TypePad Books Podcast

This month, author Steven Johnson joins TypePad’s Michael Sippey and Anil Dash to discuss "The Ghost Map" and the scientific mystery story surrounding a devastating 1854 outbreak of cholera in London. Other topics include Outside.In’s take on local conversations and how authors use blogs to fuel and further their work.

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Seth Godin is a TypePad blogger and author of the new book Small is the New Big.

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This week, we talk to Jennifer Ouellette, author of two books of essays on science for the layperson. Both Black Holes and Quantum Cats and her latest, The Physics of the Buffyverse, are published by Penguin and are available in paperback.

We talk about writing, research, science books, successful blogs, television shows worth getting addicted to, and why Jennifer owes her marriage to TypePad.

Visit Ouellette's blog, Cocktail Party Physics, and check the TypePad Bookstore for more about "The Physics of the Buffyverse."

Jennifer Ouellette, The Physics of the Buffyverse (20:08)

Show Notes:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence Krauss
• The American Physical Society
• Cocktail Party Physics
• Cosmic Variance
• Seed
• Pharyngula
• The Intersection
• Dooce
• David Bodanis
• Margaret Wertheim
• Where Does the Weirdness Go?, David Lindley

This month, we talk to Brendan Halpin, author of two memoirs and three books of fiction. His latest, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, is a simmering romance between two scarred souls who have each been on the wrong side of a hit break-up song. Music plays a big part in this novel and all of Halpin's work, and we talk to the author about his take on pop in 2007, as well as his life as a teacher and a writer, and the ins and outs of marketing yourself as a novelist on the Internet. Visit Brendan's TypePad blog and check the TypePad Bookstore for the opportunity to buy Dear Catastrophe Waitress or any of Halpin's previous work.

Brendan Halpin, Dear Catastrophe Waitress (27:08)

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This month, we're expanding our podcast schedule. To this point, we've been picking one author per month to promote, interview, and otherwise honor with the title of TypePad Book of the Month. Well, it just isn't enough. We've got so many great writers using the TypePad platform that 12 per year can't even begin to tell the story. Starting with this podcast conversation with Brian Bailey, author of the newly released book The Blogging Church, we'll be bringing as many authors as we can to this podcast and to the TypePad Bookstore.

We recently talked to Bailey about his own experience as a blogger (at Leave It Behind), what led him to write a book about creating blogs for religious ministries, and what surprised him the most about the creative process.

You can listen to the podcast (19:56) by clicking on the icon below, or right-click to download the entire MP3 to your local computer or music player.

Brian Bailey, The Blogging Church