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One Thing Led to Another

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One Thing Led To Another (OTLA) is a podcast focused on the techniques employed by authors to create compelling stories. Each episode, OTLA host Noah Finco will have a long form conversation with an author to unpack how they take a premise and turn it into an immersive and engaging literary adventure that readers crave.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 12: Django Wexler

    Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain...

  2. Episode 11: Michael Poore

    Michael Poore’s short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern Review, Agni, Fiction, and Asimov’s. His story “The Street of the House of the Sun” was selected for The Year’s Best Nonrequired Reading 2012. His first novel, Up Jumps the Devil, was hailed by The New York Review of Books as…

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  3. Episode 10: Maureen McQuerry

    Maureen was the McAuliffe Fellow for WA State in 2000. She is a poet, novelist and teacher, and enjoys presenting to students and adults. Maureen works with teachers to tailor workshops to specific writing goals. She is also a frequent presenter at writing conferences. She has authored four…

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  4. Episode 9: Julia Phillips

    Julia Phillips is a Fulbright fellow whose debut novel, Disappearing Earth, is forthcoming from Knopf on May 14, 2019. Her writing has appeared in publications including Glimmer Train, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Moscow Times and been supported by fellowships from Yaddo. She lives in Brooklyn.

  5. Episode 8: Wayétu Moore

    Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King, released by Graywolf Press in September, 2018. Her memoir is also forthcoming with Graywolf. Moore is the founder of One Moore Book. One Moore Book is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that encourages reading among children of countries with…

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  6. Episode 7: Josiah Bancroft

    Before settling down to write fantasy novels, Josiah Bancroft was a poet, college instructor, and aspiring comic book artist. When he is not writing, he enjoys playing post-pop music with his band, Dirt Dirt, drawing chalk pictures on his office wall, and cooking pub curry for his wife, Sharon.…

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  7. Episode 6: David H. Reiss

    While growing up, David was that weird kid with his nose in a book and his head in the clouds. He was the table-top role-playing game geek, the comic-book nerd, the story-teller and dreamer. Fortunately, he hasn't changed much. David is a software engineer by trade and a long-time sci-fi and...

  8. Episode 5: Jessie Chandler

    Jessie Chandler is the award-winning author of the Shay O'Hanlon Caper series and the National Protection and Investigation Unit Operation series. Her novels have garnered two Golden Crown Awards, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and a USA Book Award for LGBTQ fiction. Two...

  9. Episode 4: Ian Tregillis

    Ian attended the University of Minnesota for both college and graduate school. Eventually the university decided it had seen quite enough of him, so it politely but firmly asked him to leave, grow up, and get a real job. Ian's parting gift was a doctorate in physics for his research on radio...

  10. Episode 3: Mike Cobley

    Mike Cobley was born in Leicester and has lived in Scotland since the age of seven. Although the Scottish cultural heritage informs much of his own outlook (egalitarian, argumentative yet amiable, and able to appreciate rain), he thinks of himself as a citizen of the world.While studying...

  11. Episode 2: David Wellington

    David Wellington, aka D. Nolan Clark, aka David Chandler is the author of over twenty novels of action, suspense, and drama. He got his start in 2003 with the online serialization of Monster Island. Over a period of five months he published a chapter of the story every Monday, Wednesday, and...

  12. Episode 1: John DeDakis

    Award-winning Author and Writing Coach John DeDakis is a former CNN Senior Copy Editor for the Emmy and Peabody-Award winning news program "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis (pronounced deh-DAY-kiss) is the author of four mystery/suspense novels -- Fast Track, Bluff, Troubled Water,...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

One Thing Led To Another (OTLA) is a podcast focused on the techniques employed by authors to create compelling stories. Each episode, OTLA host Noah Finco will have a long form conversation with an author to unpack how they take a premise and turn it into an immersive and engaging literary adventure that readers crave.

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