Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Real Talk, a movie podcast.

We are your go-to source for ratings and recommendations of past and present films.

I am your host, West Jones, podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Hey, this is Tommy, podcasting straight from Nashville, Tennessee.

The Movie Buddy Conway, podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

What's up, Real Talk listeners?

Thank you for hitting the download button on this episode of the show.

This episode is going to be just a little bit different than our other interview series episodes

as we're going to be talking with author Stephen Cowell. We also have had author Steve Alton

who wrote the Meg on the show too, so apparently we have a thing for author's name Stephen.

But at the end of the day, we focus on stories with this podcast. But instead of focusing on a story in the form of a motion picture,

tonight we're going to focus in on the world Steven's created

and the stories and the books that are coming out of this world.

And I think our audience is really going to enjoy hearing from Steven

as he's a big science fiction fan, which many of you are.

In his book series, Shadowed Stars, is an epic sci-fi universe in the vein of, you know,

you've got things out there like Star Wars and Star Trek, except for what he's doing different.

He has a mature theme, which in some of our correspondence with Stephen, I said, you know,

that's kind of refreshing because we don't get a lot of that in the sci-fi genre. So Real Talk is

proud to welcome author Mr. Stephen Coutts. Stephen, welcome to Real Talk. Thank you so much for being

with us tonight. Hello. thanks for having me here.

Of course, of course. We're a movie podcast, so right off a bat, hit us with a couple of your favorite films.

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