Author: Joseph Carrabis

The Change Zone Take 2, Snippet 3 – Embracing Demons

Long ago and far away, Gail @GailMcDonald19 McDonald and Susan @SusanSneath1 Sneath interviewed me on The Change Zone. I shared snippets of our preshow chat starting with The Change Zone Test Chat Snippet #1 – Wolf and Spider.

Well, we’re at it again. This time we’re focusing on That Th!nk You Do, and you can see the entire episode on YouTube.

Gail gave the book a wonderful review which you can read either on the book’s Amazon page, in the book itself, or at Gail @GailMcDonald19 McDonald on That Th!nk You Do. Ditto Susan with her review on the book’s Amazon page, in the book itself, or at Susan @SusanSneath1 Sneath on That Th!nk You Do.

This is the third of six preshow snippets, this one dealing with the embracing one’s demons and turning them into allies.

Enjoy.

 

Previous entries in this series:

The Change Zone Take 2, Snippet 2 – Principles

Long ago and far away, Gail @GailMcDonald19 McDonald and Susan @SusanSneath1 Sneath interviewed me on The Change Zone. I shared snippets of our preshow chat starting with The Change Zone Test Chat Snippet #1 – Wolf and Spider.

Well, we’re at it again. This time we’re focusing on That Th!nk You Do, and you can see the entire episode on YouTube.

Gail gave the book a wonderful review which you can read either on the book’s Amazon page, in the book itself, or at Gail @GailMcDonald19 McDonald on That Th!nk You Do. Ditto Susan with her review on the book’s Amazon page, in the book itself, or at Susan @SusanSneath1 Sneath on That Th!nk You Do.

This is the second of six preshow snippets, this one dealing with the Principles I work with daily.

Enjoy.

 

Previous entries in this series:

Welcome Erasmus

Behold Erasmus.

At first somewhat shy, then not so much so.

It’s amazing what free food can do.

Coyote are like that.

Free food, little effort, it’s a good thing. Especially in The Wild.

I noticed much the same during the middle to late 1980s where the mere mention of free sex and cocaine would cause people to flock from miles around.

Did I say “miles”?

More like states.

Pretty easy to do in New England.

And in the meantime, we’ll let Erasmus dine.

Enjoy.

 

Rob and Joan Carter’s MEET THE AUTHOR interview Snippet 4 – Current Titles

I mentioned Rob and John Carter and I chatting on their MEET THE AUTHOR show in previous blog posts.

This post is the fourth in a series of thirteen snippets taken from the full interview video. You can also listen to the interview via podcast

Today’s snippet deals with my currently available titles (both wholly mine, anthologies I appear in, fiction and non-fiction).

I mean, that’s what’s happened with The Alibi, and that’s turning into one heck of a piece.

Enjoy!

 

“The Paraclete” now on BizCatalyst360

The kind folks at BizCatalyst360 just published my The Paraclete, an excerpt from my forthcoming The Shaman.

The Shaman came about because a good number of people kept asking me about my background and training. I’d meant to write a book for years, and have a really poorly written manuscript dating from the late 1980s to prove it.

Several times I’d take that manuscript out and massage it. Into a different yet equally poorly written manuscript.

Finally, I took it out in late 2019 and asked myself, “What would make this an interesting story?”

That, and getting permission from one of my teachers (who spoke for all of them) was what I needed.

Originally entitled “Shaman Story,” the graphic artist who did the interior and exterior artwork mistakenly wrote “The Shaman” on the bookcover and Shaboom! it was done.

You can also get an idea of an earlier version of the story at The Paraclete here on my blog.

For me, it’s always interesting to see how a story changes over time.

And in either case, enjoy.