Happy Halloween and welcome to CrimeLines Halloween episode.

I hope you liked the giant two-parter, collaborative episodes that I released last week.

Special thanks to Fowlplay podcast for putting that together.

And creating such a beautiful narrative throughout introducing the podcasts and segwaying

to the next, Shane did an incredible job and I really want to thank him for that.

If you didn't listen yet and want to get in the Halloween spirit, I recommend going back

and listening.

This week though, I have another special.

In this one, you will first hear me talking to Brandon from Southern Gothic about how

to write a ghost story.

He gives me the insights I need to set off to write my own historical Kansas City-based

ghost story for my listeners.

I would wager most of you don't know that before CrimeLines and even before my old podcast

insight, my very first podcast, which is not available anywhere, was called Unblocked

and I interviewed writers about the writing process and how they put things together.

I know most of you don't know about it because I see analytics and I got about 90 listeners

on a good week.

It was really interesting to hear about people's process, but it became rather repetitive,

not because of my guests, but because of my limited ability to interview people.

I was very new at it.

As you know, I have a lot more experience doing it now and as a consequence of that, I get

much more interesting answers.

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