions and start shaming.
Here are the first four chapters: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_IN9QGKPbRi9frV4ny...
At this point, it is what it is.
2020-05-22 01:22:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you to everyone who submitted Digital Fortress memes! Here is the audience vote winner as well as the judges' favorite. And here is a gallery of all the very funny entries! If you are a winner please contact us for your token prize!
2020-05-20 16:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Brownisms are coming fast and furious now, like chapters in a Dan Brown book!
Conor does Real or Fanfic, we Steal People's Mail, there are Dumb Sentences galore and Mike discovers the original ending of The Fugitive!
And we meet a ninety-pound live wire!
2020-05-19 17:37:26 +0000 UTC View PostConor spins a tale of seafood.
2020-05-18 16:31:45 +0000 UTC View Post
On a very special Meet the Authors Bob Fingerman* introduces us to a very interesting gentleman named Pat Trimble. And happily the schedule worked out where both Conor and Mike are able to make it!
*Our thanks to Kevin Murphy for making the introduction to Bob.
In a special, outside-the-paywall edition, my old pal Frank Conniff joins me as we pick up a discussion we started 27 years ago.
Mike attempts to play to his strengths.
2020-05-09 20:01:12 +0000 UTC View PostLooking for good writing in a Dan Brown book is a lot like looking for a sock in a bedroom the size of Texas while sewage spews forth out of a crystal decanter. And this section of DIGITAL FORTRESS is no exception.
As the book theoretically reaches the stage where it will have a point, questions still remain such as: Who should we trust, Hale or Strathmore? Do earrings count as needles? Does Genius mean the same thing to Dan Brown as it does the rest of us? How many times can our hosts ...
2020-05-08 21:49:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Plumbing the depths of books that are too bad to even be focused on this podcast, Mike and Bob interview GGG Broadbent, a blacksmith farrier who was written a 15 volume fantasy series entitled "The Horse Prince of Calthador". Enjoy his tales of living in the town
with the catchiest motto in Montana with and failed attempts to get on "Forged in Fire"
It's that time. Please submit your best Digital Fortress memes. Like to vote for your favorites, we will pick our favorite as well and award them both extremely minimal cash prizes. Feel free to reference anything up to our most recent assignment, Chapter 80.
2020-05-04 14:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostMike refuses to take his medicine, aka, 12-tone music.
2020-05-02 21:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostVictor Hugo just texted Dan Brown, "Dude, back it down on the chapters, man! It's not a contest." Tolstoy throws in a, "Yeah, cut it out, man."
Yes, the sparse words continue to spill out on the increasing number of pages of Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" so Conor and Mike can only counter it with more of their words.
All the departments are here: Mike makes an attempt at Real or Fanfic. Conor combed the Dark Web and found something other than a rig. Jabba pounds a few damp ...
2020-05-01 17:51:25 +0000 UTC View PostConor and I threatened to do this a few weeks ago (!) so here it is.
2020-04-30 20:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Conor is once again joined by Bob Fingerman to interview and author whose books are too bad even for this podcast. This week it's Elmer Ellenbogen, who has been trying to write a book about his birding efforts for four years now. Learn about his interesting childhood, unique wife, and efforts to fix up a pontoon boat.
Listen as an MP3 here.
2020-04-29 20:57:20 +0000 UTC
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