Writers Not Writing is a weekly show by Not A Pipe Publishing, where writers talk to host Benjamin Gorman about what they get up to when they’re procrastinating. Night Beats authors Rohan and Rachel have been featured on the show recently, which you can watch on YouTube or listen to on your favourite podcasting app.
Here’s Rohan, talking about Shogun, archery, and First Chapter Reads.
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Cold Blooded: a science fiction novella by Rohan O’Duill
“Don’t mistake my silence for weakness. No one plans a murder out loud.”
You can pre-order Cold Blooded on Amazon, or you can get a free advance reviw copy in exchange for an honest review. Or both!
Zilla on This Book I Read
What’s more exciting than our very own Zilla Novikov on a podcast? Zilla Novikov on a podcast talking about Cascade by Rachel A. Rosen! And along the way, about the climate catastrophe, Brexit, anarchist cooking, and more! You can listen to it on the Beyond Cataclysm website, or wherever you subscribe to podcasts.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell with Soap Smoothie
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
If I could summarise Cloud Atlas in a paragraph, I wouldn’t be writing the recipe section of a newsletter. This epic saga throws up a lot of interesting concepts. Soap is a drink consumed by clones that provides their nutrition. I found it difficult to source the original protein source for the drink so I substituted in some vanilla protein instead.
Please enjoy this refreshing smoothie as you delve into the world of Cloud Atlas.
Caviar Blini and Vodka paired with A Gentleman in Moscow
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
A Gentleman in Moscow tells a story of optimism in hopeless situations. The Count shows us we can still appreciate beautiful things in the most difficult of circumstances. So even if things are bad, you can sit back with a book and some delicious food and drink and enjoy that small moment.
Adam Interviews … Zilla Novikov
One of Night Beats‘ own, Zilla Novikov recently engaged in a hard-hitting interview with Adam Gaffen, covering all things books and not-books.
Adam: Coffee, tea, or cacao?
Zilla: Coffee flows through my bloodstream where other people have—blood, I guess. I bleed brown and delicious. Tea and cacao are delightful side characters, but coffee is my codependent toxic love interest.
Read the whole interview here.
Crab Cake Sandwich with All hope of Becoming Human
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
Normally I put a little explainer here why I chose this meal with this book. But this time I am going to let a the book do the explaining.
“Do you want to talk?” Rebecca says softly.
Demzey scoffs, shaking his head. “About what? Where would we even start?” Demzey says, his eyes appearing to dampen. “Should we discuss the massacre at the compound? Or the scientists trying to escape in the SUV only to be overturned, dragged out into the desert and ripped to shreds? Or maybe the soldiers who are sitting in quarantine right now, the ones who saved my life, their bodies being turned inside out, while I sit at this restaurant waiting for a crab cake sandwich with steak fries and a cold draft? Yes, by all means let’s talk…”
Adam Interviews … Rohan O’Duill
One of Night Beats‘ own, the chef who brings Fiction You Can Sink Your Teeth Into to life each month, Rohan O’Duill is also an accomplished author. In addition to numerous short stories, he’s published the novella Cold Rising, where Golden-Age science fiction meets fighting for your rights as underground workers rise up on Mars.
He was recently interviewed by Adam Gaffen about his books and his process:
Adam: What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?
Rohan: Being Dyslexic I think I approach things a little differently. My writing style is short and snappy as a result, which I think works well with high action sci-fi.
Read the whole interview here.
Eton Mess with Gideon the Ninth
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
Gideon only wants to go to Magnus and Abigail’s 11th anniversary party because she really wants to eat a dessert. So I thought it fitting that we prepare that dessert to go with reading Gideon the Ninth. The dessert described is cream with fruit and sugar, which sounds a lot like an Eton Mess. Bonus, that’s a super simple recipe to make!
Rraey Breaded… mushrooms paired with Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
This is a recipe the Rraey celebrity chefs came up with, but I decided to bread mushrooms rather than the original breaded meal in this sci-fi novel. Mostly because it’s legal and mushrooms are tasty.
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