Welcome to episode 24 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

We're speaking with Diana Spechler in this podcast, about her first novel, Who by Fire.

Who by Fire is a story of family ties in complicated situations. Bits Kellerman and her brother Ash lost their younger sister Alena to kidnapping, an incident which ruptured their family deeply. As young adults, Ash copes by running away to a yeshiva in Israel. Bits sets out to find him, and save what remains of her family.

Who by Fire is available now at bookstores and online retailers.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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Welcome to episode 23 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

This time, we talk with Warren Ellis, who has a huge following in the graphic novel world. His first prose novel, Crooked Little Vein, is just out in paperback. It's part detective story, and part grand tour through the cultural underbelly of America.

Crooked Little Vein is available now at bookstores and online retailers. Visit the author's website, warrenellis.com

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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Welcome to episode 22 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

Ross Raisin joins us this time, to talk about his debut novel, Out Backward. This character study of Sam Marsdyke, a lonely, disturbed young man living in an English farming community is immersive and thought-provoking. Sam's haunted past, and his skewed perceptions of the people and events around him, slowly build to a page-turning climax.

Out Backward is available now at bookstores and online retailers.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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Welcome to episode 21 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we talk with Jessica Anya Blau about her new novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties. It's the story of fourteen-year old Jamie, who faces normal teenage anxieties which are sometimes compounded by her parents. When your house is known as "the party house," and your parents swim naked and refuse to give you a curfew, what can you count on for safety?

The Summer of Naked Swim Parties is available now at bookstores and online retailers.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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Welcome to episode 20 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

Singer-Songwriter and Author Willy Vlautin returns to the podcast to discuss his new novel, Northline, and its accompanying soundtrack CD.

Northline is the story of Allison Johnson, a troubled young woman struggling to leave an abusive relationship behind as she starts a new life in Reno. Her imaginary conversations with Paul Newman are perhaps her only comfort.

Northline is available now at bookstores and online retailers.

Visit the official Northline website.

Listen to our podcast about Willy Vlautin's first novel, The Motel Life.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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Karen Dawn's new book, Thanking The Monkey looks at animal rights activism from a fresh new perspective, and presents a plethora of options for anyone seeking to make more cruelty-free choices.

Welcome to episode 19 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we talk with Larry Doyle about his novel I Love You, Beth Cooper. It's a teen comedy that will resonate with anyone who's survived their teenage years.

High-school geek Denis Cooverman, in his valedictory speech to his graduating class, blurts out "I love you, Beth Cooper." Beth is the school's head cheerleader, who has only a vague idea of who Denis is. And, as the book jacket says, "complications ensue."

I Love You, Beth Cooper is available now at bookstores and online retailers.

Visit the official I Love You, Beth Cooper website

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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Welcome to episode 18 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books. In this episode, we look at two recent Harper Perennial releases:

We Disappear, by Scott Heim is a novel about a man who struggles to discover the truth about his mother's life as she succumbs to a long battle with cancer. There are threads of memoir woven through the novel, as Scott wrote much of it while his own mother was dying.

Serpent Box, by Vincent Louis Carrella, tells the story of Jacob Flint, a small boy of great faith living in a community of Pentecostal serpent-handlers in Appalachia. Vincent brings his own faith to the novel, and found that writing it shaped that faith anew.

Both We Disappear and Serpent Box are available now at bookstores and online retailers.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page. All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. Music created with Garage Band.

Welcome to episode 17 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we talk with Larry Smith, co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of SMITH, an online magazine devoted to everyone's story.

SMITH invited its readers to submit their life stories in six words. Thousands of six-word memoirs rolled in, and the staff of SMITH has compiled them into a new book, Not Quite What I Was Planning.

Not Quite What I Was Planning is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Visit SMITH online.

Also, be sure to visit Harper Perennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, Olive Reader.com, and thea href="http://www.myspace.com/harperperennial" target="new">Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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Welcome to episode 16 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

We look at two new Harper Perennial releases in this podcast:

One Day The Soldiers Came chronicles Charles London's account of his years spent interviewing children in war-torn regions around the world. he shares their stories and drawings, and paints a heartfelt picture of young lives changed by conflict.

The author is donating a portion of proceeds from this book to Refugees International.

Visit Charles London's website: calondon.com.

In The Hot Zone is journalist Kevin Sites' memoir of a year spent reporting from combat regions all over the globe for Yahoo! News. His work, presented online as video, text stories, and still photographs, tells a poignant story of war from a human perspective.

The author is donating a portion of royalties from this book to three organizations:

CIVIC: The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict

International Rescue Committee

Save The Children

Visit Kevin Sites' website: kevinsitesreports.com.

Both One Day The Soldiers Came and In The Hot Zone are available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including Craftypod. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 15 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

We look at two new Harper Perennial releases in this podcast:

Under a Flaming Sky is Daniel James Brown's gripping account of a little-known American story: the Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894. Daniel's own great-grandmother and grandfather narrowly escaped this raging forest fire. Having grown up hearing their stories, he was finally compelled to write about them.

Truck: A Love Story is Michael Perry's warm and funny memoir about a busy year in his life: attempting to get his old International truck running, and trying to grow a garden. Unexpectedly, after 39 years of bachelorhood, he also met the woman who changed everything.

Both Under a Flaming Sky and Truck: A Love Story are available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including Craftypod. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 14 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

Pete Jordan, also known as Dishwasher Pete, is our guest for this episode. His new memoir, Dishwasher, chronicles the twelve years he spent traveling the U.S. on a quest: he sought to wash dishes in all fifty states.

In the course of this quest, Pete takes dishwashing jobs at an Alaskan cannery, on an oil rig on the Gulf of Mexico, on a Rhode Island dinner train, and at countless restaurants and cafes in between. His memoir is filled with funny and insightful stories of working with little responsibility, and quitting whenever the mood strikes.

Dishwasher, is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

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About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including Craftypod. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 13 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we talk with Daniel Handler, who is well-known for his pen-name. Lemony Snicket, and his 'Series of Unfortunate Events' books for children. Handler has just released his third novel for adults, titled Adverbs.

Adverbs is a collection of intertwined short stories, each titled with an adverb, and each exploring a different aspect of the most universal emotion -- love. Handler's storytelling skill and his playful use of language make for a reading experience as delightfully complex as love itself.

Adverbs is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. Music created with Garage Band.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including Craftypod. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 12 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

The Motel Life is a poignant novel about two working-class brothers living in Reno, Nevada. Their lives are hard, and they have only each other to rely upon as they face tragedy and look for hope.

Author Willy Vlautin grew up in Reno, and infuses The Motel Life with his experiences and favorite haunts. Vlautin is also well-known for his alt-country band Richmond Fontaine, whose music complements this podcast.

The Motel Life is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com, and the Harper Perennial MySpace page.

All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. All Richmond Fontaine music is Copyright 2007 El Cortez Records, and used with permission.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including Craftypod. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 11 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

This time, we talk with Rishi Reddi, author of Karma and Other Stories. The book is a collection of inter-related short stories that creates a densely-layered picture of the lives of Indian families living in the United States. Rishi herself was born in India, and grew up in the U.S. She has said that she wrote these stories to help her understand how feeling like an outsider in both cultures has influenced her life.

Karma and Other Stories is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

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About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 10 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

Chad Kultgen's new novel, The Average American Male, is a hilarious look at love and relationships from an unabashedly male perspective. You won't find a shred of political correctness here, but you will catch a rare glimpse into the masculine mind.

The Average American Male is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. Music created with Garage Band.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 9 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

Author Amy Bryant discusses her first novel Polly, a story of music, boyfriends, and growing up during the 1980's. The book draws on Bryant's own high school and college experiences during that same decade, and her abiding love of music -- especially hardcore punk. Anyone who experienced the 80's will recognize the music playing in the background of this book.

Amy Bryant's current work as a sex educator for teens also informs this story, as the heroine grapples with confusion over losing her virginity and entering the world of sexual relationships.

Polly is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. Music created with Garage Band.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 8 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we speak to Canadian author Heather O'Neill about her new novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals. The book chronicles the adventures of Baby, a twelve year-old being raised by her father in a down-and-out section of Montreal. Baby's life is filled with challenges: poverty, drugs, foster homes, prostitution. And yet, this novel is no mere hard-luck story, because Baby -- and the other children in the novel -- possess the almost magical ability to perceive wonder even in the darkest of situations.

Heather O'Neill was raised by her father in similar circumstances to her young heroine, and draws heavily on childhood memories to give this novel its fresh, authentic voice.

Lullabies for Little Criminals is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. Music created with Garage Band.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 7 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

Australian author Emily Maguire discusses her new novel, Taming the Beast in this episode.

This is a novel that raises challenging questions about passionate, all-consuming desire. Many novels and films have portrayed obsessive love as grand and wonderful, but is it? What happens to people when they begin to feel that they exist only in relation to their lover? What happens to friendship, to ambition, to life when desire becomes so overwhelming?

Taming the Beast is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All content copyright HarperCollins Publishers. Music created with Garage Band.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 6 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, Robert Westfield talks about his new novel, Suspension -- a funny and insightful story about being swept up in events beyond your control and regaining your foundation afterward.

Written in the months following September 11th, Suspension draws on Robert's own experiences living in New York, and his great affection for the city. The story weaves together the lives of protagonist Andy Green, his family, his friends, and complete strangers, revealing that all are interconnected, dependent upon one another -- like the components of a suspension bridge.

Suspension is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Visit Robert's Website -- RobertWestfield.com.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

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About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 5 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we speak to Catherine Hanrahan, author of Lost Girls and Love Hotels.

Set in Tokyo, this novel tells a story of running away from painful memories, to a place so strange and maze-like, it both disorients and somehow points the way back home. The novel draws heavily on Catherine Hanrahan's own experiences living in Japan.

Lost Girls and Love Hotels is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All music composed and performed by Alternarama, from The Kyoto Connection. All music is copyright by author, and used with permission.

All content and audio copyright HarperCollins Publishers.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 4 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we speak to Bryan Charles, author of Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way.

This novel follows seventeen year-old Vim Sweeney as he navigates the uncertain period right after high school, just before adulthood. Bryan discusses his process of writing during another uncertain period -- right after leaving the corporate world, just before launching himself as an author.

Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All content and audio copyright HarperCollins Publishers.

All music by The Judy Lumpers, and used with permission. All music is copyright Bryan Charles.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 3 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we speak to John Baxter about his memoir, We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light.

Baxter shares his unique perspectives on Parisian love in all its guises -- the love of art, culture, and food, the amazing world of brothels, and the strong ties of French families. Interwoven with all these tales is his own romantic story of moving halfway around the world for the woman he loved.

We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light is available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All content and audio copyright HarperCollins Publishers.

Here's where to find the music you heard in this podcast:

Garmoshka: music by Ljova, performed by Ljova and Michael Ward-Bergeman
From the CD "Vjola: World on Four Strings", Kapustnik Records
www.Ljova.com

La Cicada: written by Leo Glass, performed by Romaniacs
www.go.to/romaniacs
www.artistlaunch.com/romaniacs

Honeymoon in Cancun, by Skeebo Knight
www.cdbaby.com/skeebo

All music is copyright by author, and used with permission.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to episode 2 of the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, we feature two historical books, with two very different approaches to history:

Holy Skirts, by Rene Steinke -- a novel based on the life of Baroness Elsa von Freitag-Loringhoven. The Baroness was an outrageous and legendary figure in art and poetry circles in the early 1900's. A woman unafraid to sew tinfoil to her clothing, shave her head, and paint it purple -- long, long before punk rock culture existed. Marcel Duchamp once said of this woman, "She is not a futurist. She is the future."

The Children's Blizzard, by David Laskin -- a narrative account of a sweeping disaster: the massive blizzard of January 12, 1888. This book intertwines the stories of dozens of American prairie families who stood against the storm, and a fascinating account of how a blizzard of this magnitude forms. Although this is a tragic story in many ways, it's also an inspiring narrative of ordinary people in the face of extraordinary events.

Both books are available at bookstores and online retailers now.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

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Here's where to find the music you heard in this podcast:

A Cool Day, by Russ Bryant Trio
www.russbryant.com

From Atop Corcovado, by Elika
www.elikamusic.com

White and Cold, by Alive and Living
www.myspace.com/aliveandliving

Hearts And Minds, by Dig Trio
www.digtrio.com

All music is copyright by author, and used with permission.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.

Welcome to the Harper Perennial Podcast, a show about the life of books.

In this episode, produced and hosted by Diane Gilleland and Ken Lyman, we feature I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell.

Kilmer-Purcell discusses the experiences that led him to write this memoir -- a story that might seem outlandish on the surface, but is at heart a universal story of love and humanity.

In addition, we'll hear from Maureen O'Brien, an Executive Editor at HarperCollins, about how this book rather serendipitously found her.

I Am Not Myself These Days will be available in bookstores and through online retailers on February 7th. Pre-order the book now.

Learn more about the book at HarperCollins.com. Visit the official book website, IAmNotMyselfTheseDays.com.

Also, be sure to visit HarperPerennial.com, and the Harper Perennial blog, OliveReader.com.

All content and audio copyright HarperCollins Publishers.

Here's where to find the music you heard in this podcast:

Midnight World, by Machine Love

A Cool Day, by Russ Bryant Group

Innocence, by Spero

One For The Box, by Monika Herzig Acoustic Project

All songs are used with permission of the artist. Songs are copyright the respective artists.

About the producers:
Diane Gilleland produces podcasts including CraftyPod and Spinsterspin. She teaches blogging, podcasting, and zine-making classes in Portland, and organizes creative community groups.

Ken Lyman has a background as a disc jockey, radio news caster, radio actor, is a and producer of radio commercials and books on tape. He is an avid reader and also enjoys community theater, travel, and an occassional attempt at writing fiction.