David Joel Stevenson is a singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and author. He lives outside of Nashville, TN with his wife, several chickens, and thousands of honey bees. He's working on a great series about a superhero called Victor Boone. "Victor...

Lydia Sherrer is an award-winning USA Today bestseller and author of the Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus series. Find all of Lydia's work on her website here: I met Lydia on a panel at Hypericon in Nashville, which got completely derailed when I...

My guest this episode is D. Alan Lewis, possibly the bravest man alive. He leapt into an open seat on this podcast with no explanation or warning or anything. That takes a lot of guts, so he's to be highly commended. Find his work here:...

Thanks for listening! Feel free to tweet me your thoughts at or email If you have ideas for author guests, there's info on that here: The Outliners going on the road! We'll be recording at Hypericon in Nashville this weekend July 6th - 8th...

On this episode I want to take a minute to celebrate friend of the podcast Jonathan French and his "The Grey Bastards" book launch with Crown. I recorded our conversation at Eagle Eye Books at his launch event so you'll get to hear that too. Check out...

I met Gil as a fellow panelist at ConNooga, a scifi con in Chattanooga. He’s a super interesting dude, as you will see when we get into the tale of the Algae of Death! Gil is working on epic fantasy with his Order of the Lion series. The Celestial...

The podcast is back! I get into it a little bit. But yes, we will be back with more Outliners episodes. I hope you're enjoying them. Our guest this time is Dan Jolley, an American novelist and comic book writer. I met him at Connooga and we chatted...

I met Jeremy when we were both panelists at a science fiction conference. I believe it might have been JordanCon. We ended up being buddies. Jeremy recently had the honor of being the Artist Guest at HallowCon,

This is a new style of The Outliners I’m calling Spoiler Alert. There are spoilers in it. Watch out. I thought it might be helpful to take some popular works and break them down into their composite parts. We spend a lot of time going the other directi...

I was introduced to Aaron Cross by our mutual friend Jonathan French. After taking one look at the titles of his books I knew he’d be a great podcast guest. I’m talking about titles like “Robocopter Ski Patrol” and “Ruben’s Cube Alaska: Bullet Point 2:...