Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

Dani Vee and best selling author Ashley Kalagian Blunt chat about her new crime novel Like, Follow, Die.

They chat about tapping into a parent's fear, multiple perspectives, writing crime and exploring the darker side of the web.

They also chat about managing health conditions and creativity.

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Dani Vee and Niraj Lal chat about his new book Behind the Screens and how we can keep our kids safe. Giving your teenager a phone is a big deal, they suddenly have access to the world their parents didn't have before them, so how do we keep them safe?

We chat about how the internet is one of the most life changing inventions in history and how it has changed human behaviour, how tech uses its consumers, data collection and digital surveillance and the debate about AI.

An enlightening chat! Listen now.

Dani Vee chats to author and YKNR host A.L. Tait and Affirm Press publisher Tash Besliev about their brand new collaboration on a children's series set to engage kids in reading.

They chat about how the idea emerged, how the books help parents and librarians select books that engage kids and encourage them to read for pleasure. The series is written and illustrated by a variety of Aussie creatives, and have been created to engage young readers.

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Dani Vee and Pip Knight chat about her new book Pip Wants to Die. This is not your average vampire novel. A female vampire who wants to be human.

Dani and Pip chat about vampire culture, tropes and inspirations from The Lost Boys to True Blood, and they talk about the impossibility of writing and taking risks.

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QWS S5E1 Samantha Byres and Troy Hunter

New season, brand new episode! In QWS S5E1, Troy chats with Samantha Byres about her debut novel DEAD ENDS, a fantastic, dark, hilarious, queer, horny book about being trapped in the past in your 30s, being stuck with your family, about loss, and making many bad decisions while looking for a second chance.

They chat about how Sam manages to write comedy and drama together so well, how they write about messy sex, how Sam’s obsession with the 90s NZ TV show Sensing Murder (it’s on YouTube) informed her novel, as well as their shift from writing short stories to writing a novel.

We laughed so much making this episode!
Books and things Sam recommends:
- Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
- Look Who’s Morphing by Tom Cho
- 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
- Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
- Sensing Murder TV show

You can find Sam on Insta at @thescarletttbitch and Dead Ends at
Hosted by Troy Hunter who you can find on Insta @troyhunterwriter and at www.troyhuntwriter.com
Troy is the author of Gus and the Missing Boy and Gus and the Burning Stones

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