TW 9: Talking Wicked with Jessica McHugh
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Jessica is our first Resident Author and a very prolific writer in multiple genres including speculative fiction, horror, sci-fi, fantasy and even young adult.
We discuss her long writing career, the changes time brings to a writer's focus, philosophy, and how we handle challenges and life balance as creatives.
Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
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Production Music
"The Wicked Library Theme" Coffee Shop Version
Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)
"Talking Wicked" (Background Music)
Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)
Audio Recording
Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com
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Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz
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Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:12.2 | You're listening to the Wicked Library. |
| 0:19.3 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. listening to the Wicked Library. |
| 0:37.0 | From an early age, we are taught to fear the unknown, to be afraid of what we do not understand. Well, you're about to discover that what you do know can not only hurt you, but can scare |
| 0:44.3 | you to death. |
| 0:46.3 | Thirteen authors from around the world have been assembled to explore the very notion |
| 0:52.3 | that learning about the unknown can have |
| 0:55.0 | terrifying results. |
| 0:57.5 | The Wicked Library presents 13 Wicked Tales, Our First Anthology, featuring Stephanie M.Y. |
| 1:07.0 | Tovich, Jessica McHugh, K.B. Gordert, Lydia Peever, and so many others. |
| 1:13.6 | With an introduction from Daniel Feintech, and new artwork from Jeanette Endromeda, not to mention an intro from yours truly. |
| 1:22.6 | Step inside, kiddies. It's story time at the Wicked Library. |
| 1:29.6 | Available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com. |
| 1:34.8 | Learn what you fear and fear what you learn what you learn. No. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 1:45.0 | ... |
| 1:47.0 | ... I'm The |
| 2:37.0 | You know, So today my guest is the great Jessica McHugh. |
| 3:05.6 | And that's right. |
| 3:07.9 | That's right. |
| 3:09.6 | Yeah, so we just recently aired one of your episodes. |
| 3:13.9 | We used to do this kind of back to back, but broke it up into two kind of segments so |
| 3:19.9 | that, you know, folks can listen to the story first, meaning the authors can hear the story first |
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