The Fresh Fiction Podcast

Film & TV Ep. 5 | 'The Fall Guy,' 'The Idea of You' (feat. director Michael Showalter) and 'The Big Door Prize' (feat. show runner David West Read and stars Chris O'Dowd & Josh Segarra)

Fresh Fiction's Preston Barta and James Cole Clay are here to bring you the latest updates on what's happening in the world of cinema and television. So, sit back, relax, and tune in!

This week's happenings include:

FILM

• THE FALL GUY
• THE IDEA OF YOU
• STAR WARS EP. 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE
• WILDCAT
• JEANNE DU BARRY
• CIVIL WAR
• HARDWARE WARS (MVD Rewind Collection)

TV

• THE BIG DOOR PRIZE (Season 2) revisited

INTERVIEWS

• THE IDEA OF YOU director Michael Showalter
• THE BIG DOOR PRIZE showrunner David West Read and stars Chris O'Dowd & Josh Segarra

Meet Jennifer Deibel | Author of 'The Irish Matchmaker'

We're chatting with Jennifer Deibel, author of THE IRISH MATCHMAKER. Join us for a lively conversation about romance and mystery!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jennifer Deibel is the bestselling and award-winning author of A Dance in Donegal, The Lady of Galway Manor and The Maid of Ballymacool. Her work has appeared on (in)courage, on The Better Mom, in Missions Mosaic magazine, and others. With firsthand immersive experience abroad, Jennifer writes stories that help redefine home through the lens of culture, history, and family. After nearly a decade of living in Ireland and Austria, she now lives in Arizona with her husband and their three children.

Film & TV Ep. 4 | Taylor Swift, ‘Challengers’ and ‘Humane’ (feat. director Caitlin Cronenberg)

Fresh Fiction's Preston Barta and James Cole Clay are here to bring you the latest updates on what's happening in the world of cinema and television. In addition, they engage in a healthy debate on Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department," and conduct an interview with filmmaker Caitlin Cronenberg. So, sit back, relax, and tune in!

This week's happenings include:

FILM

• CHALLENGERS
• HUMANE
• BOY KILLS THE WORLD
• THE RING and THE RING TWO
• STEEL MAGNOLIAS
• SASQUATCH SUNSET (Revisited)

TV

• PALM ROYALE (Revisited)
• THE BIG DOOR PRIZE (Season 2)
• PALM ROYALE

INTERVIEWS

• HUMANE director Caitlin Cronenberg

Film & TV Ep. 3 | 'Sasquatch Sunset' (feat. directors David & Nathan Zellner) and 'Earthsounds' (feat. producer Sam Hodgson and scientists Beth Goodwin & Bourhan Yassin)

On episode 3, Fresh Fiction's Preston Barta and James Cole Clay discuss what's happening this week at the cinema and on television. We also have filmmaker and scientists interviews to share. So, pull up and chair and listen in!

This week's happenings include:

FILM

• SASQUATCH SUNSET
• THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
• ABIGAIL
• REBEL MOON: PART TWO

TV

• EARTHSOUNDS 
• SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS
• PALM ROYALE

INTERVIEWS

This week's interviews include:

• SASQUATCH SUNSET directors David & Nathan Zellner
• EARTHSOUNDS producer Sam Hodgson, marine biologist Dr. Beth Goodwin & Bourhan Yassin (CEO of Rainforest Connection)

Meet Vivienne Lorret | Author of 'It Had to Be a Duke'

We're chatting with Vivienne Lorret, author of IT HAD TO BE A DUKE. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

USA Today bestselling author VIVIENNE LORRET transforms copious amounts of tea into words. She is an Avon author of fun and steamy Regency Romances, with works including the Wallflower Wedding series, the Rakes of Fallow Hall series, the Season’s Original series, the Misadventures in Matchmaking series, the Mating Habits of Scoundrels series, and the new Liar’s Club series.

Film & TV Ep. 2 | 'Arcadian' (feat. Jaeden Martell & Maxwell Jenkins ) & 'Girls State' (feat. directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss)

On episode 2, Fresh Fiction's Preston Barta and James Cole Clay discuss what's happening this week at the cinema and at home on the tube. We also have filmmaker and actor interviews to share. So, pull up and chair and listen in!

This week's happenings include:

FILM

• CIVIL WAR
• ARCADIAN
• STING
• GIRLS STATE
• LISA FRANKENSTEIN

TV

• FRANKLIN
• FALLOUT

INTERVIEWS

This week's interviews include:

• GIRLS STATE directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss
• ARCADIAN stars Jaeden Martell & Maxwell Jenkins

Meet Michel Prince | Author of 'Tempered Beats'

We're chatting with Michel Prince, author of TEMPERED BEATS. Join us for a lively conversation about mystery.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

USA Today Bestselling author, Michel Prince, graduated with a bachelor degree in History and Political Science. Michel writes new adult and adult paranormal romance as well as contemporary romance.

With characters yelling "It's my turn damn it!!!" She tries to explain to them that alas, she can only type a hundred and twenty words a minute and they will have wait their turn. She knows eventually they find their way out of her head and to her fingertips and she looks forward to sharing them with you.

When Michel can suppress the voices in her head she can be found cheering for her son in a variety of sports. She would like to thank her family for always being in her corner and especially her husband for supporting her every dream and never letting her give up.

Michel has been awarded Elite Status with Rebel Ink Press in 2013, the service award for her local RWA chapter Midwest Fiction Writers 2013, 2014, won 2015 Sweetest Romance from IREA for Chrysalis, a 2022 finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards for The Amalgam and was a PAN member of RWA. She lives in the Twin Cities with her husband, son, and new puppy.

Film & TV Ep. 1 | 'Parachute' (feat. Brittany Snow) & 'Loot' SSN 2 (feat. creators Alan Yang & Matthew Hubbard)

Fresh Fiction Podcast is expanding to the world of film and television! For our debut episode, Fresh Fiction's Preston Barta and James Cole Clay discuss what's happening this week at the cinema and at home on the tube. We also have filmmaker and actor interviews to share. So, pull up and chair and listen in!

This week's happenings include:

FILM

• Wicked Little Letters
• Parachute
• Monkey Man
• The Greatest Hits
• The First Omen
• Dogman
• Anyone But You 
• Drive Away Dolls

TV

• Palm Royale
• Manhunt
• The New Look
• Loot - Season 2

INTERVIEWS

This week's interviews include:

• Loot creators Alan Yang & Matthew Hubbard
• Parachute director/co-writer Brittany Snow

Delight with Jayne Ann Krentz

We talked with Jayne about the latest in her suspense series, Lost Night Files. 

The Night Island

Lost Night Files
Berkley
January 2024
On Sale: January 9, 2024
Featuring: Talia March; Luke Rand
336 pages
ISBN: 0593639855
EAN: 9780593639856
Kindle: B0C1YCHX1Q
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Romance Suspense

 

The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.

 
Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night none of them can remember, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago—an experience that amplified innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them—all they have to do is find the list of others who took that same test. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe, a fan of the trio’s podcast, she discovers that the informant has vanished.
 
Talia isn’t the only one looking for Phoebe, however. Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man who is chasing the same list that Talia is after, also shows up at the meeting place. It’s clear he has his own agenda, and they are instantly suspicious of each other. But when a killer begins to stalk them, they realize they have to join forces to find Phoebe and the list.
 
The rocky investigation leads Talia and Luke to a rustic, remote retreat on Night Island in the Pacific Northwest, where the Unplugged Experience promises to rejuvenate guests. Upon their arrival, Talia and Luke discover they are quite literally cut off from the outside world when none of their high-tech devices work on the island. It soon becomes clear that Phoebe is not the first person to disappear into the strange gardens that surround the Unplugged Experience retreat. And then the first mysterious death occurs. . . .

Meet Katie Ruggle | Author of 'FISH OUT OF WATER'

We're buzzing with excitement to chat with Katie Ruggle about her splash hit, FISH OUT OF WATER. It's not just about romance.

Katie's not your everyday author. Imagine living off-grid in the Rockies, being a Police Academy grad, and diving in cold Colorado mountain reservoirs. Yeah, she's all that and more. We're talking horseback riding, shooting, and even Krav Maga. Katie brings this kickass energy right into her writing.

FISH OUT OF WATER
Why date a mountain man? Because he knows how to pitch a tent.

When Dahlia Weathersby's sister disappears on what should have been a simple day hike, Dahlia immediately heads deep into the Colorado Rockies to find her. Knowing she'll never survive the mountains alone, she convinces the local hermit—adorably grouchy survival expert Winston Dane—to be her guide. All it takes is a good helping of Dahlia's charm…and just the teeniest bit of blackmail…before she's got all six-foot-something of him wrapped around her finger. But even with her very own mountain man in tow, things aren't going to be easy. There are:

• Long hikes through gorgeous wilderness? Check.
• Bears? Check.
• A single shared sleeping bag? Check.
• Enough sparks to set the Rockies ablaze? Check, check, check.

With everything the wilderness has to throw at them, it'll take more than charm and some city-girl ingenuity to make this trek anything but a disaster waiting to happen…and an adventure she'll never forget.